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.
