Entertainment For Lively Minds
Strange cover versions
Posted by MrSib on 9 September 2010 - 9:57pm.
Who would have predicted that an ex girl band member would release a solo album like this...
The album 'The sound of Camden' tracklisting.
1. Anybody Seen My Baby (Rolling Stones)
2. Come As You Are (Nirvana)
3. Come Back And Stay (J. Lee/Paul Young)
4. Creep (Radiohead)
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
6. Like A Stone (Audioslave)
7. Shine On (House of Love)
8. Hey (Pixies)
9. Zombie (Cranberries)
10. I Run (Flock of Seagulls)
11. Ancient Melody (Roy Sela)
What next Cheryl Tweedie doing 'caught in a mosh' by Anthrax?
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Mutya
has always been a tough cookie who don't take no shit...definitely not your average "girl band" member. And when she was with them, Sugababes were not your average girl band - they were rather fabulous, not the travesty that uses the name now.
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Well maybe it's the two-pint buzz I've got going on, but I thought that was kind of cool!
I've heard the album.
It's rather good, and I expected to detest it.
Siobhán Donaghy made an "unexpected"
solo lp too.Which wasn't the usual dancey ballad fair you might expect.
Siobhan Donaghy had a track
on a Word cover CD a few years ago called Ghosts and it was utterly utterly brilliant.
As for Mutya - fair play to her for doing this. I suppose in a sense, the tracklisting is 'contrived' in that they're nearly all 'the kind of songs that you'd not expect her to cover'. I think I'd like to hear her have a go at most of them.
She was also involved in, for my money, one of the best pop/dance singles ever in the shape of THIS...
God, why am I so cynical?
My first thought upon looking at that tracklist was that it's basically Rick Rubin/Johnny Cash in reverse. I could imagine some hotshot producer sitting her down and said "now here's a leftfield cover for you to try" (or indeed, a Leftfield cover for her to try). This is someone who's first single was called 'Real Girl' to let us know that she was, like, a real girl, desperately searching for a credible new direction. Would Cheryl Cole do an album like this? No. But then Cole's last single didn't chart at 73 (thanks Wikipedia).
But having thought all of that I then thought - no. Stop. When did I become so flipping jaded? Perhaps she really loves this music. And then again, to follow the advice of Andrew Harrison's latest column, it shouldn't really matter. The music's the thing.
Yeah Siobhan's stuff was good
and some of it was great:
There's always been a House Of Love element to
her music.
Seriously though I've always liked her voice and I like that list of songs so...what's not to like?