Comments on: Take No. 2a & 2b

By: squashed

squashed — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:34:42 +0000

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.

By: moka

moka — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:27:59 +0000

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.

By: squashed

squashed — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:16:17 +0000

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (unofficial vid. nice actually) Date With The Night

By: squashed

squashed — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:13:46 +0000

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

By: squashed

squashed — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:52:19 +0000

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)

By: squashed

squashed — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:25:41 +0000

We Have All The Time In The World, The end credits to 2005's "The Jacket" (Iggy Pop covering)

By: squashed

squashed — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:27:24 +0000

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.

By: godoggo

godoggo — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:58:27 +0000

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