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”
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.
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