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Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 725
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 5:03 pm: |     |
Confession ... I really like that song "Stacey's Mom" by The Fountains of Wayne. It's about the best damn pop song I've heard in a few years ...
It reminds me of the Cars/Knack/Weezer kind of deal ... |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1696
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 9:52 pm: | |
Chris- I agree.
BTW- Last Friday morning, PLJ had a guest who's done a remake of Joe Jackson's "Is she really going out with him". I missed the name of the artist & I can't find who has re-released it anywhere (net searches, music stores). Anyone know what I'm talking about? |
mayhewdrive
Citizen
Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 341
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 10:22 pm: | |
Chris,
I totally agree...I couldn't get the song out of my head when I first heard it. I went out and bought the CD (the first non-Bruce CD I've bought in ages) and have been playing it repeatedly....a really great disc!
Greentree - the artist is Sugar Ray |
1-2many
Citizen
Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 248
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 12:36 pm: | |
Sugar Ray rocks.
Stacey's Mom rocks. And funny, too - have you seen the vid? hilarious. |
Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 727
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 1:53 pm: | |
Mayhewdrive: The rest of The Fountains of Wayne disc is pretty good, huh? Gonna check it out ...
Greenetree: Yeah, I've heard the Sugar Ray remake of "Is She Really ...", but it did not move me. It's not awful, but see my thread about cover tunes ... |
1-2many
Citizen
Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 250
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 3:16 pm: | |
Chris - aren't cover tunes all Big Train plays?  |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 78
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 3:23 pm: | |
They have a Song called Hackensack too. I think that their talking about Natalie Portman. |
mayhewdrive
Citizen
Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 345
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 4:18 pm: | |
Chris,
Defnitely. I NEVER buy a CD for just one song (have been disappointed way too many times in my youth doing that), but I couldn't resist with this CD and I have not regretted it. It's a great CD throughout. Really...check it out.
(I have no vested interest other that to help out a fellow music fan) |
greenetree
Supporter
Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1697
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 4:31 pm: | |
Mayhew- I heard them do it live, so I'm curious about the recorded version.
Every once in awhile, a cover version of a song can be really great, although I generally agree that it isn't. Can't think of any right off the top of my head, tho...
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1-2many
Citizen
Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 252
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 4:40 pm: | |
for the record, I love Big Train doing covers!
covers CAN be good: Aztec Camera's version of Van Halen's "jump" is good, as is Fun Boy Three's cover of "Our Lips Are Sealed". I kind of like David Lee Roth's cover of "Just a Gigolo".
but I agree that, as a rule, covers are, if nothing else, a little cheap - a band should come up with its own goods! |
Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 728
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 4:46 pm: | |
Thanks, 1-2many ... Don't forget (SHAMELESS PLUG)Big Train is bringing their unique brand of horn-infused funkification back to Orphan Annie's in nearby Stirling, NJ on Saturday August 30.
Also, you can now check out some Big Train tunes via the world wide web (Invented by Jeff Beck!) at www.bigtraintracks.com ... Go to the MP3 page. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 704
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 4:51 pm: | |
There are lots of bad covers, but there are alot of really good (and some interesting) covers too. My cover tune of the day...in honor of the pub opening...Irish musician Luka Bloom covering LL Cool J's "I Need Love". Recording artists do a better job overall with cover tunes than Hollywood does "covering" movies and TV shows. And The Fountains of Wayne have made other good music too, not just the latest recording. |
Chris Dickson
Citizen
Username: Ironman
Post Number: 731
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 5:28 pm: | |
I don't station it was, but someone was playing a cover of "Stairway to Heaven". It was done by an Aussie band and it was very clever ... Funny stuff. Anyone else heard that cover? |
gozerbrown
Citizen
Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 181
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 5:40 pm: | |
I heard Fountains of Wayne on NPR about a month or two ago. They were so funny and interesting, too. I tried to get tickets to see them live, but alas, it wasn't in the tea leaves. |
bookgal
Citizen
Username: Bookgal
Post Number: 404
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 9:45 pm: | |
Another big vote for Fountains of Wayne. They have now become my 7 year olds favorite band. I like the album a lot.
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woodstock
Citizen
Username: Woodstock
Post Number: 310
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 12:20 am: | |
Personal favorite cover song - Tori Amos doing Smells Like Teen Spirit. I know, I know... but I can't help it.
Waiting For The Electrician, Or Someone Like Him |
1-2many
Citizen
Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 254
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 10:30 am: | |
woodstock, I agree that Tori Amos actually has a great tone and mood for the message of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". She can't replace the original of course, but her cover stands on its own.
also like The Sundays' cover of "Wild Horses".
these women vocalist covers remind me of one I hate: Frente!'s cover of Bizarre Love Triangle. bad bad bad - even her "name!". |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 706
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 10:39 am: | |
Elvis Costello does a fine cover of "Wild Horses"...and I heard a Willie Nelson/Ryan Adams cover of "Dead Flowers" that was really good. |
gozerbrown
Citizen
Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 182
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 10:53 am: | |
Speaking of Tori Amos, she's done a number of great covers including her 2001 album of covers originally sung by men. One of the most eerie is a cover of that Bonnie and Clyde song by Eminem. One of the several Eminem tunes revolving around slaying his daughter's mother. Hearing it sung by a woman's voice is really moving.
The album also features "I Don't Like Mondays" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 23
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 5:15 pm: | |
Speaking of covers, Nick Lowe kills Johnny Rivers song, "Poor Side of Town". This was a great song to begin with but some may be put off by Johnny's kinda reedy voice and the semi-cheezy 60's production. Nick does it just right and even manages to keep the "Shoo Bee Do Be's" in there without sounding too dated. I heard local acoustic act the Jaybirds can be coaxed into performing this ditty, if ya ask em nicely. |
ml1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1214
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 25, 2003 - 11:44 pm: | |
Speaking of Nick Lowe --
Elvis Costello's recording of Nick's "Peace, Love, and Understanding" is pretty much the definitive version.
(Has anyone actually heard the original Brinsley Schwartz version?) |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 27
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 12:13 am: | |
ml, I have a copy of the Brinsleys original, it's pretty close to Elvis's version.
This tune was a real god-send for Nick Lowe. He was without a label and had to tour solo because he couldn't afford to take a band on the road. All of a sudden a singer named Curtis Stiger, covered Love, Peace and Understanding and it wound up on the soundtrack of that Whitney Houston movie, "The Bodyguard". The tune was filler but the soundtrack went triple platinum , so Nick went from eeking out a living to becoming a millionaire pretty much overnight-go figure.
It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy tho. In the 70's I was touring Europe and I ran into Nick at a taping of a Dutch music show called Top Pop. Nick was playing bass that day with Frankie Miller and couldn't have been a nicer, down to earth fella.
Now thats a whole lotta info you didn't need to know.
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duncanrogers
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 702
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 1, 2003 - 8:41 pm: | |
Chris have you checked out Jen Trynin's Gun Shy Trigger Happy? It was produced by Mike Deeneen as well. Not to mention that my best friend from childhood is her drummer.I noticed that Jen even helps out on the new album. |
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