Were all clones
I'm not sure why but I pulled out the old dusty, Pumpkins Aeroplane flies high box set and the Bullet with Butterfly wings single. Listening to these covers, some reason reminds me of Christmas... I think maybe its because I bought this soon before christmas many years ago, and kept listening to it while christmas stuff was up... could be. meh
I like looking into these old songs and finding out random info on them (spfc.org is great for that)
Music geekness ahead
You're All I've Got Tonight, by The Cars- "A really great Cars song, stripped of everything but the most basic riff to emphasize the heavy double-tracked drumming. Also, we added a Bay City Roller-style stomp, with me and about eight of my friends stomping along with the third verse nicely out of time." -Billy Corgan (Guitar World 1/97), snippets of this song appear on the 1997 movie 'The Saint'
Clones (we're all), by Alice Cooper- "A fairly obscure Alice Cooper song from his early-eighties New Waver period. It was rehearsed and recorded in about an hour. I first heard this song when a Chicago band called Radio Fashion used to play it in the late eighties." -BC (Guitar World 1/97)
A Night Like This, by The Cure - "This is one of my favorite Cure songs, but in doing a cover we always tried to change something about it. I decided to make it a slow, acoustic dirge with different drum feels for each part instead of a straight beat through the whole song. There's also a cello, which gives it a gothic feel. At the end it sorta rocks out with some Big Muff and Neil Young & Crazy Horse kind of rhythm guitars." -James Iha (Guitar World 1/97)
Destination Unknown, by Missing persons - "A great nihilistic song; this is the Missing Persons' lament of nothingness. I love the lyrics to this song. The first-grade techno vibe evolved out of boredom with some of the rock and roll-y things that we'd been working on." -BC (Guitar World 1/97)
Dreaming, by Blondie - "This is a cover of Blondie classic from the late seventies, with D'Arcy handling most of the vocals. We decided to do this with a breezy hippity-hop vibe, with a little Joy Division thrown in for good measure. Interestingly enough, this song was plagued with all sorts of technical problems that made mic-ing it a technical nightmare- vocals with electrical noises, drum loops with scratch guitars recorded over them, etc." -BC (Guitar World 1/97)
I like looking into these old songs and finding out random info on them (spfc.org is great for that)
Music geekness ahead
You're All I've Got Tonight, by The Cars- "A really great Cars song, stripped of everything but the most basic riff to emphasize the heavy double-tracked drumming. Also, we added a Bay City Roller-style stomp, with me and about eight of my friends stomping along with the third verse nicely out of time." -Billy Corgan (Guitar World 1/97), snippets of this song appear on the 1997 movie 'The Saint'
Clones (we're all), by Alice Cooper- "A fairly obscure Alice Cooper song from his early-eighties New Waver period. It was rehearsed and recorded in about an hour. I first heard this song when a Chicago band called Radio Fashion used to play it in the late eighties." -BC (Guitar World 1/97)
A Night Like This, by The Cure - "This is one of my favorite Cure songs, but in doing a cover we always tried to change something about it. I decided to make it a slow, acoustic dirge with different drum feels for each part instead of a straight beat through the whole song. There's also a cello, which gives it a gothic feel. At the end it sorta rocks out with some Big Muff and Neil Young & Crazy Horse kind of rhythm guitars." -James Iha (Guitar World 1/97)
Destination Unknown, by Missing persons - "A great nihilistic song; this is the Missing Persons' lament of nothingness. I love the lyrics to this song. The first-grade techno vibe evolved out of boredom with some of the rock and roll-y things that we'd been working on." -BC (Guitar World 1/97)
Dreaming, by Blondie - "This is a cover of Blondie classic from the late seventies, with D'Arcy handling most of the vocals. We decided to do this with a breezy hippity-hop vibe, with a little Joy Division thrown in for good measure. Interestingly enough, this song was plagued with all sorts of technical problems that made mic-ing it a technical nightmare- vocals with electrical noises, drum loops with scratch guitars recorded over them, etc." -BC (Guitar World 1/97)