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     Fredrik Andersson Member Username: Fredo Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2007 |
Hello everyone. Haven't posted anything on this board since 2004, I think. It's all been a bit blurry. When Grant died I started to visit again, lurking, and eventually this had to happen; I hope it'll be a good experience for everyone... My feelings regarding the tribute album were ambivalent. It somehow felt like an affair for the closest mourners. Should the legacy of GB stay obscure? It almost doesn't matter if the artists on the album do a great job. I hope you understand what I mean. My next thought was, who could do the job better? Well... I have a few suggestions, and I hope You could add more artists... as a houseband, whatever they do: the Wannadies, hardcore Go-betweens fans. They'll do it for free, haha. Bill Callahan (smog) – Karen His voice is deep and his dry-witted attitude resembles Robert I think. Should be a slow burner. Spiritualized – Here comes a city Just imagine Jason building that song up to a gospel inferno. the Magic Numbers – Don't call me gone I'm sure You instantly can imagine this as well. Not a daring decontextualisation, just a simply perfect match. (Alternative song: Going Blind) Um, well, that's all for now from me. I have some more, but I'm not completely sure (Pavement – Spirit of a vampire, for example) Better to keep it to the point rather than just go for quantity. Any suggestions? I should add there is no budget limitation, eh. Sky's the limit. Cheesy so called super groups made up for the occasion is ok if you feel it really adds to this fantasy tribute. And yes, a title. Preferably in the same vein as Julian Copes Scott Walker compilation "Fire Escape in the Sky – the Godlike Genius of Scott Walker". The stage is Yours... f. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 139 Registered: 01-2007 |
I'd quite like Tom Waits to do "The Clarke Sisters" or Dylan Covering "People Say" | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 105 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't think I could cope with a Waits version of Clarke Sisters. Even though I love it, I find that song pretty sinister as it is, and can't always listen to it. Tom Waits' malevolent tones - I'm having nightmares just thinking about it! But it would sound fabulous!! I can definitely hear Magic Numbers doing "Don't call me gone". Also, I think they'd do killer backing vocals on "I Just get caught out", although Romeo's voice might not be right for the lead. And what about Morrissey doing Apology Accepted? Or Polyphonic Spree doing Bye Bye Pride? Grab your robes! All together now! Stride over Stride!!! | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 296 Registered: 01-2006 |
Good idea Fredrik but don't fancy Spiritualised doing Heres Comes A City, I don't think it would suit them at all. AS I said on a thread ages ago, Morrissey doing Born To A Family would sure be innerestin'... And Dylan doing Boundary Rider anyone? | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Morrossey doing Born to a Family? I can hear it in my head right now!! What about Arcade Fire doing Here Comes a City? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1637 Registered: 05-2005 |
I want nothing less than Kraftwerk doing Here Comes A City Catherine. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 108 Registered: 05-2005 |
Interesting!!! The two versions would certainly be very different. Oooh, what about Kraftwerk doing The House Jack Kerouac Built??? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1641 Registered: 05-2005 |
I can picture that. Or hear that more accurately. Listening to Kraftwerk while travelling through Germany on trains at the World Cup last year was a glorious pleasure. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 109 Registered: 05-2005 |
So it was fun fun fun, even though you weren't on the autobahn?? I've just thought Morrissey doing Darlinghurst Nights? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1644 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was looking at the autobahn from the train. I really was. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 112 Registered: 05-2005 |
Any Mediums out there? However unlikely any of the above suggestions would be, we'd need to get in touch with our spirit guides for this one, but wouldn't Johnny Cash singing "Finding You" just kill? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1493 Registered: 04-2005 |
Oh god, please keep the Polyphonic Spree away from the Go-Betweens catalog!  I've said this before in some other thread, but I'd love to hear Bryan Ferry cover "Dive For Your Memory." And I'd love to hear RF cover Roxy's "Just Another High." Two of the greatest mournful breakup songs ever... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 831 Registered: 08-2006 |
That's a great one, Kurt. I think I've said this before, but I've always pictured Patti Smith doing "Spirit of a Vampire." She could really turn that ending chant into a rave-up. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 650 Registered: 10-2004 |
Al Green doing "Time in the Desert." | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1716 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'd like to see the group Europe doing Too much of one thing. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2154 Registered: 03-2006 |
Toby Keith doing "Don't Call Me Gone", Queen w/ Paul Rodgers doing "Locust Girls" and Boyz 2 Men doing "Doo Wop in A". | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 652 Registered: 10-2004 |
I can actually kind of hear Morrissey doing "Born to a Family," just make it a little more shuffle-y. But please, please, please keep the Arcade Fire away from the Go-Betweens! | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 116 Registered: 10-2006 |
Funny, I had an odd notion of the Shirelles or some other 60's girl group doing 'Bachelor Kisses', a la 'Leader of the Pack' or 'He's So Fine', just within the past day or so. | ||
