CD Circle III: Return Of The Circle

Post by **BlueChair** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:16 pm

So let's do one of these again. This time I propose we have a theme. And the theme I have decided on is covers. CDs should only include songs that were originally recorded by someone else.

Who's in? I will collect names and randomly decide who sends CDs to who.

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:19 pm

I'll do it. Will have to look around a bit for cover versions, but it should be fun.

senior_service · Post by **senior_service** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:30 pm

I'm in. This will be my first time in the circle.

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:00 pm

I'll do it

Jackson Monk · Post by **Jackson Monk** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:07 pm

yep. me too

strangerinthehouse · Post by **strangerinthehouse** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:40 pm

I'm in.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:35 pm

I'll give it a shot.

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:53 pm

count me in.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:55 pm

I'm in.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:58 pm

sign me up.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:56 am

me too

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:39 pm

Count me in, I love themes!

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:48 pm

I'll participate. I promise to include no Beatles' covers because that seems too easy.

Post by **BlueChair** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:33 am

If anybody else would like to participate, now's the time to say so. I'm going to figure this all out tomorrow night.

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:03 am

Alright people, here's how this is going to work. You send stuff to the person below you on this list and receive stuff from the person above you. It should be obvious, but ice nine receives stuff from Mike Boom, and Mike Boom sends stuff to ice nine.

ice nine
miss buenos aries
so lacklustre
Boy With A Problem
strangerinthehouse
BlueChair
senior_service
ReadyToHearTheWorst
bambooneedle
Who Shot Sam?
pophead2k
Jackson Monk
Mike Boom

I hope that's cool - I looked at previous CD Circles and tried to avoid anybody being paired up with someone they've swapped with in the past. Remember: the rules this time are that you can only include covers.

Have fun!

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:32 am

BlueChair wrote: ice nine receives stuff from Mike Boom, and Mike Boom sends stuff to ice nine.!

Aren't you saying the same thing in these two statements? I think you mean I send to Mrs. BA. Am I wrong?

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:33 am

Yeah, I probably didn't need to repeat myself there. You send to MBA, but receive from Mike Boom.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:28 pm

I'm excited!

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:21 am

I received my disc from So Lacklustre on Friday night at a secret meeting of the board elite at the Castle in Basingstoke. I was drinking pints of Adnams - So Lack: Guinness. The disc was a bit of a challange for him, because he's made me many comps over the past couple of years that contain loads of good covers - still he managed a most excellent mix:

Je T'aime (Moi Non Plus) - Judge Dread
Rocket Man - Kate Bush
Hounds of Love - The Futureheads
Banana Splits - The Dickies
Plaistow Patricia - Shane MacGowan
Rainy Night in Soho - Nick Cave
Dirty Old Town - Frank Black
Clevor Trevor - Wreckless Eric
The Judgement - Solomon Burke
I Shall Be Released - Paul Weller
It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Van Morrison
Ohio - Paul Weller
Moody's Mood For Love - Van Morrison
Walk On By - The Stranglers
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - The White Stripes
I'd Rather Go Blind - Paul Weller
Black Sheep Boy - Paul Weller
I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down - Graham Parker
Moody's Mood For Love - Amy Winehouse
Everybody's Talkin' - Beautiful South
King of the Road - The Proclaimers
Move Over Darling - Judge Dread

The standouts for me on this are Nick Cave's Rainy Night in Soho - all the Weller stuff, but especially Black Sheep Boy, The Beautiful South's Everybody's Talkin' and a pretty good version of King of the Road. Also nice to have the Banana Splits theme again by the Dickies - used to have it on a long lost cassette.

Stranger In The House - I sent yours off on Thursday, so it should be around sometime late next week.

