Better late midweek than never. This week: covers of Velvet Underground songs.
That was Cat Power’s cover of I Found a Reason. The song appeared on the soundtrack of the film V for Vendetta about a decade ago. Something about her stark interpretation that really speaks to me.
This used to get a lot of play on the jukebox at my favorite pub back around the end of the 1980s. The version of Sweet Jane that most folks are familiar with is very uptempo. But VU did a version (usually live, from what I understand) more like the one featured in the above Cowboy Junkies video.
Finally, let’s round things off with something from the Paisley Underground era.
That’s Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles fame on vocals. This cover of I’ll Be Your Mirror was on an album called Rainy Day that featured a sort of who’s who of the Paisley Underground movement in SoCal as well as in the Sacramento area of northern California. We’ll just say I heard a few tidbits thanks to college radio at the time.
Enjoy. See you next week (or the week after) with some more tunes for you.
Tips and recs are always appreciated. A fully stocked bar means happy customers.
Just for fun,
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A classic of this genre:
Ya, that one is good, but,
Emma Stone.
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I really care for these covers, Don. I knew well the Cowboy Junkies cover (absolutely gorgeous delivery of the bridge in that performance), but you helped me discover the others.
Here, I’ll throw my hat in:
Jane’s Addiction with a nice cover of Rock and Roll.
I’ve loved this performance for years, and confess previous ignorance of the fact that this is a Velvet Underground cover:
Lovely and terrifying. Typical Big Star.
Hi Don … sorry to bother you. I opened a new Booman account and almost everything is “access denied”. Who do I contact to get the secret handshake or whatever? I’ll just keep bothering people till I get an answer … I’m very persistent. Thank You.
I think someone addressed that in another thread. Are things working for you okay now?
Hello Mr. Durito … love your chips. Yes, I’m cool now. The big push was to get my password changed … wish the new account segment had warned me that there would be a delay. The initial email came as a spam and disappeared … glad I used copy/paste to log-in so I could transfer the first gobblygook password to a file document or I would have been screwed and back to square one. And I am due to be The Doctor … it’s so ME.
So … once again … thank you!
While I’m here … question: Is this place called Booman Tribune because Booman … whoever that is … is the only one who gets to post his diaries on the front page? I guess privilege comes with owning the place.
Booman is the blog’s proprietor, so yes, he does reap the front page spoils. He has had some front page contributors in the past. Not so much as of late.
That sounds promising. Poor guy must be overworked. Once Emperor Trump has control of the militaries and spy agencies (on the civilian population) there will be plenty to write about. And the CA weather is so wonderfully moist this year. Great time to be alive!