| Elizabeth Robinson Member Username: Liz_the_new_listener Post Number: 117 Registered: 10-2006 |
And oh, yes - Dylan himself doing 'Too Much of One Thing' or possibly 'Part Company'. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 113 Registered: 05-2005 |
Europe? Oooooh yes!!! Well actually, Oooooooh Nooooo!! | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 114 Registered: 05-2005 |
Elizabeth, I can hear that Shirelle's-style Bachelor Kisses!! | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 835 Registered: 08-2006 |
Europe. Toby Keith. Heh. Along those lines: Journey: "Bye, Bye Pride" Supertramp: "Spring Rain" REO Speedwagon: "This Night's for You" Boston: okay, this has gotten too painful... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1650 Registered: 05-2005 |
Rob, I can hear REO doing This Night's For You. Sersiously. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 836 Registered: 08-2006 |
I can, too, Padraig! That's why I stopped. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 246 Registered: 05-2005 |
oh... if you're all being so silly...Metallica doing Cattle and Cane with Yngwie Malmsteen doing the riff!!!! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 247 Registered: 05-2005 |
...and seriously, Crowded House doing "Quiet Heart". | ||
| Fredrik Andersson Member Username: Fredo Post Number: 2 Registered: 08-2007 |
I'm returning to Here comes a city. I want either religious crescendoish chanting or rawkish catharsis here. So, what about letting Grinderman do a version? Too opportunistic? | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 138 Registered: 05-2005 |
Fredrik, I can't say I've heard Grinderman yet - not conciously at any rate. But Nick Cave's vocals? That would be one scary city!! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 757 Registered: 01-2005 |
This Girl, Black Girl - Cassandra Wilson, a slowed down jazzy version. Dusty in Here - Lambchop Bye Bye Pride - The Postal Service Draining the Pool for You - Son Volt Spring Rain - Marshmallow Streets of Your Town - Dean and Britta Bachelor Kisses - The New Ponographers House That Jack Kerouac Built - The Decemberists | ||
| Fredrik Andersson Member Username: Fredo Post Number: 3 Registered: 08-2007 |
Catherine, yes one scary God-fearing city! Yesterday I saw Joel Gibb and Verity Susman interpret songs by Arthur Russell and there and then it struck me: Hidden Cameras – Love goes on | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1737 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jona Lewie - Here comes a city Ian Dury - Too much of one thing Joe Jackson - Head full of steam | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 151 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ian Dury, Joe Jackson, I can hear, and in my head they sound damn good. Especially Ian Dury. I'm at a disadvantage with Jona Lewie in that the only two songs I know are Stop the Cavalry and You'll Always Find Me In the Kitchen at Parties (did he have any others?) I'm a little scared to let my brain blend either of those songs with Here comes a City... | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 152 Registered: 05-2005 |
Aw thanks, Spence, now Stop the cavalry is going round my head! | ||
| Fredrik Andersson Member Username: Fredo Post Number: 5 Registered: 08-2007 |
A reunited Jesus and Mary Chain, with Bobbie G guesting on Farfisa doing Rock'n'roll friend. It should end in feedback and a fist fight between Jim and William, thus putting an end to this band forever. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 196 Registered: 05-2005 |
Funny you should say that. Both Primal Scream & JAMC are playing at Electric Picnic here in Ireland this weekend! They're on different days, but maybe we could persuade Bobbie to stick around so you can have your wish. I'll take photos for you! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 769 Registered: 01-2005 |
Love Is A Sign - Camera Obscura | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2208 Registered: 03-2006 |
This may sound crazy, but I often wonder how R&Bish interpretations of GBs songs would work. I think there's enough meat on the bones of many of their songs to hold up to interpretation by a great soul singer, plus my all time favorite Stones cover is Satisfaction by Otis Redding, so perhaps a similar alchemy might take place with a GBs cover... And, to my ears, particularly when playing it on guitar, "Dive For Your Memory", sounds in places like a gospel song - it's something about the changes and some of the lines like "I'd like to make those waters clean"... So, I'd love to hear some great, classic R&B diva tackle it. Maybe Etta James, but Mavis Staples would be perfect. One more left field cover: It strikes me that Willie Nelson could do a kick ass version of "Boundary Rider". The careworn wisdom and resignation of the song would fit him like a glove, not to mention all the cowboyish aspects. That halting, speak-singing thing he does, where it seems like he's having a conversation with you would work so beautifully within the context of that tune. I can really hear him doing it - he's missing a great chance if he doesn't record it someday... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 277 Registered: 07-2006 |
i've thought the same about a couple of tracks on tallulah, LK. namely, apology accepted and spirit... moreso gospel-y then anything else. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1505 Registered: 04-2005 |
LK, you're a visionary--I can totally hear Willie covering "Boundary Rider." We have to find a way to make that happen. Anyone know how we can get a copy of the song to him? (Through his pot dealer is probably the best way, I'm guessing.) | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2212 Registered: 03-2006 |
It'd be oddly perfect, wouldn't it? Yeah, we need to get Willie to cover it, but we need to be sure we get some kind of finder's fee. If nothing else, he could pay us with some of that kind bud! I read a true life account of somebody who got high with Willie on his tour bus - the guy said he couldn't move any of his limbs after sharing a joint. |