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petroniaDeath Cab for Cutie - Grapevine Fires: fall is the season for wussy indie so I've been trying to catch up on some of the stuff everyone listens to but me, like Death Cab or Elbow (it'll be a while before I reach Wilco). Are there other well-known indie songs about specific natural disasters? This is about the California wildfires, and "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" is about Montreal's Ice Storm '98, but it feels like I'm forgetting one.
Amy Millan - I Will Follow You Into the Dark: Amy Millan plays up the folksy sweetness of the song while entirely abandoning the gothiness - and this is MEGA GOFF, no mistake. XD; (I hear Death Cab is on the upcoming soundtrack to New Moon.) I prefer A Fine Frenzy's cover, but IMO the definitive version hasn't come around yet. The original is a sort of perfect demo, on which one hangs imaginings made of scraps of other songwriters' arrangements: Bert Jansch in the melody of "if Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied", Neil Tennant in the way Ben Gibbard's voice rises on "in Catholic school vicious as Roman rule."
Cohen Revisited (link goes to folder): a collection of Leonard Cohen covers that came with Les Inrockuptibles a few months ago - judging by the tracklisting, ones considered classic by the compilers. Of the ones I'd not heard before, I really like Ian McCulloch (dude out of Echo and the Bunnymen)'s definitive-feeling post-80s wussy indie take on "Lover Lover Lover", and 16 Horsepower's cover of "The Partisan", which is partially in French. Which confused me, as I'd gotten a serendipitous introduction to them via a podcast and they were gothic alt-country from Denver. XD; It turns out the track was a collab with Bertrand Cantat out of Noir Désir.
The Last Shadow Puppets - Memories (live at Tempodrome): TLSP's wonky live cover. As with Katie Melua's version of "In My Secret Life" the song is inherently not meant to be sung by Young People even if they can hit the right notes, although one can see why Alex Turner likes it - he's been writing versions of it forever (see: "7"). In fact "Cornerstone" is structurally a straight rip of "Memories", trying to best the master at his own game. It's one of the highlights of Humbug.
Misstress Barbara - Dance Me to the End of Love: the minimal techno cover. XD; I first heard her drop this at Igloofest last year and waited 18 months for it to be released. She played it again last Saturday at Piknic (I was there for the clothing swap), or rather the remix, which is kind of BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM all the time, as per Barbara's sets always. But the original isn't. People love that shiz though; the "floor" was even more crowded than the day before for Holden, who really brought the girls up front with his emo bangs.
She also played a version of this: DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Skream Remix)
Which was not that one, and not the original [see video]. It's probably among the twenty-odd listed in the Pirate Bay's torrent. XD; I learnt this track's name today after having heard it out approximately 3,148 times over the past year. Apparently this is what South African house sounds like, with the aggro live-drum-kit percussion.
The Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (Plastician & Skream Remix)
Dave Gahan - Saw Something (Skream Remix)
Skream's remixes mostly feel like they're doing the same thing, unlike his original work - though it's a viscerally satisfactory same thing. As with Rex The Dog or Richard X remixes they're not genre-centric repurposings so much as a beefing up / buffing up / streamlining / cyberization of the pop song. The Black Ghosts track is sort of mutant R&B; Dave Gahan is Dave Gahan, but this is the definitive version of the track as far as I'm concerned.
Will try to do this more often, so the music posts aren't so long!
Amy Millan - I Will Follow You Into the Dark: Amy Millan plays up the folksy sweetness of the song while entirely abandoning the gothiness - and this is MEGA GOFF, no mistake. XD; (I hear Death Cab is on the upcoming soundtrack to New Moon.) I prefer A Fine Frenzy's cover, but IMO the definitive version hasn't come around yet. The original is a sort of perfect demo, on which one hangs imaginings made of scraps of other songwriters' arrangements: Bert Jansch in the melody of "if Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied", Neil Tennant in the way Ben Gibbard's voice rises on "in Catholic school vicious as Roman rule."
Cohen Revisited (link goes to folder): a collection of Leonard Cohen covers that came with Les Inrockuptibles a few months ago - judging by the tracklisting, ones considered classic by the compilers. Of the ones I'd not heard before, I really like Ian McCulloch (dude out of Echo and the Bunnymen)'s definitive-feeling post-80s wussy indie take on "Lover Lover Lover", and 16 Horsepower's cover of "The Partisan", which is partially in French. Which confused me, as I'd gotten a serendipitous introduction to them via a podcast and they were gothic alt-country from Denver. XD; It turns out the track was a collab with Bertrand Cantat out of Noir Désir.
The Last Shadow Puppets - Memories (live at Tempodrome): TLSP's wonky live cover. As with Katie Melua's version of "In My Secret Life" the song is inherently not meant to be sung by Young People even if they can hit the right notes, although one can see why Alex Turner likes it - he's been writing versions of it forever (see: "7"). In fact "Cornerstone" is structurally a straight rip of "Memories", trying to best the master at his own game. It's one of the highlights of Humbug.
Misstress Barbara - Dance Me to the End of Love: the minimal techno cover. XD; I first heard her drop this at Igloofest last year and waited 18 months for it to be released. She played it again last Saturday at Piknic (I was there for the clothing swap), or rather the remix, which is kind of BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM all the time, as per Barbara's sets always. But the original isn't. People love that shiz though; the "floor" was even more crowded than the day before for Holden, who really brought the girls up front with his emo bangs.
She also played a version of this: DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Skream Remix)
Which was not that one, and not the original [see video]. It's probably among the twenty-odd listed in the Pirate Bay's torrent. XD; I learnt this track's name today after having heard it out approximately 3,148 times over the past year. Apparently this is what South African house sounds like, with the aggro live-drum-kit percussion.
The Black Ghosts - Some Way Through This (Plastician & Skream Remix)
Dave Gahan - Saw Something (Skream Remix)
Skream's remixes mostly feel like they're doing the same thing, unlike his original work - though it's a viscerally satisfactory same thing. As with Rex The Dog or Richard X remixes they're not genre-centric repurposings so much as a beefing up / buffing up / streamlining / cyberization of the pop song. The Black Ghosts track is sort of mutant R&B; Dave Gahan is Dave Gahan, but this is the definitive version of the track as far as I'm concerned.
Will try to do this more often, so the music posts aren't so long!
