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soulrebel
30-07-2005, 13:26
I was in a bookshop in London the other day (i think it was Borders or some other big chain store type one... i didn't actually buy anything) and there was an album on which appeared to be a cover album by one band or singer, with songs including "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (New Order, or was it Joy Division?) and "Guns Of Brixton" (The Clash, obviously), covered in a strange sort of acoustic loungey style, by a female (possibly US/Canadian accent) singer with a very "lazy", quite monotone voice...

it was very odd and made me burst out laughing when i realised it was "Guns of Brixton"... i didn't recognise the other song(s) after that... who/what was it?
RubberBuccaneer
30-07-2005, 13:28
Nouvelle Vague?

Did it have the cure,depeche mode and did she say Maria wrong like she never heard the sing in the first place?
milesy
30-07-2005, 13:29
dunno, the only cover of "guns of brixton" i know is by the blaggers, and that's quite obviously not the one you have there......maybe it's Celine Dion? :)
cyberfairy
30-07-2005, 13:31
I have it but its in the car and can't quite remember name. It's a double album by some dj's with lots of fab weirdness mashes/covers. I wil let you know when can be arsed to go to car and put clothes on (hmm, wrong order) unless someone beats me to it.
Orang Utan
30-07-2005, 13:35
It's definitely Nouvelle Vague (http://www.discogs.com/release/307655), though I think cyberfairy is referring to How To Kill The DJ part 2 (http://www.discogs.com/release/323830), cos it has Guns Of Brixton on it too as well as the 'mash-ups' she is referring to.
fishfingerer
30-07-2005, 13:35
Nouvelle Vague?

Did it have the cure,depeche mode and did she say Maria wrong like she never heard the sing in the first place?
I've heard it and I like it. And yes I believe the producers got singers to do songs they'd never heard before.
cyberfairy
30-07-2005, 13:36
It's definitely Nouvelle Vague (http://www.discogs.com/release/307655), though I think cyberfairy is referring to How To Kill The DJ part 2 (http://www.discogs.com/release/323830), cos it has Guns Of Brixton on it too as well as the 'mash-ups' she is referring to.
That's it! yay, don't need to go out the house now! :)
Sunspots
30-07-2005, 13:37
Nouvelle Vague?

Yep, I reckon it must be.
Orangesanlemons
30-07-2005, 13:38
It's Nouvelle Vague and it's lovely. :)
Dubversion
30-07-2005, 13:42
judging by last time i saw them, the 2nd album's on the way - Human Fly and Bela Lugosi's Dead !
RubberBuccaneer
30-07-2005, 13:48
judging by last time i saw them, the 2nd album's on the way - Human Fly and Bela Lugosi's Dead !

I hope they don't do a reggae version, that'd never work :p
Sunspots
30-07-2005, 14:20
I hope they don't do a reggae version, that'd never work :p

:D ;)