| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1566 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kings of Convenience - Failure | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1486 Registered: 05-2005 |
The White Stripes - 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 581 Registered: 10-2004 |
Waterboys - A Girl Called Johnny | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 257 Registered: 01-2006 |
Beck - The Information | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 652 Registered: 01-2005 |
Sarah Harmer - The Hideout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT_6iwtI7 cg | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1509 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ronnie Spector - Here Today Gone Tomorrow. Wonder if it's about you know who? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 476 Registered: 09-2006 |
I dunno, I think a song about Phil Spector would go more like "Here Today, Here Until I Say So." She could have a Phil lookalike in the video, standing at the front door brandishing his pistol. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1237 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, is that Ronnie Spector song on CD now? I have it on vinyl. Haven't heard it in probably close to 20 years. Unfortunately, I don't remember much of anything else on that album being any good, but maybe a new audit is in order. God, what a voice! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 648 Registered: 08-2004 |
Ronnie Spector's voice IS the '60's. Funny how he terrorised her for years, yet she has retained his name since escaping his evil clutches. K-os - Emcee Murdah | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 480 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Sycamore Trees" - Little Jimmy Scott with Angelo Badalamenti | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 121 Registered: 05-2005 |
'Hang Me Up To Dry' - The Cold War Kids | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1512 Registered: 05-2005 |
I have it on a compilation CD that came with one of the UK musc mags. Probably Word. If you can't find it anywhere let me know... Yeah, Phil was a nasty man to poor Ronnie. Still though, it could have been worse... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 658 Registered: 01-2005 |
Anyone ever see "Grace Of My Heart"? John Turturro played a Phil Spectorish character that works in The Brill Building in NYC. Very good movie about the music industry in the 60's. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2027 Registered: 03-2006 |
Two songs used to great effect in HBO series, one of which I actually like: Don't Stop Believin' - Journey (the Sopranos) Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer (John From Cincinnati) | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 657 Registered: 08-2004 |
I like that Journey song. It was the theme for a Scrubs episode a few years ago. They take the lame & try to make it coooool. The Twang - Two Lovers | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 266 Registered: 04-2005 |
Michael, "Grace of my Heart" was an enjoyable film: I was only disappointed that the soundtrack CD featured only EC's version of 'God give me strength', as I remembered that the stripped down 'demo' version (sung by the actress at the piano ?) that featured in the film was a lot better. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2041 Registered: 03-2006 |
"You'll Never Get Me Up in One of Those" - Mickey Jupp | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 664 Registered: 01-2005 |
Andrew, Illeana Douglass was the actress, however she didn't sing any of the songs, only mouthed the lyrics. Kristen Vigard sang the version of 'God give me strength' in the movie. http://www.amazon.com/Kristen-Vigard/dp/ B000008M0A/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-8996327-2034 400?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1182269314&sr=1- 2 | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 495 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Sunndal Song" - Apples in Stereo Actually most of the songs on the album are crowding for space in my brainpan, but this one's definitely leading the pack. If I owned a car I'd drive around with the windows down, blasting this one, doing my part to turn it into THE summer song of '07... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1594 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jean's not happening - The Pale Fountains, its fuc*in brilliant! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2061 Registered: 03-2006 |
I Want to Help You Ann - the Lyres | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1598 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mike Nesmith and National Band - The Crippled Lion. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1601 Registered: 05-2005 |
XTC - All along the watchower | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1602 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frank Black - Headache | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1603 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cherry ghost - Mathematics. great band, like a mixture of Elbow and Richard Hawley and Costeau. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2064 Registered: 03-2006 |
Jesus Chrysler Drives a Dodge - Screaming Blue Messiahs. Whatever happened to this epic group - anybody know? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 674 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, I have that SBM album! I haven't played it in years. It's gathering dust on my cd shelf along with albums by other forgotten 80's groups like Fetchin' Bones, Mary's Danish, etc. I Want to Help You Ann is a stone classic. I bought On Fyre! earlier this year. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 66 Registered: 05-2005 |
I need to explore cherry ghost. Are they from Bolton (England) and is it a bit Scott Walker-ish cinematic stuff but more rainy night in manchester sort of thing ? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1446 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Screaming Blue Messiahs--haven't heard about them in forever. I remember hearing stuff of theirs on the radio. Didn't they kind of torpedo their career--at least in the UK--when they "Americanized" their songs? ("I Wanna Be A Flintstone" and stuff like that...) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1608 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thought they were shit Kurt, they looked shit too. Preferred The Very Things, they were like the Midlands' answer to The cramps, but without the Lux! Wilson, yep u on the button sir. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2066 Registered: 03-2006 |
