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Ci saranno Liv Tyler e Kate Moss, in due canzoni del nuovo lavoro dei Lemonheads…chiamalo scemo! 😉
Titolo dell’album “Varshons”, l’etichetta è Cooking Vinyl; non ci sono nuove composizioni di Mr Dando, son tutte cover…alcune decisamente sciccose che incuriosiscono notevolmente.
Ecco la tracklist con a fianco gli autori delle song e cosa ci racconta sul disco, Craig Smith di webcutsmusic:
01. “I Just Can’t Take It Anymore†(Gram Parsons)
02. “Fragile†(Wire)
03. “Layin’ Up With Linda†(G.G. Allin)
04. “Waiting Around To Die†(Townes Van Zandt)
05. “Green Fuz†(Randy Alvey & Green Fuz)
06. “Yesterlove†(Sam Gopal)
07. “Dirty Robot†feat. Kate Moss (Arling & Cameron)
08. “Dandelion Seeds†(July)
09. “Mexico†(Fuckemos)
10. “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye†feat. Liv Tyler (Leonard Cohen)
11. “Beautiful†(Linda Perry)
For a band who owe much of their success to the art of the cover version, and yeah, let’s not beat around the bush here, It’s a Shame About Ray wasn’t exactly setting the charts alight before their Lemon-lovin’ Graduate-coverin’ selves took the mild-hearted Simon and Garfunkel hit “Mrs. Robinsonâ€, turning it into solid gold for the second time round and certifying Evan Dando as grunge pin-up of 1992.
From “Mrs. Robinson†to “Lukaâ€, “How Will I Know?†to “Fade To Blackâ€, Evan Dando just loves other people’s music as much as his own, so it’s not without precedent, nor without surprise, for The Lemonheads to record an album of cover versions (the act of which I call ‘treading water in an empty swimming pool’).
Varshons be the name of the record, ostensibly some Southern retardation of the word “Versions†(but don’t quote me on it) and it’s due for release on Cooking Vinyl in the UK on June 15. The rest of the world will have to hit Evan up for a copy or something. I really don’t know as yet.
The idea for the covers record was inspired, says the press machine, by Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, who for years has made mixes for his old pal Evan. “Making a good mix is an art, and Gibby has it down,†says Dando. “I thought it would be fun to share these songs with other people like he shared them with me. So I picked the ‘greatest hits’ from his mixes and covered them, along with a few other songs I always wanted to play.â€
Varshons was produced by Haynes and features Dando along with Vess Ruhtenburg (bass) and Devon Ashley (drums). The track selection is something of a surprise for long-time Dando fans expecting him to revisit past encore favourites. His well-documented love of Gram Parsons though does take pole position with “I Just Can’t Take It Anymore†but the rest of the album veers from less surprising covers of material by Townes Van Zandt and Leonard Cohen (with the help of actress Liv Tyler on backing vocals) to the punk lunacy of GG Allin and the garage rock of Green Fuz.
Since anyone is yet to hear this masterpiece, I’ll steal the final quote from the press release and take their word for it. “Filled with obscure nuggets, the tracks on Varshons cut a wide swathe, jumping from early British psychedelic to Dutch electronica and like all good mix tapes, you never know what is coming next.â€
And yes, it is that “Beautifulâ€. Dear god, Evan does Christina Aguilera. This really is shaping up to be a special record, and if that track in particular isn’t in the running for ‘cover of the year’ I don’t know what is. It’s also great to see Evan and Liv are still friends after all these years, you know, with Liv losing her virginity to Evan and all. Or so the story goes.
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ps: Sam Gopal, per gli amanti delle “statistiche”, è il nome della band fondata negli anni sessanta e attiva fino al 70 circa, attorno al percussionista e fondatore Sam Gopal e che dai più, viene ricordata perchè tra le sue fila annoverò quel Lemmy poi Hawkwind e successivamente Motorhead. Unico disco “ufficiale”, all’attivo di Sam Gopal è Escalator (1968).
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vabbè mannaggia alla firma, son sempre io: Alien…azzz!!!
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Alien miticoooooooo come sempre,Liv e Kate de piu’:-)))))
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vabbè dai famo 31: Per quanto riguarda la song del gruppo July, vi rimando ad allmusic.com e alla sua bio:
July started out in the early ’60s as an Ealing-based skiffle act working under the name of the Playboys, and then metamorphosed into an R&B outfit known as the Thoughts and then the Tomcats, through which John “Speedy” Keen passed as a drummer. The final Tomcats lineup, which evolved out of an unrecorded band known as the Second Thoughts, found some success in Spain when they went to play a series of gigs in Madrid in 1966. They returned to England in 1968, the group’s lineup consisting of Tony Duhig on guitar, John Field on flute and keyboards, Tom Newman on vocals, Alan Jamesplaying bass, and Chris Jackson on drums, and changed they their name to July. The band lasted barely a year, leaving behind one of the most sought-after LPs of the British psychedelic boom (on the Major Minor label in England, and Epic Records in the U.S. and Canada). Their sound was a mix of trippy, lugubrious psychedelic meanderings, eerie, trippy vignettes (“Dandelion Seeds,” “My Clown”), and strange, bright electric-acoustic textured tracks (“Friendly Man”), with some dazzling guitar workouts (Crying Is for Writers”) for good measure, all spiced with some elements of world music, courtesy of Tony Duhig (who has since come to regard July as an embarrassing element in his resume). Their first single, “My Clown” b/w “Dandelion Seeds,” has come to be considered a classic piece of psychedelia while the album is just plain collectable, despite some shortcomings. The band separated in 1969, with Duhig moving on to Jade Warrior, Newman becoming a well-respected engineer, with Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells to his credit, and bassist Alan James later working with Cat Stevens and Kevin Coyne, among others. Of the various reissues, Bam-Caruso’s 1987 Dandelion Seeds is the most accessible, with Essex’s The Second of July consisting of previously unissued recordings from 1967.
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