Two cover versions for today

Two Eighties-related cover versions today, involving two of 17 Seconds’ three favourite acts of all time.

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First up, following on from the North-East of England producing great cover versions of Kate Bush songs, Slug unveils a take on ‘The Big Sky,’ originally found on the legendary The Hounds Of Love LP and a single in 1986. [Those other North-East cover versions are, of cource, China Drum doing ‘Wuthering Heights’ and The Futureheads doing ‘The Hounds Of Love.’

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In a not dissimilar vein, Desert Sound Colony take on David Bowie’s ‘Fashion’ and produce something that’s both dancefloor and chilled at the same time. ‘Fashion‘ originally appeared on Bowie’s Scary Monsters album, yet this version owes far more to the Berlin trilogy and Bowie’s great lost single ‘Loving The Alien.’

A song for today #16

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Listening to Mary Ann Hobbes on 6Music yesterday morning, I heard the fantastic ‘Learning To Love’ by LA Priest.

This is the moniker of Sam Eastgate, once of Late Of The Pier. This squelchy soul number from the man who has reportedly been building synths in a Welsh mountain retreat and studying electromagnetic phenomena in Greenland (according to The Guardian) is utterly fantastic and a serious contender for anthem of the summer. It’s taken from his debut album Inji which is out now on Domino. And one of the marks of the quality of the track is that you want to play it again and again, almost before you have finished playing it.

On you go…

The return of The Libertines

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It’s been eleven years – but the Libertines are back! All four members as we knew them and about to unleash their third album Anthems For Doomed Youth.

The album’s out on September 4 and the tracklisting is as follows:

1. Barbarians
2. Gunga Din
3. Fame and Fortune
4. Anthem for Doomed Youth
5. Heart of the Matter
6. Belly of the Beast
7. Iceman
8. You’re My Waterloo
9. Fury of Chonburi
10. The Milkman’s Horse
11. Glasgow Coma Scale Blues
12. Dead for Love

The Bonus tracks are
1. Love on the Dole
2. Bucket Shop
3. Lust of the Libertines
4. 7 Deadly Sins

The first track to hear (not available to download yet as far as I can see) is the awesome ‘Gunga Din.’