howdy! hope everyone had a loverly weekend, mine was just fine. what we have here is a tribute to the velvet underground which was released back in 1994, in the uk, by imaginary records – heres the wiki page. said label no longer exists, and you can only buy used and one collectible version of it via amazon so i felt pretty ok with posting the entire thing. the lineup for the most part is pretty stellar as you can see, and their respective interpretations aint too shabby either.
1. here she comes now – nirvana
2. jesus – swervedriver
3. stephanie says – lee ranaldo
4. all tomorrows parties – buffalo tom
5. im set free – new f.a.d.s
6. lady godivas operation – fatima mansions
7. sunday morning – james
8. ocean – eleventh dream day
9. foggy notion – echo and the bunnymen
10. what goes on – screaming trees
11. shes my best friend – the wedding present
12. i heard her call my name – half japanese
13. pale blue eyes – the mock turtles
14. european son – ride
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Nice! I used to have this on CD, but lost it during one of many moves. Very happy to have a copy again. WP’s “She’s My Best Friend” has always been a favorite.
Sorta surprised they didn’t include the Melvins’ take on “Venus in Furs.”
OK, having given this my first fresh listen in many years, I’m trying to decide which is the most nauseatingly inane moment on this comp – Tim Booth’s plasticine ad-libbing at the end of “Sunday Morning” or the entirety of New Fast Automatic Daffodils’ one-dimensional, jammy, Happy-Mondays-as-interpreted-by-kids-who’re-even-higher-than-Shaun-Ryder version of “I’m Set Free.” What the hell was wrong with Manchester in the ’90s?
Then Echo and the Bunnymen come and do a fairly kick ass version of “Foggy Notion,” doing more with a relatively tossed-off VU outtake than those other guys could do with more established songs.
And despite my major love of Swervedriver, to this day I am still bugged by Adam Franklin’s mangling of the lyrics to “Jesus.” The guitars sound great as always, though.
Lots of good stuff on here, though – some I already knew I liked, such as the Wedding Present track and Ride’s nicely noisy take on “European Son,” but a couple surprised me. I don’t think I paid much attention to Screaming Trees’ version of “What Goes On” back when I first got this – probably because I blindly associated them with MTV grunge – but I find myself enjoying that song now. My later appreciation for Mark Lanegan via Twilight Singers, etc, probably helps.
Thanks again for posting this album.
wow, I hadn’t heard many of these, I have the Weddos one from way back, which I’ve always loved, but Lee Ranaldo on ‘Stephanie Says’ sounds great, and authentic if that’s matters.
Your article was eexlclent and erudite.
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