ILX Wire Covers Compilation 2010

Nah we should be busting these out like K-Tel or Pickwick :)

maresnest you are salieri and i claim my £5

Or hey we could choose a Top Of The Pops 70's album and cover that, have LJ on the front with a sheer body stocking.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Top_of_the_Pops_79_album.JPG

photoshop here I come

nice selection of tunes on that one

let's just cover that. I call "ring my bell".

really hope Video Killed and The Radio Star are covered separately. dibs on Video Killed

Or how about all of us covering Oh Superman?

or is it O Superman

oh man, how to choose??? heart of glass. it has to be.

xpost haha i would be up for that

Bagsy Cliff then.

Pity it's not Wired For Sound tho', his excursion into math-rock

hang on that would be a straight covers project, rather than a reimagining of title

hmm

i vote 'bask in this one for a bit'

I vote boo!

as a preemptive measure, dibs on "when ur in love w/ a beautiful woman"

I am seconds away from starting a new thread.

cosign for the basking, but when it comes time to do another one,

seeing as how there were some extremely interesting interpretations of a band that already had quite a varied sound,

for the next one I would like to hear how ILX tackles

The Ramones

srsly give it a while, barely anyone on ilm's heard this yet!

Okay, back to DEFCON 4 :)

Or hey we could choose a Top Of The Pops 70's album and cover that, have LJ on the front with a sheer body stocking.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/Top_of_the_Pops_79_album.JPG

― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Friday, May 7, 2010 8:23 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yesssssssssssss

yes pls

This one made my morning extremely entertaining -- thank you all and congratulations.

I look forward to not flaking on whatever the next one is.

Bump

This thing is quality. Awesome work everyone!

I'm thrilled my poll inspired this amazing effort!! Just listening to this now - unbelievable. I had no idea ILX was so talented!

Has anyone emailed Colin et al?

Ned has mentioned it upthread, I don't think anyone has yet. Would he be interested I wonder.. (Colin not Ned)

they seem to have a sense of humor about reflection and emulation. after all, these are the guys who brought a band that covered their own early material to open for them on a tour.

latebloomer's track just became my 80,000th play on last.fm

Goddamn, this version of "Boiling Boy", especially with the female vocals. Slaaaaaaaaays me...

Some of the reinterpretations are damn cool as well, nice to "hear" Ned on "Ambitious" and "Heartbeat" is stretched out wonderfully.

I finally got round to listening to the whole thing tonight, good work people! Wish I'd mixed my "kick drum" (actually the first blip from "Geiger Counter" by Kraftwerk) up a bit, but hey.

if we do another one i promise to not forget to send the file before i go on holiday so i can have something better quality than thrashing a £10 guitar into a the netbook internal mic with an out of sync freeware multitracker.

i really liked 12XU, also the singing on Mannequin was super!

and outdoor miower

ken, I actually liked yours a lot!

aw ty sean! there were so many more things i wanted to do with it but time/equipment/guitar playing abilities didn't allow - next time though.

It was a good way to start the proceedings...

Yea Ken, when I heard yours it was an obvious and perfect first track.

i loved being part of this but i was sad at how little overall female participation there was (i know trayce wanted to contribute but had to drop out). i hope we can actively recruit more chicks for the next project, cuz i know lots of women on ilx play music.

Meant to say, I DL'd this as soon as it went up and it's great from front to back.

Okay so remember

'm thrilled my poll inspired this amazing effort!! Just listening to this now - unbelievable. I had no idea ILX was so talented!

Has anyone emailed Colin et al?

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, May 13, 2010 3:38 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ned has mentioned it upthread, I don't think anyone has yet. Would he be interested I wonder.. (Colin not Ned)

― double shyamalan (MaresNest), Thursday, May 13, 2010 8:39 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Well, I took the initiative and sent a quick Twitter message to Colin Newman (he's @headgit btw) letting him know about this and asking him nicely to please not sue us, and just got the following back, today:

@globalhermit Hey Sean I downloaded it some nice ideas :) Be very interested where you got the Austrian Radio thingy.

So uh, he's probably listened to everyone's contribution by now! Where DID that Austrian Radio thingy come from btw?

Hurrah!

:-)

Cool!

:D

Austrian or Austrailian?

Austrian - guess he means the bonus live show that was in the FTP directory...?

OK, now I'm interested...

(Not that I wasn't before, you know)..

Oh that, I downloaded it from Dime.

Oh and good work too Sean! :)