Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs:
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Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.
Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.
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Music behind DJ: Sounds of the Ocean |
Beach Sounds
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Ocean Sounds |
Sounds Of The Ocean |
2016 |
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Music behind DJ: Alec Mansion |
Ça Plane Pour Moi
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Porto Alegre |
Alecmansion Music |
2020 |
I love this bossa cover of this song. While yes, it's been done before..this version swings haaaaard. |
0:00:17 (Pop-up) |
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| The Fall |
A Day In The Life
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Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father (v/a) / The Frenz Experiment [Expanded] | NME / Beggar's Banquet | 1988 / 2022 | Yes, they covered The Beatles. They also recorded in Abbey Road the same year, but not for this track. Ha! From the expanded booklet: "[1987] 18 November Cold Storage Studios, Brixton, London, UK recording 'A Day In The Life' //// STEVE HANLEY: It was a day in the studio to do that 'Day in the Life' and we knocked out 'Carry Bag Man' in the same day. //// MARCIA SCHOFIELD: The other thing we did that year [1987] was a recording for 'Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father' which Grant [Showbiz] produced, and that was 'A Day In The Life." My abiding memory was my ex-husband travelling down to see us in the studio. Somebody was listening to the radio and said there was fire at King's Cross. I said 'Oh, that's weird cos Phil's on his way down.' He was passing through the tube station at the very moment of the fire, so he was on the train that actually went through without stopping as it was all happening. //// GRANT SHOWBIZ: Abbey Road is the St Johns Wood credit on the Frenz sleeve, so we'd used the studio where the first 'A Day In The Life' was recorded, but not to do our version of it there!" | 0:02:29 (Pop-up) | |
| Tanya Tagaq with Damian Abraham |
Run To The Hills
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Run To The Hills [Digital Single] | Six Shooter Records | 2018 | "The Canadian throat-singer and punk icon cover the infamous Iron Maiden single, creating a still applicable portrait of issues facing Indigenous communities today. //// Two of Canada’s most searing and visceral musicians come together as throat-singer Tanya Tagaq has enlisted Torontonian punk icon Damian Abraham of Fucked Up for her cover of Iron Maiden’s colonization saga, “Run To The Hills.” Tagaq, who is an activist as well as a performer and vocal supporter of Indigenous rights in Canada, opens the track by whispering, “white man came across the sea/he brought us pain and misery.” //// Over sharp, stinging strings, Tagaq sounds soft but nonetheless more urgent—echoing that feels almost like a warning drill sound. Abraham’s thrashing vocals come afterward and the two merge together, elevating the British metal band’s track and bringing it into a modern music context. Both are sonically theatrical and grand, a pounding track, but Tagaq’s cover, like all of her cover songs, manages to create an intimate, specific portrait that is applicable to our current cultural moment. This, however, isn’t Tagaq’s first foray into iconic covers. On her 2016 album, Retribution, Tagaq created a gut-wrenching, hair-raising rendition of Nirvana’s “Rape Me.” On her Polaris Prize-winning record, Animism, Tagaq opened the record with The Pixies’ “Caribou.”" //// "The release of the single accompanied the announcement of Tagaq’s first book, Split Tooth, which folds memoir, fiction, folklore, poetry, and prose into the story of a young girl growing up in Nunavut in the 1970s." | 0:06:50 (Pop-up) | |
| Angelique Kidjo |
Crosseyed And Painless
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Remain In Light | Kravenworks | 2018 | Angelique Kidjo reinterprets Talking Heads' highwater mark album (IMO) in stunning fashion. "Released on June 8, 2018, Kidjo partnered with producer Jeff Bhasker (Rihanna, Kanye West, Harry Styles, Bruno Mars, Drake, Jay-Z) to create Remain in Light. The record is a track-by-track re-imagination of Talking Heads' landmark 1980 album, considered to be one of the greatest albums of the 1980s and deeply influenced by music from West Africa, notably Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. With her version of Remain in Light, Kidjo wanted to celebrate the music of Talking Heads and Brian Eno with her own vocals, as well as percussion, horn orchestrations, and select lyrics performed in languages from her home country. Remain in Light features appearances by Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, Blood Orange, Tony Allen, Antibalas Horns, Kidjo's longtime guitarist Dominic James, and percussionist Magatte Sow. Visual artist Kerry James Marshall created the album artwork" //// Tangentially... Talking Heads made a rare appearance together at TIFF in Toronto this week (Monday) for a Q+A to promote the premiere of A24’s 4K restoration of their concert film Stop Making Sense. "The band members spoke to moderator Spike Lee for a 25-minute interview held after the screening of the movie, which was first released in 1984. Lee, who worked with Byrne on the filmed version of his solo show American Utopia in 2020, did his bit to celebrate Stop Making Sense, describing it as "the greatest concert film ever."" //// This song, however, was not in the film. | 0:11:06 (Pop-up) | |
