Midweek Makeover: Harder, Better, Faster, Cover
Daft Punk:
Brassft Punk:
Fell down a rabbit hole of music, this afternoon. Landed here, most recently:
Recently reminded of this:
Credit to Delta, ATL, Spondivits, etc. for the recent reminder, and SWATS in general, for all this.
So, there was this original, by Bob Dylan. Secret? I’d never really paid attention to it, before 2009.
It’s great, isn’t it? But in that weird way that makes the first time you heard a song stick as the original, I’ll always associate this with the Whitlams. I was rolling north on the Bruce Highway in Australia when I first heard it:
Bonus Bruce Highway music -
Outkast – Git Up, Git Out
Curtis Mayfield – Diamond in the Back
Sly and the Family Stone – Family Affair
Camera Obscura’s Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken:
Beirut’s Postcards from Italy:
Continuing the postcard theme (ever heard of Postcrossing?), here’s Jens Lekman’s Postcard to Nina: