Take No. 2a & 2b
November 23, 2007 at 4:25 pm
“Take No.2a”
01. My Bloody Valentine - We Have All The Time In The World
Peace Together compilation (1993)
02. Ground Zero - Folhas Secas
Plays Standards (Disk Union, 1997)
03. Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love
Transformer (1972)
04. Soft Machine - Hope For Happiness
The Soft Machine (Big Beat UK, 1968)
05. CAN - Bel Air
Future Days (1973)
06. Arlo Guthrie - My Creole Belle
Running Down The Road (Rising Son Records, 1970)
“Take No.2b”
07. Brian Eno - Always Returning
Apollo (1983)
08. Smog - Spanish Moss (wiki)
Came Blue 7″ (Hausmuzik, 1997)
09. Aquarelle - Loneliness Is an Empty Room
Ten Postcards To Her Ghosts/Ten Postcards From His Ghosts (2003)
10. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - On the Low
Bavarian Fruit Bread (2001)
11. Tortoise - Onions Wrapped In Rubber
Tortoise (Thrill Jockey, 1994)
12. Color Filter - Satellite Of Love
Sleep In A Synchrotron (Darla Records, 1999)
13. Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time In The World (wiki)
Her Majesty’s Secret Service Soundtrack (1969)
Note: The series with no theme. I think this is gong to be a long weekend project. Wander around the net finding new songs and fact plus irrelevant stylish black and white pix. So here is a question: what sort of cover song you like? what makes a cover song work? I rarely know or pay attention if a song being covered. except maybe few well known cover song. I always thought songs are free to be played by anybody and that good song is just like any classic piece, everybody should play it. I guess royalty fee kills.
On the list: a super rare track from Smog 7″, engineered by Jim O’Rourke. If you can get it, it’s a lovely 7″. The rest of the list are about 2 songs: ‘Satellite of Love’ by Lou Reed and ‘We Have All The Time In The World’ by Louis Armstrong. This list I guess is a mellow bedroom/dream-pop type of deal. I am not sure you can go boinking each other with it as I originally thought. It’s too melodical. Anyway, cuddle music then. enjoy.
oh yeah, this list does have a small point. Cross genre but maintaining that “dream pop” texture. So the song album contexts are widely different.
Well Bryan Ferry gets bashed a lot but his version of “Gates of Eden” is really intense.
Well, that was a pretty interesting discussion (about jazz covers of rock tunes) that you linked to in comments to the previous post, Squashed. Mostly it’s about instrumental jazz covers, though, which really doesn’t intrigue me all that much. But I’m very interested in vocal covers of rock tunes, which often have more interesting lyrics than the romantic love songs that most jazz singers focus on. I haven’t heard all that much that I thought was particularly successful though. I imagine that Ella album that’s mentioned is probably pretty good. She was at the peak of her powers in ‘69.
Here’s a nice video of what a great jazz singer (Dianne Reeves) can do with an OK pop tune (In Your Eyes)…I imagine the results could be sublime if she got somebody to pick some hipper material for her, though: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3m57a3UiRX8
I have a couple of rock tunes that I wonder the jazz version will sound like..
right at the top of my mind, in “lovey dovey” department:
- Arcade Fire - Ocean of Noise (Neon Bible, Merge, 2007)
very memorable opening melody.
- Feist - Gatekeeper (Let It Die, Interscope, 2004)
minimalist, pretty melody. but owned by Interscope now.
- Cocorosie - Raphael (The Adventures Of Ghosthorse & Stillborn, Touch & Go Records, 2007)
unbelievable melody, straight out of dream time.
more obscure tunes, I can’t imagine anybody doing it any other way. So it’ll be a challenging jazz piece
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Art Star (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Touch & Go Records, 2002)
punk piece, it would be interesting to see how jazz expresses that scream.
- Sonic Youth - I Love you Golden Blue (Sonic Nurse, Geffen, 2004)
It’s sonic youth. soft and elegant.
- Peaches - Lovertits (Teaches of Peaches, Xl, 2000)
minimalist electro punk, radically anarchy.
- Blonde Redhead - Bipolar (Fake Can Be Just As Good, Touch & Go Records, 1997)
odd minimalist rock piece, in sonic youth style.
- My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything (Lose My Breath , Sire, 1988)
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well. maybe I should compile the more “obvious” indie pop tunes. But most are about short piece of hook and doesn’t have interesting thing to say. lyric wise. or too cheesy to do it any otherway except rock.
We Have All The Time In The World, The end credits to 2005’s “The Jacket” (Iggy Pop covering)
nouvelle vague “dance with me”
hey there is this “cover” databse
http://www.secondhandsongs.com/song/43695.html
Cover hierarchy
* Dance with Me by The Lords of the New Church (August 1983)
o Dance with Me by Nouvelle Vague (July 10, 2006)
Feist Gatekeeper ( live @ Melkweg, Amsterdam.)
I notice she uses a lot of local artists, this one is very jazzy.
Cocorosie -Raphael
Sonic Youth - I Love You Golden Blue
Blonde Redhead - ‘Bipolar’ live @Emo’s - Austin, TX 4/21/00
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (unofficial vid. nice actually)
Date With The Night
You know at first I thought it was a very random list, seemed all over the place but I was re-listening to this an hour ago and I have to say I love the transition between tracks created a very nice mood.
It’s a pure dream-pop list, tho in various styles and 1 hr long. Soft voice, limited or muted dynamic, etc etc…
I always thought dream-pop is taking itself too seriously with that “melody + fuzz box”, after a few minute I doze off, usually bored. The ending could use little better transition, but I didn’t care anymore. The list was getting too long.
the CAN >> Arlo Guthrie is a nice transition eh? I amuse myself with that. heh.