It seems that longtime TMIM favorite has his own IMDb page now. Matthew Collings has scored the soundtrack for Hakon Palsson's short film Guilt, and -- from the look of it -- served as...
It seems that longtime TMIM favorite has his own IMDb page now. Matthew Collings has scored the soundtrack for Hakon Palsson's short film Guilt, and -- from the look of it -- served as...
Lia Ices got some much deserved props from us last year for her fantastic album Grown Unknown and was given the designation as "one of the most beautiful and talented artists to break-out this year"....
A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is...
Track 3 from Christina Vantzou's remix album is described only as "Various sounds from Nº1 remixed by Ernest Gibson III." She's put it to video. Pretty creepy. Start to read more about Vantzou here. Normally we...
Last night on Letterman Marianne Faithfull covered The Decemberists “The Crane Wife 3″ in support of her 22nd album Easy Come Easy Go (the cover does appear on the album). I’m still trying to figure out what I think about this. At first I was appalled but it has grown on me with each subsequent listen.
Your thoughts?
Tags: Decemberists, Easy Come Easy Go, Marianne Faithfull, The Crane Wife 3
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More than anything I get annoyed with Letterman’s “Great music! Ah jeez look at the time!” schtick. Have I ever seen him once not do that to a musician? I don’t believe so.
Covers are a tightrope walk for almost anybody. Too much of a disparity between original artist and performing artist creates a bit of discomfort with the listeners. For the record I’d say there’s a huge disparity between The Decemberists and Marianne Faithfull.
There’s also a feeling that the performing artist should either completely rearrange the track or should deliver it absolutely (ahem) faithfullly. This one was a sort of no man’s land between the two. Not altogether rearranged, yet not a literal transcription, either. For the record I didn’t like it. Even if Letterman did, he turned on the gush far too much. Yes, I realize he is a network host, but still.
If I were a musician I’d avoid doing covers like the plague, to avoid all of the unwritten rules to begin with. That said, apparently The Decemberists perform all kinds of covers live. The irony…