Cat People (Putting Out Fire) I Put A Spell On You St. James Infirmary Blues In The Pines Now those last three above are credit to Brian Reitzell featuring ML but he’s done almost all of them before, well two out of three. So I guess it’s interesting and off course in this post I’m including the […]Read Post ›
So two posts today again, it’s two days in a row so can I be the first to shout “SNAP!” and slap my hand on the table too! Anyway continuing my never ending blog posts of Mr. Cave with now the very first cover from last years epic album. As far as I know this […]Read Post ›
I guess this is a no brainier after yesterday’s post. I’ve wanted to for a while now to put all these together in the same post but haven’t for some reason. So with a couple of extras here it is for my Saturday morning post. It does take a brave soul to cover The Drones […]Read Post ›
Out of nowhere comes a new EP by Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld with this cover of Neil Young. Working on four new songs including the cover over the European winter and after the Spring EP a couple of years ago now comes the Fall EP. The performers are David Coulter on musical saw and Gabriele Coen […]Read Post ›
k.d. lang’s Constant Craving (featuring Sophia Brous) The Drones’ A Moat You Can Stand In So after yesterday’s post of his new song plus with a new album coming later this year, I wanna highlighted some of Callinan’s other work. Sunday’s post is two covers by him, starting with most likely k.d. lang’s biggest hit single ever, […]Read Post ›
It’s April’s Fool Day but it’s no joke! It’s just most likely my longest blog post title ever and yes all three are just in this one post for Saturday morning. So in brief I’m really enjoying Holly’s new album and last night was the final night of her Aussie tour so I think I’ve start […]Read Post ›
Edit (30/3/17) so I’ve been now corrected by The Drones twitter account, thanks guys. It’s his new band called National Cocktail Favourites but I do hope you’re letting NGV website person know too because that’s where I got it from. So I promised something the other day which I’m kind-of breaking it right here on Tuesday’s […]Read Post ›
Well, off course my fave Chuck Berry cover is by the Aussie band The Drones. I’ve got the studio album and live gig versions here today. It’s the second last track on his After School Session album which featured in yesterday’s post so their cover is my Tuesday’s post. It was the third track into The […]Read Post ›
So yet another double whammy for Sunday’s post and more Mark Lanegan, it’s turn into a Mark weekend in my blogland. Anyway as I was saying in yesterday’s post, I missed the news of Lanegan’s new album and it seem I missed this last year too, did you too? So it seems like a great […]Read Post ›
Double whammy today, with a total of four songs on Saturday’s post. First off is following from yesterday’s post, my fave cover of Karen. Which was done a few years ago now by another fave singer. Mark Lanegan, only just appearing now after 250 posts. Yeah, I’m up to that much posting/blogging. Released as a 7″ vinyl […]Read Post ›
Two more covers today after yesterday’s one, Thursday’s post is yet another Aussie singer-songwriter doing other songwriter’s tracks. I’ve been listening a lot to the new PVT album which I’m yet to write it about here as a whole album but I’ve featured both the songs Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend and Another Life on […]Read Post ›
Well, Wednesday’s posts and sorry to anyone who care’s about me missing yesterday. Anyway here is a new cover of old Aussie 90’s indie rock classic. Ed Kuepper featured pretty heavily here on my blog in January after seeing him play a wicked and great show. I did have a go at writing about 40 […]Read Post ›
So that’s Adam & Marco live with NIN in 90’s but I’ll include the studio version and the original below too, OK? This post is in celebrating of Adam Ant’s Aussie tour and me getting my tickets today! I’m going to revert to being an 6 or 8 years old or whatever I was when King […]Read Post ›
So I’ve really been meaning to do this for awhile now. Putting all The Fall covers they done of The Monks songs in one simple place. Here’s what’s on YouTube and plus where to find them if you want them. Higgle-dy Piggle-dy from Silver Monk Time double CD tribute comp album (2006) Black Monk Theme Part I […]Read Post ›
It should really be June Carter Cash because she did write the song but I guess Johnny made it famous by singing it. So I’ll just do one more Kuepper post today to go with The Bad Seeds/The Saints one earlier and after the few I’ve done in the last week. Well for the moment but I’ll do others […]Read Post ›