Actually Kurt, the song I referred to, "Jesus Chrysler" came from the album, "Bikini Red", that had the Flintstones song, which I guess, proved irresistable to the folks that made the movie, so it was included in the flick. But still, a more than decent record. And, they made another after that, called (humorously enough) "Totally Religious", that was also great. But after that, they pretty much disappeared. And going by my cursory web research, nobody seems to know why or what happened to 'em. Maybe they became accountants. And that is indeed a classic, Michael. If you ask me, the best use of the tremelo bar in all of pop music.... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1617 Registered: 05-2005 |
Looking for Astronauts - The National. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 51 Registered: 05-2005 |
Can I nominate a least favourite? Flaming Lips' version of Just like starting over, from that Amnesty/Darfur album - awful awful awful!!! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1277 Registered: 03-2005 |
"Just Like Starting Over" is an awful song. I just heard the original version over the Muzak system in a store recently and was thinking about how musically exhausted Lennon seemed to be at that point, drawing so blatantly and uninterestingly from the music that predated his band. Surely the Flaming Lips could only help it. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2075 Registered: 03-2006 |
Randy, I agree exactly with you, except for two points: I think it's a really good song and don't think Flaming Lips could help anything, except maybe, the bunny suit industry. Actually, I've heard the version Catherine refers to, and it is, indeed, an atrocity of the first order. You would think covering a song would require one to play its chords smoothly and correctly, but nooooo....Somebody sort of falteringly plays the basic chords to the song on an acoustic, over a bed of cheap keyboard soundwash, whilst Coyne kind of whines/talk sings what used to be the melody. Excruciating. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1624 Registered: 05-2005 |
Flaming Lips suck i'm afraid. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1691 Registered: 05-2005 |
Flaming Lips are the kind of band you either love or hate, there is no middle ground for most people. Personally I love them, Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi are fantastic albums. Even they are probably incapable of rescuing that steaming turd of a song into anything worth listening to, but one things for sure they will have put their own stamp on it, why else would a band cover a song if not to do that - unfortunately less creative and talentless bands just turn out slavish versions of the original. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2078 Registered: 03-2006 |
Oh, they definitely put their stamp on it! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 53 Registered: 05-2005 |
I actually like Flaming Lips - or I did until the other day, when I heard their version of JLSO!! While JLSO is far from being my favourite Lennon song, they destroyed anything good about it at all. LK's description gets it exactly. They left their stamp on it okay. Those guys were wearing giant hobnail boots under their bloody bunny suits!!! | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1459 Registered: 04-2005 |
The Flaming Lips should probably be banned from doing cover versions, given how much trouble they have playing their own songs (if that's what they can be called). I say lock 'em in a rehearsal space and set them loose on "Louie, Louie," and we'll check back in a couple of years to see how they're doing with it. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 58 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kurt, that would never do! The result, if it ever got out there could be used instead of rubber hoses and electrodes for purposes of torture! Actually just thought, it's a bit ironic that such a torturous track as JLSO is included on a CD to raise funds for Amnesty!!! Or maybe was that their point? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 671 Registered: 08-2004 |
Solomon Burke - I'm Hanging Up My Heart For You | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1626 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cheery Ghost - People help the people. OK its lighters aloft, but its adamn sight better than Embrace! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1628 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cherry Ghost - People help the people. OK its lighters aloft, but its adamn sight better than Embrace! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1278 Registered: 03-2005 |
My big beef with the Flaming Lips is their exaggeratedness. This goes for a bunch of the big arrangement people, from Sufjan Stevens to Mercury Rev to Arcade Fire. But I wouldn't say that the Lips can't write a song. "Waitin' for a Superman" is certainly a song. I'd love to hear it covered by someone with a different voice and without the bombastic drums. But now I'm listening to the Lips "Waitin' for a Superman," so there you are . . . . | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 65 Registered: 10-2006 |
Irene Grandi - Bruci la citta. Ok, you live in Italy, sometimes you gotta listen to Italian pop sounds, and sometimes those sounds are as fab as this, a majestic piece of pop rock that struts a glorious swagger somewhere between the Move's Blackberry Way and Morrissey's Everyday is Like Sunday. Irene has a Helen Shapiro like tone with a hint of rocky throatiness that's highly attractive & allinall this is the stuff to get you out of the bar in the morning with a spring in your step. If some of these kids would only learn to sing in English they'd go down a storm internationally. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1281 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, Stuart, with THAT description, I have to hear it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1563 Registered: 05-2005 |
God's Highway - Tobias Fröberg | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1633 Registered: 05-2005 |
Neon Lights and Heroes, cover versions by me old pal Phil Wilson of the legendary June Brides, gtreat country esque versions! http://www.myspace.com/philwilsonjunebri de | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2084 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Another Nail in My Heart" - Squeeze. "I want to be good/Is that not enough?" | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1697 Registered: 05-2005 |
And there is a link to a Grant Mclennan tribute myspace page from Phil Wilsons myspace page. it features Phil doing a cover of Black Mule. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus eaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=128644 489 | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 81 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm a bit off the pace here folks but is that Phil Wilson of June Brides ? I have their LP on vinyl somewhere, "a million stories" or something ? I think I recall having a song called "we belong" taped off the Janice Long radio show as well... |