| Captain Beefheart Discography |
| Beefheart Covers Collection - Part 8 |
| That Petrol Emotion |
Hot Head
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| The Three Johns |
Moonlight on Vermont1988 UK vinyl The Death of Everything on Trance
Records One of the Johns was Jon Langford, founder of Leeds punk legend The Mekons, who de-camped to Chicago and are still performing. Another Beefheart connection is that he played with Gary Lucas (and Tony Maimone from Pere Ubu) in The Killer Shrews. |
| Throwing Muses |
Circumstances1995 unreleased out-take from the Limbo album Kristin Hersh had this to say about the recording: ".. insanely difficult to learn, even for people who had been in Throwing Muses for a number of years. Learning it hurt our fingers and our brains and made us want to hurt "Captain Bee-Fart". I sang the vocals into a bullet mic so that nobody could hear them and put a blanket over my head so that nobody could see me .. it ended up being not much fun .. sort of a 'work in progress' that never progressed. So we put it away and forgot all about it until, a few years later, Billy found this screaming off what he thought was a blank DAT. Now I think it sounds really cool .. a great, big math problem of a song." see their website to hear it http://www.throwingmusic.com/mp3order.html |
| The Titanics |
Out Of The Frying Pan1990 US CD The Titanics on Taang! Records T41 A Boston four piece, 2 guitars, bass and drums, led by Nat Freedberg who wrote all the songs on this album except for 'Frying Pan'. A pretty straight hard rockin' version with screaming guitar solo. Not to be confused with other bands of the same name - one from Atlanta, Georgia and another from Australia. |
| Treat Her Right |
Nowadays a Women's Gotta Hit A Man1989 US CD Tied To The Tracks on RCA/BMG 9596-2-R
The only non-band written song on the album, it is actually listed as 'Hit A Man'. This Boston band included the late Mark Sandman who went on to form the excellent Morphine. |
| The Tubes |
Gimme Dat Harp Boy (live)1976 tape - unknown location - not released Is this a comment on the problems they had getting Don to play the harmonica on the 'Now' album? My Head Is My Only House...1977 US vinyl Now on A&M SP4632 |
| The Unknown Cases |
I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby1989 German 3"CD Play Bogota Boogie on Day
Glo Records DG CD2 - RTD CD24-2
Three mixes - Bogota Boogie (I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby) + Clubdub Mix + Fertig Mix. A German duo with a 'guest artist' do a dance mix of Booglarize which gets further away from the original the deeper the mix gets. Worth tracking down! There are 12" and 7" vinyl versions around too apparently. |
| Silvain Vanot |
Bluejeans & Moonbeams1993 French vinyl Silvain Vanot on Virgin France
Debut album from this French singer includes this cover. |
| Voices of Africa |
Abba ZabaThis track is included on the Genus Records' Mama Kangaroos tribute album |
| Freddie Wadling |
Grow Fins
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| Denny Walley |
China Pig (live)1995 tape - unknown venue - not released |
| Mike Watt |
Dirty Blue Genesee the Neon Meate Dream tribute album Hot Head
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| Whipped Cream |
Observatory Crest1992 Sweden CD Tune In The Century on Snap Records
SNAP3 A Swedish band formed in 1989 with pop/psychedelic leanings that got them a session on John Peel's show in 1992. Slowing this song down slightly works well with shimmering guitars and languid female(?) vocals. One of the better songs from the lacklustre 'Bluejeans' album, this cover (and that from Mercury Rev) show how better it could have been. |
| White Stripes |
Ashtray Heart
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| Winterbrief |
The Past Sure Is Tense2001 Sweden 7" Unwrapped on Promenade Records 005
A male/female duo from Philadelphia who play mainly synthesiser based pop. Only 200 copies pressed initially (although further copies were pressed during 2002). See the Promenade Recordings website or the Winterbrief site. This track is also included on the Genus Records' Mama Kangaroos tribute album. |
Too Much Time
1986 UK 7" Too Much Time / Soul Train on
Virgin Records VS887 |
| XTC |
Ellaguru1989 UK 12" Mayor of Simpleton / One of the Millions
/ Ella Guru on Virgin 1158, white label promo, no p/s,
sticker. 1989 UK CD Mayor of Simpleton / Ella Guru / Living in a
Haunted Heart (demo) / The Good Things (demo) on Virgin
UK, VSCD 1158 1989 US 12" Mayor of Simpleton / One of the Millions / Ella Guru / Living in a Haunted Heart (demo) / The Good Things (demo) on Virgin (Geffen) 9 21160-0, 31
198? UK CD Out Of Time - The Very Best of the Imaginary Tribute Series on Imaginary Records ILLCD031 XTC produce an almost identical copy of the original track and it has found its way onto a ridiculous number of different issues! see also Fast 'n' Bulbous Tribute Album |
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