The Sweeter The Sin, The Better The Taste In My Mouth

Here's a playlist of mellow covers. A few of these are downright superb.

One in particular worth noting. If you listen to only one song here, I highly recommend you check out track #4: Any Way You Want It. Clem Snide's cover of the Journey classic is really... well... it's both surprising and a treat.

Most of these are really obvious, but here's a list with the original artists listed below, just in case.

1. Running To Stand Still | Elbow
         (U2)
2. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | Greg Laswell
         (Cindy Lauper)
3. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away | Eddie Vedder
         (The Beatles)
4. Any Way You Want It | Clem Snide
         (Journey)
5. Up To My Neck In You | Mark Kozelek
         (AC/DC)
6. Eye In The Sky | Jonatha Brooke
         (Alan Parsons Project)
7. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight | Jonna Lee
         (The Postal Service)
8. Nothing Compares 2 U | Stereophonics
         (The Family )
9. Frank Mills | The Lemonheads
         (from "Hair")
10. White Wedding | The Harvey Girls
          (Billy Idol)
11. Blasphemous Rumours | Duncan Sheik
          (Depeche Mode)
12. Who Can It Be Now? | Colin Hay
          (Men At Work)

Does 'Who Can It Be Now' count as a cover being that Colin Hay was the lead singer from Men At Work? I suppose it doesn't, unless it counts as him covering his own song, but I care. It's a fun one to add to the playlist.

Also, Nothing Compares 2 U was written by Prince for his side project, The Family, but the version most probably know is by Sinead O'Connor.

::::: | Monday, Jan 30 2012 at 12:49 PM
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Gun!

Every now and then, the internet makes the world a very small place.

A year or so ago, I filed away a link for the blog of a writer named Neil Cross. He writes horror novels, and though that's a genre I have absolutely no interest in, I enjoyed the blog he writes about his writing. Odd? Yes.

One day, I discovered that Neil Cross had been writing a British TV cop show called Luther. And, what's this? Luther is available on Netflix. While watching the show, I found a piece of music called "Gun" by Emiliana Torrini.

Wow. What a sexy voice. What a neat piece of music.

It's the first track in the following playlist.

::::: | Monday, Jan 23 2012 at 12:36 AM
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