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Friday Random Ten: Death and Monkeys edition
Category: Personal
Posted on: January 13, 2006 5:58 PM, by PZ Myers
I've got to inaugurate the new site with a Friday Random Ten, don't I?
| My Generation | Patti Smith |
| Ghost Riders On The Storm | California Guitar Trio |
| Women's Prison | Loretta Lynn |
| Coming in from the cold | The Delgados |
| Noctuary | Bonobo |
| Evolution | Ayumi Hamasaki |
| Death Is Not The End (With Nick Cave) | PJ Harvey |
| Walk Through My Door | Gaelic Storm |
| Lord, Fix Me | Madison Prayer Band |
| Leave My Monkey Alone | Warren Zevon |
Comments
Nick Cave and PJ Harvey together? Heaven, if I believed in it.
Posted by: Lauren | January 13, 2006 6:24 PM
The Patti Smith cover of My Generation is better than the original (the whole ablum http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BKDOB6/pharyngula-20 is great. Other covers, better than the original: Patti Smith's Gloria; Lemonheads, Mrs. Robinson; The Cowboy Junkies, Sweet Jane; Urge Overkill, Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon; Cake, I Will Survive (and I do like their cover of Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.) Time to hit the tunes.
Posted by: Craig Pennington | January 13, 2006 6:29 PM
It's real. It's off the album Murder Ballads.
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January 13, 2006 6:37 PM
Since we are talking about covers that are better than the originals don't forget Marilyn Manson's version of Sweet Dreams and Type O Negative's version of Summer Breeze...
Posted by: afarensis | January 13, 2006 6:39 PM
What about PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and Marianne Faithfull?
Posted by: euan | January 13, 2006 6:42 PM
The P.J. Harvey / Nick Cave collaboration isn't as surprising as the Nick Cave / Kylie Minogue duet off the same album. Brilliant, though. Love that song.
Posted by: jl | January 13, 2006 6:52 PM
afarensis, don't forget Type O Negative's version of Cinnamon Girl. Also, Bad Religion does some nicely paraphrased Xmas carols.
Posted by: Jamie | January 13, 2006 6:56 PM
I had forgot about Cinnamon Girl...
Posted by: afarensis | January 13, 2006 7:47 PM
PZ: do you mean "Ghost Riders in the Sky"?
(you seem to have created a recombinant of this title and the Doors' "Riders on the Storm"!
Posted by: djlactin | January 13, 2006 8:06 PM
Hey, I actually recognize a couple of these, which isnt usually the case with PZs music lists (says the old guy).
Posted by: Sage Donkey | January 13, 2006 8:41 PM
Ghost Riders On The Storm is an interesting hybrid of both Ghost Riders in the Sky and Riders on the Storm. It actually works.
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January 13, 2006 10:37 PM
Not relevant to the post.
Good thing you just moved here, because your old place just got Farked for a photoshop thread on that giant jellyfish picture. http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1846219
Posted by: lazybratsche | January 13, 2006 10:49 PM
Groovy.
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January 13, 2006 10:54 PM
Another "aw, yeah" for Death is Not the End. Not only are both the song and the cover style great, but it serves as the PERFECT button to the album.
Posted by: Maggie | January 14, 2006 12:38 AM
It's real. It's off the album Murder Ballads.
Yes, I own it. ;)
In fact, my one and only nickname is off of that album. My name is Loretta... "Curse of Millhaven."
Posted by: Lauren | January 14, 2006 9:14 PM
Leave My Monkey Alone
Yet another lesser known Zevon song about apes. Anyone who knows this one must be quite familiar with the bulk of his great career.
btw, Gorilla You're a Desperado is my favorite.
Posted by: Pan Pan (anon) | January 15, 2006 2:19 AM