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Category: COVERED IN GLORY... Music
I love cover versions....
Of course some are complete crap, but when you get a good one, it not only gives you joy and pleasure, but adds a clever little trick to your DJ ability that often leads to attractive women looking at you in a serious way and asking intelligent questions about what the hell it is you think you're playing and why..
Being a complete whore for such attention and often badly needing to cover my latest DJaying mistake, i therefore have a vast collection of covers including more than 20 different version of 'What A Wonderful World' as well as a nice selection of full LPs including such gems as
Lennon and McCartney: Tijuana Style
Hymns: Tijuana Style (both on Music For Pleasure)
Flying High: The New Generation Singers (Polydor).
All are pure and utter class and must be long overdue a re-release, as is my own full LP of vicarious covers which will be coming your way in some form or another very shortly....
Anyway, whilst we wait for all of this to happen (which could well be a very long while indeed) why not try out Rhythms Del Mundo by Ibrahim Ferrer & Omar Portuondo..
Ibrahim & Omar are 2 of the musicians featured in the massively successful Buena Vista Social Club LP/film and here they are back with what amounts to a greatest hits of covers, played Cuban style…
Now, I don't know if Universal have got them by the balls and forced them to do what is essentially promo work for other artists to justify and recoup an over-ambitious advance, or whether this is a project they have their full and heart and soul in.
Whichever or neither, there are many good moments on this disc that make it worth the admission charge (which includes a large chairty donation) or the risk of a substantial donation ot copyright people if you like to download shit for free...
In particular I like 'Clocks' by Coldplay, mainly because it swipes the seriousness and miserability out of Chris Martin and sways his reluctant booty into a little shake and dance..
Other highlights include 'I still haven't found what I'm looking for' which conjures up images of Bono Vox in a Hawaiian skirt, dancing and swaying soulfully and singularly on the beach by (and in love with) himself (and no doubt to a TV audience of millions)
'She will be loved' is also nice and 'Killing Me Softly' made me wonder just what the hell happened to the original 'One Time!' Fugee's
I wouldn't go as far as to say this is an exceptional disc, because there are simply too many average songs covered, but i reckon it's worth a go. So why not spend your dough and help the Cubans save the world (*)....
(*) No part of the money recieved for spouting my views on this album goes anywhere near my fvaourite charities, so stop trying to stop me in the street and ask for just £5 a month!: I don't freaking well have it and my bank account is so shit i can't even have direct debits anyway..NOW FUCK OFF!!!
Oh, and another version of this piece is sited here at CD Times where you can also find my review of Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pips wonderful 'Thou Shalt Always Kill' (number 34 in the UK chart on download sales alone in week one!!) My review of D&P tops the 'MOST READ' chart on the bottom left of the page!!!!
 | Currently listening : Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba By Various Artists Release date: By 14 November, 2006  |
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