New Steven Lindsay Video - "Monkey Gone To Heaven"
While Frank Black is busy snuffing out hopes for another Pixies record, let's start the week with this sweet cover from ex-Big Dish man Steven Lindsay, who casts an angsty, androgynous kid in a bra/tank-top thing, bringing out the suicidal tendency of the Doolittle tune. The cover comes from Steven's Kite LP, for which he said he "had been listening to stuff that switched me into music in the first place like Bowie's Low/Heroes phase, early Roxy Music, post-Punk and things with a strong aesthetic and more of an oblique sensibility. The Pixies song always fell into that category for me." Pretty unsettling, no? Happy Monday morning.
Posted at 9:46 AM in Video
Tags: Pixies | Steven Lindsay
... well now I just want to die. Worst way to start the week ever!!
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Obviously Far's cover is much better.
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sorta-related...just found this on beware of the blog this weekend: Mister Hopkinsons Computer - Where Is My Mind
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/CM/Mister_Hopkinsons_Computer_-_Where_Is_My_Mind.mp3
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It's not that bad, but I wouldn't really call it a cover version. What is does is suck all the soul and rhythm and angst out of one of the best guitar rock songs of the last century and makes it completely unrecognizable.
On second thought, maybe it is that bad.
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Well... That sucks. But, I think I might have been able to tolerate it were it not for the video. It's so effected and self-serious. Sucks all the fun out of a great song.
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Aw come on. That wasn't so bad. The video sucked, but the cover was pretty okay...
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Agreed, the cover was alright. Video and androgynous chick blew.
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i'm crying... this twat has ruined one of my favorite songs... ever... this is terrible.
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Why is it that shitty no-name "artists" feel the need to take indie-rock classics and completely ruin them in extremely whiny fashion? All it does is get stupid music blogs to post them, which makes gullible readers like me waste the five or so seconds it takes me to click play, then stop immediately after it starts. I've heard "Bastards of Young" done like this and it pains me. MAKE IT STOP!!!
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Nothing compares 2 monkey gone 2 Heaven.
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OUTSTANDING
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Don`t diss it just because it`s a cover version . Listen to it with open mind/ears/eyes - it`s a piece of class and no mistake. Just because it may not be your cup of tea doesn`t make it a bad record!
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