The Gift of Music (SF's Holiday Cover Challenge)

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:32 am

OMG Caravan Ray... The Mercy Seat would be sooooooo awesome!

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:28 pm

Caravan Ray wrote: Oh well - I'm still feeling in a Nick Cave mood - maybe I'll do a Mercy Seat, or Shivers, or Nick the Stripper

Mercy Seat is a Nick Cave song? Cool -- that's a great song! The only other one I have (besides "Papa" and "Cindy (w/ Johnny Cash)") is "Red Right Hand." I have no idea where I got it, but I love it. You could always do that one...

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 1:45 pm

i totally wouldn't mind if somebody who was feeling particularly caveish decided to do a birthday party cover... that's something we all could use more of :>

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 5:09 pm

c hack wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote: Oh well - I'm still feeling in a Nick Cave mood - maybe I'll do a Mercy Seat, or Shivers, or Nick the Stripper
Mercy Seat is a Nick Cave song? Cool -- that's a great song! The only other one I have (besides "Papa" and "Cindy (w/ Johnny Cash)") is "Red Right Hand." I have no idea where I got it, but I love it. You could always do that one...

Apparently Johnny Cash did a cover of The Mercy Seat - although I've never actually heard it

Anyway - great job C Hack on Papa Won't Leave You Henry! A different spin, but still faithful to the original - well done. I enjoyed it very much.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:01 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:
c hack wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote: Oh well - I'm still feeling in a Nick Cave mood - maybe I'll do a Mercy Seat, or Shivers, or Nick the Stripper
Mercy Seat is a Nick Cave song? Cool -- that's a great song! The only other one I have (besides "Papa" and "Cindy (w/ Johnny Cash)") is "Red Right Hand." I have no idea where I got it, but I love it. You could always do that one...
Apparently Johnny Cash did a cover of The Mercy Seat - although I've never actually heard it

Anyway - great job C Hack on Papa Won't Leave You Henry! A different spin, but still faithful to the original - well done. I enjoyed it very much.

johnny cash - the mercy seat

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:29 pm

c hack wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote: Oh well - I'm still feeling in a Nick Cave mood - maybe I'll do a Mercy Seat, or Shivers, or Nick the Stripper
Mercy Seat is a Nick Cave song? Cool -- that's a great song! The only other one I have (besides "Papa" and "Cindy (w/ Johnny Cash)") is "Red Right Hand." I have no idea where I got it, but I love it. You could always do that one...

Peter Gabriel did a "Mercy Street" which is a frickin awesome song about a frickin awesome poet. But...what do I know? I'm on the beach! HAHAHAHAHA

j$ · Post by j$ » Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:28 pm

I dunno i go out of town for a few days and all the songs I have started covering get taken

Actually, I have a gift for one of the screwees-as-yet-unscrewed which I hope to have finished by this time tomorrow. No promises but it will be taken care of once i can get a quiet house moment to belt the vocallllsssss ...

j$

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 7:59 pm

Even though I am no longer one of the Screwed, I should still update the list!
As it now stands:

Abominominous
Starfinger
Calfborg - PFM is working on it

Abom and Starfinger are still the Majorly Screwed while Calfborg is a Screwed in Waiting.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:21 pm

Heather. Redmon. wrote: Abom and Starfinger are still the Majorly Screwed while Calfborg is a Screwed in Waiting.

Boy, if there are any two guys that deserve to be not screwed, these are them. Anyone have any of these songs and feel like putting up link to them? I don't have the energy to wade through a filesharing program, but that Bowie is looking interesting to me...

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:39 pm

word on the street is that starfinger is a marked man.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:46 pm

c hack wrote:I don't have the energy to wade through a filesharing program, but that Bowie is looking interesting to me...

"look back in anger" is indeed a great song, but i don't have an mp3 handy. i have that album somewhere but my collection is in a great disarray at the moment.
-bill

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:15 am

jack shite wrote:word on the street is that starfinger is a marked man.

eek!

i never got mp3s of my selections together, because my coverer never asked for them.
I assumed he had a large and varied music collection, but I guess he was just a butthole

if anybody wants mp3s of any of them, let me know.

-craig

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:56 pm

To:Starfinger
From:johnny@cashpoint.ru
RE:Wanna watch girls having fun? All Night?

Apologies for the vocals. I rushed, in a panic that I was going to come to post it only to find fourteen versions of the same song already submitted by superior forces

Happy Holidays (last and next)

j$

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:03 pm

OK! That does it... Will somebody please unscrew my husband? It makes me sad to still see him on the list. If you need him to give you a link to a song, PM me and I'll make him do it.

Poor Phil!

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:06 pm

I would be honoured to have a stab at A-Bomb's list. Do you have a preference for which one you want to hear from me, Phil (I don't know any of them I don't think)? Or maybe I could instead do that cover of Typical Girls you want to hear so much?

j$

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:09 pm

j$ wrote: RE:Wanna watch girls having fun? All Night?

well, color me unscrewed.

that's awesome johnny. the production is simultaneously sparse and really interesting (great sounds). and that sample at the beginning makes it sound like the song was always written as some kind of male-hating manifesto. what is that from, by the way.

anyway, i love it.

-craig

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:16 pm

It's Lili Taylor in 'I shot Andy Warhol' - reading part of 'Scum Manifesto' by Valerie Solanas (the character she plays). I was glad to find the sample because it was one of those times when I thought of a good idea and it worked out perfectly in adding another dimension.

I love this song. No Cyndi Lauper I, but it was a lot of fun to do. Really pleased you like it.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:20 pm

I don't think I know any of those tunes, and besides with the way I work it would take months to finish

of course, links to songs would help everyone...
-bill

PS oh, evidently the slint song is on the album i have, so i do know that one. my favorite song on there is "good morning captain".

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:46 pm

Heather. Redmon. wrote:OK! That does it... Will somebody please unscrew my husband? It makes me sad to still see him on the list. If you need him to give you a link to a song, PM me and I'll make him do it.

Poor Phil!

Can you post links to them? At first I thought they seemed like they're songs I wouldn't be able to do a good job on (I'm no good at singing loudly), but then I decided I was just being a pussy.

j$ wrote:It's Lili Taylor in 'I shot Andy Warhol' - reading part of 'Scum Manifesto' by Valerie Solanas (the character she plays).

This is exactly why sampling should be considered an art form. Great juxtaposition.

jack · Post by **jack** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:48 pm

Heather. Redmon. wrote:OK! That does it... Will somebody please unscrew my husband?

ripe with the double entendre.....

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:50 pm

Yes, I'll just see if Phil can post the links... even though he gave me a hard time for posting mine (for being a bad girl "file sharer"). But, you're right, some of his choices are rather obscure and it would help to have the links available.

jack · Post by **jack** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:53 pm

or we could write new tunes from the titles he provided