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Vanessa Paradis – I’m Waiting For My Man (Velvet Underground)

Friday, September 18th, 2009

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Here’s a so wrong it’s right moment. In the hands of Vanessa, the message of heroin addiction gets lost, as we ponder if she’s waiting for her dad to pick her up from school. Least we forget produced by Lenny Kravitz, who always had an eye for the ladies (but really ponged of B.O.)

Spectre Folk – You Showed Me (The Turtles)

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

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Photo: Clearly Ambiguous (Flickr)

60s chart toppers The Turtles always offered up the finest sugar coated pills of pop. This cover comes courtsey of Pete Nolans alter ego and delivers the dark side with a vocal reminisant of the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Moog Cookbook – Are You Gonna Go My Way

Monday, June 1st, 2009

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Moog Cookbook are an electronica band made up of Brian Kehew and Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (under the aliases Meco Eno and Uli Nomi) as a parody/tribute to the novelty “Moog records” of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They almost exclusively cover 90’s rock tunes in a genius style. Move over Lenny Kravitz…