ILX Wire Covers Compilation 2010

a radical idea: sort the songs by how "good" they are; i.e. put the "best" songs at the beginning and the "worst" songs at the end
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just saying, like :D

XP - Surname amended Ned, sorry mate, that must drive you crazy.

p.s. maresnest sorry i may have moved a couple of folders in your FTP by accident! (i was cack handed using the FTP program...)

i will move them back when i get home later (if you hadn't already!)

Okay, wow, finally getting to listen to some of these. Impossible to pick a favorite, but I'm very impressed by the quality and diversity of tracks.

Yeah I really liked these. Good work all around!

"Heartbeat" was a real showstopper. So epic!

zomg these are perfect :D

thank you all!

ok everything here is ace but I wanted to say that once on a drunken night bus home I decided that an 8-bit electronic Wire covers project was to be my LIFE'S WORK but I could not make it work out at all
anyway M. Mathieu's 12xu is everything I imagined that concept to be and more, much love for that

aw <3 yay!

Listened to this at work today and am pleased, embarrassed and humbled to be in y'all's company. Agree with the poster above that MaresNest set this whole thing up just to show off - "Boiling Boy" is making my next mixtape fer sure. Very well done, all.

so what's next? an ilx kate bush comp? (dibs on "hammer horror" and "oh england my lionheart." i know from past experience that i can do the high notes even if it makes my throat hurt.)

that would be tight. i had suggested upthread an idea that i will alter slightly. (potentially) beat the-dream to his release date and do Love Viking: An ILX tribute to the-dream

that's pretty funny. maybe i can do a monologue admonishing mr. the-dream for rogue hyphenation.

it is some odd hyphenizing, i'm wondering if there is some 60's girl group called the dream and he threw it in there to avoid BMI/ASCAP confusion or something

the dream 1979

the-dream syndicate

california the-dreamin'

yeah let's do an original composition thingy next! not that mine for this was a 'cover' so much as 8 minutes of clumsy hacking at a corpse. sorry, wire.

gonna rescreen this now - it really is something.

haha i was already thinking about doing kate bush covers

many xposts

m bison's 12XU gets better every time I hear it

haha i was already thinking about doing kate bush covers

can't wait to hear "cat bush" (with meowing)

mewother stands for cat food

*meowther

meowthering heights

Cat in your lap

there goes a tabby

expurriment iv

eat the mew-sic

Coming in with the golden light
Is the new cat.
Coming in with the golden light
Is a dented rat.

Calico.

She wanted to test her owner.
She knew exactly what to do:
A few hairballs to fool him.
She couldn't have made a worse move.

meow-meow-meow-meow-meoooowwwwww
unbelieeeeevable

Great thing is you don't really need to change the lyrics to "Hounds of Love" at all.

Someone tell a poor ingrate what all this Viking talk is plz (I'm too lazy to google)

And yep, I did indeed set it all up to dazzle you with my acumen (one chord song choice and amazing singer friend aside) :)

The best thing you did was to sequence that burst of applause at the start of Ed III's first tune right after my track ;-)

For future possilbles I was thinking - Echo & The Bunnymen, The Church, The Cure, New Order, PIL maybe.

Would totally be up for a Church comp submission!

Sometimes When This Place Gets Kind of Empty: ILM Reacts to the Church

Acapella 'Field Of Mars' by tomorrow plz

Or not.

Meantime did anyone else download the bonus MaresNest put up? Good stuff!

zero of the signified just asked about the possibility of doing beastie boys covers.

or bowie -- he said he would lay claim to the tin machine catalog.

btw i tried to d/l the bonus material but only the first link worked.

Yeah it was tricky for me too -- rather than downloading the folder I had to download the individual tracks.

Meantime if zots (which is a perfect acronym) can somehow salvage a song like the Hunt Sales-sung "I'm Sorry" and make it not be sloppy blooze bullshit I salute him.

Oh Ned, you card. Am I the only person who loves that first Tin Machine album? Granted the second one didn't quite scan with me, but...

Oh Ned, you card.

sung to the tune of "oh bondage up yours."

Hahah.

There's good stuff on both albums. And then there's some not so good stuff...

I saw them live at a promo appearance for the second album, as muttered here.

ok Ed's Strange on HEADPHONES.

I shouldn't blab about some of the tracks and not others! But Lowdown -> Marooned -> Heartbeat is some goddamn lushness

Is there going to be a separate d/l page eventually? Want to spread word about the comp, but not necessarily the organizational thread.

Facebook fan page like Pre-interpreted U2?