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It's Friday, it's about 3 o'clock. It's time to go underneath the covers (with the lights out).

I always recommend listening to a cover version without knowing what or who it is, so click on the link before reading ahead...

Link to cover version expired

That was The Hotrats covering (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party), originally by the Beastie Boys.

Well, I did say that I liked covers which took the song in a whole other direction :)

The answer to "The Hotrats? Who?" is that it's Gaz-and-Danny-from-Supergrass. They recently released Turn-Ons, which is just an album of covers of songs they like. (For people who do such things, it's also available for download on eMusic).

It's got rather an interesting and varied selection of songs on it - this, Queen Bitch, Damaged Goods, Up The Junction, E.M.I... I think that this is the stand-out track, but others are well worth a listen if you're coverarily inclined.

Date: 2010-04-16 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phlebas.livejournal.com
Good stuff! Did they nick the intro from Joy Division?

Date: 2010-04-16 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
I hadn't noticed that, but I do see what you're saying...

Date: 2010-04-16 02:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ulfilias.livejournal.com
Yeah. Me too !

Date: 2010-04-16 03:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zotz
That's what I thought too.

Date: 2010-04-16 02:05 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lnr
I was thinking it sounded quite Supergrass! Definitely a fun take on the original.

Date: 2010-04-16 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Nice new icon, btw, you look fabulous!

Date: 2010-04-16 02:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lnr
Thank you!

Date: 2010-04-16 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ulfilias.livejournal.com
Love the richard cheese version too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llbhMHu6BNI

Date: 2010-04-16 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Oh, inadvertently timely, it seems :(

Supergrass are packing in (http://londonist.com/2010/04/ticket_alert_supergrass_brixton_aca.php)

Date: 2010-04-16 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] addedentry.livejournal.com
There are posters on Cowley Road with a gravestone and the words "Gone but not forgotten, 1993-2010". (They also say "Bill Stickers is innocent".)

Date: 2010-04-18 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] onebyone.livejournal.com
It's Gaz-and-Danny-from-Supergrass

And (at least when I saw them) Nigel Godrich, who twiddles knobs for some lads from Abingdon. That is, the program said it was him, I'm not claiming to know what he looks like.

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