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:

that's all the comment required, thank you.



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

BAAACK IN THE SADDLE AGAAAIN

we're BAAACK! i finally sucked it up and future-proofed this blog. NOTHING WILL EVER BREAK AGAIN, because there's no more of this embedded-widget bullshit. THANK YOU, HTML5.

"hey, i noticed you didn't have any music on your MUSIC blog."

it appears that mixpod has closed. which means 99% of the posts here are accented by charming apple-esque white space (or in this case, orange space). which then means that unless mixpod suddenly and randomly gets a massive influx of cash and brings all their servers back up real quick-like, i will have to, once again, go through every post on here and update it so you can actually listen to the music. i should probably go ahead and do that, anyway; i'm pretty sure html5 has some music playing-ness that would make this musical truffle-shuffle i've had to do twice now obsolete.

i'll try to post some christmas music or something in the mean time.

bonus video: glory box

song: glory box
cover: john martyn
original: portishead

cover #47: people are people

song: people are people
cover: a perfect circle
original: depeche mode

comments: i've been looking for a new song to apply the "shitty cover" tag to for a while now. i just never thought it would be a cover by a perfect circle that would satisfy the itch. jesus, this blows.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
if, for some twisted and psychotic reason, you would actually like to spend money on the cover version of "people are people", you're in luck.
depeche mode - people are people
a perfect circle - people are people

lyrics: people are people
so why should it be
you and i should get along so awfully
people are people
so why should it be
you and i should get along so awfully

so we're different colours
and we're different creeds
and different people
have different needs
it's obvious you hate me
though i've done nothing wrong
i've never ever met you
so what could i have done

i can't understand
what makes a man
hate another man
help me understand

people are people
so why should it be
you and i should get along so awfully
people are people
so why should it be
you and i should get along so awfully

help me understand
help me understand

now you're punching
and you're kicking
and you're shouting at me
i'm relying on your common decency
so far it hasn't surfaced
but i'm sure it exists
it just takes a while to travel
from your head to your fists

i can't understand
what makes a man
hate another man
help me understand

people are people
so why should it be
you and i should get along so awfully
people are people
so why should it be
you and i should get along so awfully

i can't understand
what makes a man
hate another man
help me understand
i can't understand
what makes a man
hate another man
help me understand
i can't understand
what makes a man
hate another man
help me understand
i can't understand
what makes a man
hate another man
help me understand
i can't understand
what makes a man
hate another man
help me understand

cover #46: ordinary world

song: ordinary world
cover: aurora
original: duran duran

comments: oh house music. will you never win?



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
duran duran - ordinary world
aurora - ordinary world

lyrics: came in from a rainy thursday
on the avenue
thought i heard you talking softly
i turned on the lights, the tv
and the radio
still i can't escape the ghost of you

what has happened to it all?
crazy, some are saying
where is the life that i recognize?
gone away

but i won't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
somehow i have to find
and as i try to make my way
to the ordinary world
i will learn to survive

passion or coincidence
once prompted you to say
"pride will tear us both apart"
well now pride's gone out the window
cross the rooftops, run away
left me in the vacuum of my heart

what is happening to me?
crazy, some'd say
where is my friend when i need you most?
gone away

but i won't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
somehow i have to find
and as i try to make my way
to the ordinary world
i will learn to survive

papers in the roadside
tell of suffering and greed
here today, forgot tomorrow
here besides the news
of holy war and holy need
ours is just a little sorrowed talk

and i don't cry for yesterday
there's an ordinary world
somehow i have to find
and as i try to make my way
to the ordinary world
i will learn to survive

every one
is my world
i will learn to survive
any one
is my world
i will learn to survive
any one
is my world
every one
is my world

cover #45: while my guitar gently weeps

song: while my guitar gently weeps
cover: spineshank
original: the beatles

comments: even if he was still alive, i could never marry peter steele. because i don't like the beatles.

yeah, i'll let that absorb for a second.

but seriously, i just... don't. i appreciate their contribution to the music world, and the artists they've influenced, and blah blah blah, but i just don't like the beatles themselves. covers of their songs, though... i can get behind those.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
the beatles - while my guitar gently weeps
spineshank - while my guitar gently weeps

lyrics: i look at you all
see the love there that's sleeping
while my guitar gently weeps
i look at the floor
and i see it needs sweeping
still my guitar gently weeps

i don't know why nobody told you
how to unfold your love
i don't know how someone controlled you
they bought and sold you

i look at the world
and i notice it's turning
while my guitar gently weeps
with every mistake
we must surely be learning
still my guitar gently weeps

i don't know how you were diverted
you were perverted too
i don't know how you were inverted
no one alerted you

i look at you all
see the love there that's sleeping
while my guitar gently weeps
look at you all
still my guitar gently weeps

cover #44: immigrant song

song: immigrant song
cover: trent reznor, atticus ross, and karen oh
original: led zeppelin

comments: i'm going to go ahead and state right now that there's really no irony to speak of here. the original is awesome, and the cover more so. the end.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
led zeppelin - immigrant song
trent reznor and atticus ross with karen oh - immigrant song

lyrics: we come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
the hammer of the gods
will drive our ships to new lands
to fight the horde
singing and crying
valhalla, i am coming

on we sweep with
threshing oar
our only goal
will be the western shore

we come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow
how soft, your fields so green
can whisper tales of gore
of how we calmed
the tides of war
we are your overlords

on we sweep with
threshing oar
our only goal
will be the western shore

so now you'd better stop
and rebuild all your ruins
for peace and trust
can win the day
despite of all your losing

cover #43: cinnamon girl

song: cinnamon girl
cover: type o negative
original: neil young

comments: #1: i don't like neil young. #2: WHY DID YOU LEAVE US PETER STEELE?! WHYYYYY



