Tag: cover songs

  • Gimme Some Truth (cover) | The Wonder Stuff

    “I’m not a Beatles fan, but I am a John Lennon fan.”

    I'm sick to death of seeing things
    From tight-lipped, condescending,
    mama's little chauvinists
    All I want is the truth
    Just give me some truth, now

    I've had enough of watching scenes
    With schizophrenic, egocentric,
    paranoiac, prima-donnas
    All I want is the truth, now
    Just gimme me some truth

    No short-haired, yellow-bellied,
    son of Tricky Dicky
    Is going to Mother Hubbard soft soap me
    With just a pocketful of hope
    Money for dope
    Money for rope

    Amazing, isn’t it, how topical this song is 50 years later?

    Stuffies doing their cover of the Lennon song.

    That song was always a blast to busk in downtown Minneapolis around 1989.

    Did I mention I occasionally did “air guitar performances” while singing (sic) with an empty guitar case? I took great efforts to carefully put the “guitar” back into the case when I was done with my performance.

    Okay, singing was probably a bit strong of a word to use here. You get the idear tho’, right?

  • Half-penny thoughts — 13jun26

    I was joking around with my twin daughters last night about music and starting up a band (one more than a passable singer, the other plays flute and piano). They are toying around with starting up a cover band that does 80s songs in their own style and with their own instrumentation and in the middle of the discussion I smacked my forehead and cussed.

    “Total missed opportunity,” I said. “I wish I would have thought about it when I was playing with various bands when I was younger.”

    “What?” they asked, in unison.

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  • Towards the Within | Dominion (cover) by Heartworms

    While not aways the case, I do like myself a good cover song now and again, just to see how a band reinterprets a song and tries to own it. I’ve never seen much point in a band that tries to make something sound exactly like the original — I mean, what’s the point? And there are a few songs and bands that just don’t translate well into a new sound (Doors, Zeppelin, post-Barrett Pink Floyd). But, on the balance, it is fun to see how a band tries to reimagine a song and make it their own.

    I’ve not made it any secret that I am a Sisters of Mercy fan (for the first two albums and early singles, anyway). And I’ve grown to really like the neo-gothic Heartworms after Chris Nelson introduced me to them at the beginning of summer. So, when I saw that JoJo and band performed a Sisters song in-studio, I definitely had to check it out.

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