| Ibibio Sound Machine |
A Forest
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Eyio - EP | Merge Records | 2018 | Insanely excellent cover of The Cure classic. "Ibibio Sound Machine is an English electronic afro-funk band from London. Formed in 2013, the band currently consists of vocalist Eno Williams, guitarist Alfred Kari Bannerman, percussionist Afla Sackey , drummer Joseph Amoako, bassist Philip PK Ambrose, trombonist/keyboardist Tony Hayden, trumpeter/keyboardist Scott Baylis and saxophonist/keyboardist Max Grunhard. Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements... According to the band, their sound is inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West African funk and disco, modern post-punk, and electro. The name of the band itself finds influence from Eno Williams' mother, whose native tongue was Ibibio. While Williams was born in London, she spent most of her childhood in Nigeria with the rest of her family. Her mother often recounted numerous folk and children's stories from her own heritage and passed them on to her daughter. Williams took this inspiration and crafted lyrics from these sources and married them to modern themes." | 0:16:32 (Pop-up) | |
| Iggy Pop |
It's My Life (Party Outtake 1981) [2023 Remaster]
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Rare Trax (2023 Remaster) | Cleopatra Records | 1981 / 2023 | Remastered & reissued Sept 8, 2023; this cut finds Iggy in top form covering The Animals. How this never found an official release mystifies me. //// "One of the signature hits from one of the major British groups in the 60’s. //// It was one of many other hits written in the Brill Building in New York, the “factory of hits” in the 60’s, that included another great Animal’s hit, “We Gotta Get Out of this Place” //////// Songwriter Carl D'Errico about “It’s My Life” – It’s My Life" came about when Mickie Most, the producer of the Animals, said he was looking for songs for the group. The writers got busy writing and then handed in their acetates and there was a tall stack of them waiting for Mickie when he came in from London. Three of the songs in that stack were “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”, “Don’t Bring Me Down” and “It’s My Life”. Actually, the melody for “It’s My Life” was the second one that I wrote for it. When I played the first one for Emil, he said that it didn’t have enough punch and it was the wrong groove, so I rewrote it. After the rewrite everyone knew it was a hit. Some of the writers would play their songs for one another to get feedback – we used these small rooms with pianos in them, so people would hop around and check out what was happening next door." | * | 0:20:45 (Pop-up) |
| The Cambodian Space Project |
The Passenger
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Spaced Out In Wonderland | Four Four Music / Universal / ABC | 2017 | A fascinating take on the Iggy/Bowie classic, Cambodia space style. "The CSP was the first band to release a 45rpm vinyl in Cambodia since 1975 - the year Pol Pot implemented the insane Year Zero policy of the Khmer Rouge and trashed all Cambodian culture while inflicting one of the worst genocides in human history. Srey Kak Chanthy (who died in March 2018 in a car accident in Phnom Penh) was born into war and poverty. Like the great Cambodian diva Ros Serey Sothea, Srey Kak Chanthy came from humble beginnings and moved to Phnom Penh in 1999 to find work as a singer. By the time she met Julien Poulson, co-founder of the Cambodian Space Project, she had amassed a great song-book of Cambodian music and was ready to try something new. Poulson had already made several trips to Cambodia before and had dedicated time to making recordings and short films exploring the traditional music of Cambodia as well as the instruments of the Khmer ensembles but like many from the West, had an ear open for Cambodian Rock and was keen to create music that would fit in a space between what once was and what is occurring today. The Cambodian Space Project’s debut single was Knyom Mun Sok Jet Te "I'm Unsatisfied" by Pan Ron." | 0:25:36 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The London Punkharmonic Orchestra |
Holiday In Cambodia
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Symphony Of Destruction |
Music Club |
1995 / 1998 |
