East Village stalwart Jesse Malin’s supplementing last year’s Glitter In The Gutter with a covers record, tackling influences (Tom Waits, Neil Young) and contemporaries (The Kills) alike. He’s not covering Bruce Springsteen because he just did that (and even had the Boss man cameo on Glitter) … but tackling Boys & Girls‘ “You Can Make Him Like You” is the next best thing. The collection from which it comes is called On Your Sleeve, and it’s basically a bedroom project, Jesse putting the covers to tape over a week in his apartment. So this cut’s a solo outing: no band-crafted bombast and probably less beer, just an acoustic guitar, an overtracked harmony (“there’s always other boys, always other boyfriends”), some reverb, and Jesse’s peculiar ticks of pronunciation.
Jesse Malin – “You Can Make Him Like You” (MP3)
In addition the aforementioned artists, Jesse covers the Ramones, the Clash, Lou Reed, and Sam Cooke. On Your Sleeve is out in the UK on 4/7 via One Little Indian. You can preorder the album here For Malin-in-covers of days past, here he is with Ronnie Spector on Springsteen’s “Hungry Heart”:
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The Hold Steady are succubi. Jesse Malin should run far away, although his music is rather suspect, too. Booo.
Normally, I kinda like Jesse Malin (minus that last record, of course), but that was AWFUL.
Good lord, “there’s always other byes..”
Where is from/why does he talk like that?
ALWAYS OTHER BAWWWWS
ALWAYS OTHER BAWWWWS
This is pretty bad, even considering last year’s Glitter in the Shitter.
Nice to hear Adam Sandler making new music.
WTF WTF WTF. Do not cover the hold steady if you suck.
WTF is “bawfrund”
oh my god. why. why why why why.
i wish he would just stop making music.
You know, I’ve never authored a death threat before… any pointers?
I actually really, really dig this cover. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
I still think Glitter in the Gutter is a bad ass record, too.
I’m a Jesse Malin fan, though. It seems like most of you have never heard or listened to him before.
I really dig this cover. I’m a Jesse Malin fan, though.
It seems like most of you have never heard or listened to him before, which explains much of the sentiment in the comments.
Glitter in the Gutter is a bad ass record, too.
This old hack has been cluttering up NY’s downtown music scene for over 10 years. He’s put out a slew of records filled with some of the most forgettable material imaginable. Don’t believe me? Ask anyone you know to name any of his songs. They can’t. And it’s not because of a lack of promotion. You can’t walk down a street in the East Village without seeing one of his annoyingly omnipresent posters. If you really want to hear what today’s Lower East Side music scene sounds like, check out The Semiprecious Weapons or even better, The Compulsions. Both bands kick the crap out of anything Jesse’s ever done.
Did he grow up in Australia. Sounds like he’s channeling James Reyne.