Low tribute album. Really. To the first Low album in particular.

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Hadn't heard about this at all until earlier today. Huh. Like Heather's review says, crazy timing. Tracklisting:

1 Words Daniel G. Harmann 6:03
2 Fear Pale Horse and Riders 3:14
3 Cut The Strugglers 2:59
4 Slide A Northern Chorus 8:11
5 Lazy Mark Kozelek 3:33
6 Lullaby Kid Dakota 3:37
7 Sea Misc 2:21
8 Down Jessica Bailiff 5:04
9 Drag The Winter Blanket 2:45
10 Rope Idaho 3:13
11 Words Migala
12 Sunshine His Name is Alive/Nanang Tatang 7:14

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote about this on my blog a few months back, so I'm going to be lazy and just crib a few comments:

The Low tribute album, "We Could Live In Hope", is absolutely brilliant in spots, whereas other parts leave me scratching my head ... First and foremost is Mark Kozelek's jaw-dropping rendition of "Lazy", which completely overhauls the song into a laid-back alt-country footstomper, resulting in the most impressive cover version hijack job I've heard since Johnny Cash's "One". Except he did something even Johnny didn't do -- he took a song I didn't even like much to start with, and transformed it into something sublime.
Daniel G. Harmann succeeds in a very different manner -- he stays very faithful to the original "Words", but that song is so gorgeous that it couldn't be ruined even if one belched the lyrics.
A Northern Chorus pull off the amazing trick of slowing down "Slide" to sub-Low levels. Beautifully done.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have Kid Dakota, who somehow forgot that the best parts of "Lullaby" are the ones without lyrics.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure why they wanted two versions of "Words" on there. Sure, it's one of the best songs Low have ever done, but neither version is good enough to justify the double-inclusion. Hell, they should have let A Northern Chorus and Jessica Bailiff do the entire album*. *Particularly* "Lullaby", because shortening that song to three minutes is unforgivable and either of those two acts would have done a fantastics job with it.

*Except for Mark Kozelek's "Lazy", which is beyond outstanding.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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