cover #54: mysterious ways

song: mysterious ways
cover: kmfdm
original: u2

comments: man, u2 really just rubs me the wrong way. this is basically their only song that i can tolerate or like. well, this and hold me thrill me kiss me kill me from the batman forever soundtrack, but that's because batman forever is the best batman movie ever, forever.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
amazon, how can you NOT have kmfdm's cover? what is WRONG with you?
u2 - mysterious ways

lyrics: johnny take a walk with your sister, the moon
let her pale light in to fill up your room
you've been living underground, eating from a can
you've been running away from what you don't understand

love, she's slipping
you're sliding down
will she be there when you
hit the ground?

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways

johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
let her talk about the things you can't explain
to touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal
if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel
on your knees boy

she's the wave, she turned the tide
she sees a man inside the child

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
lift my days, light up my nights

one day you look back and you see
where you were held out by this love
while you can stand there, you could move on this moment
follow this feeling

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
she moves in mysterious ways

it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
we move through the miracle days
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
spirit moves in mysterious ways
it's all right, it's all right, it's all right
lift my days, light up my nights

cover #55: i'm on fire

song: i'm on fire
cover: bat for lashes
original: bruce springsteen

comments: there are undertones to this song that always made me a little uneasy; the not-so-veiled references to venereal disease, the lack of clarity on whether or not the guy in the song is a homicidal rapist, the overbearing stalker-ness. bat for lashes' version, however, evokes madames of lower-middle-class brothel houses. to each their own.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
bruce springsteen - i'm on fire
bat for lashes - i'm on fire

lyrics: hey, little girl, is your daddy home
did he go away and leave you all alone
i got a bad desire
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire

tell me now, baby, is he good to you
can he do to you the things that i do
i can take you higher
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire

sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby
edgy and dull
and cut a six-inch valley
through the middle of my soul

at night i wake up
with the sheets soaking wet
and a freight train running
through the middle of my head
only you can cool my desire
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire
oh, oh, oh, i'm on fire

cover #53: space oddity

song: space oddity
cover: tulus
original: david bowie

comments:

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first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
tulus' cover of space oddity is a void that amazon.com just doesn't see fit to fill. internet, activate!
david bowie - space oddity

lyrics: ground control to major tom
ground control to major tom
take your protein pills, and put your helmet on
ground control to major tom
commencing countdown, engines on
check ignition, and may god's love be with you

this is ground control to major tom
you've really made the grade
and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

this is major tom to ground control
i'm stepping through the door
and i'm floating in a most peculiar way
and the stars look very different today
here am i sitting in a tin can
far above the world
planet earth is blue
and there's nothing i can do

though i'm past one hundred thousand miles
i'm feeling very still
and i think my spaceship knows which way to go
tell my wife i love her very much
she knows

ground control to major tom
your circuit's dead
there's something wrong
can you hear me, major tom?
can you hear me, major tom?
can you hear me, major tom?
can you
here am i floating in my tin can
far above the moon
planet earth is blue
and there's nothing i can do

cover #52: today

song: today
cover: madina lake
original: smashing pumpkins

comments: maybe i should start a spin-off blog dedicated to terrible covers of songs. we can toss evans blue and fear the clown there, and that one a perfect circle cover, and this one. i think the real crime here, in my (uninformed due to never hearing this band before) opinion is dudeguysinger trying to sound like billy corgan, when even billy corgan should be trying to sound less like billy corgan sometimes.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
smashing pumpkins - today
madina lake - today

lyrics: today is the greatest
day i've ever known
can't live for tomorrow
tomorrow's much too long
i'll burn my eyes out
before i get out

i wanted more
than life could ever grant me
bored by the chore
of saving face

today is the greatest
day i've never known
can't wait for tomorrow
i might not have that long
i'll tear my heart out
before i get out

pink-ribbon scars
that never forget
i tried so hard
to cleanse these regrets
my angel wings
were bruised and restrained
my belly stings

today is
today is
today is
the greatest day

i want to turn you on
i want to turn you on
i want to turn you on
i want to turn you

today is the greatest
today is the greatest day
today is the greatest day
that i have ever really known

cover #51: dust in the wind

song: dust in the wind
cover: linkin park
original: kansas

comments: fun fact: i had linkin park and limp bizkit mixed up in my head, which speaks volumes of my opinion of both. anywho, from "one step closer" to "dust in the wind". and there you go.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
amazon does not have linkin park's tear-jerking rendition of dust in the wind. to the internet with you!
kansas - dust in the wind

lyrics: i close my eyes
only for a moment, and the moment's gone
all my dreams
pass before my eyes with curiosity

dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind

same old song
just a drop of water in an endless sea
all we do
crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind

now don't hang on
nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
it slips away
and all your money won't another minute buy

dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind
dust in the wind
everything is dust in the wind

cover #50: do you really want to hurt me

well isn't this legendary! fifty whole music posts! LOOK OUT WORLD.

