Glen Campbell Covers Green Day
You read that correctly. Country Music Hall of Famer, "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Gentle On My Mind" crooner, True Grit actor, ex-host of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, mugshot grad, and all-around music legend Glen Campbell has himself a contemporary covers collection. It goes without saying that this feels very much like a bid for relevancy a la Johnny Cash's and Paul Anka career revivals, but it needed to be said anyway. On Meet Glen Campbell, the septuagenarian gives U2, Foo Fighters, the Replacements, John Lennon, Jackson Browne, Travis, and the Velvet Underground, among others, the Campbell treatment. Take a listen to his version of Greenday's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" while you consult the tracklist.
There's also this trailer, which includes snippets of some of the tracks ("Sing," "Angel Dream," "All I Want Is You") along with Campbell's insistence that he "likes the songs." The selections make sense with Campbell's voice -- well, two Tom Petty's might be a bit much -- though as the trailer lets us know, he clearly had nothing to do with choosing them.
01 "Sing" (Travis)
02 "Walls" (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
03 "Angel Dream" (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)
04 "Times Like These" (Foo Fighters)
05 "These Days" (Jackson Browne)
06 "Sadly Beautiful" (The Replacements)
07 "All I Want Is You" (U2)
08 "Jesus" (Velvet Underground)
09 "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" (Green Day)
10 "Grow Old With Me" (John Lennon)
Meet Glen Campbell is out 8/5 on Capitol.
Posted at 10:28 AM by brandon
Tags: Glen Campbell | Green Day
based on the trailer, I might buy the record...or at least ask for it at Christmas.
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Not just two of Petty's songs, two of Petty's songs from the She's The One soundtrack.
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That's really funny.
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man's always had one of the greatest singing voices ever. just not sure about the song selections on this one.
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what a horribly painful grasp at relevancy.
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the shame is that he's covering great bands (replacements VU, etc), but doing some of their worst songs
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Uh...well, maybe that's true for the Replacements, but Jesus is a fuckin' great VU song.
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"Galveston" is a great fucking song.
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Glenn Campbell is a genius. Ask any respectable songwriter - about his influence. To see you slag simply novice music criticism. it's obvious that a majority of indie bands and fans graduate to respect classic rock, country, folk - see MMJ, Hold Steady- ask them about Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" - bottom line Blue Collar soul is where it's at- something that 20 somethings don't get until the rent needs to be paid- and the salon life is over. It's about hard work and living. " It goes without saying that this feels very much like a bid for relevancy" ? You got to be kidding.
Comparing Paul Anka to Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell? Wow. Really? and you clicked "publish"- There's time to clean this up.
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Glen Campbell's Wichita Lineman...one of the best songs of all time...he is a musical genious. He is just as good on this album too...love it.
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Better than the original in that the arrangement seems more thought-out, and it is also free of Billie Joe Armstrong's nasal whining. However, it must be said that Billie Joe is no Jimmy Webb. Not by a long shot.
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First off Glen campbell is a phenomenal guitarist.
He did not write Wichita Lineman, Jimmy Webb did, but it is one of the greatest songs ever written, and Glen campbell does a fantastic version of it.
Gentle On My mind is another great Glen campbell song, and probably the inspiration for the awesome Ween song "Help Me Scrape The mucus Off My Brain" on 12 Golden Country Greats.
Galveston, another great one. The guy is awesome, and I wish they still had TV shows like his on prime time network TV. Sure beats all of these churned out crap reality shows.
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He was an in-demand session guitarist in the 60's. The number of records he's on....and usually uncredited. And his appearances on Carson were always a reason to celebrate and laugh until you peed your pants. I still re-tell his jokes. I'm thrilled he's doing this, and if all the songs were as good as the Green Day cover.....Do not underestimate Glen Campbell...
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Sounds better than Green Day.
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Here's some more Glen Campbell for ya! http://tinyurl.com/58wp4x
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i think its stupid how many times country singers have to steel good songs from other people just because they ran out of things to whine about. if your done your done, don't ruin others people's good songs
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