Someone Else's Song- a collection of covers by Adam Bristor

Adam Bristor

Member Since: 1/12/2003

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Submit Date: 1/12/2003
Format: CD
Category: Mixed Genre

Someone Else's Song- a collection of covers


Artist	Song
The Clash	Brand New Cadillac

Yo La Tengo	Here Comes My Baby

World Party	All the Young Dudes

Wilco	Color Me Impressed/I wanna be sedated

The Gourds	Gin and Juice

Afghan Wigs	Lost in the Supermarket

Ryan Adams	Lovesick Blues

The White Stripes	Jolene

Echo and the Bunnymen	It's All Over Now Baby Blue

Meat Loaf	Martha

Ryan Adams	Round the World

Tori Amos	Smells Like Teen Spirit

Ryan Adams	Dead Flowers

The Replacements	Like a Rolling Pin

Cowboy Junkies	Sweet Jane

Yo La Tengo	Blitzkrieg Bop(elevator music version)

Ryan Adams (w/ Emmylou Harris)	Return of the Grievous Angel

Comment:

An odd collection, in some ways. Some of these are far more *interesting* than *good*, but what's wrong with that? Meat Loaf's take on a Tom Waits classic definitely gets some chuckles. What else? I don't even know who World Party are (is?) but it's a good song, and I enjoyed their version. If you happen to get the chance, I highly reccommend seeing the White Stripes in person, and praying to your deity of choice that they play Jolene, because they absolutely turn that song into a masterpiece live. The version included here happens to be a less...passionate studio version. And is Ryan Adams included too often? Absolutely. It's just ridiculous that I would do what I've done, but I just like all of those covers so damn much. And what's to be said for my not even including two of my favorite covers ever: Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" and the Replacements "Another Girl, Another Planet"? I just don't know. Title taken from a Wilco song, which is of course not in this mix.

Feedback:

antbabe
Date: 1/12/2003

dude, jolene is just a masterpiece, regardless of who sings it. The white stripes do do it well live, but not as good as Dolly (who does an amazing cover of 'stairway to heaven' that everyone should hear)...

altitude gremlin123
Date: 1/13/2003

again, such a nice mix.

Adam Bristor
Date: 1/13/2003

Hmm. I suppose I didn't phrase that particularly well. My using "turn that song into.." did unintentionally slight the original. I guess you can't have a masterpiece cover unless the original is pretty good in the first place(with the possible expception of the Gourds treatment of Snoop Dogg's magnum opus). I must say though that I do prefer the Stripes version to Dolly's; there is just something about Jack White's voice that does me in. And I haven't heard of her doing "Stairway..." but I did hear her do a nice version of "After the Goldrush" with Emmylou Harris, whose voice I greatly admire.

Rob Conroy
Date: 1/14/2003

"Brand New Cadillac" is one of my favorite covers of all-time, actually.

Nate Gansen
Date: 6/27/2003

Adam, is this different from the mix you have burned and lent me? That disc only has sixteen tracks. I was going to burn it and realized all the tracks are one or two off from the listing here...

Adam Bristor
Date: 6/28/2003

No, this should be the one you have. I only made one version.

Nest of Vipers
Date: 1/24/2004

Who originally did Brand New Cadillac?

Adam Bristor
Date: 1/24/2004

It was originally done by Vince Taylor and his wacky, crazy Playboys. The Clash version is absolutely amazing, as I suspect you know, being that you asked. How's that for prompt service?

Man, I haven't thought about this mix for a while. There's some nice stuff here. I may have to get it out again.