CATERINA CASELLI tutto nero [Rolling Stones cover]

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recently, some italian people on the flea market told me that in her own country she had more the business-lady reputation than anything else.

it can help, at times, to preserve your naivety.

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HOPE SANDOVAL cherry blossom girl (Air cover)

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used to like her a lot. long, long time ago. and even though it's over, i couldn't pass this 7" over.

a wistfully altruistic post.

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JESSICA BAILIFF & ALAN SPARHAWK highwire (Marc Bolan cover)

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a dream-team. recorded in Low's home studio.

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LOW long long long (George Harrisson cover)

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02:12 am. time to go to bed.

please enjoy this semi unknown White Album classic.

listen.

IDA when u were mine (Prince cover)

hilarious.

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BIG BLACK the model (Kraftwerk cover)

Steve Albini, the hardcore-saint.

one, two fuck you!

listen.

buy!

HANK teardrops [Womack & Womack cover]

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oh Dave, where are thou?

remember how you insisted on downloading this Hank song on my laptop, in november 2004:



listen.

buy as long as you can!


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SPAIN funny how time slips away [Willie Nelson cover]

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Charlie Haden's son.

by far one of the most underrated bands of the nineties.

maybe well-known to you, dear german thirty something-reader, thanks to this (again, ridiculously underrated) movie:



ironic grace, sung with a tired, detached smile.

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GRACE JONES la vie en rose [Edith Piaf cover]

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to be played at the end of the end of your parent's 50th wedding anniversary party.



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GLOW-WORM beyond the sea [Charles Trenet cover]

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a gorgeous song, sung by the unique Pam Berry (check this article in case you don't know about her inestimable impact in indie rock) - altered by the fact that its original author was a well known pedophile?

comments on this quite essential topic are, as always, welcome.


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TIED & TICKLED ain't no sunshine [Bill Withers cover]

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one of the earliest recordings of NOTWIST's bavarian jazzy soundtrack side-project (actually quoted as TIED & TRICKLED in the booklet).

this label sounds awful to you? so it does to me.


next to the Palace 7" they released , THE milestone in Hausmusik's catalog (in my would-be humble opinion).


listen.


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WHY? as i went out one morning [Bob Dylan cover]

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these guys are, at times, too smart. to me.

a great split 7" (the supreme discipline!) on Asthmatic Kitty. get any release as long as you can.


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PLOVER shade for today [Tall Dwarfs cover]

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it took me more than a decade to discover this hidden treasure in PLOVER's discography - thanks to discogs.

the whole 7inch is beyond belief - BOYRACER, BARTLEBEES and PLOVER covering Chris Knox - on the legendary french Acetone label!

wenn es dat ding nicht gäbe, hätte man es erfinden müssen.


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MOLINA & ROBERTS 10,000 miles [Trad.]

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Jason's and Ali's second collaboration after this split 7".
and dig that record, too!

And the rocks may melt and the seas may burn,
If I should not return.

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THE DIFF'RENT STROKES last nite [Strokes cover]

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casio deluxe - homage.

what you might not know.

U., we listened to that 7inch on a portable turntable at Görlitzer Park, on a barbecue party in the early summer of 2002.

remember that?


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VERSUS all in doubt [Flower cover]

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quite an untypical Versus-song - a coverversion of Flower, the band that Richard Baluyut used to play in.

on a split with Unwound. on Troubleman Unlimited !

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BRATMOBILE there's no other way [Blur cover]

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ten one-minute-songs = Teenbeat 100.

perfect tape-filler. and way different from what you might expect from Bratmobile.

and, just for fun, compare this obscure 55sec. Blur-cover to anything that, say, the Vivian Girls have released so far.
see?





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DEAR NORA girl from the north country [Dylan cover]

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what a cover-version!

an awesome split with Mates of State (that cover Nico's these days).


buy it as long as you can.

listen.

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MOUNTAIN GOATS the sign [Ace Of Base cover]

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so very much essential.

on Hayfever's sadly defunct micro-label Sonic Sound.

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THE SOFTIES hey hey girl [Rocketship cover]

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twee-pop-incest.

the original version has recently been posted.


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