One sounds hot pink. The other light oak.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Twos
So much of what's great about this sample is how it takes a transition from one song and makes it the core of the second.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Heavens
Some responses are purely musical. Apparently, a certain back-and-forth played out between New Order and the Cure in the pages of NME through the '80s.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Heartbrokens
Response songs appear at first to be a different type of doubling than covers. The Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man" and the Pixies' "Here Comes Your Man" seem to have little in common other than the circumstances under which the later song was written. Still, like covers, the force of the response requires something extra from the listener, who, I suppose, misses the point, if the original is unknown. Moreover it reminds us of the importance of musicians as not only performers, but listeners.
Here's Camera Obscura responding to Lloyd Cole.
Here's Camera Obscura responding to Lloyd Cole.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Super Black Markets
Yesterday the Onion AV Club posted this article about indispensible B-side collections. Not surprisingly, lots of covers, versions, mixes, etc. turn up on these kinds of comps. [SftD covered some of the Nirvana covers from Incesticide last month.]
Here are two tracks from one of the AV Club picks—the Clash's Super Black Market Clash: one cover and one dub remix.
Here are two tracks from one of the AV Club picks—the Clash's Super Black Market Clash: one cover and one dub remix.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Metastasises
The New Yorker's Alex Ross has a great post today about the influence of Xenakis and Stockhausen on the Beatles.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Bads
With so much talk recently about John Oswald's writing about music, how about the music itself. Here is the defining Plunderphonics track. A thorough and multi-faceted recombination of Michael Jackson.
[This is on the compilation Plunderphonics 69/96. The whole thing is incredible—exhausting, but incredible.]
[This is on the compilation Plunderphonics 69/96. The whole thing is incredible—exhausting, but incredible.]
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