An unlikely cover of the Dead Kennedys' classic. From the liner notes by Jack Rabid: "Punk-Rock succeeded because the songs were SO DAMN GOOD. Now here's what happens when punk goes classical: a surprisingly lovely treasure that emphasizes the genuine, glistening beauty of the melodies, and the cascade of yearning emotions. It's positively pretty, as profound as any majestic symphony your fossilized music teacher tried to interest you in." |
0:30:03 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The London Punkharmonic Orchestra |
White Riot
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Symphony Of Destruction |
Music Club |
1995 / 1998 |
Yes, a cover of The Clash. "I chose to do this just with strings because I wanted to see how the tunes responded to a smooth, luscious sound, and I was surprised and quite moved to hear how haunting and evocative they turned out to be. It shows a cynical world of those too old or too young to remember, just how beautiful those tunes really were..." So said producer/arranger Monty upon completing this recording in 1995, neatly summing up the crux of the matter before you. This, my friends, is no mere novelty record." |
0:34:08 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The London Punkharmonic Orchestra |
Gary Gilmore's Eyes
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Symphony Of Destruction |
Music Club |
1995 / 1998 |
""Gary Gilmore's Eyes" is a single by the Adverts. The song reached No. 18 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1977 and earned the band an appearance on Top of the Pops. It was originally intended to be included on the band's debut album, Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts, but was dropped at the last minute." ////++ From the liner notes by Jack Rabid: "Oh, sure, anyone buying it out of the blue, unheard, may giggle all the way home - the very idea brings a smile to anyone with fond memories of what these records meant, captured and stood for. And on the surface, the concept is more amusing than 98% of what the postmodern reflex keeps belching up nowadays. But a funny thing happens when you listen to it without looking for chuckles: The depth of the movements in the compositions kicks in. [What?] As does the pleading nature of the violins' hooks, the genuine, glistening beauty of the melodies, and the cascade of yearning emotions. [Hey!] This is gorgeous!" |
0:37:33 (Pop-up) |
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| Bananarama |
No Feelings
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Deep Sea Skiving RE | London Records | 2019 | A super cheeky cover...this version strips the original Pistols energy and replaces it with pure girl power. Bananarama of course, formed as a trio in 1980 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, and Keren Woodward and had massive chart success. Of No Feelings: On this track, Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) creates a self-absorbed character with "no feelings." He said in an interview with Daniel Rachel (The Art of Noise: Conversations with Great Songwriters): "The song is from the idea of someone being completely selfish, which I'm not. I like to imagine being in that frame of mind. I'm insulting myself really. That happens a lot." Performance-wise, the song's biggest challenge is in its wordiness. Lydon explained: "Some of the songs I've written have so many words it's almost unbearable. 'No Feelings,' for instance: I think it's 16 to 18 lines where I don't take a breath. Now, live, that's tempting fate. But I managed to do it. | 0:39:48 (Pop-up) | |
| El Conjunto Nuevaola Ola |
Dancing With Myself
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Mitotem | El Conjunto Nuevaola Ola | 2015 | EL CONJUNTO NUEVA OLA is a group that is here to stay. A musical concept that will revolutionize pop music in 2012, the group will continue to exist for years to come. They are the self-proclaimed “disrespectful musical wrestlers.” But they are also young professionals who, with their first album, are providing creativity and freshness to a worn-out record industry. That – and much more – is what EL CONJUNTO NUEVA OLA is all about. Despite its track list, EL CONJUNTO NUEVA OLA does not consider itself a cover band. The group members affirm that they “take the work of (de)composing lyrics from powerful tunes very seriously. I love Cumbia and I freakin' love this cover. CUUUUUMBIIIAAAAAAAA | 0:42:23 (Pop-up) | |
| Brenton Wood |
Psychotic Reaction
