If any of you are heading to Splendour In The Grass this weekend, could you please do me a huge favour and go see The Pixies? If you do, make sure to take note of the entire set list so you can reenact it back to me.
One of the sites I write for tried to get me media accreditation but that didn’t work. My fellow writer at Whiteboydancefloor did manage to get accreditation so he’ll be covering it on the blog and on Twitter.
Listen to The Pixies!
In a 1994 interview with Rolling Stone, Kurt Cobain explained about writing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’;
I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band— or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.
Cover Version #4
Personal Jesus – Depeche Mode Vs. Marilyn Manson
Original:
Ah I love this song! Is it just me, or is there something sexual about this song? I think it’s all the panting, but it’s probably just me. I hate when bands of bygone eras perform and you wish they had retired to go live on a farm and raise cattle or something, but this performance on Later Live with Jools Holland is pretty solid. Good work Depeche Mode.
Cover:
I really don’t mind Marilyn Manson, especially when I was in high school. This is just not that cool though. I did go and see him last year, my friend got about 15 free tickets, which is an indication of how well they were selling. I reviewed it here, it just wasn’t good. He didn’t sodomise anyone & there wasn’t even any blood. Fake or otherwise. I would have preferred this over the Sweet Dreams, Eurythmics cover though.
Verdict: DEPECHE FUCKING MODE!