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April 1, 2007

Calexico Cover Arcade Fire

Certainly no secret that Calexico would make one helluva cover band; they'd still sound like Calexico, but they'd bring it with a playlist of your favorite jams, young and old. Actually, we don't know just how deep that playlist would run, but at least Joy Division would be on there (yes, obligatory "Love Will Tear Us Apart" cover -- but it's good!). And since, they've added "Ocean Of Noise" to their canon, by the soon-to-be (cover) standard bearer, Arcade Fire.

Get used to seeing more bands interpret Funeral and Neon Bible, though few will have the insight that does Calexico, given that Martin Wenk and Jacob Valenzuela joined the Fire, with their trumpets, in the studio for the original "Oceans" take. And Joey Burns sounds pretty great doing his Win thing on the band's live cover. Grab it at Merge blog.

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maybe they could have tuned their guitars... all in all a good cover.

Posted by: JayFlyer at 04/01/07 8:26 PM  | Reply
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lovely.

Posted by: doggie at 04/01/07 8:33 PM  | Reply
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Gosh.... I like this even more than the version on Neon Bible, although I guess I'm just a sucker for Calexico.

That said, I've heard the bootlegs of Arcade Fire prforming the song at Judson, and I'd have to say that they do a MUCH better job there than they did in the studio.

Posted by: andrew at 04/02/07 3:44 AM  | Reply
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Calexio played some of the instruments on Ocean of Noise. So its not really a cover since they were on the original song.

Posted by: Jin at 04/02/07 2:23 PM  | Reply
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