Arcade Fire Cover The Smiths

With Morrissey fresh on our minds and Arcade Fire never far away, we bring you some footage of the Butlers & Co. tackling the Smiths' "Still Ill" in Manchester on Friday night. Guess they're picking up on the home-territory-homage bit from the Boss (sans guest appearances, unfortunately).

According to NME, Win introduced the the performance by calling it a song "that made me want to play music," adding "I have been sick and better this year and sick again. This song is called 'Still Ill'." Turns out Win's got a good Moz voice! And Régine handles the chorus croon. Sorry for the muted audio; we'll replace with better when it comes, but these things take time.

And bonus fun, the Smiths doing "Still Ill" live on The Tube back in '84. Moz goes down! But not how KristeenYoung meant.

Posted at 2:57 PM in Video
Tags: Arcade Fire | The Smiths

7 Comments

Typo in the tags.

Posted by: ... at 10/29/07 4:17 PM  | Reply
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That's a pretty nice cover. They're usually at their best in these exercises ("Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son", in particular).

Posted by: Morey at 10/29/07 6:22 PM  | Reply
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The post's first paragraph is lovely. Nice work!

Posted by: Leo at 10/30/07 1:23 AM  | Reply
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This is a beautifully written post. I don't morrissey could've said it better.

Posted by: jilly at 10/30/07 3:24 PM  | Reply
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That's a beautifully written post. I don't think Morrissey could've said it any better.

Posted by: jilly at 10/30/07 3:26 PM  | Reply
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Here's a decent audience recording of "Still Ill"

http://download476.mediafire.com/nj7mwyzy7n9g/6q1jknotngw/Still+Ill+%28The+Smiths+Cover%29.mp3

Posted by: Moz at 10/30/07 9:33 PM  | Reply
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I've just posted a much better version of the Arcade Fire video at www.indiecredential.com using a decent quality mp3 I found on the web. If yr interested.

Posted by: The Ledge at 11/02/07 6:36 AM  | Reply
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