Comments on: Not quite covers, but..

By: Another Form of Relief

Another Form of Relief — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:55:47 +0000

[...] MP3 Neutral Milk Hotel – Love Me On A Tuesday (from Yoyo A Go Go ‘94 compilation, 1994) MP3 Neutral Milk Hotel – Tuesday Moon (Unreleased.. I think. Correct me if I’m wrong) Finally, kudos to Neutral Milk Hotel for seemingly being the only band to really get behind tuesday, by making not one, but two songs, involving the day. Granted the songs are basically the same, using the same lyrics but reworking the music entirely. Which means they would have fitted perfectly on my post of bands covering themselves, but I didn’t have both of these back then. ‘Love Me On A Tuesday’ is a great little (literally given it’s 1:55 long) rock song, soaked in distortion. The fact the lyrics are pretty much indecipherable on the most part doesn’t really matter given how good it sounds. Get past the weird introduction of two kids talking on ‘Tuesday Moon’ and you’ll find another little gem, where you’ll actually be able to hear the words! Which means we can actually hear just how nice these songs happen to be. [...]

By: Little Radio Magazine » >243: Your Recommended Dose

Little Radio Magazine » >243: Your Recommended Dose — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:20:36 +0000

[...] Go check it out and download all the examples. I recommended The Rakes reinterpretation of Strasbourg becoming the superb “Watford”!–You Aint No Picasso has a new home.–Shane @ The Torture Garden has done a series of excellent posts on “Irish music for Foreigners” and also posts some excellent (and rare) tunage by the Pipettes and the Rakes in the latest round of updates. [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:26:00 +0000

Beta Band did a similar thing with their song “Liquid Bird” by doing a folky banjo cover of it called “Country Bird” complete with a video of them dressed like rednecks and doing a lil gig somewhere in the Scottish countryside.