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The Joint has always maintained that if you’re going to cover a song, do it properly. Give the original a good aural kicking down a back alley and ignore any accusations of a lack of respect towards the original material.

We said it in the letters pages of Smash Hits* when Paul Young covered “Love Will Tear Us Apart” in 1983 and we’re saying it again today as we playlist Brian Case’s radical re-working of Elvis Costello / Robert Wyatt’s “Shipbuilding”

Direct download: The Joint – 1 July 2017

And here’s the playlist in full…

• J Dilla  –  Trucks
• Todd Terje  –  Maskindans (featuring Det Gylne Triangel)
• Skyjelly  –  Catherine’s Rabbi
• Beak>  –  Sex Music (Win Butler’s ‘Knight Rider’ Remix)
• Ras G And The Afrikan Space Program  –  Can’t Hide
• Amelia Airhorn  –  NY Is Red Hot (Single Mix)
• MHD  –  Afro Trap Part 8 (Never)
• Gorillaz  –  Sleeping Powder
• Tommy Cash  –  Surf
• Nuvarna  –  Pain Of The Circus
• Rugby Wild  –  Scuffs
• Michele Mininni  –  Rave Oscillations
• Explosion Horse  –  Tupac’s Herpes
• Frankie Rose  –  Trouble
• Push Push  –  Blood In
• Butcher Bear  –  Ineedyouneedme (featuring Sir Froderick)
• Frank Ocean  –  Biking (featuring Jay Z & Tyler, The Creator)
• TGUT  –  Swang (TGUT Remix)
• Objekt  –  Theme From Q
• Washed Out  –  Hard To Say Goodbye
• Wolf Alice  –  Yuk Foo
• Brian Case  –  Shipbuilding
• Gabriel Garzón-Montano  –  Sour Mango (Seven Davis Jr Sticky Rice Remix)
• Mike Will Made-It  –  Perfect Pint (featuring Kendrick Lamar, Gucci Mane, Rae Sremmurd)
• King Ayisoba  –  Africa Needs Africa
• Reaganometry  –  Lego Igloo
• Summer Moon  –  Walk Out Music
• Unknown  –  Drank Til I Can’t Drank No Mo
• Chip Skylark  –  Washed Up
• S4U  –  Too Much
• Powell  –  The Bust
• Fresh & Onlys  –  Wolf Lie Down

*Embarrassing but true. The letter not the song. Well, maybe the song as well. Have a search through Brian McCloskey’s Smash Hits Archive on Flickr for proof.