I'll forgive and forget if you say you'll never go

[venta]

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...

Today's cover version [link to mp3 expired]

That was The Flaming Lips covering Can't Get You Out Of My Head, originally by Kylie Minogue

Anyone who isn't familiar with the Flaming Lips... what are you playing at? Get on the case right now. Go on.

Are we all up to speed now? Good.

Just wanted to be clear.

The Flaming Lips are a band I like, but would probably never pay the exorbitant amount required to see live. So, at Glastonbury this year I took the chance to see them when they sort of exorbitantly pre-paid. Live, they're absolutely amazing, and the all-senses assault of colour, noise, inflatable balls, confetti and weird is very hard to describe. Ironically, having seen them, I think I now would pay the sort of exorbitant price required to see them live.

Their music is, similarly, a giant, multi-faceted, multi-coloured thing which might go in any direction without warning. It's strangely joyful in its inimical, sprawling way. It doesn't care if you don't like it. Which doesn't matter, because you won't be able to help liking it anyway.

This cover version comes from the Yoshimi-era Fight Test EP, which is worth owning in its own right. How could you not want to hear a song called Thank You Jack White (For The Fiber Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)?

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Funny you should say that. When I went to university in '94, I have a vague idea that the Flaming Lips sounded very different and were the sort of thing you might occasionally hear in a goth club. Everyone poured scorn on this the other when I suggested it, though.

Certainly when Yoshimi... was released I was quite confused by it, and wasn't entirely sure this "new" band was the same as the one I remembered.

[zotz]

Ahem.

It's a bit tinny. In fact, you can't hear the bass at all, really, and hardly any of the drums. Just take their existence as read.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Quite a far-cry from Do You Realize?, I'll grant you. Not exactly a floor-filler, though :)

[zotz]

It could be. More Death Valley '69 than Pleasant Valley Sunday, I'll grant you.

I do like the new stuff as well. I want to stress that. Just in a different way.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that I heard She Don't Use Jelly in clubs, but not sure that they were specifically goth clubs. Hmmm, I want to play that again, now ...

[venta.livejournal.com]

She uses TAAAA-AAAA-AAAAA-AA-AA-ANGERINES!