This year I started listening to the Bee Gees and discovered mashups. This song, then, is a shoe-in.
(btw, watching this is a good way to wind up loving the Bee Gees.)
It wasn't just the year of mashups, it was also the year of covers. I've listened to tons of U2 covers. This is one of the good ones.
This one may look like a U2 cover, but it's not! Don't take my word for it - give it a listen.
This is a cover of a Phil Ochs protest song Vedder updated for the George W. administration. Disappointment and condemnation hold up pretty good over time.
Sure, OLP's new stuff is maybe the worst music ever written, and sure whatshisface is producing some crappy cd for flavor of last month Cheyenne (is that her name? Nevermind, I don't even care). But their old stuff is great, and Neil Young's stuff is great, so an old OLP cover of a Neil Young song can't miss. And it doesn't.
Here's another mashup. All the tracks from the Grey Album are awesome, I could have grabbed any of them for this spot on the playlist. And speaking of Beatles mashups...
Beatles mashed up with Beatles! Cirque de Soleil construced an entire show around the Beatles new album of mashups (Love) and screw the acrobats and trampolines, the music is ridiculously good. (I've got another. Just try this next one on for size...
It's a gorgeous mix. Exactly what you wouldn't expect. The whole album is this good. You'd swear you'd never heard them before, except you know all the words. Or maybe you'd swear you'd hear them before... but you definitely haven't.
Eileen mentioned Ryan Adams in the same post she mentioned this list, which, it may surprise you to learn, inspired mine. This song is a live performance of a nice little sad number by the very same Ryan Adams.
Coincidentally, Eileen brought these guys to my attention. They've been on my Most Played for a while. (check 'em out here)
-t
(Coming soon, the big finale #10-1!)
1 comment:
are you going to make mixes for the drive? You have a CD player in the Philonye Truck, right?
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