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Oogum Boogum | The Bicycle Music Company | 1967 | "Psychotic Reaction" is a song by the American garage rock band Count Five, released in June 1966 on their debut studio album of the same name. Psychotic Reaction" was born out of an instrumental that Count Five played for six months before their manager Sol Ellner, Kenn Ellner's father, suggested that rhythm guitarist John "Sean" Byrne" write lyrics for it. Inspiration came in early 1966 when Byrne was seated in a health education class during his freshmen year at San Jose City College in California. As his professor lectured about psychosis and neurosis, Byrne's friend Ron Lamb, seated next to him, leaned over and whispered, "You know what would be a great name for a song? Psychotic Reaction!" Brenton Wood, is an American singer and songwriter known for his three 1967 hit singles, "The Oogum Boogum Song" (peaking at No. 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100), "Gimme Little Sign" (peaking at No. 9), and "Baby You Got It" (also peaking at No. 34). A true music entrepreneur, in 1972 Wood formed his own record label and released, co-produced and co-wrote the Funk Soul classic "Sticky Boom Boom [Too Cold] Part I and II" with collaborators George Semper (co-producer, arranger) and Al McKay (co-writer, performer) of Earth, Wind & Fire fame.[8] Wood recorded a duet with Shirley Goodman. | 0:46:10 (Pop-up) | |
| Minor Threat |
Steppin' Stone
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First Two Seven Inches | Dischord Records | 1981 | Steppin' Stone by Minor Threat was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart and was first recorded and released by Paul Revere & The Raiders in 1966. Along with the fellow Washington, D.C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s. All of Minor Threat's recordings were released on MacKaye's and Nelson's own label, Dischord Records. The Minor Threat EP and their only full-length studio album Out of Step are cited as landmarks of the hardcore punk genre. | 0:48:49 (Pop-up) | |
| The Saints |
River Deep Mountain High
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I'm Stranded | EMI Australia | 2009 | This appears as a bonus track on the Remastered reissued version of their 1977 release. In the hands of the great punk/garage bands...this banger of a tune becomes a different kind of beast. It is considered one of the greatest 500 songs every written by Rolling Stone, originally released in 1966 by Ike and Tina Turner, produced and written by Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. | 0:50:58 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The Nutley Brass |
I Wanna Be Sedated
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Ramones Songbook as Played by the Nutley Brass |
Modern Harmonic |
2021 |
The Title Says It All. This is very fun. |
0:54:51 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The Nutley Brass |
Blitzkreig Bop
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Ramones Songbook as Played by the Nutley Brass |
Modern Harmonic |
2021 |
0:56:57 (Pop-up) |
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Music behind DJ: The Nutley Brass |
Teenage Lobotomy
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Ramones Songbook as Played by the Nutley Brass |
Modern Harmonic |
2021 |
0:58:53 (Pop-up) |
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| Gossip |
Drunken Maria
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Silver Monk Time - A Tribute To The Monks | Play Loud! | 2006 | Gossip (or The Gossip) was an American indie rock band formed in Searcy, Arkansas, originally active from 1999 until 2016. For most of their career, the band consisted of singer Beth Ditto, multi-instrumentalist Brace Paine, and drummer Hannah Blilie. After releasing several recordings, the band broke through with their 2006 studio album, Standing in the Way of Control. A follow-up, Music for Men, was released in 2009. The band played a mix of post-punk revival, indie rock, and dance-rock. Their last album, A Joyful Noise, was released in May 2012. | 1:01:09 (Pop-up) | |
| Country Teasers |
No Limits
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Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire | In The Red Recordings | 2002 | Written-By – 2 Unlimited. Some of my favourite covers gleefully destroy the original versions. This is one of those. "Early Country Teasers albums were characterised by literate, scathingly satirical lyrics and discordant, repetitive sound – like William S. Burroughs leading Joy Division or The Fall through a setlist of art-damaged country and western songs. //// Later Teasers releases branched out to "abuse not only country and western but every other genre they can get their hands on, including rap, goth, punk, folk, disco, electronic, and noise," leading to comparisons with other home-recording deconstructionists like Royal Trux, Butthole Surfers and Ween. //// Frontman and songwriter Ben Wallers's lyrics have elicited comparisons to Jonathan Swift, Bill Hicks and Chris Morris, provoking the audience with unorthodox standpoints and purposefully offensive vocabulary in order to force them to question their own opinions. In the words of a writer on the Drowned in Sound website, ""Evil country outfit" Country Teasers are led by the enigmatic singer/guitarist BR Wallers. Their discordant aural assault is filled out with bitingly ironic lyrics, poking fun at racism and sexism by inhabiting the minds of the losers that purvey these attitudes." //// "Like moralistic ’80s punks Crass, the Country Teasers make their statement, but they use humor to do