Got a killer #MusicWomenWednesday for this week. When I was a kid in the 90s, I had this awesome Wax Trax video compilation (on VHS!) from 1994, it had KMFDM, Coil and Laibach on it (and a ton of other great bands) including BRAINDEAD SOUNDMACHINE.
This was the first way I ever heard this great Patsy Cline song, this unforgettable 'metaldisco' (as they liked their genre to be called) cover. It's totally wild and probably underappreciated.
A little Brecht and Weill for your Sunday morning – an anti-war song written specifically for Lotte Lenya to record and have broadcast into Germany – this is "The Ballad of the Soldier's Wife."
The Smithereens are my favorite band for a lot of reasons. One is that they can NAIL a cover song. They collected 22 of them in 2018 in this killer 'Covers' collection on Bandcamp. Everything from Kinks to Billie Holiday, Sam the Sham, Beatles to Beach Boys to Springsteen.
The Jersey Four sure could cover a song. They even covered an ENTIRE Beatles album, which is epic. I bet you'll recognize several of these. And man, Pat's VOICE shines. As always. The guy could SING (AND write songs). Plus the bass, solid drums and guitar all over these. What a band, man.
(0/54) Ever think, “Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ is such a fantastic song. I should find and listen to many, many different versions of it!”?
No? Well … a few weeks ago, I did just that. I started a project of sorts which involved spending hours finding all manner of covers of Creep by Radiohead, so you don't have to!
Go ahead and listen to all of them, and let me know what you think of them…
Shout-out to Ashlena and her reaction to Haley Reinhart/PMJ's majestic cover of "Creep", in which she also referenced a couple of others from this thread. YouTube knew I had to see the video. https://youtu.be/9v2VQk0TPGY
The fun thing is that Ashlena also pointed out a cover I HADN'T ever seen/heard!
Kina Grannis' cover of "Creep" starts out fairly quiet/mellow. Solo on acoustic guitar. Her voice is great. Strong but with an ethereal quality. This isn't a blow-you-away-with-the-crescendo one, but it's very nice.
This is a slow burn cover accompanied by piano and strings from Fatin Majidi. They've definitely gone for a haunting feel with post-production on her voice. I'm not convinced her voice needed it, but it's a valid artistic choice.
Next up in the flood of new recs, Bubble Dia. I like her take in a lower key than some, and a (musical/singing) run on a single "run" rather than a "run run run run" during that crescendo. Nicely done.
This one from Connie Park is very scaled back. Audio isn't the best, and she skips the crescendo, which is a little disappointing ... but it is sweetly soft, so I'm including it.