I recently toyed with the idea of starting a new blog series. The premise of "Cover Charge" was to be simple: one week, artist A covers artist B, next week artist B covers artist C, then C covers D, and so on, and so forth, until you, me or Google gave up on blogs altogether.
I drafted the first few posts in the series (The Specials to Toots and the Maytals, to Radiohead, to Neil Young, to Bruce Springsteen) and had mapped out an artist route for the next thirty of so links in the chain. But I lost heart, and binned the whole idea, when I realised I was starting to consider artists and songs I had no interest in or, worse, actively disliked, just to keep it all going.
I do want to feature this song though, the means by which I intended to go from Toots and the Maytals to Radiohead. Somewhat unbelievably, Toots and co recorded a version of Let Down for a 2006 compilation tribute album called Radiodread:
And here's the original from peerless OK Computer era Radiohead:
Same song, same words. Amazing the difference the music makes though, in terms of tone and mood.
I love this idea, Martin - perhaps you could at least do some of it, even if just up until you get to those ones you don't like. There must be scope for a few different trajectories?
ReplyDeleteMaybe, we'll see. It's a bit too similar to Radcliffe and Maconie's Chain (and Jez's, for that matter) but we'll see. I have very few other ideas for anything, so who knows? But thanks, C.
DeleteThat's a great cover.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it just?
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