I saw Young Marble Giants back in February which inspired me to pre-empt this post, so this is pretty much a rehash of that – sorry!
Here’s the original by the rather fantastic Young Marble Giants, recorded in 1980 and released on an EP on Rough Trade
Here’s Dean singing it as released on Uncollected
Here’s Naomi singing it as recorded for their 1990 Peel Session
Here’s Young Marble Giants playing it at the above-mentioned gig in London in February
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Britta recording 13 Most Beautiful
Happy birthday Britta – have a lovely day!
Here’s the beautifully sweet track Dean and Britta recorded for Sing Me To Sleep – Indie Lullabies
M4A: Dean & Britta – Making Me Smile
… and here’s a few more Britta tracks
MP3: Britta Phillips – Daydream
MP3: Britta Phillips – Your Baby (demo)
MP3: Dean & Britta – I’ll Keep It With Mine (original mix)
Previously: Last years birthday post
Fred Neil released his original of Everybody’s Talkin’ on his second (eponymous) album in 1966.
In 1969 Nillson’s cover of the song was picked by John Schelsinger as the theme tune to Midnight Cowboy and thus began my (and many others) misconception that it was a Nillson original!
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Eulogy to Lenny Bruce was written for Nico by Tim Hardin and appeared on Chelsea Girl
Damon & Naomi’s cover was on Damon and Naomi with Ghost
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And Jojo makes his third appearance in this series (and he’s not done yet!) with a song that Galaxie 500 took form a bleak, 90 second song, sung unaccompanied, and made it their own stretching it out to almost seven minutes.
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In amongst all the Luna music in the film Tell Me Do You Miss Me were a number of specially composed pieces by each of the band members and here they are, ripped from the DVD for your listening pleasure
MP3: Darkness – Lee Wall
Darkness
Here’s a fantastic clip of Bob(by) Darin playing Distractions for Tom Jones in 1969
Dean & Britta’s is the second track in this series to have turned up on the Words You Used to Say single in 2006 (previously their cover of Donovan’s Colors)
MP3: Dean & Britta – Distractions, Pt. 1
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In honour of the book of the same name that I got on Wednesday, and the absolute (probably relative) scorcher we’re having in London this week…
Galaxie 500 – Temperature’s Rising (live Commonwealth School, Boston 1989)
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The existence of Luna’s cover of Led Zep’s Dancing Days was first mentioned way back in a post on the band’s official web site (fuzzywuzzy.com – but I think the post got lost in one of the reboots that site got) – it didn’t however see the light until the band released Close Cover Before Striking in digital form in 2011.
Zeppelin’s original appeared on their 1973 album Houses of the Holy
Luna – Dancing Days
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