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:48 pm

I received my disc from Miss BA a few days ago, as follows:

Highway '61 Revisited - PJ Harvey
Marie Douceur-Marie Colere - Marie Laforet
Guns of Brixton - Nouvelle Vague
Pop Life - Dump
Felt Like Smashing My Head Through a Clear Glass Window - Of Montreal
Victoria - The Fall
I'm So Excited - Le Tigre
The Killing Moon - Pavement
Get Down Tonight - Stereo Total
Ces Bottes Sont Faites Pour Marcher - Eileen
Little Honda - Yo La Tenga
Inside and Out - Feist
Iron Man - The Cardigans
The Candy Man - Cibo Matto
Hounds of Love - The Futureheads
Push It - Stereo Total

I already had the Futureheads brilliant version of Hounds of love and love it. Also had The Falls pretty straight version of Victoria, also very good. Here's what I think of the rest:

I likes a lot:
The Guns of Brixton cover is a kind of bosa nova take with raunchy female voice - it works. Having googled Nouvelle Vague I find that they specialise in putting their style on punk/new wave standards, I may be tempted to get more I'm not sure.
Yo La Tenga's take on Little Honda is pretty much what you'd expect, it is growing on me.
The Cardigans brilliant Iron Man has previously escaped my clutches, it is very good - I need to expand my collection.
Also really love the trip hoppy Candy Man by Cibo Matto- this is probably my favourite.

I likes these but not as much as them^
The Marie thing is to the tune of Paint it Black - not sure what the lyrics are as my French is very weak, but I like it.
Don't know who Dump are but they do a decent cover of Pop Life.
Can't say I know the Yoko Ono original of the Of Montreal cover, but this is growing on me.
Pavement do a decent take on The Killing Moon but it isn't quite in the Echo & the Bunnymen league.
The two Stereo Total tracks are both good fun tongue in cheek versions.
Also have taken to the Eileen version these boots are made for walking - a fairly straight version but in French - i like her voice.

I don't likes these so much:
PJ, Feist and Le Tigre - all a bit boring.

Thanks a lot MBA - lots of things I would never have heard otherwise.

xxx

strangerinthehouse · Post by **strangerinthehouse** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:02 pm

I received a very generous package on wednesday night, at first I thought it was two discs but when I saw four I knew i was in for a fun listening experience. Boy with a Problem not only included two covers disc but two fine additions to the circle's theme with songs that EC has covered from the Kojak Variety cuts to a few from Get Happy, as well as a whole disc of the Almost Blue originals including some of the songs from the rhino bonus disc. Both discs are greatly appreciated.

In the "Covers" discs I got two incredible compilations of country and rock.

Disc 1

Rachel Sweet Stranger In The House
Shleby Lynne I Walk the Line
Jimmie Dale Gilmore White Freight Liner Blues
The Gourds Gin and Juice
Doug Sahm Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Lucinda Williams Positively 4th Street
Jason & The Scorchers Absolutely Sweet Marie
Syd Straw & The Skeletons Harper Valley PTA
Emmylou Harris Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
The Flying Burrito Brothers Six Days on the Road
Son Volt Looking at the World Through A Windshield
Cowboy Junkies Ooh Las Vegas
Kelly Willis That's How I Got to Memphis
Joe Ely White Line Fever
Keb' 'Mo I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Taj Mahal Take a Giant Step
Dave Edmunds Promised Land
Rosanne Cash Our Little Angel
Nick Lowe Indoor Fireworks
Hayseed Dixie Rocking in the Free World

There are a lot of artists here that I was curious about and had never listend to before. The Gourds "Gin and Juice" was something I heard online a while ago and it's probably one of the coolest covers ever.
The ones I liked the most were Rachel Sweet, Syd Straw, Jason & the Scorchers, Cowboy Junkies, Taj Mahal, Dave Edmunds and Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and Hayseed Dixie.

Lucinda William and Shelby Lynne were very interesting but I didn't like their versions as much. I was excited to see Nick Lowe's version of "Indoor Fireworks" but when I heard it I didn't like it all.