song: do you really want to hurt me
cover: violent femmes
original: culture club

comments: this cover comes to you compliments of KEXP: literally, as i was pondering what to do for today's post, it came on radio. i take signs from the universe seriously.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
culture club - do you really want to hurt me
do you really want to hurt me

lyrics: give me time
to realize my crime
let me love
and steal
i have danced
inside your eyes
how can i
be real

do you really want to hurt me
do you really want to make me cry
precious kisses, words that burn me
lovers never ask you why
in my heart the fire's burnin'
choose my colour, find a star
precious people always tell me
that's a step, a step too far

do you really want to hurt me
do you really want to make me cry
do you really want to hurt me
do you really want to make me cry

words are few, i have spoken
i could waste a thousand years
wrapped in sorrow, words are token
come inside and catch my tears
you've been talkin', but believe me
if it's true you do not know
this boy loves without a reason
i'm prepared to let you go

if it's love you want from me
then take it away
everything is not what you see
it's over again

do you really want to hurt me
do you really want to make me cry
do you really want to hurt me
do you really want to make me cry

do you really want to hurt me
do you really want to make me cry
do you really want to hurt me
do you really want to make me cry

do you really want to hurt me
do you really want to make me cry

cover #49: angel

song: angel
cover: sepultura
original: massive attack

comments: (whoops, i thought i'd scheduled this and all that. my bad!) you know, there really isn't anything i can say about the combination of massive attack and sepultura. i think this song might be too pretty, kind of like how the better known supermodels, apart from their ability to be a walking clothes hanger, are remembered because of some outstanding quirk in their features (cindy crawford's mole, lily cole's weird alien face and head, etc).



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
massive attack - angel
sepultura - angel

lyrics: you are my angel
come from way above
to bring me love

her eyes
she's on the dark side
neutralize
every man in sight

to love you
love you
love you
love you
love you
love you
love you

you are my angel
come from way above

to love you
love you
love you
love you
love you
love you
love you

cover #48: bohemian rhapsody

song: bohemian rhapsody
cover: the braids
original: queen

comments: shows how much attention I'VE been paying; i've been sitting on an R&B cover of bohemian rhapsody, and i didn't even know it. i brought this thing back just in time.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
queen - bohemian rhapsody
the braids - bohemian rhapsody

lyrics: is this the real life?
is this just fantasy?
caught in a landslide
no escape from reality
open your eyes
look up to the skies and see
i'm just a poor boy, i need no sympathy
because i'm easy come, easy go
little high, little low
any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me
to me

mama, just killed a man
put a gun against his head
pulled my trigger, now he's dead
mama, life had just begun
but now i've gone and thrown it all away
mama, ooh
didn't mean to make you cry
if i'm not back again this time tomorrow
carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

too late, my time has come
sent shivers down my spine
body's aching all the time
boodbye, everybody
i've got to go
gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

mama, ooh
i don't wanna die
i sometimes wish i'd never been born at all

i see a little silhouetto of a man
scaramouche, scaramouche
will you do the fandango?
thunderbolt and lightning
very very frightening me
galileo, galileo
galileo, galileo
galileo, figaro
magnifico

i'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
he's just a poor boy from a poor family
spare him his life from this monstrosity

easy come, easy go
will you let me go?
bismillah, no
we will not let you go
let him go
bismillah, we will not let you go
let him go
bismillah, we will not let you go
let me go
will not let you go
let me go
will not let you go
never, never, never let me go
no, no, no, no, no, no, no
oh mama mia, mama mia
mama mia, let me go
beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
for me, for me

so you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
so you think you can love me and leave me to die?
oh, baby
can't do this to me, baby
just gotta get out
just gotta get right outta here

nothing really matters
anyone can see
nothing really matters
nothing really matters
to me

any way the wind blows