Feelings

Tom Petty & Heartbreakers Spokane 3

[via FoxyTunes / Tom Petty]

I am a huge fan of good cover songs. I think that being a Phish fan for the past decade has opened my mind to that. I say opened my mind because it takes an open mind to let a another voice say something different using the same words. So I am going to sprinkle in some of my all time favorite cover songs on here for your consumption. I'm starting this series off with a question.."Who is Tom Petty covering here?"

Asshole.mp3

Artist: Tom Petty
Song: Asshole

Your brains went black
When she took back her love
And put it out into the sun
The birds did fly
When the heavens all went dry
And the cigarettes were smoking by themselves

Shell do anything
Shell do anything
Shell do anything
To make you feel like an asshole

Call her name
She looks the same as you
Question marks stretched across her skin
She dangles carrots
Makes you feel embarrassed
To be the fool you know you are

Shell do anything
Shell do anything
Shell do anything
To make you feel like an asshole

Crazy Welch Bastards

super furry animals

[via FoxyTunes / Super Furry Animals]

Another of my favorite bands here. I always love when someone says "Who are these guys they sound awesome?" and I say "Super Furry Animals!" and they say "Huh?" and I slap them. They remind me of another band "Ween" on originality. These guys put an album together in which it could be a different band playing each song on it. I am a huge fan of musicians that can show their range..and still sound tight. This song doesn't sound like any other song on an album of really great tunes. Check them out.

Super Furry Animals_Phantom Power_05_The Piccolo Snare.mp3

Song: The Piccolo Snare
Artist: Super Furry Animals

Have you ever seen the sun
Rising high to the sound of a gun?
Blue and white and yellow sun
Capturing imagination
We went down to the piccolo drum
Never made it into the hum
Down to the piccolo
Down to the piccolo
Down to the piccolo snare

Have you ever seen the sea
Painted red by a bleeding army?
Sky hawks gather for a feast
Of pawns who will never find peace
Tumbledown to the piccolo snare
Never made it into the square
Down to the piccolo
Down to the piccolo
No one particular cared

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming

Now! We can go home again
To our old haunts again
Together
Now scatter us all around
Far from the bugle sound
Surrender
Safe in the exclusion zone
Catch me and take me home
As brother fights brother
Wrapped up in tarnished flags
Banners and body bags
Surrender!
The power!
Phantom!
Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming

Just Relax

Calexico at Leicester Summer Sundae

[via FoxyTunes / Calexico]

When I hear Calexico, I want to learn how to play . I know this is a corny statement, but damn they are tight. They have such a huge range of sound from Latino to country to rock and back again, all in the same album. This song was on the album "Garden Ruin" and was one of my favorite tracks. Recently I found this acoustic version and discovered the song all over again. Something about this song exudes "Go West Young Man" to me. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

CALEXICO_All-Systems-Red_acoustic.mp3

Song: All Systems Red
Artist: Calexico

Felt a tremor stir beneath my breath
That forecasts storms on the gallup poll
Waking up from the nightmare news
Hoping to read a sign in the morning air

Nothing changes here and nothing improves
All say my friends who just want out
And leave these troubles behind
Scatter like paper in the eye of the storm
Documented with a silenced note
That's only heard from far away

More cards in play, following suit
Everywhere you look, you only see red
Wonder when to call off the race
Watching a horse running down its last legs
When you think it couldn't get much worse
The numbers rise on the death toll
And the chimes of freedom flash and fade
Only heard from far, far away

I hear you can't trust in your own
Now the grey is broken in the early morn
And the words forming barely have a voice
It's just your heart that's breaking without choice

Everything you hear is distorted in your head
Bouncing off the walls, unraveling the thread
Staying up with the blue screen glow
Forgetting everything you ever dreamed years ago

When the dread is flowing down my veins
I want to tear it all down and build it up again
Hear your heart that's breaking without choice
I want to hear those chimes ring again
Ring again

Common Thread

Right now I am wondering.."How is this not being played all over the place?" Great voice, great energy, great period. These guys (gal) have put a great album together, sometimes sugary sometimes salty. I hope you check it out. I am bursting with good new music..if you're not careful you will get it all over you. I think its a great time to be a music fan.

04 - Heartless Bastards - All This Time.mp3

Song: All This Time
Artist: Heartless Bastards

I own this place, it's part of me
It fills me up and swallows me
My emotions wrapped in vines
Are reaching for the sun that shines
Oh, I must say I adore you
But sometimes I seem to ignore you
That's because I don't deserve to
Have your love for me ever

All this time, I wanted you to know
That if you're ever, ever feeling low
You can always count on -- on me
To be there whenever you need

Since you took my breath again
Would you share your oxygen?
I can breathe one breath of air
Intoxicated by your stare
Standing in the middle of the street
Oh, please don't run over me
I been trying, trying to finally
Reach for a sun that shines

All this time, I wanted you to know
That if you're ever, ever, ever feeling low
You can always count on -- on me
To be there whenever you need

Oh, I love you so much baby
You are my -- you are my rising sun!
Oh, I love you so much baby
You are my -- you are my setting sun!

You are my rising sun
You are my setting sun
You are my rising sun
You are my setting sun

The album this song comes from is also "All This Time"