Kilgore Trout
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Unreleased Recordings: COVERS
Play All- Knowing Me, Knowing Youdownload
The first rule of cover versions is that you don’t fuck with perfection (some would say that Gwen Stefani’s “It’s My Life” gives the lie to this, but I dislike the original and so cannot comment). My attempts at covers – and I’ll say in mitigation that they are few – remind me, at best, of the Wedding Present’s. They never quite plumb the depths of Snuff. Few things do. But they are utterly redundant. To cover Abba would be foolhardy at the best of times. But to turn their bleakest song outside of The Visitors into grunty indie rock is unforgivable.
- New AC Temple Onedownload
Became known as “Bryan Adams One”, for obvious reasons. The other chord changes are pure Netto Bowie. I don’t defend this kind of thing. I’m just saying it happens. Filed under "covers" in futile and belated attempt to pretend I didn't write it
- Fearless Frienddownload
28 Machon Bank, in Sheffield’s Nether Edge, was the only house I’ve lived in that had a “home studio”, and was where much of this 4-track stuff happened. While the smart kids were busy acquiring Ataris and pirated versions of Cubase and making Pump Up the Volume, we had: a Fostex X-15 (the brutally idiot-proof simplicity of this 4-track cassette machine endeared it to me from the off); a couple of amps of dubious parentage (mandatory that at least one of these would be an H/H); a couple of drum machines as rudimentary as are the hoop and the stick; another drum machine that could theoretically do loads of stuff but required a Ph.D in computer programming to operate; some microphones from Kwik-Save and a Korg MS-10. There were some lumps of metal hanging from the ceiling too: you had to have these in 1984 or you’d be struck off by the Musicians’ Union. We didn’t care that it was 1988.
Anyway, Fearless Friend. Recorded at 28 Machon Bank. Written by Toby Dawson, who I’d done some stuff with a couple of years previously, so even though there’s no original it’s filed under “covers”. If anyone were to describe it as twee and unlistenable I wouldn’t argue too hard. In retrospect, I like that with both guitar and voice I’m trying to do things that clearly I haven’t a dog’s chance of pulling off. Aspirational is good. - Stalingrad download