The Joint has always maintained that if you're going to cover a song, do it properly. Give the original a good aural kicking down a back alley and ignore any accusations of a lack of respect towards the original material.
We said it in the letters pages of Smash Hits* when Paul Young covered "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in 1983 and we're saying it again today as we playlist Brian Case's radical re-working of Elvis Costello / Robert Wyatt's "Shipbuilding"
And here's the playlist in full...
- J Dilla - Trucks
- Todd Terje - Maskindans (featuring Det Gylne Triangel)
- Skyjelly - Catherine's Rabbi
- Beak> - Sex Music (Win Butler's 'Knight Rider' Remix)
- Ras G And The Afrikan Space Program - Can't Hide
- Amelia Airhorn - NY Is Red Hot (Single Mix)
- MHD - Afro Trap Part 8 (Never)
- Gorillaz - Sleeping Powder
- Tommy Cash - Surf
- Nuvarna - Pain Of The Circus
- Rugby Wild - Scuffs
- Michele Mininni - Rave Oscillations
- Explosion Horse - Tupac's Herpes
- Frankie Rose - Trouble
- Push Push - Blood In
- Butcher Bear - Ineedyouneedme (featuring Sir Froderick)
- Frank Ocean - Biking (featuring Jay Z & Tyler, The Creator)
- TGUT - Swang (TGUT Remix)
- Objekt - Theme From Q
- Washed Out - Hard To Say Goodbye
- Wolf Alice - Yuk Foo
- Brian Case - Shipbuilding
- Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Sour Mango (Seven Davis Jr Sticky Rice Remix)
- Mike Will Made-It - Perfect Pint (featuring Kendrick Lamar, Gucci Mane, Rae Sremmurd)
- King Ayisoba - Africa Needs Africa
- Reaganometry - Lego Igloo
- Summer Moon - Walk Out Music
- Unknown - Drank Til I Can't Drank No Mo
- Chip Skylark - Washed Up
- S4U - Too Much
- Powell - The Bust
- Fresh & Onlys - Wolf Lie Down
*Embarrassing but true. The letter not the song. Well, maybe the song as well. Have a search through Brian McCloskey's Smash Hits Archive on Flickr for proof.
