{"id":1136,"date":"2010-06-18T20:58:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T20:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2010-06-19T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T21:56:10","slug":"cover-your-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-06\/cover-your-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Your Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have always enjoyed cover songs.\u00a0 Sometimes a cover has enthralled because of a great, altered delivery of a great song heard previously.\u00a0 At other times a cover has entailed a known artist deftly divulging an unknown artist’s worthy song.\u00a0 And sometimes a cover is simply a joyous homage to a great song.<\/p>\n

One of our favorite bands (particularly live), Nada Surf, recently released a new studio record, “If I Had a Hi-fi” (a palindrome), consisting completely of cover songs.\u00a0\u00a0 Listen below to their ebullient delivery of one of our favorite Go-Betweens’ songs, Love Goes On, <\/em>and then check out their cool cover of a Spoon song we had not heard, The Agony of Lafitte.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nada Surf–Love Goes On<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-Love-Goes-On.mp3|titles=03 Love Goes On]\n

Nada Surf–The Agony of Lafitte<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-The-Agony-of-Laffitte.mp3|titles=07 The Agony of Laffitte]\n

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Amongst our other favorite covers, we have to mention Cat Power and her “The Covers Record” (which recently was sequeled by Ms. Marshall).\u00a0 Listen below to Cat Power’s great re-invention of the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction<\/em> and then check out her beautiful rendering of a comparatively unheralded song, I Found a Reason,<\/em> by Lou Reed while with the Velvet Underground.<\/p>\n

Cat Power–Satisfaction<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/01-I-Cant-Get-No-Satisfaction.mp3|titles=01 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction]\n

Cat Power–I Found a Reason<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/07-I-Found-A-Reason.mp3|titles=07 I Found A Reason]\n

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And finally, check out one of our favorite recorded songs of all time:\u00a0 Andrew Bird’s haunting rendition of the somewhat obscure Handsome Family’s song, Don’t Be Scared.<\/em><\/p>\n

We hear the mix of all human emotions in this song, from melancholia to joyous wonder.\u00a0\u00a0 We sense desultory solitude set against the calling from others and the birth of new days.\u00a0 Were it not for the phone call, we might have inferred Paul in a Roman cell.\u00a0\u00a0 Bird has delivered one of the great covers of all time.\u00a0 Check it out below.<\/p>\n

“When
\nWhenever Paul
\nthinks of rain
\nswallows fall
\nin a wave
\nand tap
\non his windows
\nwith their beaks<\/p>\n

And when Paul
\nthinks of snow
\nsoft winds blow
\n’round his head
\nand the phone
\nrings just once
\nlate at night
\nlike a bird
\ncalling out,
\n“Wake up, Paul.
\nDon’t be scared,
\ndon’t believe you’re all alone.”<\/p>\n

“Wake up, Paul,”
\nwhisper clouds rolling by
\nand the seeds<\/p>\n

falling from the branches
\nand they’re out from the branches
\nand they’re
\nfalling from the branches of the trees<\/p>\n

out from the branches
\nfalling from the branches
\nand they’re
\nfalling from the branches
\nof the trees”<\/p>\n

Andrew Bird–Don’t Be Scared<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/06-Dont-Be-Scared.mp3|titles=06 Don’t Be Scared]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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