For his DB Radio show on his website, he just compiled a wonderfully eclectic mix of his favorite covers. And clearly he’s been listening to covers. He’s relaxed the rules a bit more in his solo career, most recently covering Janelle Monae’s “Hell You Talmbout” on tour (he says he’s bringing the cover to Broadway, too). The band never followed it up with a second. Talking Heads recorded “Take Me to the River,” it became their biggest hit up to that point, and Byrne said: That’s it. They have to go through a struggle for years to get identified with their own songs.” “I’d seen it happen before, where radio DJs who pick what they’re going to play will often pick a cover song… So then a band gets known for covering somebody else’s song as opposed to writing their own material.
“There’s always a little bit of resistance to recording a cover like that because it’s kind of a crowd pleaser,” he told me.
Talking Heads only ever recorded one cover, and when I talked to David Byrne about it for my book, he seemed to have mixed feelings on the subject. Her covers are sparse, but still evocative.Ĭontinue reading » Album Review, Feature, News Tagged with: Blur, Cass McCombs, Gil Scott-Heron, Jim Jacobs, Joan As Police Woman, Michael McDonald, Neil Young, Outkast, Prince, Talk Talk, The Strokes, Warren Casey Joan As Police Woman describes the process of creating this album: “I start with the question, ‘WHY, exactly, do I love this song?’ I take those elements and reform them, sometimes removing much of the remaining material to refocus them through new glasses.” Her process is evident in the sound of the album. Four albums and over a decade later, Joan is back with Cover Two, a similarly eclectic batch of cover songs. After two solo records of original material, Joan As Police Woman released a limited edition covers album in 2009 that included a variety of songs, from T.I.
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She eventually broke out on her own, assuming the stage name Joan As Police Woman (inspired by the TV show Police Woman) and releasing her first solo album in 2006. Joan Wasser started out as a violinist, performing in a variety of bands throughout the ’90s including The Dambuilders, Black Beatle, and Antony and the Johnsons. Until then let’s hear some others reimagine “Hey Ya!”Ĭontinue reading » Feature, Five Good Covers Tagged with: Ash Williams, Cavedoll, EDEN, Mø, Outkast, The Blanks With the backlog of weddings postponed because of the pandemic, will 2022 finally see the resurgence of this essential rite of passage for a newly married couple? Time will tell. I have personally been the one shaking it like a Polaroid picture on the wedding reception dance floor and wow, do I want to be doing that again. Is it a happy song? Is it a sad song? Do we really care? The song topped FiveThirtyEight’s data-driven ultimate wedding playlist, and this checks out. A call-and-response, a coined dance move, and references to Beyoncé and Lucy Liu. Both became instant dance-floor classics. The first two singles promoted one song of each: “The Way You Move” (which definitely deserves its own Cover Me post at some point) and “Hey Ya!”. In this double album, Speakerboxxx represented Big Boi’s vision while The Love Below represented André 3000’s. Jackson,” but the Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album quickly became the duo’s biggest commercial success. Big Boi and André 3000 began to crossover to pop with songs like “ Ms. Outkast has been hugely influential in the rap genre, and the duo has been innovating since their first album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik was released in 1994.
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