Disc 2

The Fall Victoria
Devo Secret Agent Man
Superchunk Girl U Want
Big Dipper Homosapien
Pete Shelley Better Off Without a Wife
The Jam Get Yourself Together
Beastie Boys and Cobo Mato Start!
Nouvelle Vague Guns of Brixton
Soup Dragons I'm Free
Billy Bragg Billericay Dickie
Elvis Costello Whole Wide World
Wreckless Eric Boney Maronie
The Blasters Shakin'
The Sex Pistols Somethin' Else
Richard Thompson Legal Matter
Graham Parker No Woman No Cry
The (English) Beat I'm Not Like Everyone Else
Liz Phair Turning Japanese
The Flying Lizards Money
Minor Threat Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White
Mary Lou Lord & Semisonic Sugar Sugar
Husker Du Love is All Around (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
Husker Du Eight Miles High

This is my favorite of the two cover's discs I thought everything was great except for the "Sugar Sugar" cover. Graham Parker's "No Woman, No Cry" was a great introduction to someone I keep hearing about and really need to find. The Bragg-Costello-Wreckless Eric sequence is excellent. The best part is that except for the Minor Threat cut and Husker Du, I hadn't heard of most of these songs.

Thanks a lot Boy with a Problem.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:21 pm

That Jason and the Scorchers version of Absolutely Sweet Marie is one of the best covers Ive ever heard - absolutely scorching!

apologies to IceNine for the delays in getting his CD to him - will be there soon promise!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:19 pm

so lacklustre wrote:I received my disc from Miss BA a few days ago, as follows:

Highway '61 Revisited - PJ Harvey
Marie Douceur-Marie Colere - Marie Laforet
Guns of Brixton - Nouvelle Vague
Pop Life - Dump
Felt Like Smashing My Head Through a Clear Glass Window - Of Montreal
Victoria - The Fall
I'm So Excited - Le Tigre
The Killing Moon - Pavement
Get Down Tonight - Stereo Total
Ces Bottes Sont Faites Pour Marcher - Eileen
Little Honda - Yo La Tenga
Inside and Out - Feist
Iron Man - The Cardigans
The Candy Man - Cibo Matto
Hounds of Love - The Futureheads
Push It - Stereo Total

I already had the Futureheads brilliant version of Hounds of love and love it. Also had The Falls pretty straight version of Victoria, also very good. Here's what I think of the rest:

I likes a lot:
The Guns of Brixton cover is a kind of bosa nova take with raunchy female voice - it works. Having googled Nouvelle Vague I find that they specialise in putting their style on punk/new wave standards, I may be tempted to get more I'm not sure.
Yo La Tenga's take on Little Honda is pretty much what you'd expect, it is growing on me.
The Cardigans brilliant Iron Man has previously escaped my clutches, it is very good - I need to expand my collection.
Also really love the trip hoppy Candy Man by Cibo Matto- this is probably my favourite.

I likes these but not as much as them^
The Marie thing is to the tune of Paint it Black - not sure what the lyrics are as my French is very weak, but I like it.
Don't know who Dump are but they do a decent cover of Pop Life.
Can't say I know the Yoko Ono original of the Of Montreal cover, but this is growing on me.
Pavement do a decent take on The Killing Moon but it isn't quite in the Echo & the Bunnymen league.
The two Stereo Total tracks are both good fun tongue in cheek versions.
Also have taken to the Eileen version these boots are made for walking - a fairly straight version but in French - i like her voice.

I don't likes these so much:
PJ, Feist and Le Tigre - all a bit boring.

Thanks a lot MBA - lots of things I would never have heard otherwise.

xxx

I'm glad you liked! FYI, I think Dump is basically Yo La Tengo under a different name. And "Marie Douceur - Marie ColÃ¨re" is basically about how her boyfriend thinks she's all sweetness and light ("Of course you think you know me better than anyone else") but if he continues being a jerk she'll let her angry alter ego off the leash...

I got my disc from ice nine rather promptly but shamefully have not had time to listen to it all the way through (good excuses, I swear). Will post more later (like after my boss goes to Switzerland).

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:42 pm

Lucinda Williams Positively 4th Street

BWAP, you stole one of my choices! It could be a different version however - the one I have is '91, at McCabes Guitar shop, Santa Monica, downloaded it from some site.

The Cardigans - Iron Man

My brother used to make me listen to this song (Black Sabbath version) when I was a kid with a pair of those huge ear muff type headphones. "nobody wants him, he just stares at the wall".

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:15 pm

That Cardigans cover is awesome. I just received my CD from WSS and I'm very excited. I will be listening and reviewing over the next couple of days. I sent one to Jackson Monk, but I'm not sure how long it takes to cross the pond....

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