Category: Covers
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Heigh ho! Who is there?
As part of the Great Mixcloud Upload I’m re-visting some old podcasts – currently upto the Wicker Man Return to Summerisle ones (probably the best podcasts I’ve done in recent times) but I missed this version of Willow’s Song by Isobel Campbell when I put them together – or rejected it because there are SO…
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Andrew in Drag (Ukelele version)
First things first, and if you know me well you’ll know what I’ll say: since when did Stephin Merritt become a bear?!? Lovely version of Andrew in Drag by the Magnetic Fields on the Ukelele as part of Bet Fit Sessions…it brings out his wonderfully lugubrious and very distinctive voice. This song has been haunting…
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Da Chip – 8Bit Rules The Nation?
And following the 8-bit madness (I was planning a 8-bit show a while back, kind of wished I’d done it now, ahh that’s me, forever behind/in front of the curve, never in sync 🙁 ) on NME they posted about this Daft Punk 8-bit covers collective called Da Chip, and my robotic ears pricked up:…
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Super Morrissey Bros
I can sense a ripple in the MemeForce – yes it’s that time again for random 8-bit covers to explode out into the wider world* and here is Lazyitis’s cover of This Charming Man done Nintendo 8-bit style. It’s got the thumbs up from NME and Rolling Stone, and more importantly the genius that is…
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I would be in exile now but everywhere’s the same
Loving Phil Ochs music at the moment, and just watched There But For Fortune documentary about his life, and this song just resonates especially the lines about ‘I would be in exile now, but everywhere’s the same’ and ‘But every town I wander there’s a billboard on a throne’ about commercialisation, globalisation and alienation. I…