Cat Power - Covers Record RFI

my least favorite cat power record

Got some other covers; The Freebird is a great cover as is her version of Wonderwall.

sweedeedee - michael hurley

troubled waters = arthur johnson/ sam coslow - i have no idea who they are. interestingly, michael hurley has this song on the same LP with sweedeedee, so that must be a fave record of chan's

sea of love has tons of versions and i don't know enough about 50's rock to tell you what are the definitive ones

wild is the wind also often-covered, my guess would be cat power via david bowie or nina simone

i'll take this opportunity to repeat a request for live versions of 'love to be silly' where she does the whistling bit

Cat Power - Bathysphere (Pavement)
Cat Power - Scott Walker cover (Don't Recognise it)
Cat Power - Hard Times in New York
Cat Power - We Dance (Pavement)
Cat Power - Wonderwall (Oasis)
Cat Power - Yesterday is Here (Tom Waits)

All pretty good quality. If you want - send me an email at [email protected] and I will make you a CDR!!!

Smog, not Pavement. :)

my fav cover on the covers record is the velvet underground's i found a reason. i have a very interesting demo of the same on a re-released version of loaded. for anyone who wants it

I didn't realize she had done another covers album. New video out today, this one of the Pogues' 'A Pair of Brown Eyes,' and it's directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Yeah---glad we've got the rest of the year to evaluate, but here's what I said about the December advance track in ballot comments for 2021:

"I'll Be Seeing You" is not my usual fare, even the original recording by Billie Holiday, who is also credited for writing it with Eddie Heywood. But somehow Cat Power's version (getting some extra credit for cruising straight at me, as a December '21 advance track from an otherwise often distractingly refracted 1-14-22 covers album, Covers) opens a winter afternoon's unexpected angle in "that small cafe, the park across the way," and nerts to the rest of it, word-wise, but we're moving along, 'til she stops for, "I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you." Hey, is that some kinda punch line, sister? Well maybe when she repeats it at the end, but then it's also note to self, back to reality for all concerned, up on tiptoes for the first line, feeling the flatsoles on the second. Twilight is the kiss is the blues, already gone for a while, and yet not quite, dammit!

Yeah, she can do that to covers sometimes, starting for me with "The Record To Beat in '08"

I really, really, really like this album, and I kind of didn't want to, but she brings her unique transformative alchemy to so many of these. "These Days" is a little straight and the Cave song died on the table, but "Bad Religion" becomes shimmering and incantatory, "Here Comes a Regular" aches so beautifully and "White Mustang" is the first Lana Del Rey song I can even remotely stand. To say nothing of "Pa Pa Power", "Against the Wind" and the reclamation of "Unhate". Still a complete maverick.