Some Covers For Saturday Part IV

Ok, I know I might have posted some of these before, but if you haven't heard any of these before, I really think you ought to!

These tracks were on a 12" single in 1992, and can now be found on a Nick cave compilation called Rarities...

Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan -'What a wonderful World (Louis Armstrong cover).' mp3

Nick Cave -'Rainy Night In Soho (Pogues cover).' mp3

Shane MacGowan -'Lucy (Nick Cave cover).' mp3

Dinosaur Jr's take on the Cure's classic as become legendary:

Dinosaur Jr -'Just Like Heaven.' mp3

This was a split 7" single a couple of years back:

Franz Ferdinand -'Get Up And Use Me (Fire Engines cover).' mp3

Fire Engines -'Jacqueline (Franz Ferdinand cover).' mp3

These three songs are probably my favourite three cover versions of all time:

Schneider TM -'The Light 3000 (Smiths cover).' mp3 (AKA There Is A Light That Never Goes Out)

This Mortal Coil -'Song To The Siren (Tim Buckley cover).' mp3

Jeff Buckley -'Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover).' mp3

Three songs I haven't posted before:

Siouxsie and the Banshees -'This Wheel's On Fire (Julie Driscoll and the Brian Auger trinity cover).' mp3

Maria McKee -'Has He Got a Friend For Me? (Richard Thompson cover).' mp3

Elf Power -'Upside Down (Jesus and Mary Chain cover).' mp3

Some Covers For Saturday Part III

Well, I've got my USB turntable on the go again (not that it stopped working but it can be a time-consuming process) so here are a few goodies from the record collection.

The Swans were responsible for leading me to Joy Division. Aged eleven, I saw the video for their cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart on The Chart Show, a long-running UK TV show that every three weeks would do the Top Ten indie charts (the other two weeks being dance and Heavy Metal). Now the version I heard then had Michael Gira on vocals (anyone who has this please let me know etc..) but this version has the legendary Jarboe singing.

Swans -'Love Will Tear Us Apart (Jarboe vocal).' mp3

I said I would post it, and I have! A couple of years back, Franz Ferdinand and the Fire Engines issued a limited split 7" (I love these! There is nothing more indie (in the old sense of the word) than a split 7") of them covering one of the other's songs.

Franz Ferdinand -'Get Up And Use Me (Fire Engines cover).' mp3

Fire Engines -'Jacqueline (Franz Ferdinand cover).' mp3

As a huge Cure fan, I was determined to track down a copy of this for years. A few times I thought I'd got it, only to wonder why every version seemed to cut off before the end. So when I found the 12", I got it home to discover that...it's how it's meant to sound.

Dinosaur Jr -'Just Like Heaven (The Cure cover).' mp3

I thought this was a Nancy Griffith song -obviously without the swearing -but it was written by John Prine. Anyway, this is Alabama 3's take on it.

Alabama 3 -'Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness (John Prine cover).' mp3

Finally, another record I spent years searching for (before it was eventually available on the B-sides and rarities triple CD compilation that came out in 2004). This single had Nick and Shane singing on the A-side together, before covering one of the other's songs on the b-side.

Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan -'What A Wondeful World (Louis Armstrong cover).' mp3

Nick Cave -'Rainy Night In Soho (Pogues cover).' mp3

Shane MacGowan -'Lucy (Nick Cave cover).' mp3

These will be up for one week only. Enjoy!