Linking to a song from the new Rogue Wave album the other day reminded me that I've been wanting to post all the various cover tunes by Zach and the guys that I've managed to collect from various internets. Quite a unique collection of songs.Rogue Wave
All You Need Is Love (Beatles)
Everyday (Buddy Holly)
On A Plain (Nirvana)Odorono (Who)
Something in The Air (Thunderclap Newman)Sometimes you can judge a band by their covers, and Rogue Wave has a way of adding a certain something to other people's songs and making them sound like RW originals. "All You Need Is Love" was posted on their myspace page a few months back, "Debaser" is on one of the OC mixes. "Everyday" is from the Stubbs The Zombie video game soundtrack, "On A Plain" is live from some college radio station, "Odorono" was recorded (por moi) at an in-store at Amoeba Music in SF last January. "Something In The Air" is from this show at Southpaw in Brooklyn last June. It's identified (incorrectly) as a Randy Newman song on the ID3 tags, but it's originally by Randy's brother Thunderclap.
Zach also covers of R.E.M.'s "Driver 8" on a CNET podcast available here (and iTunes) "Seconds" by U2 on this exclusive EP (also on iTunes). Rogue Wave has become my 21st Century R.E.M., where I'm constantly checking radio sessions and live recordings for cool covers, and they always have new ones. I wonder what they're cooking up for the new tour?
1 comment:
As much as I like your blog, DivShare is terrible! Their embedded player doesn't work, stopping the song every 10 seconds, and the download link on the DivShare page returns a "server not found" error.
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