MELVINS/Void Manes

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I expected it to be alot more heavy and weird.

I don't think i expected it to be heavier but i did think it would be weirder than it is. More disorientating or abrasive - not that i was necessarily looking for that.

[amazonAMAZON]

So... understanding the parameters of this record has lead me to consider it's technically a songbook record. One artist makes an album of selections from an unrelated writer's songbook. Think Ella Sings Cole Porter or The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits or Gene Ween/Aaron Freeman's Marvelous Clouds (songs of Rod McKuen). I think there's a few notable ones from the 60s and 70s I'm forgetting... Maybe Nilsson or Van Dyke Parks? Anyway, can you think of other albums that meet this criteria, especially more modern fare? How does Throbbing Jazz Gristle compare?

(The Great American Songbook, tribute bands, jazz standards records and the like don't count)

[John Schuller]

So... understanding the parameters of this record has lead me to consider it's technically a songbook record. One artist makes an album of selections from an unrelated writer's songbook. Think Ella Sings Cole Porter or The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits or Gene Ween/Aaron Freeman's Marvelous Clouds (songs of Rod McKuen). I think there's a few notable ones from the 60s and 70s I'm forgetting... Maybe Nilsson or Van Dyke Parks? Anyway, can you think of other albums that meet this criteria, especially more modern fare? How does Throbbing Jazz Gristle compare?

(The Great American Songbook, tribute bands, jazz standards records and the like don't count)

Nice observation! I am going to think about this today.

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I think Thou's 'Blessings Of The Highest Order' (which is entirely renditions of Nirvana songs) is the only record i can think of. I'm sure there are more though.

[GiveMe45]

I think Thou's 'Blessings Of The Highest Order' (which is entirely renditions of Nirvana songs) is the only record i can think of. I'm sure there are more though.

First time I saw Thou was a mid-week matinee basement show.  It was a perfectly stereotypical Pacific Northwest gray and gloomy rainy day.  They played their cover of I Hate Myself And I Want To Die, and it was pretty awesome.

[Nizamark]

thou does sooooo many covers.  minor threat, soundgarden, shellac.  one of the reasons i dig them.  i saw em in san diego a few years ago and they closed the show with into the void and it just crushed the place. so good.


on the songbook tip, in the late 90s james from yo la tengo called himself dump and put out a record of lofi prince covers. it's pretty great.

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Cheapy CD (finally!) back in stock here - https://www.shoxop.com/collections/cheapy-5-cds

[the bloat]

Cheapy CD (finally!) back in stock here - https://www.shoxop.com/collections/cheapy-5-cds

I wish the RECORD was back in stock  Never got one...

[Nizamark]

ordered. thanks. 
i'm dying to hear their take on sails of charon.

[baruk]

wrong album. I think.

[Nizamark]

ya i ordered both