Cover Songs I Enjoy

No claims that these “cover” versions are superior to the original versions…just 10 picks that I enjoy…enjoy a lot.

 

The Beautiful Ones – Dump/Prince & The Revolution

Sadly no you tube clips available…but here is the almost equally great Pop Life.

Young Man Blues – The Who/Mose Allison

Faca Amolada – Royal Trux/Milton Nascimento

The Orchids – Califone/Psychic TV

12XU – Minor Threat/Wire

You Still Believe in Me – M. Ward/Beach Boys

I Will Follow Him – Les RallizesDenudes (Night Of The Assassins)/Little Peggy March

I Am The Walrus – Boris w/Merzbow/The Beatles

Where Were You – Boredoms (Super Roots 7)/Mekons

Live With Me – Ghost/Rolling Stones

Ziggy Stardust – Bauhaus/David Bowie, I’m Waiting For The Man – Bauhaus/The Velvet Underground

 

5 Great Tribute Albums

 

Weird Nightmare:  Meditations On Mingus

A Chance Operation:  The John Cage Tribute

Yoko Ono (Georgia Stone), Ryuichi Sakamoto (Haiku FM)

I Am The Resurection: A Tribute To John Fahey

Cul De Sac (The Portland Cement Factory At Monolith, CA), Pelt (Sunflower River Blues)

Virus 100:  Dead Kennedys Songs

Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy (California Uber Alles), NoMeansNo (Foreward To Death)

Chamber Music:  James Joyce (1907) 1-36 Performed By Various Artists

Flying Saucer Attack (XXIV)

1978

Apologies for the late post!

A bit rushed but I’ll stand by it for good or ill :)!

The Cars – The Cars (Moving in Stereo/All Mixed Up)

Eno/Moebius/Roedelius – After the Heat  (The Belldog/Broken Head)

Magazine – Real Life (Definitive Gaze/The Light Pours Out of Me)

Patti Smith Group – Easter (Babalogue/Rock N Roll Nigger/25^th Floor)

Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance (Street Waves/Nonalignment Pact)

The Residents – Duck Stab (The Electrocutioner/Sinister Exaggerator)

Steve Reich – Music For 18 Musicians

Stranglers – Black and White (Hey!/Sweden)

Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings and Food (Thank You for Sending Me an Angel)

Wire – Chairs Missing (French Film Blurred/Outdoor Miner)

Honorable Mention:

No New York Compilation (I Can’t Stand Myself/Not Moving/Hairwaves)

 

Alternative TV – Nasty Little Lonely

Black Flag – Nervous Breakdown

Buzzcocks – Atonomy

Cabaret Voltaire – Do the Mussolini

DMZ – Don’t Jump Me Mother

The Fall – Bingo Masters Breakout

Gang Of Four – Armalite Rifle

Joy Division – Failures

Mekons – Where Were You

This Heat – Horizontal Hold

Tubeway Army – Friends