Continuing a little pre-Thanksgiving belly-stretching, we follow up the previous post's gut-busting cornucopia with the remaining tasty leftovers from that session. This "EP" gets you the remixed cover material, as follows:
- "A Goodby Rye" (Richard Buckner). Good lord, but what heart-stopping and near-perfect albums comprise Buckner's out-of-the-gate trilogy! "Bloomed" (1995) finds him getting his dusty legs, and "Since"(1998) is a masterpiece, but "Devotion and Doubt"(1997) is the pinnacle. Band, voice, production, lyrics, songs... It all comes together and crushes you.
- "Game of Pricks" (Guided By Voices). From the best-by-far incarnation of Dayton's slop-pop-prog-lo-fi kings. We used to take this one up now and again back in the day with the Dillo band ("Motor Away" as well) but I swear I never knew the chords, which is a shame. Still atoning for past sins, I guess.
- "Save It for Later" (The English Beat). You might not peg me for a Beat fan but, oh my friends, I am one in spades! Someday we'll get back around to again covering their version of "Tears of a Clown" (as the pre-Buttsteak JHU roadshow used to do-- fast, fast, fast!) but in the meantime there's this classic. It's the sort of non-ska, non-political, poppy number that raised some hackles within the Beat at the time but Dave Wakeling (and management) won out and we're all the better for it.
- "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" (The Smiths). Yet another fine Smiths tune, and one long-covered by the Buttsteaks. This particular version reflects an effort on the part of Mike and me to rock it up a bit and keep the sappy maundering down to a minimum-- to dial up the Marr, Joyce and Rourke side and tone down Morrisey a tad.
- "From a Buick 6" (Bob Dylan). Tip of the hat to Son Volt, whose rip-roaring encore version of Dylan's "Obviously Five Believers" at Bohager's in Fell's Point back in the day convinced me that we should take a stab at this one.
A Goodbye Rye: https://www.box.com/s/hgbu1olsvgxsub6dcuoj
Game of Pricks: https://www.box.com/s/2z97neyh8gjcaj6qw0fm
Save It for Later: https://www.box.com/s/h6vcazl6n201a7qn85xz
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out:
https://www.box.com/s/bgfjzvf29vppc5daagz8
From A Buick 6: https://www.box.com/s/vyozlol9nl44a3ojauu6
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