Can I do this? Inspired by Buck Hill pointing to Copy, right?…here’s a little never released, basement cover of Mac and Lennon’s “Revolution”. Courtesy of Idyllopus. Done back in the roarin 90’s. And lest you think it’s a joke. I love this cover. But then I would. Not because I did it but because my brain idles on an off ramp. When I finished singing it, I knew I’d done something exceptional. That no one before me had thought to do. And it was unlikely that anyone would ever be able to capture and reduplicate my idyosyncratic styling. Not that anyone would ever think to or desire to, because people like to be headin’ somewhere instead of sitting on an off ramp. I’d say that reaction to this cover is my lithmus test of people except that very few people have heard it and I’m still friends with you if you don’t get it. If you don’t get it, I just let you make the coffee, because mine would taste a tad off.
Here it is below. If it takes a bit to open, don’t despair. It’s there. Just when you think, “Nothing’s going to happen” , if you wait a bit more then it happens. (I’m serious, very slow. Is taking over a minute for the song to come up for me. But you get five minutes of streaming Revolution in exchange for the wait.)
Oh, my husband recorded and did the glorious guitar.
Following up Revolution, I promised Buck Hill the next Idyllopus unauthorized nonrelease of a cover would be Mac and Lennon’s “Happiness is a Warm Gun.”
Again. Excellent music track by husband. Vocals by moi (either one likes or one does not). I can’t really think of anything much to say in the way of an introduction.
Wondering what’s a good third choice. “She said, she said” or “Polythene Pam”? “Hide your Love Away”?
Been a while since I’ve posted one of the unauthorized covers. This one is Helter Skelter.
As with the rest. I’m the vocal. Marty’s the music and production but I helped produce all of these though, which was a hell a lot of fun. Again, mid 90s.
Links to the others are under the “music” category.
Hadn’t planned on this being the next Unauthorized Cover I’d put up but they’re talking about “She said she said” over at Heretik’sso here it is. She said she said.
As with the rest. I’m the vocal. Marty did music and production (I assisted).
Again, mid 90s.
Links to the others are under the “music” category.
Vocals by me. All instrumentation by Marty. Engineered by him and co-produced by Marty and me. Recorded 1997.
The previous Unauthorized Messy Covers are under the “The Unauthorized Cover” category and include She Said She Said, Helter Skelter, Gimme Some Truth, Happiness is a Warm Gun and Revolution.
I finished the conversions last night of this particular batch of the Unauthorized Messy Covers by Catastrophic Audio (me and Marty) that we did in 1997 and will be putting them up over the next couple of days.
“Revolution” I did have up as a ram file and now have up mp3.
The previous Unauthorized Messy Covers from 1997 are under the “The Unauthorized Cover” category and include Baby’s in Black, She Said She Said, Helter Skelter, Gimme Some Truth, and Happiness is a Warm Gun.
Vocals by me. Instrumentation and engineering by Marty. Co-produced by Marty and me.
The previous Unauthorized Messy Covers are under the “The Unauthorized Cover” category. I’ve been saying they’re from 1997 but that was just careless of me. They’re circa 1995 instead.
I will next post Mean Mister. Mustard-Polythene Pam-She Came in Through the Bathroom Window and You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away. Which will be the last from this batch, I think, though I’ve two more.
Have another set of recordings from earlier, circa 1993, that we’ll perhaps transfer next week.
Wasn’t going to post this one but Marty convinced me to. I like the chorus but when I hear what else I did to it, especially at the end there, I feel like our ever reincarnating cockroach, Fred, scuttling as the light hits. Except for last night, finally caught in the bathroom, on the rug before the sink. “Mom, it’s Fred! I don’t think he’s feeling very good! He’s not moving!” He wasn’t moving but was still quite alive, too easy to kill, and left a mess on the rug. Anyway, out of my mouth belched certain sounds on this tune that I would have preferred not be preserved but here they are. I don’t know why I didn’t slash them out of the mix way back when. At the time I must have been kind of proud of those urps.
Vocals by me. Instrumentation and engineering by Marty. Co-produced by Marty and me.
The previous Unauthorized Messy Covers are under the “The Unauthorized Cover” category.
“Mom! Is that you singing that song?”
“Yeah.”
“You sing really good!”
Haha. Nothing like having your own unprincipled cheering section.
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Speaking of unprincipled cheering sections, poor kid was sick Saturday and Sunday. “Boy, he’s subdued,” I thought, and then he complained about feeling ill and didn’t leap to talk to his grandmother on the phone when she called and a couple hours later he took a nap then woke and upchucked every particle of food that had gone into his stomach over the course of the day. After that he was feeling energetic enough that he went Star Trek spelunking.
“Mom, look what I found!” as he came trotting up to me with my old Star Trek episode guide, he believing he’d stumbled on pure gold and that I would be elated to have it close at hand rather than stuffed in a book shelf.
He keeps asking about Star Trek but we threw out all our old tapes of it (taken off the television) years ago. So they are now in the Netflix queue.
When he began feeling ill and curled up on the sofa, he wanted to watch our old Flash Gordon DVD.
Liked this bit from one of the episodes (paraphrased poorly):
Astrophysicist Woman from the Future: And what did the women do back then? Knit all day?
Historian: No, they didn’t fill their heads with knowledge and science and astrophysics, like one young woman I know. They knew their way around the kitchen instead of the lab.
Marty’s paraphrase: They could cook, unlike some young women I know.
In these old Flash Gordons, you had no problem telling who was the bad guy, because they boldly pronounced they were evil and were only interested in going about doing evil.
I don’t like to watch those old Flash Gordons though, because when they’re on Queen’s “Flash Gordon” overtakes, Freddie Mercury singing “Flash - ah - king of the impossible. He’s for every one of us. Stand for every one of us…” and my heart pines for the 1980 film.
Until I can get a copy, I’m going to need to satisfy myself with this vid up at YouTube of the film’s opening credits, which are great.
Anyway, that was our weekend. Except for the part of hours and hours spent working on my computer because of the DVD ROM having gone bad, installing a new one and a new drive (one had gone bad), and rewiring and cleaning it out.
