Tag: Cover version
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Have A Cigar – Pink Floyd Main Squeeze cover
Roger Waters was obviously having a bit of a ‘mare after the record-beating success of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, dealing with expectation of a follow up (the Tusk effect) and the music industry. ‘Have A Cigar’ is a biting criticism of the music industry, most definitely biting the hand that feed –…
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Highway To Polka Hell
More celebrating of Oktoberfest with Heimatdamisch‘s oompah cover of AC/DC’s Highway To Hell. (video via Scott Cairo). They are indeed a German band, and seem to have created quite a few polka covers…how did I miss them? I mean check out their Kim Wilde version – Kids In Bavaria that’s just been posted as of…
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Electronicos Fantasticos – Surfing on CRT waves
I saw a post about Japanese band? collective? Electronicos Fantasticos who hack domestic equipment like fans and TVs to make instruments, use touch synthesizers (Bruce Haack invented that WAY back in the 1960s!) and barcode readers to make music. Here they cover New Order’s Blue Monday at Iron Island Festival. It’s very Kraftwerk meets Tim…
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RC 353: Uncover Me aka Lost In The Summer Wine
Lost to the Summer wind., uncovered by podcast archaelogists, on the last day of Summer (well practically everyone knows September is back to school/back to Winter not summer) here is a lost podcast recorded in early August before I decided to run away into the sunset and paint the coast. (the image is one I…