susanna hoffs + matthew sweet = sid 'n' susie

1. I See The Rain (The Marmalade)
2. And Your Bird Can Sing (The Beatles)
3. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)
4. Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Fairport Convention)
5. Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young And Crazy Horse)
6. Alone Again Or (Love)
7. Warmth Of The Sun (The Beach Boys)
8. Different Drum (The Stone Poneys)
9. The Kids Are Alright (The Who)
10. Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground)
11. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young And Crazy Horse)
12. Care Of Cell ..44 (The Zombies)
13. Monday Monday (The Mamas And The Papas)
14. She May Call You Up Tonight (The Left Banke)
15. Run To Me (The Bee Gees)

i am so buying this.

Matthew's starting to resemble Steve Earle a little too much.

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And Volume 2 is out...

1. Sugar Magnolia
2. Go All The Way
3. Second Hand News
4. Bell Bottom Blues
5. All The Young Dudes
6. You're So Vain
7. Here Comes My Girl
8. I've Seen All Good People: Your Move/All Good People
9. Hello It's Me
10. Willin'
11. Back Of A Car
12. Couldn't I Just Tell You
13. Gimme Some Truth
14. Maggie May
15. Everything I Own
16. Beware Of Darkness

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hoffs aging gracefully

yeah the second is as much fun as the first. not in any way necessary, but i like the friends-hanging-out vibe of the whole thing. "bell bottom blues" is gorgeous, and "you're so vain" still zings. the yes song sounds great, so dreamy. she sure makes "willin'" sexy (not that it wasn't to start with.) and of course they do big star like they were born to it. i don't think sweet really sells the spoken-word bits on "here comes my girl," but that patter is distinctively petty that it's a tall order.

i'm waiting on my emusic credits to re-up to get the bonus disc, but i imagine that's more of the same. going to see them in september, should be a good time.

oh wow, they cover Little Feat? might have to check it out.

Love both of these. On this one, after three listens, like "You're So Vain" and "Maggie May" best. "I've Seen All Good People" sounds great but suffers from the same problem as "As Your Bird Can Sing" from the first record -- the reproduction of the original music is so faithful that it starts to sound less like a cover, more like karaoke. On the other hand, I would totally go see Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs do karaoke!

Re velko's photo above, what makes it work is the fact that Hoffs obviously doesn't know Matthew Sweet is looming up behind her.

"maggie may" and a few others are up on their myspace page, for the curious...

she's putting the increased sandiness of her voice to good use. the slight rasp gives a nice edge to the sweetness.

Third album coming up with 80s covers: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5657753/susanna-hoffs-and-matthew-sweet-go-80s-on-third-covers-album-exclusive-song

The full track list for "Under the Covers, Vol. 3" includes:
1. Sitting Still (R.E.M.)
2. Girls Talk (Dave Edmunds)
3. Big Brown Eyes (The dB's)
4. Kid (Pretenders)
5. Free Fallin’ (Tom Petty)
6. Save It For Later (The English Beat)
7. They Don’t Know (Kirsty MacColl)
8. The Bulrushes (The Bongos)
9. Our Lips Are Sealed (The Go-Go’s)
10. How Soon Is Now (The Smiths)
11. More Than This (Roxy Music)
12. Towers of London (XTC)
13. Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen)
14. Trouble (Lindsey Buckingham)

Bonus Tracks on iTunes Deluxe Version:
* Train in Vain (the Clash)
* You’re My Favorite Waste of Time (Marshall Crenshaw)
* I Would Die 4 U (Prince)

Looks great. Glad to see that Bongos cover on there.

ooh hoffs singing 'kid' could be good

The tracks from the Volume 2 bonus disc are worth finding:

Dreaming
Marquee Moon
I Wanna Be Sedated
Baby Blue
You Say You Don't Love Me
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
You Can Close Your Eyes
Melissa
Killer Queen
A Song For You

I love her original stuff too, but Susanna Hoffs really is one of my favorite cover singers. Or interpretive singers, if that sounds classier. From the Bangles onward, she's always had great taste in covers, and I just love listening to her voice. (It doesn't hurt that she likes the same jangly guitar pop that I do, obviously. And I'm not discounting Matthew Sweet's role, but she's the real attraction here.)

lech

If we can get Belinda Carlisle to cover "Manic Monday" now, this could lead to something really weird.

Looking forward to that Prince cover in a major way.

Totally stoked for this. Their version of Bell Bottom Blues is awesome.

lech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4MaEPayv0

This third album is right up my street.

I'm not going to lie, when I saw this bumped to the top I was afraid that maybe Sweet had suffered a heart attack or something.

Sorry for the false alarm

I think we would need a mod to adjust the thread title to read "susannah hoffs –matthew sweet ≠ sid 'n' susie."

Ha

Third album is nice, yeah. Gorgeous version of "Killing Moon."

That track works, some others are kinda redundant

I like it when they duet the most, like on Towers of London or Big Brown Eyes. If it's just Hoffs or Sweet singing lead it's a bit more hit or miss (Trouble on the former, Our Lips Are Sealed on the latter).

These are just the perfect soundtrack to a long car ride.