it, as opposed to histrionic art-house punk screech… They find your comfort zone and blissfully stomp all over it." //// The Teasers' live shows are infamously unpredictable fusions of alcohol-or-whatever-fueled unprofessionalism and high-concept performance art, or in the words of the New York Press: "Country Teasers does art better than Sonic Youth and drunkenness better than The Pogues—and doesn’t need art or liquor to be confrontational bastards." //// Country Teasers are often compared to The Fall, although as Static Party's Ryan W points out, "it's not in the chord structures or the Northern (UK) accent, it's in the feel they create akin to the early Fall records that a truly creative brain is battering against resistance (self or other) to create something meaningful to itself. If you get something from it as well... Art! Put on a CT record and read the Maakies comics, it's better than bread and chocolate."" | 1:02:46 (Pop-up) | |
| Boy Division |
Mongoloid
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Ill | Fidel Bastro | 2001 | The cover artwork for Ill (that's ill) is in itself a cover, a homage to Joy Division's "Still". This band is irreverent in their approach... all-lo-fi, amped up, megaphone-sung, frenzied reworkings. They are super fun... Discogs helpful offers: "Founded by members of Hamburg-based projects Pornopop, Hrubesch Youth and Superpunk, Boy Division is "the other kind" of Coverband." | 1:04:43 (Pop-up) | |
| Nirvana |
Turnaround
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Incesticide | DGC | 1992 | "There wasn't a lot of love for Devo in the early 1990s. The pioneering New Wave act probably felt they reached rock bottom when their 1988 effort Total Devo peaked at Number 189 on the charts, but then they faced the indignity of witnessing 1990s Smooth Noodle Maps – which contained the rather sad song “Devo Has Feelings Too” – not even chart at all. They attempted to support it with a club tour, but split in March of 1991 when they concluded the whole exercise was just hopeless. //// Just one month later, Nirvana played a gig at the OK Hotel in Seattle that’s become the stuff of rock legend since it was the evening they debuted a new track called “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” A little earlier in the night, Kurt Cobain announced they were going to play a Devo song to very scattered applause. They then busted out “Turn Around,” the B side to Devo’s 1980 breakthrough hit “Whip It.” Nirvana first played it the previous October at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia, Washington, and then they dug it out again in London later that month at a show that was partially broadcast on John Peel’s radio show. //// Few in the audience at the OK Hotel seemed to recognize the song, but Cobain was delighted to pay tribute to a band he loved as a teenager. “Of all the bands who came from the underground and made it in the mainstream, Devo were the most challenging and subversive of all,” he said in 1992. “They’re just awesome. I love them.” That same year, Nirvana released their cover, which they slightly renamed “Turnaround,” on their 1992 compilation LP, Incesticide." //// This track also turns out to be somewhat topical, bearing in mind a new reissue announced this month & due in October. "The 30th anniversary of Nirvana's swan song, In Utero, will be commemorated this year with a new reissue. It will be released on October 27 in a number of formats — including a massive 8LP/5CD super deluxe box set — and feature a total of 53 unreleased tracks, including two previously unheard full-length concert records from the In Utero tour. //// Originally released on September 21, 1993, In Utero became the trio's first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 charts following the acclaim of their 1991 major-label debut, Nevermind. The album was previously reissued in 2013 to coincide with its 20th anniversary. In addition to the box sets, the 30th anniversary edition will also be available on 1LP plus 10-inch and 2CD formats, as well as a digital release of the 72-track super deluxe. //// Among those 72 tracks are two full concert recordings: 1993's Live in Los Angeles, and the band's final hometown gig, 1994's Live in Seattle. There are also six bonus live tracks from shows in Rome, Springfield and New York, reconstructed by Jack Endino from stereo soundboard tapes. //// The album tracklist is bolstered by five bonus tracks and B-sides — "Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip," "Marigold," "Sappy," "Moist Vagina" and "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" — remastered by Bob Weston, who assisted engineer Steve Albini during the original In Utero sessions."" | 1:06:11 (Pop-up) | |
| Jay Reatard |
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
