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Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« on: 12 May 2007, 03:32 »
Latest single, All My Friends, has covers by these bods in addition to the usual remixes.  Pretty cool concept, I reckon.  The thing about Tommy's godfather covering it is that the hammering piano arpeggios on the original sound a hell of a lot like Cale anyway.  It put me in mind of 'Songs for Drella' first time I heard it... except it's good.

Both covers are a bit shit, but it's still conceptually pretty nice, I reckon.

First time I remember hearing something like this was Portishead's Sour Times, where some rock band did the backing (instrumental and backing vox), but that still included Beth Gibbons' singing...  Thinking about it a lot of remixes have blurred the line like this, getting in new singers or creating duets, or whatever else.
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Re: Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« Reply #1 on: 12 May 2007, 06:41 »
Tommy's godfather? Who is Tommy and is his godfather the guy from Franz Ferdinand?

The line between 'remix' and 'cover' is getting more and more blurred everyday.
 It still strikes me as odd that remixing a song is seen as just as respectable an art form as writing original compositions.
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Re: Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« Reply #2 on: 12 May 2007, 06:52 »
Tommydski's godfather is John Cale.
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Re: Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« Reply #3 on: 12 May 2007, 07:12 »
His mother was Billie Holiday.
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Re: Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« Reply #4 on: 12 May 2007, 08:02 »
And his dad is Ian Ian MacKaye.

On a serious note, John Cale is just getting more awsome as years go by. I never thought it was possible.

fish, can you upload that song somewhere?
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Re: Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« Reply #5 on: 12 May 2007, 16:00 »
Man, Tommydski's sure mentioned it enough (in a bunch of different threads) that I assumed he was being honest...  oh well.

There's no way I'd upload anything anywhere...
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Re: Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« Reply #6 on: 12 May 2007, 17:02 »
Quote from: Misereatur on 12 May 2007, 08:02
On a serious note, John Cale is just getting more awsome as years go by. I never thought it was possible.

Challenged. I'll bet there's a dip somewhere.

Also, FAF, he was. We're just dicks.
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Re: Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« Reply #7 on: 12 May 2007, 17:28 »
Quote from: fish across face on 12 May 2007, 06:52
Tommydski's godfather is John Cale.

Did anyone else picture Marlon Brando playing a screeching, droning violin just now??
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Re: Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« Reply #8 on: 13 May 2007, 16:26 »
I thought this thread was going to say that they covered LCD Sounsystem

together

on the same track


I am disappointed
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Re: Franz Ferdinand and John Cale cover LCD Soundsystem
« Reply #9 on: 13 May 2007, 18:10 »
The Franz Ferdinand version starts out excellent but eventually gets kind of shitty.

John Cale's delivery of those lyrics makes them hilarious.
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