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Tribute albums are a terrible thing. Eberybody knows that. You get them because you like the band covered on it, and then you find out the cover versions suck. They do in most cases, anyway. Now, the Wire tribute entitled Whore seems to be somehow better; hey, it has a big name line-up: Band Of Susans, Lee Ranaldo (who seems to be keen of participating in tribute albums), My Bloody Valentine, Main and Bark Psychosis (with their cover version of Three Girls Rumba) are all on it. Indeed, although it's all not as exciting as the names would suggest at first, the record is kind of enjoyable. I give you three covers from it and the originals.


Download Bark Psychosis - Three Girls Rhumba (192 kbps, 6,38 mb)
Download Lee Ranaldo - Fragile (192 kbps, 1,47 mb)
Download Transformer - Outdoor Miner (192 kbps, 3,44 mb)
(I couldn't find any oppurtunity to buy Whore on the Internet; it was released by WMO).

Download Wire - Three Girls Rhumba (192 kbps, 1,90 mb)
Download Wire - Fragile (192 kbps, 1,78 mb)
Buy Wire - Pink Flag from Pinkflag (LP) or CDUniverse (CD) (RIAA-free!)

Download Wire - Outdoor Miner (160 kbps, 1,99 mb)
Buy Wire - Chairs Missing from Pinkflag (LP) or CDUniverse (CD) (RIAA-free!)

One chromosome too many

Devo tend to be sadly overlooked by journalists attempting to write popular music history. Which is weird. But there you go, and what I give you here is "Mongoloid", which by the way was a personal hymn of mine about 1,5 years ago. (SO MUCH TIME PASSED ALREADY?! What the hell?) Plus cover versions by psychobilly maniacs Demented Are Go! and Popchor Berlin (site's in German only) - the latter really gives the whole thing an apocalyptic touch. Plus be sure to go to Music for Maniacs and download Popchor Berlin's non-a capella cover. Plus the French cover band Nouvelle Vague with their version which I do not like at all, as I dislike Nouvelle Vague (I just don't get what is supposed to be so great or even funny about them), but since there has been a special request, here you go.

Download Devo - Mongoloid (256 kbps, 6,84 mb)
Buy Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! from CDUniverse (WARNING!! Warner Bros. is a member of the RIAA. If you don't know what that is, read on them before you consider buying: Wikipedia; Boycott-RIAA.com).

Download Devo - Mongoloid (demo version) (256 kbps, 6,58 mb)
(It's from the "Hardcore Devo" collection. Didn't find any buy options for this, however, it had been released by RykoDisc, which is a member of the RIAA.)

Download Demented Are Go! - Mongoloid (128 kbps, 2,70 mb)
(It's from the "Who Put Grandma Under the Stairs?" live album. Didn't find any buy options for this either, but it's RIAA-free.)

Download Popchor Berlin - Mongoloid (a capella) (192 kbps, 2,51 mb)
Buy Popchor Berlin - Maxi #1 from Amazon.de (RIAA-free!)

Download Nouvelle Vague - Mongoloid (320 kbps, 3,61 mb)
(This version was recorded on the 01.06.2004 at a France Inter radio session which doesn't seem to be available for purchase. It's called the White Session).

Perverted by Lennon or what?!

Is there anything more perverted than The Fall covering the Beatles? Maybe the Stooges covering the Beatles? Or Pere Ubu covering the Beatles? People having sex with mincemeat? Yes, there are many perversions. Still, I think this is a little bit pretty twisted.

So does Mark E. Smith like or hate the Beatles? I, honestly, do not know; I seemed to remember having once seen an interview where he talked about them, but couldn't manage to find it when I searched Google. Although a member at the unofficial Fall site's forum seems to think he hated them. I tend to think so, too; so why the cover version? I don't know. So, there you go.

Download The Fall - A Day In the Life (256 kbps, 8,02 mb)

Just for laughs

This is an older one I think, but if you don't know it yet, check out this cover version of Europe's "Final Countdown", my personal Second Most Awful Song of the 20th Century, on YouTube. Wait until the vocals kick in.

Bill is dead.

So, I didn't know Mogwai did a Fall cover until just recently when I found one. It does seem to be unofficial and more of a demo version or just jerking around but it's sort of fun to listen to Mogwai play a Fall song, so there you go.

Download Mogwai - Bill is Dead (128 kbps, 3,34 mb)

Download The Fall - Bill is Dead (192 kbps, 6,42 mb)
Buy The Fall - Extricate from CDUniverse (or even better from somewhere else) (RIAA-free, as it seems, but better doublecheck).