Mix of the week: covers edition
Published by Becky S September 13th, 2004 in artsThis week’s mix features covers. Some are better than the originals, and some are just weird. There’s a healthy dose of twang in the middle of the playlist. How I love twang.
The last (secret) song isn’t a cover–it’s a fun mashup treat obtained via Said the Gramophone.
- Bran Van 3000 – Cum on Feel the Noize
- Frente! – Bizarre Love Triangle
- The Shins – We Will Become Silhouettes
- The Meat Purveyors – S.O.S
- Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys – Every Rose has a Thorn
- Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
- Jim and Jennie & the Pinetops – Georgie Buck
- The Fugees – Killing Me Softly
- Moxy Fruvous – I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You
- Erasure – River Deep, Mountain High
- Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Every Rose has a Thorn makes total sense as a country song, doesn’t it? And how brilliant is The Beatles versus The Beastie Boys? The mix of the week is Every Rose has a Thorn makes a lot of sense as a country song)”>here and also in the “Featuring” section of the right sidebar.
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Becky I’d like to mix the following with Bran van 3000:
PS-16th avenue is in Nashville, it’s about ten blocks long and contains the entirety of country music headquarters for every major label. Not many country songs ever see the light of day without going through 16th Avenue:
16TH AVENUE
From the corners of the country, from the cities and the farms
With years and years of livin’, tucked up underneath their arms,
They walked away from everything just to see a dream come true,
So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Av-enue.
With a million dollar spirit and an old flat top guitar,
They drive to town with all they own in a hundred dollar car,
‘Cause one time someone told them about a friend of a friend they knew,
Who owns you know a studio on 16th Avenue.
Now some are born to money they never had to say survive,
And others swing a nine pound hammer just to stay alive,
There’s cowboys, drunks and Christians mostly white and black and blue,
They’ve all dialed the phone direct to home from 16th Avenue.
Ah but then one night in some empty room where no curtains ever hung,
Like a miracle some golden words roll off of someone’s tongue,
And after years of being nothing they’re all lookin’ right at you,
And they for awhile they’ll go in style on 16th Avenue.
Hey it looks so uneventful, so quiet and discreet,
But a lot of lives were changed there on that little one-way street,
‘Cause they walked away from everything just to see a dream come true,
So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Avenue.
Recorded by Lacy J. Dalton
Becky I’d like to mix the following with Bran van 3000:
PS-16th avenue is in Nashville, it’s about ten blocks long and contains the entirety of country music headquarters for every major label. Not many country songs ever see the light of day without going through 16th Avenue:
16TH AVENUE
From the corners of the country, from the cities and the farms
With years and years of livin’, tucked up underneath their arms,
They walked away from everything just to see a dream come true,
So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Av-enue.
With a million dollar spirit and an old flat top guitar,
They drive to town with all they own in a hundred dollar car,
‘Cause one time someone told them about a friend of a friend they knew,
Who owns you know a studio on 16th Avenue.
Now some are born to money they never had to say survive,
And others swing a nine pound hammer just to stay alive,
There’s cowboys, drunks and Christians mostly white and black and blue,
They’ve all dialed the phone direct to home from 16th Avenue.
Ah but then one night in some empty room where no curtains ever hung,
Like a miracle some golden words roll off of someone’s tongue,
And after years of being nothing they’re all lookin’ right at you,
And then for awhile they’ll go in style on 16th Avenue.
Hey it looks so uneventful, so quiet and discreet,
But a lot of lives were changed there on that little one-way street,
‘Cause they walked away from everything just to see a dream come true,
So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Avenue.
Recorded by Lacy J. Dalton
if you like the rock-as-country type cover tunes check out some of the following (very excellent) country remakes of rock classics:
luther wright and the wrongs - rebuild the wallan end-to-end cover of pink floyd’s “the wall” that sounds strangely right done country.
the gourds - gin & juicesnoop dog cover. can be found on the various p2p networks incorrectly labelled as a phish cover.
the gourds - ziggy stardustthis is a blow-you-away cover. it’s amazing. i found it on an cd that came with the uk magazine and i can’t remember the name of mag but the disc was called “Starman - A Tribute to David Bowie” and overall was full of very excellent bowier covers (if you like bowie let me know and I’ll find a way to pass along the disc)
i’m generally an “i don’t like country” type person but I can’t deny that good music is good music…
In the “interesting covers” genre, check out The Scissor Sisters’ cover of “Comfortably Numb”. It’s kind of painfull in a fun way, and then it gets stuck in your head.
Sorry if you’ve had this on your page before. I just came across your blog.
Moxy Fruvous did an entire covers show several years ago before they went the way of the passenger piegon. It was very, very cool. “Jockey Full of Bourbon” is probably their best cover, but to each her own.
And no “Istanbul (not Constantinople)”? Many people don’t know that’s a cover, though.