Well I got my new system up and running so I thought I'd celebrate by posting a few new singles! I've picked up some good stuff lately (In My Humble Opinion anyway) however I still need to get them recorded and scanned Bla Bla Bla Bla, but here a few nuggets that I've had rocking recently. Hope you enjoy!
Download it here! (Press Play Below to Listen!)The first is Stevie Wonder's wonderful Beatles cover "We Can Work It Out" I'll be honest with you guys, Stevie never really did it for me. I mean I really hate "SUPERSTITION". It's a great song I guess but it's so overplayed it overshadows his other work, a lot of which I think is superior to Superstition even if it's not usually to my taste. This single was taken from the album "Signed Sealed And Delivered" which was released in 1970. It's got some fairly standard harmonica playing (which can grate on me sometimes in other songs) but a great beat and so a great rendition of the original.
The second single today is one I found a couple years back in a garage sale. Oddly, it's a Jamaican pressing of a Shirley Bassey single doing yet another cover. This one is the Doors song "Light My Fire". Okay, so let me tell you (and I hope I'm not offending but,) I hate the Doors. Wait, scratch that, I hate Jim Morrison. The rest of the Doors had a cool vibe. THIS rendition of Light My Fire is FANTASTIC! Since finding this single I feel like I actually picked up the roots of Trip Hop. Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't this sound like something put out by Portishead? Hmmm...seriously, check it out, let me know what you think!
Finally, I thought I'd post a Double Feature. If you search the earlier posts in this blog you will find a couple Bob Seger singles from the early 60's. Keeping that same vibe, I have another single (done a few years later) in which both the A and B sides are equally fascinating. Why do I say fascinating? Because I cannot believe that the guy who did "Old Time Rock n Roll" actually made brilliant music before he ended up sucking huge! Wow, am I opinionated today or what? These tunes are Vietnam war protest songs drowning in fuzztone guitars and drenched in Bob's distinctive (in the 60's anyway) yowl. Released on Capitol it's pretty good garage stuff for a major label. What do you think? Enjoy!
