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)

Brent’s Favorites From 1989

Albums

1) Hal On Earth – Hal Russell NRG Ensemble (Raining Violets  – Hal The Weenie)

2) Rag, Bush, and All – Henry Threadgill Sextett (The Devil is on the Loose and Dancing Witha Monkey )

3) Paradise of Replica – After Dinner (Kitchen Life I – Motorcycle – Kitchen Life II)

4) Bleach – Nirvana (School – About a Girl)

5) Margin Walker – Fugazi (Lockdown – Margin Walker)

6) Flying Cowboys – Rickie Lee Jones (The Horses – Flying Cowboys)

7) Doolittle – Pixies (Hey – Debaser)

8) Tim Berne – Fractured Fairy Tales (Hong Kong Sad Song/More Coffee – Now Then)

9) Soul Discharge – Boredoms (TV Scorpion – Pow Wow Now)

10) Spy Vs. Spy – John Zorn

 

Songs

 

1) Do It Right – Maureen Tucker (w/Daniel Johnson & Jad Fair) (Life After Abdictation)

2) Wishing Well – Bob Mould (Workbook)

3) Have You Ever Been Away – The Beautiful South (Welcome to the Beautiful South)

4) German Sheperds – Wire (It’s Beginning To And Back Again)

5) Let God Be Your Gardener – Melvins (Ozma)

6) Ghost Ride – Couch Flambeau (Ghost Ride)

7) You Got It – Mudhoney (Mudhoney)

8) Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun – Beastie Boys (Paul’s Boutique)

9) Feurio!  – Einsturzende Neubauten (Haus Der Luge)

10) Rags & Bones – NoMeansNo (Wrong)

1989 wasn’t all that bad…