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In Utero: In Tribute | Robotic Empire | 2014 | "In Utero, in Tribute, in Entirety is a tribute album to Nirvana's 1993 third and final album, In Utero, by various artists. The album was released through Robotic Empire on April 15, 2014, and an exclusive version was released for Record Store Day on April 19, 2014. The compilation, which represents Robotic Empire's 100th release overall and 15th anniversary as a business, took over 7 years to make because of "extended delays and legal wrangling." In the time it took to make the album, Jay Reatard died and These Arms Are Snakes, Thursday and Daughters disbanded (though the latter reformed shortly before the release), making their contributions some of the last music they recorded. An unmastered version of Jay Reatard's "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" leaked online a few years prior to the official release of the album." Additionally, new news at the beginning of this month: "The 30th anniversary of Nirvana's swan song, In Utero, will be commemorated this year with a new reissue. It will be released on October 27 in a number of formats — including a massive 8LP/5CD super deluxe box set — and feature a total of 53 unreleased tracks, including two previously unheard full-length concert records from the In Utero tour." | 1:08:29 (Pop-up) | |
| Pixies |
Born In Chicago
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Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary | Elektra Records | 1990 | Originally performed by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (in 1965.) "Rubáiyát is a compilation album, released in 1990 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Elektra record label. The concept was to feature present-day Elektra artists covering songs from the historic catalogue of recordings of Elektra Records and its sister label Asylum Records." //// ""Born in Chicago" is a blues song written by Nick Gravenites. It was the opening track on the self-titled debut album by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1965 and has since become a blues standard. //// Gravenites, who was born in Chicago, first performed the song when in a duo with guitarist Mike Bloomfield, playing in clubs in the city in the early 1960s. When Bloomfield joined the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, he insisted that the band record it. Although Butterfield was at first reluctant to sing the song, the initial recording took place in the Mastertone Studio in New York City in April 1965, produced by Paul Rothchild for Elektra Records. The track was included on an Elektra Records sampler album, Folksong '65. //// The popularity of the track led to Rothchild requiring a revised version, for inclusion on the band's debut album. The second recording, with additional organ by Mark Naftalin, additional choruses and solos, and using better recording equipment, took place in September 1965. The album was released in October 1965, and became successful as one of the first in the U.S. to present blues material to a predominantly white rock audience. //// "Born in Chicago" was later recorded by a wide range of artists, including Jesse Colin Young (1972), Pixies (1990), George Thorogood (1991), Joe Louis Walker (2003), and Tom Petty (2004). In 2016, critic Jay Gentile wrote of the song: "...[It] could not be more relevant today. With lyrics that run though young friends who went down presumably to gun violence, the song could serve as a soundtrack to today’s gun violence debate."" | 1:12:46 (Pop-up) | |
| Bunnies |
Alec Eiffel
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Dig For Fire (A Tribute To Pixies) | American Laundromat Records | 2007 | Of course it's the Pixies, but also very much not the Pixies. "BUNNIES were formed in Northampton MA somewhere in 2005 when Jeremy Dubs and his best friend Jack Science - their first band were called THE BENNIES - moved up to Massachusetts from Pennsylvania with serious thoughts about making their band better. In 2008, BUNNIES recorded their debut album with Mission Of Burma's Roger Miller as producer, called "Music For Dinosaurs By Dinosaurs". It was followed by two more self-released vinyl albums: "Devoted To The Process Of Action" in 2013, and "Transportation To Mind Transformation" in 2018. Currently featuring Jeremy Dubs (vocals, guitar), Jack Science (vocals, synths, keys), Matthew Newman (drums), Justin Bard (guitar), and Rebecca Macomber (bass), BUNNIES are a tight unit creating adventurous and eclectic Experimental Rock with influences from a broad spectrum of Psychedelia, Avant-Prog, sci-fi Space, Kraut, and Weirdo Cinematic music." | 1:14:55 (Pop-up) | |
| METZ |
Call Of The Wighat
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Really Bad Music For Really Bad People: The Cramps As Heard Through The Meat Grinder Of Three One G | Three One G | 2020 | The Cramps as covered by Toronto's METZ! ---- "METZ was formed in Ottawa, Ontario, in 2007 by guitarist/vocalist Alex Edkins and drummer Hayden Menzies, two longtime friends. After a year of working on material, Edkins and Menzies moved to Toronto and expanded to a trio with the addition of bassist Chris Slorach." | 1:18:58 (Pop-up) | |
| Shame |
