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Greg - 2006-10-19 06:00:47
Wow, that's some list of songs! My favorite version of Don't Forget Me is by Marianne Faithfull. It's off a album that is otherwise loaded with Brecht/Weill stuff but fits right in. Something really harrowing about the way she does the song, but really beautiful too.
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Erich K - 2006-10-19 12:14:46
I'm glad there's a band eager to keep the concept of "the bender" alive into the 21st century. I used to have a few Lost Weekends my self, and the movie LOST WEEKEND is also a very fun film. I have a piece on the Bender included in "The Decadence Handbook" coming out from London's Deadalus Press next month, he said by way of an innocuous plug.
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Sharps - 2006-10-19 12:19:47
Marshall Crenshaw also does a great cover of Don't Forget Me. Very emotional. I haven't heard this album yet, but I will check it out. I guess it makes a certain amount of sense to cover PUSSY CATS, since both the artist and producer of the original were in pretty bad shape when they made it. There are some weird covers on there, like Subterranean Homesick Blues and Rock Around the Clock. I wonder what they will do with those?
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Greg - 2006-10-19 15:17:54
This one is definitely going to be a hard call for me. I love most of the songs on it, HOWEVER, am not fond of the Walkmen at all. They were one of my "dashed expectations" bands of last year. But I do try to never count anyone out.
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