cover versions of songs by your favorite bands for this compilation
to present to you on your birthday. People were eager to contribute
and considering your efforts putting together the Guitarded and Guitarmy CD's
everyone wanted to help make something special for you. Enjoy!
-J
Blog comments from D here
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(Cover Design by Heather Kelly)
01. My Girl -Caught & Candy
02. Conduit for Sale/Wounded Cougat at 0:17 -HULA COUGAR!
03. You Made Me Realise -Spy Alarms
04. Stop Your Sobbing -The Unsacred Hearts
05. Fascination Street -El Jezel
06. How Soon Is Now? -Man in Mauve
07. Crazy -The Littlests
08. Natural One -Lobster Kitty
09. Adult Books -Faint Praise
10. Nothing in this World to Stop Me Worrying About That Girl -Gabriel Miller-Phillips
11. Gay Bar -Dirty Sasha
12. Ain't It Fun -Tina DaCosta
13. Buffalo Stance -Baby Be-Gone
14. Sunflower -Botany Bay
15. There is a Light That Never Goes Out -The Fantastic Stand (with Carol Ann)
16. For Shame of Doing Wrong -Tex Penhaligon
17. Spit On A Stranger -Jeremy
Belated Bonus Tracks:
18. Idiotqeue -The Mood Swing
19. Fight This Generation -The JLM
20. Comfortably Numb -Pete Galub
CAUGHT & CANDY- "My Girl"
During a late night jam session at Chris and Nathania's there was a musical
spark that launched Caught & Candy. Comprised of Chris, Nathania, George and
Jessica, this supergroup operates best late at night under the influence of
hard liquor and even harder drugs. As they riffed their way throgh some of the
20th century's greatest songs they came across this Motown nugget. What was
first a one-take idea turned into multi-tracking with a slew of kitchen sink
ingredients including toy pianos, harmonies, pots and pans and unusual animal
noises. The next day they hardly remembered doing it, but The Beatles never
remembered their sessions either so there ya go.
HULA COUGAR! says "PAVEMENT! Serge provided guitaring, drumming, and WE'RE
TRYINGing. Yvette provided bassing, shaker egging, and her very best
Malkie impersonation. WOUNDED-COUGAR comes in at :17 only it is not :17
but it never was. HULA COUGAR! loves d. GRRR."
SPY ALARMS - "You Made Me Realise" You Made Me Realize is a rare MBV song that
reveals the foundation of their musical intensity, rooted heavily in
punk rock ala Husker Du and the post-wave movement of the mid-late 80s.
Spy Alarms ups the ante by pushing the atonality and tempo shifting
ugliness further, while sweetening the layers of vocal prettiness that
were all too buried in the original. In the end, it's all about the
Happy Birthday-ness of the song and we hope you enjoy! In other news,
Spy Alarms will soon graduate from the Birthday Comp circuit and deliver
an EP called the "The Chase is On" in the next few months.
M.DeLeon: vox
E.Lee: wurlitzer, vox
C.Aguinaldo: baritone guitar, vox
D.DeCriscio: drums
UNSACRED HEARTS - "Stop Your Sobbing"
Recorded live at Pianos... a classic Kinks cover
EL JEZEL- "Fascination Street"
El Jezel had already been doing this Cure cover prior to the planning of this
project, so our laziness prevailed and we went with it. During a Friday night
rehearsal they strung up a few simple mics and recorded it all basic like on a
Tascam 4-track(classic). Whisky was consumed, bad takes were thwarted, and in
the end they got what we needed. A week later George dumped the basic tracks
into his digital 16 track and added vocals, sound effects , and more guitars of
course. Dreary sweetness!
MAN IN MAUVE - "How Soon Is Now?"
What happens when 4/5th of Man in Gray get together to cover The Smiths?
They become "Man In Mauve". Now you know what I was up to all day on Sunday!
Jeremiah saves the day with his editing skills by splicing multiple tapes
together that otherwise would have been an out-of-sync mess.
Can you guess which mig-member is missing?
THE LITTLESTS - "Crazy"
Joel + Marta + Kristie + Gnarls = Crazy!
LOBSTER KITTY - "Natural One"
Jared & Bryan
FAINT PRAISE - "Adult Books"
Phil and Tina's hypnotic X cover.
GABRIEL MILLER-PHILLIPS - "Nothing in this World to Stop Me Worrying About That Girl"
Gabe flexes his talent with a very nice kinks kover.
DIRTY SASHA - "Gay Bar"
Alex aka Dirty Sasha wants to take you to a gay bar.
TINA DaCOSTA - "Ain't It Fun"
You knew Tina was a talentedsinger, but you've never been able to hear her voice with so
much clarity since it's usually competing with a bunch of loud raucous boys turned up to 11 behind her.
Ain't it fun when you harmonize with yourself?
BABY BE-GONE - "Buffalo Stance"
Stephanie makes her buffalo stance while her gigolo plays guitar behind her.
BOTANY BAY - "Sunflower"
The Secret Life of Sofia's Eric Schworts does a lush dreamy cover of a Low song.
THE FANTASTIC STAND (with Carol Ann)- "There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Since George had been yearning to do a whole ep of Morrissey/Smiths covers for
at least a couple years, this project served as a good instigator. He chose to
take this classic in a slower dirtier direction, which for better or worse
turned it into a 6 and a half minute epic. And although this marks the first
time The Fantastic Stand has taken the spotlight it just wouldn't be the same
without a little vocal love from Carol Ann on the outro. George hopes D
doesn't consider this interpretation to be outright sacrilege.
TEX PENHALIGON - "For Shame of Doing Wrong"
Jared, aka Tex, doing his patented bearclaw style multi-layer guitar
on this Richard Thompson cover.
JEREMY - "Spit on a Stranger"
Me trying to make Daniella swoon with my Malkmus imitation.
THE MOOD SWING - "Idiotque"
Only one man was bold enough to take on a Radiohead cover. And Chris (who you
may know from the Mo Matching Drapes) does not disappoint with this faithful yet
unique version of this rave-up from Kid A.
THE JLM - "Fight This Generation"
The JLM soundsystem cranks out another favorite for the
Ukranian discotheque scene.
Bonus tracks anxiously awaited from The G Love & Special K and The Song Corporation... ?