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| The Maharal |
Posted - 11/24/2014 : 12:10:08
I have just discovered that this exists. I love Frank Black. And I love the Kinks. It's a good night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xc8b_YbdyY
Just need to hear his version of This Time Tomorrow and I'll be a happy man.
Anyway, let's do a fun compilation of all the man's covers. I'll update the OP with links over time.
Better Things (The Kinks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xc8b_YbdyY
This Is Where I Belong (The Kinks) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAuu-eoydL8 |
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| The Maharal |
Posted - 02/24/2023 : 14:30:37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2si5bNtf-cM&ab_channel=PierrePriot |
| The Maharal |
Posted - 08/22/2019 : 09:00:22
Been playing a bit of Old John Amos (Arthur Alexander) recently. Very nice.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Iraqb6gWrk522k5VtOC1s |
| McDutchie |
Posted - 04/14/2019 : 07:43:12
I bought NonStopErotik from the iTunes store in 2011. That version includes four extra tracks, 12: Lost Mi Love, 13: 'Taint No Use, 14: Rocket USA and 15: The Grindsman. For some reason those tracks are gone from the store now, but I still own those files.
Bedbug's experience is why I won't use Apple Music, Spotify, or any streaming 'cloud' anything. They bait you with convenience but you don't own anything and they just take stuff away at their whim. It's local storage or nothing for me. |
| The Maharal |
Posted - 04/12/2019 : 11:08:45
Wow I'd never encountered that Lost Mi Love cover either, great stuff. And jesus, ten years since NSE, his last proper solo album. A real shame we haven't had much music from him since then. |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 04/12/2019 : 08:00:15
I don't know either, but for some reason apple music took down the grindsman and I am decidedly bummed out every time I want to listen to it and can't. |
| pmjk |
Posted - 04/11/2019 : 23:12:45
I didn't think "Lost Mi Love" was not on NonStopErotik.
The Delux version of NonStopErotik had the following extra tracks;
12. ‘Taint No Use (Bonus Track)
13. Rocket USA (Bonus Track)
14. The Grindsman (Bonus Track)
What version had "Lost Mi Love"?
But the only place I found "Lost Mi Love" was on "Tarde lluviosa en el Manhattan"
Rainy afternoon in the Manhattan (a compilation)
https://blogdeadolfo.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/tarde-lluviosa-en-el-manhattan-una-recopilacion/
https://blogdeadolfo.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/manhattan_listado.png
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| Active Duck |
Posted - 04/11/2019 : 21:56:16
First time I've heard of Lost Mi Love. That one completely passed me by. |
| McDutchie |
Posted - 04/11/2019 : 10:13:19
Lost Mi Love off NonStopErotik is a Yellowman cover.
https://youtu.be/SFkTmbJA1no
Original: https://youtu.be/FK3bMBebFrM |
| McDutchie |
Posted - 04/05/2019 : 18:50:14
Aha, found that trailer: https://youtu.be/_nKkrtrOYO0 |
| The Maharal |
Posted - 03/26/2019 : 11:13:35
Yeah the actual music isn't the best. That said, I still played the hell out of it when I was a teenager. |
| peter radiator |
Posted - 03/26/2019 : 05:59:38
quote:
Originally posted by Bedbug
quote:
Originally posted by McDutchie
Someone just flagged this up in the Facebook group:
Frank Black and 3volution - Gimme Danger (Iggy & The Stooges cover)
https://youtu.be/GfIN77hACWc
Original: https://youtu.be/P9_hegaKOaY
Very cool
If memory serves, FBF had nothing to do with this other than overdubbing the vocals.
It was financed / coordinated by a video game company that used it to promote the release of some sort of fighting / warfare game...
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"Real music is out there and real people are making it." ~ Webb Wilder |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 03/26/2019 : 03:00:07
quote:
Originally posted by McDutchie
Someone just flagged this up in the Facebook group:
Frank Black and 3volution - Gimme Danger (Iggy & The Stooges cover)
https://youtu.be/GfIN77hACWc
Original: https://youtu.be/P9_hegaKOaY
Very cool |
| McDutchie |
Posted - 03/25/2019 : 15:32:20
Someone just flagged this up in the Facebook group:
Frank Black and 3volution - Gimme Danger (Iggy & The Stooges cover)
https://youtu.be/GfIN77hACWc
Original: https://youtu.be/P9_hegaKOaY |
| danjersey |
Posted - 03/06/2019 : 15:50:29
quote:
Originally posted by trobrianders
If you meld Tame and Planet of Sound together they're a cover of Joe Jackson's Mad At You.
