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Watch: Beck’s Record Club - “Wild Life” (INXS Cover)
The next track off INXS’ Kick, as covered by Beck’s latest Record Club (St. Vincent’s Annie Clark, Liars’ Angus Andrew, and Os Mutantes), just went live. Beck and Andrew share vox duties for this rendition of “Wild Life,” one of the few non-singles off Michael Hutchence, Andrew Farriss, and company’s 1987 smash LP.
This version doesn’t come close to taking my current faves (the Annie Clark-led “Need You Tonight” and Beck’s solo take on “The Loved One”) off the podium, but I suppose anyone would start to look a bit tired after covering 7 songs from this epic album. Good news: “Never Tear Us Apart” is on deck.
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Though Lily Allen supposedly retired “from writing, recording and touring under the name ‘Lily Allen’” recently, all it took were a few exchanges on Facebook and UK rapper Professor Green has brought the “LDN” singer out of retirement. As the story goes, Green, who was once signed to Streets mastermind Mike Skinner’s The Beats label, mentioned one of his songs to Allen via the social networking site. She immediately hit the proverbial “Like” button:
“‘Just Be Good To Green’ turned out to be one of her favorite songs,” he told NME. “She suggested her singing the chorus. I didn’t take much persuading! Lily’s wicked.”
The track, which is off Green’s forthcoming album, Alive Till I’m Dead, hit YouTube and though I can’t really say it’s my jam, a different cut from the LP, his heavily-sampled take on INXS’ “I Need You Tonight” is pretty fun. As My Poproks notes, the latter tune features singer Ed Drewett and is currently flirting with the UK Top 10 pop charts. Stream both songs below:
Watch: Beck Covers “The Loved One” (INXS/The Loved Ones)
For the latest episode in his Record Club saga, Beck takes on INXS’ 1987 cover of The Loved Ones’ 1966 single, a song that Michael Hutchence and company recorded twice, once in 1981 and a second time for their hit 1987 album Kick.
Beck’s most recent Record Club members, St. Vincent, Liars’ Angus Andrew, and Os Mutantes, must have taken a lunch break for this track as Mr. Hansen takes it on solo in what appears to be three takes, one each for lead vocal, rhythm, and slide guitar. Meanwhile, someone off-camera provides tambourine accents from time to time, as well.
Beck, St. Vincent, Liars, and Os Mutantes - “Need You Tonight” (INXS Cover)
Annie Clark took the lead vocal for the next upload from Beck and friends’ cover of INXS’ album Kick.
Beck, Liars, St. Vincent, and Os Mutantes - “Devil Inside” (INXS Cover)
Beck’s latest Record Club ensemble are only three tracks into their cover of INXS’ Kick, but they’ve quickly settled into their own organic version of the 80s smash hit album. Gone are the acoustic guitars of last week’s take on “New Sensation,” as Beck and friends opt for an aptly darker approach to “Devil Inside,” complete with dissonant electric guitar/synth sounds, Michael Hutchence-inspired vocals, delay effects, and a bit of cavernous reverb to pull it all together.
Watch this live studio take on INXS’ 1988 chart-topper here or above.
We’ve known the lineup for the latest installment in Beck’s cover album series, Record Club, for a week now (thanks to St. Vincent’s Twitter page), but the actual record that Annie Clark, Os Mutantes, and Liars put to tape remained a mystery. Until today…
Though it has yet to be posted on Beck.com, the Record Club’s cover of “Guns in the Sky,” the opening track off INXS’ 1987 classic, Kick, just hit the internets, and I, for one, did not see this coming.
Trend alert! If you heard our big story yesterday about how Ray Davies recruited Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, the Killers, Lucinda Williams, and possibly Metallica to re-work classic Kinks song for an upcoming album, then this should sound mighty familiar: INXS are prepping their first album in 5 years as a “reimagining” of their greatest hits with various singers attempting to fill the late Michael Hutchence’s shoes as the band’s frontman, Rolling Stone reports.
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers has offered his vox services for both Davies’ Kinks album and this new INXS project, recording a “really beautiful, heart-wrenching rendition” of “Beautiful Girl” in Australia last year, according to drummer Jon Farris. Ben Harper took on 1988 single “Devil Inside,” while Rob Thomas sang both “Original Sin” and “Never Tear Us Apart.”
INXS are planning to drop the album, which will include other guest performers Nikka Costa, Tricky, and more to be announced, this May.
The winner of the 2005 reality show Rock Star:INXS has been fired by the band, leaving him broke and living out of his pickup truck. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Fortune let the cameras see how desperate his life has become ever since INXS told him he would no longer be the band’s singer at a Hong Kong airport.
“I found myself really alone because I had travelled with these guys for 23 months,” Fortune said. “Some of the audiences we played for were upwards of 80,000 people.” His addiction to cocaine was the possible reason he was let go from INXS, but Fortune claims that he used drugs to cope with the inevitable split, saying that his cocaine use “got as bad as it needed to be for me to numb out the fact that [he] knew this was going to come to a screeching halt.”
Even Fortune’s family was not aware that he was penniless and living in his car until the ET interview aired, but now that he is clean and sober, Fortune is willing to let the public see what’s become of his life so that he can promote his self-released forthcoming album, The Death of a Motivational Speaker.
To watch the interview, click here.