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| Mystic... |
 Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:01 pm |
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Via Drowned in Sound Web Site:
Former Genesis front-bloke Peter Gabriel is to release an album
entirely of covers, putting forth his own major reworks and
interpretations of some of the best known songs of all time, and some
other, small, insignificant, obscure songs by some indie bands,
reports BBC 6Music news.
Though, from the information we have gleaned, it's not entirely clear
just which artists Peter will be covering, and who else is directly
involved in the project. This makes it more exciting, right? It's his
first record for SEVEN years, too!
Composer John Metcalfe, who worked on the record, described the
record, entitled Scratch My Back as "a song swap", where famous
artists cover other famous artists' songs. Metcalfe said that the
record was already being mixed, but was fairly coy on who is actually
ON the record.
"I'm not allowed to say who, just yet, but there are some very,
very famous singers and bands involved. There are some bands that are
very, very well known from the last 10 years, and one or two more
recent bands and singers."
We think (read: saw on NME.com) the tracklisting for the album is as
follows. Possibly.
1. 'Heroes' by David Bowie
2. 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)' by Radiohead
3. 'The Book Of Love' by Magnetic Fields
4. 'Flume' by Bon Iver
5. 'My Body Is A Cage' by Arcade Fire
6. 'Listening Wind' by Talking Heads
7. 'I Think It's Going to Rain Today' by Randy Newman
8. 'Après Moi'
9. 'Waterloo Sunset' by The Kinks
10. 'The Boy In The Bubble' by Paul Simon
11. 'The Power Of The Heart' by Lou Reed
12. 'Philadelphia' by Neil Young
13. 'Mirrorball' by Elbow
No Vampire Weekend, though, as he's already covered them.
Which is certainly intriguing, given Metcalfe's comments. Could we see
The Magnetic Fields covering Randy Newman? Randy Newman covering
Elbow? Radiohead covering Paul Simon? It's anybody's guess. Of course,
Metcalfe could be acting vague to drum up interest in the big G.
Metcalfe also said that the album is acoustic, with no guitars or
drums, just "Peter with an orchestra" which is sometimes "quite
large".
That's about all we know. No real word on how it's going to be
released, but it'll be in Spring 2010. It had been suggested that
there will be individual releases of the covered tracks, and tracks
covered by Gabriel and other artists, one at a time. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:48 am |
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"Mystic" <mystic at (no spam) bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Quote:
Via Drowned in Sound Web Site:
Former Genesis front-bloke Peter Gabriel is to release an album
entirely of covers, putting forth his own major reworks and
interpretations of some of the best known songs of all time, and some
other, small, insignificant, obscure songs by some indie bands,
reports BBC 6Music news.
Though, from the information we have gleaned, it's not entirely clear
just which artists Peter will be covering, and who else is directly
involved in the project. This makes it more exciting, right? It's his
first record for SEVEN years, too!
Composer John Metcalfe, who worked on the record, described the
record, entitled Scratch My Back as "a song swap", where famous
artists cover other famous artists' songs. Metcalfe said that the
record was already being mixed, but was fairly coy on who is actually
ON the record.
"I'm not allowed to say who, just yet, but there are some very,
very famous singers and bands involved. There are some bands that are
very, very well known from the last 10 years, and one or two more
recent bands and singers."
We think (read: saw on NME.com) the tracklisting for the album is as
follows. Possibly.
1. 'Heroes' by David Bowie
2. 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)' by Radiohead
3. 'The Book Of Love' by Magnetic Fields
4. 'Flume' by Bon Iver
5. 'My Body Is A Cage' by Arcade Fire
6. 'Listening Wind' by Talking Heads
7. 'I Think It's Going to Rain Today' by Randy Newman
8. 'Après Moi'
9. 'Waterloo Sunset' by The Kinks
10. 'The Boy In The Bubble' by Paul Simon
11. 'The Power Of The Heart' by Lou Reed
12. 'Philadelphia' by Neil Young
13. 'Mirrorball' by Elbow
No Vampire Weekend, though, as he's already covered them.
Holy Moly....his version of The Magnetic Fields' "The Book of Love" is alone
worth the price of admission.
The other song choice look excellent, as well.
Here's Peter's version of the Stephn Merritt song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZGv8VTBVE&feature=related
Up until now, Gabriel's version of this song has only been available on the
soundtrack album to SHALL WE DANCE.
And, iTunes makes it so you have to buy the entire album in order to get
that one song...it's not been available to be bought
on its own. As much as I love Gabriel's version, I just never got around to
buying that soundtrack album...and now I'm glad I didn't!
"Boy in the Bubble" should be a wild ride in his hands...a lot of folks have
covered that song....from The Blue Aeroplanes to Patti Smith.
I think he'll also do wonders with "My Body Is a Cage"...that song sounds as
though it could have been penned by him!
And, of course, I'm always up for a version of "Heroes"....
Hot dasm...I'm excited by this one!
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Which is certainly intriguing, given Metcalfe's comments. Could we see
The Magnetic Fields covering Randy Newman? Randy Newman covering
Elbow? Radiohead covering Paul Simon? It's anybody's guess. Of course,
Metcalfe could be acting vague to drum up interest in the big G.
Metcalfe also said that the album is acoustic, with no guitars or
drums, just "Peter with an orchestra" which is sometimes "quite
large".
That's about all we know. No real word on how it's going to be
released, but it'll be in Spring 2010. It had been suggested that
there will be individual releases of the covered tracks, and tracks
covered by Gabriel and other artists, one at a time. |
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