Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Rasputina's live "Oops I did it again".
They haven't released it yet, as far as I know. I'm waiting for them to release their cover of "Baby Got Back".
(I would try to close the t obssesive Rasputina fangirl tag, but we all know that would be a fib.)
Rasputina's live "Oops I did it again".
"Oops I did it again" is a rap song? If so, Richard Thompson does a great cover of it as well.
nope not a rap song, a Britney Spears song - and I didn't know Rasputina was gonna release it, just accidently caught them doing it when going to see a different show.
"Oops I did it again" is a rap song? If so, Richard Thompson does a great cover of it as well.
Yup on 1000 Years of Popular Music. Sadly, no rap covers on there.
Battery's cover of Gangsta's Paradise.
There you go! And it's on iTunes.
Travis Morrison's "Around the Way Girl"
Sadly, not on iTunes or eMusic.
Just discovered that Soundgarden covered "Cop Killer" live. Now, if I could only find a copy....
Oh, and I'd forgotten the Supersuckers covered "Hey Ya!"
OK, let's say I'm making a mix tape of nothing but non-rap covers of rap songs. Right now I have the Gourds' "Gin and Juice," Ben Folds' "Bitches Ain't Shit," Nina Gordon's girl-and-a-guitar version of "Straight Outta Compton."
Why has no one mentioned Dynamite Hack's "Boyz in the Hood" yet? Come on, people.
It sounds like Ernest Tubb when he's working on three hours sleep and a tub full of gin, you mean!
Other than that track and the Nina Gordon, the only thing I have is a small audio clip of John Darnielle singing along with the "Ignition" remix to bassist Peter Hughes's ringtone of same from a Mountain Goats show last year. The audience went crazy.
Thinking about it, I'm surprised no one's done "99 Problems"...
Tricky is a rapper, tho'. But his version of Black Steel rules all.
Okay, so somebody (Jim?) mentioning Jackie Wilson sent me to the iTunes store, where I see Dexy's Midnight Runners did a cover of "Jackie Wilson Said." Want.
Wasn't me. But if you don't have that first Dexy's album you need it. Actually, you pretty much need all 3 Dexy's albums, but especially that one.
Corwood is bang on about Fortress Of Solitude - if you read just the first 3/4ths as a memoir of growing up in '70s Brooklyn it's brilliant, but the ending is a mess. It's not as good as Motherless Brooklyn.