TMO Tags: cover versions
Counting Crows – Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation)
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012Counting Crows follow up on 2008′s Saturday Nights Sunday Mornings with an album of cover versions Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation) from the likes of Big Star, Gram Parsons, Teenage Fanclub and Fairport Convention. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and poorly conceived covers albums (hello Sinead [...]
Police on my back – The Clash
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009It may seem like heresy (and a rip-off of a Chuck D. line), but the Clash didn’t mean shit to me when I was growing up. I was six years old in the summer of ’77, and by the mid eighties their punk revolution had already long-been mainstreamed , commercialised (some would argue also by [...]
Going down to Liverpool – The Bangles
Thursday, December 11th, 2008There used to exist the perfect bar. It was on a sidestreet off Amsterdam’s main square, simply sitting there, waiting to be stumbled on. For years I used to go back there, sure each time that it wouldn’t dissapoint, until that dreadful winter evening when I turned up after an evening flight from Dublin, only [...]
Kid (Kitsch) Rock’s All Summer Long
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Lynnrd Skynrd‘s Sweet Home Alabama had two things going for it (more than many songs): A riff to launch a thousand ships, and an authenticity that was carved into the song by both its lyrics and delivery. Its two-fingered salute to Neil Young was just part of it. This song stood on its own merits, [...]
Valerie – Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse)
Thursday, July 24th, 2008I had reservations about picking a tune so newly-lodged in my mind for the Monkeys Tunes (great idea, by the way – reviewing single songs). Ever-mindful of the ‘o.k computer fallacy’ (where Q readers voted radiohead’s then latest album as the greatest album of all time), I was more inclined to pick something sure to [...]
Evan Dando – Live at the Brattle Theatre/Griffith Sunset EP
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005Encouraging signs of life, albeit from a 2001 show, from Evan Dando of the Lemonheads fame. Recorded live in Cambridge,Massachusetts.
