| Various Artists / Discovered Covered |
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| Album: | Discovered Covered | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Nov 2004 | |
| Label: | Gammon Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-01-03 | Pull Date: | 2005-03-07 |
| Week Ending: | Feb 27 | Feb 20 | Feb 13 | Feb 6 | Jan 30 | Jan 23 | Jan 16 | Jan 9 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 9 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 12, 2020: | The Library True Love Will Find You in T | 4. | Feb 02, 2016: | a strange pursuit King Kong | |
| 2. | Feb 13, 2019: | The Library True Love Will Find You in T | 5. | Sep 29, 2015: | Clean Copper Radio My Life Is Starting Over Aga | |
| 3. | Feb 09, 2016: | The Library True Love Will Find You in T | 6. | Apr 21, 2011: | Double Daydream Disaster Rock this Town |
| Album Review |
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| chopper dave Reviewed 2004-12-02 | ||
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DISC 1 - COVERED I'd recommend starting with disc 2. But after checking out the originals, definitely come back to this excellent tribute to a true pop-genius. The perfection of Johnston's craft runs through each of these covers, and it's nice to hear what his extremely lofi tracks sound like on quality recordings fleshed out by some of today's best acts. These artists all praise Johnston's simple song-writing, lack of pretentiousness, and expressive beauty. Most of them live up to the challenge of adapting his wonderful pop songs quite admirably. The big names are fun, but some of the lesser-known groups provide some really good renditions as well. Personal favorites: 8, 10, 16 1- great song, sticks pretty true to the original 2- slows it down, lacks the exciting finish 3- gano turns this into a violent femmes song, turns out well, countryish instrumentation 4- slow, calming, quite good 5- insistent piano pounding and harmonic singing gives this a beach boys-like feel, chosen for "sad comfort of longing" 6- pleasant fem voice, drum machine and sample scratches, guitar solo at end 7- just deep voice and muffled percussive noises *8- nice fem backup, great guitar solo in mid, organ at end. they really did a quite nice job filling out johnston's a cappella version 9- they slowed it down too much and dragged it out for too long in my opinion, but I do like the relaxed syncopated drumming **10- acoustic guitar and harmonica, beck's "sea change" phase is a perfect fit for this beautifully simple song, excellent 11- it's refreshing to hear the lips a little more stripped down than usual, but still quite lush and pretty. wouldn't really identify it as a flaming lips song until the deep computerish voice creepily echoes coyne's soft singing. *12- great textures, this song was a really nice fit for them. someone is playing a the "continental breakfast," I'm still trying to figure what the hell that means 13- fast, fem vocals 14- slow and droopy, very understated but full of pain, I like the singing. *15- turned the short, simple a cappella track into something really interesting full of strings, Alvin-like backup singing, and computer noises. pretty exciting climax. **16- slow, mostly acoustic guitar and really nice singing, very soothing. makes me want to check this guy out, he sounds quite talented. 17- as much as guster bugs me, johnston's great melody and lyrics shine through 18- crazy "mouth percussion" sounds like a tribal chant or something, once the guitar comes in this gets in quite a nice groove. damn cool story treated nicely by waits' distinct singing. -nate jones DISC 2 -- DISCOVERED Absolutely amazing. I can't think of enough superlatives to describe how much I love this album. It can be beautiful, painful, uplifting, insightful, and endearing all at the same time. Truly captures the scope of human emotion as good as any singer/songwriter I've ever heard. Most of the tracks are very simple (often quite lofi recordings that sound they were recorded on a cheap boombox), but through the quality the exquisiteness of these perfect pop tunes still shines. His untrained, high-pitched voice sounds so innocent and unassuming, but conveys so much power and feeling. Love is a central theme to most of the songs. It's a shame that he isn't more widely recognized as one of the greatest pop songwriters of our time; hopefully this collection will begin to earn him some of the credit he deserves. I had a really hard time picking favorites off here, because really you can't go wrong with any one of these. Try 1,2,7,8,16,18, or any others you feel like. *1- faster-paced, solid rock tune with upbeat message *2- lofi, almost sounds like a kid playing with toy, very endearing, awesome upbeat climax 3- midtempo, full band, great melody 4- lofi, piano, pounding piano solo to finish 5- lofi, starts with children's toy doing animal noises, a haunting track that comes off very sweet but very lonely 6- lofi, acoustic guitar, short and sweet (1:12) *7- lofi, strange tune, sounds out of tune but like it's meant to be. his voice is so expressive of his ache. lyrics are painfully open and self-deprecating *8- a cappella. voice is clear, echoing, and somber, quite beautiful (1:01) 9- piano-driven, voice sounds lower and scratchier, bleak but beautiful for first 4 minutes then picks up and goes someplace completely different with drums and brighter piano melody to finish 10- lofi, acoustic guitar, mellow but hopeful 11- lofi, acoustic guitar, nice melody 12- lofi, wow, sounded like a mercury rev song before i knew they covered it. piano, slow, very pretty 13- full band, rock, cool spacey noises, awesome pop 14- lofi, piano, very heartbreaking, but there's a humor under the pain 15- lofi, a cappella, (1:12) *16- lofi, piano, very beautiful, mellow. so simple but so elegant. 17- lofi, piano, hauntingly pretty, great lyrics *18- lofi, a cappella. I love his singing style on this and it's about as great a narrative as any song I've ever heard 19- his newest song, full band, great guitar, his voice sounds really weathered. ?FCC?(marijuana). -nate jone | ||
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