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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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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.
Watch: Beck’s Record Club Covers “New Sensation” by INXS
Beck, St. Vincent, Os Mutantes, and Liars kicked off their new cover album project late last month with their off-the-cuff take on “Guns in the Sky” from INXS’ 1987 smash hit album, Kick. This time around, they’ve abandoned the synthesizers in favor of a few acoustic guitars and violin for a relatively unplugged rendition of “New Sensation” (via Stereogum), the original chart-topping A-side to “Guns in the Sky.”
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.
Here are a few of today’s bookmarked links worth noting…
- Eddie Vedder got engaged to longtime girlfriend Jill McCormick over the weekend while the pair were in Washington, D.C. for a Kennedy Center bromance gig.
- Saul Williams wrote a lengthy, insightful blog post about his recent trip to Israel, where he performed for students in Tel Aviv, visited Palestinian territories in the West Bank, and toured Jerusalem.
- Khaela Maricich, aka the Blow, unveiled a new piece of Lindsay Lohan-inspired performance art.
- MP3s are getting sooo expensive: Liars are giving away the opening track to their forthcoming album Sisterworld in exchange for that email address you don’t really check. Grab “Scissor” thataway (via Gorilla Vs. Bear).
- Remember how Simon Cowell’s X Factor totally pwnd the UK charts last holiday season with Leonard Cohen covers (even Lenny says enough’s enough)? Well, a couple hundred thousand Rage Against the Machine fans are plotting to rage against the Cowell machine this Christmas.