DeVotchKa Cover The Classics
Whether or not you agree American Dreamz With A Z is "overly didactic and liberal in a read-too-many-blogs sort of way" (Slate) and are waiting for your Mandy Moore refund ... Omar totally nailed "My Way." With middle-eastern flavored Sinatra so hott, we were anxious to hear the new mostly-covers EP by DeVotchKa. On Curse Your Little Heart the Denver quartet do "Somethin' Stupid" and take on VU too. You can hear the latter at Ace Fu:
DeVotchka - "Venus In Furs" (MP3)
Most of all we love DeVotchKa's Siouxsie tune. A song that "Win from the Arcade Fire thought they were destined to cover"?
DeVotchKa - "The Last Beat Of My Heart" (MP3 Link Expired)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "The Last Beat Of My Heart" (MP3 Link Expired)
Enjoy. (And if you can summarize this season of Idol for us that would be sweet. As usual, we lost track of Mr. Cowell's karaoke escapism after the freaks in the first two episodes.)
Posted at 10:12 AM in MP3
the story is, members of the Arcade Fire came to see Devotchka at a show last year in Montreal. afterwards, Win asked if the band was familiar with the tune and suggested if might be a good cover for Devotchka. cleary a good suggestion
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Idol summary:
There were thousands of spectacularly awful singers, now there are a handful of merely mediocre singers. Simon was a dick, Paula was unnecessarily sympathetic, Randy said "You did your thing dawg" a lot. Producers failed to act on my suggestion that the finalists do an "all Rush covers" show.
Now you're up to speed!
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DeVotchKa's cover of Sinatra's 'Something Stupid' is my favorite on the EP, so far.
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that Siouxsie cover is unreal
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oh man, i love love love devotchka, especially after their song was featured in the 'everything is illuminated' trailer.
those were my two cents.
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they used to have a way cooler version of Venus in Furs on their site, it was crappy and live but it was pretty rad, now i'm pissed i didn't dl it before, it seems to be gone.
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forget omer, it was all about that iqbal dude singing "superfreak". that hair, that dance, those overly-printed shirts...
ok, i only care bc i live with the guy in real life. but he's still more fun than omer any day.
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Sigh. I actually enjoy Idol.
As for this season: Paula keeps crying; Ryan was outed by Simon; there were, yet again, identical twin contestants; they did a Queen theme show; a scrawny, diabetic Jewish soul boy is my favourite; and it is actually difficult to predict who will win.
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Also: why is AI escapism, but DeVotchKa isn't? And if they are, why use the term "escapism" at all?
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rachel- that 'venus' cover on their site was from the Triple X Tango live record which I think is out of print. yes, devotchka doing 'venus in furs' live is amazing.
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> Also: why is AI escapism, but DeVotchKa
> isn't? And if they are, why use the
> term "escapism" at all?
Point taken. I was just being prickly. Nothing wrong with 'Idol.' I sincerely would like recap.
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I played the cover of 'the last beat of my heart' when my dad was in the room, even he enjoyed it.
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mmmmmm... i love me some denver bands
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I LOVE DEVOTCHKA THEY RULE!!!
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