Love Vigilantes Part 2 and Such Great heights

This post is due thanks to one of my readers Adam, who had promised to send me some covers in response to the one I had put up of ‘Love Vigilantes’ being done by Laura Cantrell. So…

first up, Voxtrot and Hungry Lucy’s very different takes on ‘the aforementioned ‘Love Vigilantes’:

Voxtrot -‘Love Vigilantes.’ mp3

Hungry Lucy -‘Love Vigilantes.’ mp3

He also sent me Jenny Lewis doing a live version of the Postal Service’s ‘Such Great Heights’, so I will post that, and just in case no-one has heard it, Iron and Wine’s take on the same song:

Jenny Lewis -‘Such Great Heights.’ mp3

Iron and Wine -‘Such Great Heights.’ mp3

Hope everyone’s having a good weekend. Went to see Future Of the Left in Glasgow at the Captain’s Rest on Friday night, which was very good, so a review will be here shortly.

Some Covers For Friday Part IV

It’s Friday! How about some covers then?

Iron and wine -‘Such Great Heights (Postal Service cover).’ mp3

Astrid Swan -‘When You Were Young (Killers cover).’ mp3

Voxtrot -‘Love Vigilantes (New Order cover).’ mp3

Wilco -‘Something In The Air (Thunderclap Newman cover).’ mp3

Paul Weller -‘Sexy Sadie (Beatles cover).’mp3

Jose Gonzalez -‘Hand On your Heart (Kylie Minogue cover).’ mp3

Postal Service -‘Grow Old with Me (John Lennon cover).’ mp3

Cold War Kids -‘Indoor Fireworks (Elvis Costello cover).’ mp3

Arcade Fire -‘Guns Of Brixton (Clash cover).’ mp3

Swimmer One -‘Cloudbusting (Kate Bush cover).’ mp3

as always, if you like what you hear, support the artists involved, and don’t forget to check out the original artists too.

…And on the sixth day


There were six covers.

Hope you enjoy these folks…

This is from a gig in London in January this year, where the Arcade Fire (above)cover the Clash classic from London Calling.

Arcade Fire -‘Guns Of Brixton (Clash cover)’. mp3

Years ago, working in a record shop I was virtually sent to Coventry for a day for daring to ask ‘What’s wrong with Bruce Springsteen?’ I stand by that comment, the man is a hero to many, and just as an articulate observer of American life as many rappers or Bob Dylan. And Damon Gough knows it too.

Badly Drawn Boy -‘Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen cover).’ mp3

At fifteen I thought Prince was a genius, but I started to get the feeling throughout the nineties that his work was not as good as it had been. Then I came to Scotland, and amongst the hundreds of albums I have bought in second hand records shops here since I arrived are much of his output from 1980-1988. I’ve also realsied that Country music can be cool too. Here the two collide beautifully.

The Be-good Tanyas -‘When Doves Cry (Prince and the Revolution cover).’ mp3

Having got into Sonic Youth at fourteen through Goo, I remember thinking that ‘Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star’ was a bit of a disappointment when I heard it, though the first single ‘Bull In The Heather’ was a gem. Here the Go! Team offer their take on it.

The Go! Team -‘Bull In The Heather (Sonic Youth cover).’ mp3

OK, so this track was a hit, and it did through an advertisement, but what the hell, it’s beautiful, and a genuinely different version of the original by the Knife.

Jose Gonzalez -‘Heartbeats (The Knife cover).’ mp3

Speaking of songs that start out electronica like, and end up acoustic, what better way to finish this than with Iron and Wine’s take on a Postal Service song.

Iron and Wine -‘Such Great Heights (Postal Service cover).’ mp3

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