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Ed is the hoo hoo
Isn’t that crazy? |
| trobrianders |
Posted - 03/06/2019 : 15:32:44
If you meld Tame and Planet of Sound together they're a cover of Joe Jackson's Mad At You.
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
| peter radiator |
Posted - 10/05/2018 : 07:25:56
quote:
Originally posted by Discoking
it's perfectly possible that he just likes the song. it's a nice song.
 it's educational
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I know you're right.
:)
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"Real music is out there and real people are making it." ~ Webb Wilder |
| Discoking |
Posted - 10/05/2018 : 03:20:30
it's perfectly possible that he just likes the song. it's a nice song.
it's educational |
| Sam |
Posted - 10/03/2018 : 21:54:24
quote:
Originally posted by peter radiator
[quote]Originally posted by hammerhands
I listen to that Dylan cover, Changing of the Guards, on the EP with Living on Soul.
"Real music is out there and real people are making it." ~ Webb Wilder
Whether that was the case or not Peter I really enjoyed the read. I love that kind of speculation / theorising. Thanks. There was a definite changing of the guard / style after Cult of Ray. That is a fact.
Some of the artists I am a fan of rarely admit to the thought process that drives their art. FBF certainly always goes with the snake / Chinese astrology theory. But there must be some foresight or analysis every now and then. |
| peter radiator |
Posted - 10/03/2018 : 09:50:55
quote:
Originally posted by hammerhands
I listen to that Dylan cover, Changing of the Guards, on the EP with Living on Soul.
It seems to go on and on. You think, if I could understand it, it would be very deep. A clue to All My Ghosts?
One of the times I interviewed FBF (I believe it was the first time we'd ever spoken), this track had only recently been released on that import EP.
As Street Legal is one of my favorite Dylan albums, I was very familiar with the original song and some of the myriad of academic theories on the meaning(s) of the rather obtuse and cryptic lyrics.
As it was such a strange and unexpected choice for FBF to cover and release (out of all the other Dylan songs out there in the universe), I could not help but assume FBF had a strong attraction to / affinity for the song's lyrics / story.
With that in mind, I set out to crack the code of just what it was about the lyrics that resonated with him, and was immediately struck with a correlation to his recent own record company troubles that had resulted in him being released from his contract with Rick Rubin's American Records label after The Cult of Ray.
Some of you may remember that Rubin essentially refused to release the FB & The C's debut LP as it was, insisting on clinging to the idea that those sessions were not good enough for proper release and should have remained what they were initially intended to be: rough, live-in-the-studio demos for subsequent, slicker versions of many of the same songs, produced and tweaked by himself (or another high-level, "name" producer that he approved of).
As FBF and his bandmates had come to the conclusion that the demos actually sounded as powerful and impressive (if not moreso) than anything they might later create, even with the advent of more time and money, they insisted they wanted to release those sessions as their next album, and so a frustrating stalemate set in.
It was quite a while before Rubin and his people agreed to not only release the band from their contract, but to allow them to retain ownership of those recordings and do with them as they pleased -- which resulted in FBF acting as a free agent of sorts, financing the production of his own releases, then owning the masters and simply licensing them to whichever boutique labels in whichever countries he chose.
As one established theory of the "meaning" behind Dylan's song (which was the first track on that album, and thus signaled the beginning of a very different sound and musical style from his earlier albums) holds that the numerical symbology and tarot references in the tune hint at both the length of time he had been signed to Columbia Records (including a brief, ill-fated two-record detour to Asylum), and his desire to challenge the label's expectations of him by moving in a bold new direction.
That direction was, at the time of Street Legal's release, unknown to the label and to Dylan's fans, but he appears to be hinting at his personal awakening to Born-Again Evangelical Christianity.
