Originally by Led Zeppelin
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
I remember seeing the band after Jupiter came out, and they played this live. They played a 15 to 20-minute version. It sounded so huge and epic.
This covers fits perfectly in the time frame they recorded it. So spacey and prog.
How I’ve avoided posting JTE before now is beyond me.
The time I heard of Justin Townes Earl, he was opening for Lucero. He was great live, and I bought his first record, “The Good Life,” that night. A year or two later, “Midnight At The Movies” came out, and I wasn’t thrilled with it. It lacked the old-timey/honky-tonkness of the first record. But it slowly won me over, and eventually eclipsed “The Good Life."
The same thing happened when "Harlem River Blues” came out. I heard a few songs and immediately dismissed them. And now I’m on my fifth or sixth listen through the entire album in as many hours.
Originally by Marilyn Manson
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
“It's not your fault that you’re maximuuuuuuuuuum. ”
I’ve never been into Manson, not even during those early years. The music, for me, was always so-so, but the fans were only second in shittiness to Juggalos. Just giant black pants wearing cartoons with “ironic” look at me but don’t look at me t-shirts. It's hard not to write off a band that inspires these dregs.
As much as I do enjoy this cover, it inspires no interest in me whatsoever to go back and give Manson another go.
I really liked this band’s first 2 records (this song is from their 2nd record, Ghost Stories), but they kind of fell out of my periphery. Now and then I’d remember them, check something out, like it, and move on. That’s where this band existed for me, for years.
Then a friend became a Larry Arms die-hard. Well, die-hard might not be a strong enough term; dude was in deeeeep. And because I’m a dick, this turned me off the band. It's hard to keep perspective when someone says every song and every album Larry Arms has is better than any other song or album ever. No one had any perspective, he thought they were Jesus with a guitar, and I thought they were just another ok, but so what band.
The fact is, they are a great band, and I slept on them. Probably not god-like, but good.
Originally by Carl Orff from Carmina Burana
All posts in the month of August will be covers.
From the Botch 061502 DVD: “What’s your favorite Botch song?”Rock Lobster.”What’s your second favorite Botch song?”O Fortuna.“What’s your third favorite Botch song?”You have more songs?"
Not owning this record (in its original, unremixed form) is grounds for excommunication.
Essential.
During the summer of '98, I burned this song into my brain forever.
