Click on the title above to hear my cover of "Nowhere Man".
Don't cover the Beatles they say - because - everyone else does and it is never as good as the Beatles version.
...but that means my version will be seen as just another half baked attempt and will therefore carry no expectations. Brilliant no...
I'm making up the guitar riff as I go along in several different ways and I undoubtedly and perhaps unintentionally capture a certain pathetic quality that suits the song. They say John was writing this about himself. I'd rather apply it to Jeremy in "Yellow Submarine".
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Venus
Click the title above to hear my cover of "Venus" by Shocking Blue.
OK, everybody does this. Even Bananarama. And the last thing the world needs in another version.
BUT...
It's so much fun - even if yours truly struggles with the worlds simplest riff.
Best ever version. The Riptides. In 1983 INXS played Luna Park in Sydney but I went to see their support band "The Riptides" from Brisbane who did, amongst other things, a blistering version of Venus. It is available on their live double album, "Resurface" in a much later version.
That's the original in all its sixties glory.
Groovy.
OK, everybody does this. Even Bananarama. And the last thing the world needs in another version.
BUT...
It's so much fun - even if yours truly struggles with the worlds simplest riff.
Best ever version. The Riptides. In 1983 INXS played Luna Park in Sydney but I went to see their support band "The Riptides" from Brisbane who did, amongst other things, a blistering version of Venus. It is available on their live double album, "Resurface" in a much later version.
That's the original in all its sixties glory.
Groovy.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Waterloo Sunset
Click on the title above to hear my cover.
There are some songs that should never be covered.
So I'm going to do them.
Waterloo Sunset is a damn near perfect popsong. It is achingly sad but somehow uplifting at the same time. Mid 60s Kinks captured such a delightfully light take on pop music which is remarkable considering the grungy guitars before and heavy handed hits afterwards.
My version is meant to sound like a mildly psychotic musicbox. Even if you find my version on the nose, it's a great excuse to enjoy the original.
More sacrilege upon the classics soon...
There are some songs that should never be covered.
So I'm going to do them.
Waterloo Sunset is a damn near perfect popsong. It is achingly sad but somehow uplifting at the same time. Mid 60s Kinks captured such a delightfully light take on pop music which is remarkable considering the grungy guitars before and heavy handed hits afterwards.
My version is meant to sound like a mildly psychotic musicbox. Even if you find my version on the nose, it's a great excuse to enjoy the original.
More sacrilege upon the classics soon...
Saturday, May 3, 2008
New Slang
As feared I have attacked a newish song.
What a remarkable band the Shins are. I mean they're just kids and they write an oblique sad song as good as this and sing it as if they were from New Zealand in the late 1980s. How is this possible?
If anything I've made my version more obviously sad on several levels. It is still a good song.
What a remarkable band the Shins are. I mean they're just kids and they write an oblique sad song as good as this and sing it as if they were from New Zealand in the late 1980s. How is this possible?
If anything I've made my version more obviously sad on several levels. It is still a good song.
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