Rock Lobster - Recorded at RAK Studios, London
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Spotify Singles | Dead Oceans | 2018 | B-52's? Well, then there's this version! "Shame have covered The B-52s’ alt-pop 1978 classic anthem ‘Rock Lobster’. The South London punks made their cover for Spotify Sessions – but mocked the streaming service when they publicised their cover." From their social media announcement: "A while back we recorded Rock Lobster and One Rizla for Spotify sessions and it has been birthed into the world today. Get streaming kids, for each 100,000 plays we can afford a kit-kat. " | 1:21:14 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The London Punkharmonic Orchestra |
Teenage Kicks
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Symphony Of Destruction |
Music Club |
1995 / 1998 |
Teenage Kicks by The Undertones was John Peel's favourite song. From the John Peel Wiki (yes such a thing exists) -- "The London Punkharmonic Orchestra are what appears to have been a one-off musical collective. Little or no information is available on them (although AllMusic insinuate that it is a pseudonym of the London Philharmonic), and their only available recording is Classical Punk, a CD originally released on the budget label Music Club in 1995. It comprises orchestral transcriptions of punk classics, cleverly done so that the melody of the original song is not always immediately apparent. Peel picked up on it at once, and played it regularly throughout early summer 1995. As can be seen below, he thought it was "excellent", generally following each track with a play of the original version and rebuffed derision from reviewers who felt it did not pay respect to the music "which surely was what punk was all about in the first place". However, AllMusic avers that it is "a concept that works marvellously, as the London Philharmonic negotiates their way through the angst and comes up with a batch of unlikely tunes holding a whole lot more melody and music in them than one would originally believe.....(the tracks) bristle with a depth one wouldn't think possible, making for a classical approach that's visceral as well. A quirky idea for an album to be sure, but again, one that works on every level, a sort of gabba-gabba-hey with strings and oboes." //// A year later, Peel briefly revisited the CD, delighted that it had not been lost in the mountain of music at Peel Acres: it was reissued in 1998 under the title Symphony Of Destruction: Punk Goes Classical. The orchestra's version of Teenage Kicks is featured at the opening of The Story Of The Undertones: Teenage Kicks." |
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Music behind DJ: The London Punkharmonic Orchestra |
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
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Symphony Of Destruction |
Music Club |
1995 / 1998 |
Ah yes, it's the Buzzcocks now... ""Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" is a 1978 song written by Pete Shelley and performed by his group Buzzcocks. It was a number 12 hit on the UK Singles Chart and was included on the album Love Bites. // In November 1977, the Buzzcocks were on a headline tour of the UK. Before a gig at the Clouds (also known as the Cavendish Ballroom) in Edinburgh, they stayed the night. Pete Shelley later recalled: "We were in the Blenheim Guest House with pints of beer, sitting in the TV room half-watching Guys and Dolls. One of the characters, Adelaide, is saying to Marlon Brando's character, 'Wait till you fall in love with someone you shouldn't have.' "I thought, 'fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have?' Hmm, that's good." The following day, Shelley wrote the lyrics of the song in a van outside the main post office on nearby Waterloo Place. The music followed soon after. In an interview, Shelley said that the song was about a man named Francis Cookson that he lived with for about seven years." |
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Music behind DJ: The London Punkharmonic Orchestra |
Love Song
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Symphony Of Destruction |
Music Club |
1995 / 1998 |
Originally by The Damned from my favourite year of music, 1979. |
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| Drinking Electricity |
Shaking All Over
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Shaking All Over/China 7" | Pop Aural | 1980 | Drinking Electricity were a post-punk/synthpop trio from Edinburgh, Scotland active during the early 1980s. This was one of their first two singles released. It's a perfect blend of the original riff with synthy stabs and the perfect accompanying vocal stylings. "Shakin' All Over" is a song originally performed by Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. It has been covered multiple times...but to my ears, this is definitely THE BEST VERSION. | 1:35:42 (Pop-up) | |
| Mom's Plate |
Janitor