Immediately after Street Legal, he recorded and released Slow Train Coming, the first of three overtly apocalyptic, sermonizing albums of Messianic Christian theology mixed with black gospel and early R&B musical tropes. These albums divided his fanbase immediately, ruining his reputation with many existing fans but attracting a small yet fervent number of Christian followers worldwide who otherwise avoided most rock and roll music for its perceived connection to hedonism, vanity and sin.
Knowing of both FBF's appreciation for the early days of the underground Christian Rock movement (which was an inspiration on Dylan's conversion just a few years after those first Christian-oriented rock albums began appearing on small, niche labels and pushed through fundmentalist churches like California's pioneering Vineyard Fellowship) and his recent difficulties with American Records (which was in the middle of transferring its international distribution from Warner Bros to Sony/CBS --essentially Columbia Records, Dylan's label-- right at the time FB and the C's were turning in that debut "brown" LP to Rubin), I was eager to ask FBF his motivation for recording this particular song.
So, about halfway through our chat, I asked him about the Dylan cover, and if he was a fan of the Street Legal album. I cannot remember now if he said he was or not, however it is worth noting that in 1995, a compilation came out called Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 3, which kicked off with "Changing of the Guards," even though it had never been a single, nor a radio hit and was in fact taken from one of the bigger critical flops of Dylan's career. So, that may actually have been where he first heard it.
I then complimented him on the band's cover, and briefly explained what I thought was a very well-considered theory that they had recorded and released that track --of all Dylan tunes-- as a very clever and DEEPLY hidden diss at their label for essentially freezing their recording output for a year-and-a-half and putting their career trajectory in jeopardy, at least partially because they did not understand or appreciate the bold move the group was making in insisting on recording and mixing everything live-to-2-track on vintage analog gear -- and moving away from the sound of both Pixies and his earlier FB persona into a more roots-rock-meets-Crazy-Horse vibe.
This would, of course, fit in nicely with FBF's penchant for being something of an intertextualist riddler, delighting in hiding messages, jokes or references within plain sight inside his song lyrics and/or musical arrangements.
He listened politely, and then, somewhat witheringly told me in no uncertain terms that he had no idea what on earth I was talking about, and that he just liked the way the song sounded, so he had the band learn it.
I was more than a bit crushed, and I'm sure he felt I was thinking WAY too hard about his music for both his and my own good.
However, after later learning that the band attempted that song at what I think were no less than three different recording sessions, I still find it hard to believe he did not --or does not-- feel some sort of particular affinity for whatever he may perceive to be the meaning of that tune, regardless of whether or not we both would agree on what that meaning might be.
To my mind, at least, it strains credulity to believe someone would try over and over to nail what is essentially a wordy, esoteric and rather intentionally impenetrable nine-verse epic of astrological and biblical imagery just because they vaguely liked the way the song sounded.
Especially when it is commonly regarded as one of the more musically and melodically monotonous Dylan songs (which is saying a lot!).
Anyhoo, either I am still completely off base, or FBF simply has no intention of letting on whatever personal connection he drew from that wonderfully imaginative and mysterious composition.
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"Real music is out there and real people are making it." ~ Webb Wilder |
| McDutchie |
Posted - 08/07/2016 : 15:40:49
FB&C - "Down In The Hole" (Rolling Stones cover)
https://youtu.be/smnE30gj1TE
I think this one is fantastic. Who's doing lead guitar on this? Great interplay with Frank's falsetto.
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edit: That video is blocked now, here are two alternatives: https://youtu.be/2iwPMmlo9hI https://youtu.be/ar6C5iE83QI |
| Discoking |
Posted - 05/17/2016 : 02:01:34
i love changing of the guards.
it's educational |
| Stevio10 |
Posted - 05/15/2016 : 04:11:21
Some Things is great! Haven't heard the Angst version, will have to hunt it down. Current favourite is Remake/Remodel, better than the original.
Bill Jocko is another great cover, really like Mark Mulcahy and just got tickets to see him with former Catholics Dave and Scott with Ray Neal as the reunited Miracle Legion - cannot wait! |
| pixiestu |
Posted - 05/14/2016 : 11:44:49
One of my favourite FB covers is Angst's 'Some Things (I Can't Get Used To)'. Not sure it's as good as the original but there's a great energy to it whenever I hear the Catholics version.
