At the record company meeting On their hands a dead star And oh, the plans they weave And oh, the sickening greed. . . . Re-issue ! Re-package ! Re-package ! Re-evaluate the songs Double-pack with a photograph Extra track (and a tacky badge) –The Smiths, “Paint a Vulgar Picture” On February 23, Johnny Cash’s [...]
So, it’s high time to bring this unpremeditated mini-thread on rock cover versions to a close—or at least to put it on pause for awhile. Hoping to make this all a bit more interactive, I thought I’d post my list of Top 10 covers, and invite y’all to post yours—or even individual entries—in Comments. I’m [...]
So, no big wind-up this time. Track 7, “My Body Is a Cage.” Few—none?—have ever accused The Arcade Fire of being insufficiently portentous. “My Body Is a Cave,” in this respect, is vintage AF: the big church organ just gets bigger and bigger as the song moves inexorably on; if you like this kind of [...]
Cover me when I run Cover me through the fire . . . Cover me, darling please –Peter Gabriel, “Shock the Monkey” So, I should have listened to Paul. I was visiting him in Philadelphia last week, and when he picked me up at the train station, he had just turned off Peter Gabriel’s Scratch [...]