Hold your head high and reach to the top
Oct. 15th, 2010 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaIt'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 download expired]
That was the Beautiful South covering Don't Stop Moving, originally by S Club 7
Some years ago, I unwrapped a present I'd just been given and found myself faced with a Beautiful South album. A Beautiful South covers album, to boot. I attempted to arrange my face into a suitably polite smile.
Well, more fool me because it's bloody marvellous. Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs is a dozen cover versions - chosen from and performed in a variety of genres - and I recommend it really quite highly.
Actually, in small doses, Beautiful South aren't that bad[*]. I mean, they're not the Housemartins, but they do have some good songs. And, I concede, some terrible ones as well. But their high points are worth pausing for.
But anyway: this is an album that - although it doesn't have any stand-out, fall-over-yourselves tracks, works really well as a collection of covers. It's gentle, but it's surprisingly fun. You should give it a try.
[*] Yes, I am aware that I'm writing the praises of the Beautiful South while listening to Frontline Assembly. Thanks for asking.
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 download expired]
That was the Beautiful South covering Don't Stop Moving, originally by S Club 7
Some years ago, I unwrapped a present I'd just been given and found myself faced with a Beautiful South album. A Beautiful South covers album, to boot. I attempted to arrange my face into a suitably polite smile.
Well, more fool me because it's bloody marvellous. Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs is a dozen cover versions - chosen from and performed in a variety of genres - and I recommend it really quite highly.
Actually, in small doses, Beautiful South aren't that bad[*]. I mean, they're not the Housemartins, but they do have some good songs. And, I concede, some terrible ones as well. But their high points are worth pausing for.
But anyway: this is an album that - although it doesn't have any stand-out, fall-over-yourselves tracks, works really well as a collection of covers. It's gentle, but it's surprisingly fun. You should give it a try.
[*] Yes, I am aware that I'm writing the praises of the Beautiful South while listening to Frontline Assembly. Thanks for asking.