Also, just been listening to 'Road Movie To Berlin' originally by They Might Be Giants. Again, not as good as the original but I still really like it. Been digging TMBG a lot lately.
Oh and Duke Of Earl as already mentioned, love it's simplicity and love Frank's voice. Damn...just all of them. All the covers! All top notch!
"The arc of triumph" |
| McDutchie |
Posted - 05/10/2016 : 14:07:14
FB&C - "I'm Goin' Down" (Bruce Springsteen cover)
https://youtu.be/JqDEuXaMRi8
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| McDutchie |
Posted - 05/02/2016 : 11:53:13
Black Francis with Joey Santiago - “The Cover of the Rolling Stone” (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show cover)
http://www.oedipus1.com/home/?p=1168
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edit: also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_pfZ50G3oXc |
| hammerhands |
Posted - 11/24/2015 : 12:19:50
Frank Black & The Suicide Commandos - King & Queen
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20735
http://www.spin.com/2013/07/frank-black-songs-for-slim-single/
Wasn't there a recent thread about tribute albums? |
| The Maharal |
Posted - 02/25/2015 : 10:58:31
El Clavo Y La Cruz (The Plugz)
http://open.spotify.com/track/4IaDFrhAeJvnRtAdNsFkpK |
| McDutchie |
Posted - 11/26/2014 : 15:26:41
If the Pixies are included here, then "Ain't that pretty at all" (Warren Zevon) is my favourite.
Original: http://youtu.be/g7c0z2xeErU (video warning: ponies)
Cover: http://youtu.be/5-NmoLmpLhk |
| hammerhands |
Posted - 11/26/2014 : 13:58:00
This other thread mentions B-Side covers for NonStopErotik.
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20121
I like Wheels, Flying Burito Brothers.
http://youtu.be/yCbvkmu7Mmw
The B-Sides I had never heard.
RocketUSA
T'aint No Use
http://youtu.be/f1u-lKD0POk
quote:
Originally posted by vilainde
Hot damn! Did anyone know Tain't No Use was a Benny Goodman cover? I had never heard about that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeV1S2maIeI
Denis
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| hammerhands |
Posted - 11/26/2014 : 13:50:40
I listen to that Dylan cover, Changing of the Guards, on the EP with Living on Soul.
It seems to go on and on. You think, if I could understand it, it would be very deep. A clue to All My Ghosts?
http://youtu.be/FinSvPL2nZY |
| sdon |
Posted - 11/26/2014 : 13:11:51
Shall we include the cover with Kim Shattuck of The Fall's Big New Prinz?
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"Aristophanes! (gong sounds)" |
| vilainde |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 21:54:40
quote:
Originally posted by The Maharal
Cheers chaps.
Almost Fare (Dinosaur Jr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opL8S20x0RE
Brand New Cadillac (The Clash)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jxhmKLgg4
What the... I had never heard of these ones.
Denis
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| The Maharal |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 13:59:03
Cheers chaps.
Almost Fare (Dinosaur Jr)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opL8S20x0RE
Bill Jocko (Mark Mulcahy)
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Bill+Jocko/2Uk1hJ?src=5
All In My Mind (Love & Rockets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsZJh5vD_bI
Wild Man of Borneo (Kinky Friedman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tXCAUECuco
Brand New Cadillac (The Clash)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jxhmKLgg4
Atlantis (Donovan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWhzEI_-aXs (mistitled - it aint the Catholics)
The Auld Triangle (Brendan Behan)
Long Black Train (Lee Hazlewood)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nCselJymRE
Son of a Gun (Lee Hazlewood)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nCselJymRE
Run Boy Run (Lee Hazlewood)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH7oJYoBbWw
Sister Isabelle (Del Shannon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3CuJQ2AnfE
Rocket USA (Suicide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mLi2lwLzao
The Rockafeller Shank (Fatboy Slim)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAxdnVXh6aM
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| 1965 |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 02:27:01
2006 Snake Oil's Belle Isle and Some Things (I Can't Get Used To) were/are pretty good, 2002 Devil's Workshop out-takes from memory:
original Some Things by Angst-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alM47N8EPcQ
I have the key to #902 |
| hammerhands |
Posted - 11/25/2014 : 01:26:09
Do Nothing is great.
History Song I had never heard, thank you all. |
