MP3: Black Francis – “All in My Mind” (Love and Rockets cover from New Tales To Tell – A Tribute To Love And Rockets, out now.
Bauhaus never did it for me, but I liked Love and Rockets from the first time I heard “Lazy” on a mixtape. Earth * Sun * Moon was stuck in my Cutlass Supreme’s tape deck for an entire summer. Tribute albums are notoriously dodgy affairs, but on this one the Dandy Warhols and Flaming Lips pay homage to the dark and scary popsters. This Black Francis cover isn’t as good as the original, but how could it be?
Check out the original after the jump…
Video: Love and Rockets – “All in My Mind”
New Tales To Tell Track List
All In My Mind – Black Francis
Holiday On The Moon – Puscifer (MJ Keenan) (Tool & A Perfect Circle)
Love Me – War Tapes
No New Tale To Tell – Blaqk Audio (Davey & Jade of AFI)
I Feel Speed – Dubfire
Inside The Outside – The Dandy Warhols
Life In Laralay – Sweethead
An American Dream – Film School
The Light – A Place To Bury Strangers
Mirror People – Monster Magnet vs Adrian Young (No Doubt)
Fever – The Stone Foxes
No Big Deal – Frankenstein 3000
It Could Be Sunshine – VEX
So Alive – Better Than Ezra
Haunted When The Minutes Drag – James Hall
Lazy – Chantal Claret (Morningwood) vs Adrian Young-(No Doubt)
Sweet F.A. – Lossy Coils with Ian Moore
No Words No More – Snowden
Sweet Lover Hangover – Charlie & The Valentine Killers
Yin And Yang & The Flowerpot Man – Halloween Jack (Stephen Perkins & Gilby Clarke)
Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven – The Manichean
Bound For Hell – Johnny Dowd & Billy Cote
Saudade – Halls Of The Machine
Bonus:
Kundalini Express – The Flaming Lips
Mirror People – The Invisible Humans
No New Tale To Tell – Astra Heights
I heard the cover of ‘No New Tale to Tell’ the other day and I really really hated it (the one by Blaqk Audio).
That is one of those perfect songs that should not be touched.
I admit I was drawn in by the mention of the car. I also had a Cutlass Supreme (’74) but mine had an 8-track player…and no Love and Rockets.
“Fever – The Stone Foxes” is this Loftus’ new band?
Yeah, I too was way more partial to L&R than Bauhaus: “I Feel Speed”, and “No Words No More”, were big faves…and also 20 years old now. Damn it!
What are those guys up to these days? DJing? (And if so, will I bump into them in Brooklyn, where The Smiths’ Andy Rourke now resides and spins?)