A Cure For Work
In honor of those of you who are at work right now, here's a Cure for those work-a-day blues. Before the days of mashups, there were plain old covers. Here's two excellent covers of everyone's favorite gayemo band, The Cure!
The Love Cats by Tricky from his 2003 album Vulnerable
A beat that only Tricky would have put together, with more instruments than you notice at first listen. Try to spot the ringing telephone! Tricky and his singer Martine do their patented mumbling and seductive singing (respectively) on a cover which honors the energy of the original. The extra drums on the chorus and solid vocal performances pull it all together. Too bad the rest of the album isn't this good.
In Between Days by Ben Folds from the 2003 Speed Graphic EP
Ben makes this sound like both the Cure song that it is.. and a Ben Folds song. How? I don't care, because it sounds great.
Comments
Ah yes, the dreamy daze of The Cure. actually quite fitting for this somewhat melancholy Tuesday afternoon I'm having. Thank you for the music!
I suppose you're aware that Mr. Smith and The Cure have a new rekkord coming out soon. There was an article about them in last Sunday's NYT. It's pretty amusing, especially when it explains how The Cure gave emo bands license to capitalize on themes of pesonal weakness and "overblown sadness." Also I love the article's semi-snarky LiveJournal reference.
Posted by: moerex | June 29, 2004 05:47 PM
hm. my article link didn't get in there. well, here it is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/arts/music/27SINA.html
Posted by: moerex | June 29, 2004 05:49 PM