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Demos 2 | Mom's Plate | 2022 | You don't cover one of the greatest New/No Wave bands easily, but Mom's Plate do an admirable job. They stick very closely to the original blueprint, and this version is a wonderful homage. Mom's Plate hail from Colorado, describe themselves as "power goth" and besides Suburban Lawns, cite ABBA as the greatest band ever...... | 1:38:47 (Pop-up) | |
| James Chance & The Contortions |
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough
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Live Aux Bains Douches - Paris 1980 | S.C.O.P.A. | 1980 | This is exactly what you expect from JC&TC...a delightfully unhinged and superfunky cover. They take the funk one step further in a herky jerky no wave style that legit makes you want to contorrt on the dancefloor. "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" is a single written and recorded by American singer Michael Jackson. Released under Epic Records on July 10, 1979, the song is the first track on Jackson's fifth studio album Off the Wall (1979). It was the first solo recording over which Jackson had creative control. When Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, a devout Jehovah's Witness, heard the song, she was shocked by the lyrical content and felt that the title could be misconstrued as pertaining to sexual activity. Jackson reassured her that the song was not a reference to sex, but could mean whatever people wanted it to. The James Chance version is definitely sexual in nature. Definitely. | 1:41:09 (Pop-up) | |
| Lene Lovich |
The Night
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Flex | Stiff Redords | 1979 | Lene Lovich wraps her velvety and super intense voice around this tune...she brings a sense of longing and drama to a song that was already pretty dramatic...taking it all up a notch. Though the original song was largely considered a failure upon release in 1972, it has gone on to define the Northern Soul scene and is a much beloved..and oft covered song...Lene, as to be expected, delivers an exceptional version. | 1:44:20 (Pop-up) | |
| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark |
Waiting For The Man
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Locomotion/Waiting For My Man Flexi 7" | A&M | 1984 | "I'm Waiting for the Man" is a song by American rock band the Velvet Underground. Written by Lou Reed, it was first released on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. This song appears as a super rare B side to a flexi disc...again...a challenging song to cover due to the legendary status of VU...but the synthmasters and Andy McCluskey's fantastic delivery elevate this tune to something new and awesome. Synths DO make things better! | 1:48:49 (Pop-up) | |
Music behind DJ: The Neanderthals |
Space Oddity
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The Neanderthals In Space |
Spinout Records |
2005 |
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| Rhoda Dakar |
The Man Who Sold The World
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Version Girl | Sunday Best Recordings | 2023 | Rhoda Dakar is a British singer and musician, best known as the lead singer of The Bodysnatchers, who were signed to the 2 Tone record label. She also worked with The Specials/Special AKA, and also other 2-Tone artists, most notably her vocals on the harrowing track "The Boiler". She released Version Girl in May of 2023, an album comprising of covers and reworks of her favourite songs. This version does Bowie great justice, and reggae covers can go horribly wrong, but Rhoda makes this version of a very special Bowie song even more special! | 1:57:48 (Pop-up) |
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Hope we're not too well covered guys? I like to catch those rays all over my body baby!
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Super excited! Throwing down a groovy ass swingin soulin psychedelic dance trip!!!!
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Androu B.:
Enjoying and liking this idea of an all-covers show!
Just one thing, though: the Talking Heads tune Angelique Kidjo was perfrming was actually "Crosseyed And Painless", not "Born Under Punches", and I should know , being a TH fan myself and having their entire catalog in FLAC files downmixed from 5.1 Dolby! (Coincidentally, I was just perusing through those very files last night!)
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Good idea. I’m pouring another Smirnoff and orange juice.
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Welcome welcome! Turnaround is so good and it took me forever to learn it was a cover!
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Devo was a little before my time, so i do not know them too well. Nonetheless, when doing a list of favorite bands of Kurt Cobain, Devo would not be one of my guesses.
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(my band's name is rubaiyats of the cicadas [rotc])
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(just caught the last 25 minutes)
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