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
neil young - cinnamon girl
type o negative - cinnamon girl

lyrics: i wanna live with a cinnamon girl
i could be happy the rest of my life
with a cinnamon girl

a dreamer of pictures
i run in the night
you see us together
chasing the moonlight
my cinnamon girl

ten silver saxes
a bass with a bow
the drummer relaxes
and waits between shows
for his cinnamon girl

a dreamer of pictures
i run in the night
you see us together
chasing the moonlight
my cinnamon girl

pa sent me money now
i'm gonna make it somehow
i need another chance
you see, your baby loves to dance
yeah, yeah, yeah

cover #42: let's go all the way

song: let's go all the way
cover: insane clown posse
original: sly fox

comments: this is where i tell you that i used to actively listen to insane clown posse, that i actually paid money to attend a concert, and half-heartedly searched locally for two-liters of faygo.

we all have memories we'd rather forget.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
sly fox - let's go all the way
insane clown posse - let's go all the way

BONUS: video.


SUPER BONUS: the original video. for the love of god, if you're only going to watch one of the videos here, make it this one.


lyrics: sitting with the thinker
trying to work it out
it's a traffic jam of the brain
makes you wanna scream and shout
presidential party
no one wants to dance
looking for a new star
to put you in a trance

let's go all the way
let's go all the way
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
let's go all the way

working in a factory
eight days a week
try to make dollar
damn what a beat
cartoon capers
happen in reality
rich man poor man
living in fantasy

let's go all the way
let's go all the way
ah, ah, ah
let's go all the way

living in new york
looks like an apple core
asphalt jungle
got to be a man of war
california dreamers
sleeping in the sand
the hollywood squares are
living in disney land

let's go all the way
let's go all the way
let's go all the way
let's go all the way
we need heaven on earth today
we can make a better way
let's go all the way
go all the way
yeah, let's go all the way

cover #41: lay lady lay

song: lay lady lay
cover: ministry
original: bob dylan

comments: on the surface, this cover seems deserving of a "shitty cover" tag: screamy sing-talk vocals, weird background noises... and yet, somehow, it works--and definitely removes itself from the original.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
bob dylan - lay lady lay
ministry - lay lady lay

lyrics: lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
whatever colors you have in your mind
i’ll show them to you and you’ll see them shine

lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
stay lady stay
stay with your man awhile
until the break of day
let me see you make him smile

his clothes are dirty
but his hands are clean
and you’re the best thing that he’s ever seen
stay lady stay
stay with your man awhile

why wait any longer for the world to begin
you can have your cake and eat it too
why wait any longer for the one you love
when he’s standing in front of you

lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
stay lady stay
stay while the night is still ahead

i long to see you in the morning light
i long to reach for you in the night
stay lady stay
stay while the night is still ahead

cover #40: space dog

song: space dog
cover: dragon style
original: tori amos

comments: even at the height of my tori amos obsession, "space dog" was never a favorite of mine. i like the neon-sandpaper quality of dragon style's cover much better.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
tori amos - space dog
dragon style - space dog

lyrics: way to go
mr. microphone
show us all
what you don't know
centuries
secret societies
he's our commander still
space dog

so sure
we were on something
your feet are finally on the ground, he said
so sure
we were on something
your feet are just on the ground, girl

rain and snow
our engines have
been receiving your
eager call
there's colonel
dirtyfishydishcloth
he'll distract her good
don't worry so

and to the one you thought was on your side
she can't understand, she truly believes the lie

lemon pie
he's coming through
our commander still
space dog
lines secure
space dog

deck the halls
i'm young again
i'm you again
racing turtles
the grapefruit is winning
seems i keep getting this story
twisted, so where's neil when you need him
deck the halls
it's you again, it's you again
somewhere, someone must know the ending
is she still
pissing in the river now
heard she'd gone
moved into a trailer park

so sure
we were on something
your feet
are finally on the ground, he said
so sure
we were on something
your feet
are just on the ground, girl
so sure
we were on something
your feet
are finally on the ground, he said
so sure
we were on something
your feet
are just on the ground, girl

cover #39: tainted love

song: tainted love
cover: marilyn manson
original: soft cell

comments: pro-tip: don't bother with the music video for marilyn manson's cover of "tainted love".

just... don't.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
soft cell - tainted love
marilyn manson - tainted love

lyrics: sometimes i feel i've got to
run away, i've got to
get away
from the pain that you drive into the heart of me
the love we share
seems to go nowhere
and i've lost my light
for i toss and turn, i can't sleep at night

once i ran to you
i ran
now i'll run from you
this tainted love you've given
i give you all a boy could give you
take my tears and that's not nearly all
tainted love
tainted love

now i know i've got to
run away, i've got to
get away
you don't really want any more from me
to make things right
you need someone to hold you tight
and you'll think love is to pray
but i'm sorry, i don't pray that way

once i ran to you
i ran
now i'll run from you
this tainted love you've given
i give you all a boy could give you
take my tears and that's not nearly all
tainted love
tainted love

don't touch me please
i cannot stand the way you tease
i love you though you hurt me so
now i'm going to pack my things and go

tainted love, tainted love
tainted love, tainted love
touch me baby, tainted love
touch me baby, tainted love
tainted love
tainted love
tainted love