Ever make that trip back home and decide to root around the dark corners of Mother’s Basement, pulling out old boxes of knick-knacks from your childhood: Cub Scout badges, old guitar picks, an arrowhead, a foreign coin that still seems as exotic as it did when an uncle gave it to you in 1972? Sometimes we root through Mother’s Basement and uncover a forgotten mix tape! That’s just what I did earlier this week. Check out Part 1 of what was on this tape.
Orchestra Harlow, “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey)”
Brian James, “Ain’t That a Shame”
Matthew Sweet, “The Ocean In Between”
Joel Plaskett Emergency, “True Patriot Love”
The Godz, “You Won’t See Me”
Laghonia, “Everybody Monday”
Hope you had as much fun with these tracks as I did. Truth be told, Mad Props to The Boys in the Basement for many of these contributions that I’ve chosen to share with you! Stay tuned for Part 2…
Wanted to make sure I offered some feedback here, however brief:
“Monkey” — I really like the total lack of pretension in this cover… despite the fact that they chose a pretty effing tough and iconic number to deal with!
“Shame” — Yawn.
“Ocean” — I swear, if Matthew Sweet were a friend of mine, I’d really have a hard time being straight with him about his music. It’s usually so prefectly crafted, and yet so uninteresting to me. Definitely falls in the category of “well, I never need to hear *that* again.” Hard truths, but I’m just callin’ em like I see ’em.
“True Patriot Love” — I quite like this one… a solid 7.5! These guys were lo-fi when lo-fi wasn’t cool!
“You Won’t See Me” — Useless! Come on, man, tell me you never really liked this. It was an arch in-joke back when you thought things like this were funny, right? Right? (BTW, I was really hoping this would be a Beatles cover by 70s arena-rocking teardrop sunglass wearers The Godz. Needless to say, I was disappointed.)
“Everybody Monday” — No thanks. Give me The Marmalade any day.
Thanks for sharing!
Great comment on Matthew Sweet, Hrrundi. I’m sure we’ve all been there – some of us on both sides of the equation.
I find that version of “You Won’t See Me” to be sublime…NO, it’s horrible! It’s in there for a giggle.
Many of these tunes were passed on through our friends in the Rock Town Hall Rec Room. The Matthew Sweet track is from a Japanese-market-only release he did a couple of years ago. I just bought it and, so far, like it a lot better than anything since 100% Fun. That’s not saying it’s groundbreaking, but at least I don’t want to chuck the CD out the window, as I think I did with one of his albums from about 10 years ago.
Some of them I really liked, all of them were welcome changes of pace during a hectic week. I hope the rest of you give these a listen and tell us what you think.