February 21st, 2006 2:14pm
How To Get To Purest HellThey Shoot Horses, Don'...
How To Get To Purest Hell
They Shoot Horses, Don't They "Lowlife" - With a pulse-pounding beat and jittery horns, They Shoot Horses... evoke the fun sort of paranoia, i.e., the kind that does not directly involve yourself. This is more like the vicarious thrill of watching characters get put through the wringer in pulpy genre fiction, safe from the possibility of actually being the person at risk of being knifed by a lowlife in some noirish scenario. (Click here to buy it from Buy Olympia.)
Mark Ronson with Alex Greenwald "Just" - With the help of the horn section of the Dap Kings and the singer from Phantom Planet, DJ Mark Ronson foregrounds the R&B grooves that were always present in the Radiohead original, resulting in the very best Radiohead cover (with vocals) that I've heard. The transposition of Johnny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien's lead guitar parts to trumpet and saxphone is particularly inspired, and though I do wish the vocals were more soul/R&B to match the rest of the arrangement, Greenwald does a fine job. It's definitely a lot better than my performance of "Creep" with the Super Karaoke Fun Time Band last night! (Click here to visit Mark Ronson's MySpace page.)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They "Lowlife" - With a pulse-pounding beat and jittery horns, They Shoot Horses... evoke the fun sort of paranoia, i.e., the kind that does not directly involve yourself. This is more like the vicarious thrill of watching characters get put through the wringer in pulpy genre fiction, safe from the possibility of actually being the person at risk of being knifed by a lowlife in some noirish scenario. (Click here to buy it from Buy Olympia.)
Mark Ronson with Alex Greenwald "Just" - With the help of the horn section of the Dap Kings and the singer from Phantom Planet, DJ Mark Ronson foregrounds the R&B grooves that were always present in the Radiohead original, resulting in the very best Radiohead cover (with vocals) that I've heard. The transposition of Johnny Greenwood and Ed O'Brien's lead guitar parts to trumpet and saxphone is particularly inspired, and though I do wish the vocals were more soul/R&B to match the rest of the arrangement, Greenwald does a fine job. It's definitely a lot better than my performance of "Creep" with the Super Karaoke Fun Time Band last night! (Click here to visit Mark Ronson's MySpace page.)
2/21/06 5:38 pm
Does that They Shoot Horses song remind anyone else of Adam and the Ants? That’s a good thing, as far as I’m concerned.
2/21/06 6:51 pm
thank you
been looking for that cover for ages
i agree that its one of the best
radiohead covers
theres a david ryan harris live
rendition of homesick alien
quite good too
2/21/06 6:54 pm
where do your page titles come from? they always make me laugh. i suppose it might be a trade secret.
2/21/06 7:48 pm
George, I explained the origin of the current page title in the comments box of the previous entry. It’s from a creepy “contract of wifely obligations” on The Smoking Gun site, and was recommended by my friend Chris Conroy. Almost all of the others from the last several months were from Arrested Development.
2/21/06 8:08 pm
The video for the ‘Just’ cover would be some dude dancing like crazy on the street and everyone asking him ‘Why are you dancing? What’s the matter with you?’, him answering ‘I can’t tell you’, then telling them and then an aerial shot pulling back and they’re all doing the same crazy dance.
2/21/06 8:09 pm
Hooray for They Shoot Horses! A great band with a great name and a great album. They are going on tour really soon and I highly recommend that everyone check them out. The live show is even better than the recorded stuff.
2/21/06 8:18 pm
ecstatic that you have a TSHDT track up! i agree with eli about seeing them live.. i saw them in boston last year and they blew me away.
2/23/06 7:21 pm
I wish I had one of those DJ explosion sound effects buttons so when I get 45 seconds into the Radiohead cover I could play it when I hit pause on iTunes.
2/23/06 9:15 pm
Radiohead remix was ACE!!
2/23/06 10:13 pm
yay for they shoot horses!
it’s always nice to see bands from my local area (vancouver bc) getting attention
2/24/06 8:26 am
its the horns section from the Dapkings that makes this song, theres no doubt.