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