Well, I’ve started writing about The Young Gods in my Classic Albums set but it’s not done yet and I was watching these covers too because I love Mike Patton as well and here he is with The Young Gods. Has everyone seen these yet or not? Or maybe not for awhile? My Cover Versions […]Read Post ›
So it’s going to be a week of The Triffids soon or just so far at least the last three days of them. Now today I’ve got to post my five most fave covers of their songs played by other artists/bands. Off course all of the songs are written by the late great David McComb. […]Read Post ›
WHAT? Princess Leia and/or her real life name Carrie Fisher has died too, that’s just totally unbelievable! So today after reading that very sad news about her for some mad reason I when looking for an Aussie cover of George Michael’s song Careless Whisper. So I might as well share it here for anyone who would […]Read Post ›
So the brand new video clip is out now and because I’ve already done a whole post about just the song, What Do You Say? by Holly Throsby Feat. Mark Kozelek when it was release a month or so ago. I’ll just say video was filmed by Jack Saltmiras and it stars Gabby Dillon and Stefan Rusbourne so it’s not […]Read Post ›
Well, Mark’s been at it again this time on the US Jesu/Sun Kil Moon tour with Leonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat song. Two versions have turn up on YouTube in the last week or two so I’ve just got to put both here off course. He’s also booked to play a Cohen tribute night tomorrow in […]Read Post ›
“OK, let’s try this!” is what is said in the opening number on this soundtrack of new music from Scott Walker. I can’t believe this is my 180 post today but this is the first appears of Scott Walker here on my bloggy thing. It’s somehow not right so I should make up for it today […]Read Post ›
It’s been a while since I did do my fave 10 covers of Nick Cave songs, then I did do a few live ones that I really liked too plus my fave worst cover too. So here’s even more focusing on his newer songs this time. I’ve had to included to bookend with two older songs the […]Read Post ›
So he passed away one week ago today and I’ve been listening non-stop to him over the last few days if you want to know. So today’s post is my fave Cohen covers performed by other artists. He’s got alot of songs that have been covered but I did limited myself to twenty because it […]Read Post ›
Well, it’s just a very dark day when Leonard Cohen passes away, I might have to write something more later on but not now! Here’s two Aussie bands The Drones & Harmony covering Cohen’s track from his Songs Of Love And Hate album. Both bands played it as an encore for a tour in 2013, […]Read Post ›
Well, the unbelievable did happen but then Courtney Barnett covered Dan Kelly last night! This track was from Kelly’s 2006 album Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth which I’ve written a whole Classic Albums post about, if you want to check it out?
Mark Kozelek – Hang On To Your Emotions: Mark Kozelek – Power Of The Heart: So that’s really two songs above but I just love the top one the best, one of my fave Reed tracks ever but the second one is OK and was performed on the same day. Maybe just called it a […]Read Post ›
I just got to post this new cover track here now. This song is by far the most interesting and radical cover on the new Elliott Smith tribute. I really wanted to like the rest more but this one just jumps or leaps out from the rest. Mark is a fave so it’s no surprise […]Read Post ›
😥 I’ve just write something about this very sad news, yesterday it was announced Fergus Miller of the Aussie act Bored Nothing passed away on the Sunday just gone at the young age of 26 following his battle with depression, which is a very nice way to say suicide. I don’t know if I have say […]Read Post ›
Well, I was going to post this awhile ago but I think I got side track with something else so it’s getting done today. Yesterday Regurgitator was included in the line-up for Hobart, Tasmania MOFO’s festival playing a encore show of the classic album by The Velvet Underground & Nico which was played at NGV […]Read Post ›
Well, it’s been one month of listening to Skeleton Tree! Anyway I really do love this cover even if it’s really shit but it’s been called the worst a lot of times by everyone and anyone who’s listen to it! I’m just warning you before you press the play, if you do it could ruin this […]Read Post ›
