You may send this item to up to five recipients. Plenty Is Never Enough by The Shins 3:08 $ 0.12. Oh Yeah!” Thorn’s voice was a welcome surprise; it’s been absent from the scene since her solo record in 2007. Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. And it's not that I didn't know these were covers (and somewhat obscure ones at that) when purchasing the disc. 2. Votes are used to help determine the most interesting content on RYM. 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers. All the community rules apply here. Score! Yet, this SCORE! doesn't resemble a traditional label sampler as much as one of those carefully curated compilations like this year's Dark Was the Night. 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To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Marketplace 1 For Sale from $8.99. and against popular opinion, i suppose, i thought that the times new viking track was well-executed and gives a slow building arcade fire track a nice shot of life. Learn how your comment data is processed. Please enter the subject. I'll review this in full soon - its actually pretty enjoyable for a compilations cover record. 3. : 20 years of Merge Records : the covers!.\n, Beautiful things (Quasi) -- Precision auto (Les Savy Fav) -- Plenty is never enough (The Shins) -- Sleep all summer (St. Vincent and the National) -- Complications (Broken Social Scene) -- Like a fool (Ryan Adams) -- Papa was a rodeo (Bright Eyes) -- New ways of living (Lavender Diamond) -- King of carrot flowers pt. The biggest gem on the album seems to be the Tracey Thorn (of Everything but the Girl fame) and Jens Lekman version of The Magnetic Fields’ “Yeah! Just think what Merge will do when it reaches drinking age. The New Pornographers streamline the Teens' "Don't Destroy This Night" and reinforce that central snaky riff, while the Shins put floaties on the Halls' "Plenty Is Never Enough", making its shuffle all the more buoyant. Released 7 April 2009 on Merge (catalog no. By far the biggest disappointment on the record is the absolutely dreadful cover of Arcade Fire’s “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)”. The E-mail message field is required. 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers, Various Artists – 15 Years Of Bella Union Records. We now have a very limited number of complete SCORE! credo che il momento più alto inizi con la stupenda Plenty is Never Enought reinterpretata dagli. Please enter the message. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Twenty Years of Merge Records: The Covers, a choppy but oddly endearing compilation that enlists 20 non-Merge acts to cover Merge songs. Don't use this space to complain about the average rating, chart position, genre voting, others' reviews or ratings, or errors on the page. Score! This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Vinyl and CD Sell Copy. Merge Records should be commended for the cleverness of SCORE!, curated by their own artists, and especially for the charitable proceeds that it will generate. Then again, East River Pipe, the auteurs of the original are remembered for a song so lovingly titled “Shiny, Shiny Pimpmobile.”  Maybe the inanity is a throwback joke to which some people are not privy. Score! all things considered, this isn't all that bad. The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. Would you also like to submit a review for this item? The programmed drum machine on Okkervil River’s “All You Little Suckers” is really distracting and has a cheesy junior-high hip hop quality to it. Keep your comments focused on the release. Several  tunes are good turnouts:  the Ted Leo & the Pharmacists version of Bob Pollard’s “The Numbered Head” is begging to be included in the next Guitar Hero and is altogether a good meeting of artists. SCORE! Both releases benefit charities, both feature the National at their most subdued, and both serve as a useful state-of-indie report. Lekman and Thorn seem to blend well together; it would be nice to hear more collaborations between these two (or, rather, is it just the nature of the Magnetic Fields’ love song?). Yet, this SCORE! Similarly, East River Pipe gets a pair of songs: Okkervil River chop and screw "All You Little Suckers" to little effect, but the Mountain Goats make the otherwise humdrum "Drug Life" into a rotting-flesh acoustic lament, emphasizing the melody's similarities to Frankie Valli's "Let's Hang On" as a darkly ironic gesture. The Insanity Knows No End - The Sounds of 2009! © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. In what is a pretty cool project in its concept, Merge put out its 20th anniversary box set with this, a compilation of covers, as a bonus. Any spoilers should be placed in spoiler tags as such. SCORE! 3" into a power-puff pop song, complete with yo-gabba melodies and adorable synths that inject a little light whimsy into Mangum's dark lyrics. Sleep All Summer (Crooked Fingers cover) - St. Vincent and the National 05. Tracks: 01. Various Artists – SCORE! Please try again. Of course Superchunk get the most covers-- four in total, all with varying degrees of success. Jokes are fine, but don't post tactless/inappropriate ones. Twenty Years of Merge Records: The Covers, a choppy but oddly endearing compilation that enlists 20 non-Merge acts to cover Merge songs. Score! : 20 years of Merge Records : the covers!.. Complications by Broken Social Scene 4:45 $ 0.12. And who'd have thought Chris Lopez would be so easy? subscription-based box set, this CD is an amazing collection of songs spanning the label's existence, covered by some of the most popular (non-Merge) indie bands around, such as Quasi, Les Savy Fav, The Shins, Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes, The New Pornographers, Okkervil River, Death Cab For Cutie, Times New Viking, and … Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated 1/1/20) and Your California Privacy Rights. Five years ago, their Old Enough to Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records was a well-stocked 3CD collection, so this ambitious undertaking was highly anticipated. There are 0 reviews and 0 ratings from Canada, Fast, FREE delivery, video streaming, music, and much more. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es). missed the mark. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. It's interesting to hear the Merge founders stretched out like taffy, but it's interesting only once. 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers), © 2020 Condé Nast. 1. An amazing version of … Don't post randomness/off-topic comments. 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers!, a Various Artists Album. The E-mail Address(es) field is required. 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers), A daily roundup of the most important stories in music, Watch Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Cover John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy”, Watch Christine and the Queens Cover Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m on Fire”, Bill Callahan, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Matt Sweeney Cover Hank Williams, Jr.: Listen, D.C.’s U Street Music Hall Closing Due to COVID-19, Palberta Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song “Before I Got Here”: Watch, Anderson .Paak Shares New Song “JEWELZ”: Listen, Score! There are many artists on this disc that I like and consequently buy their individul discs. To rate, slide your finger across the stars from left to right. Score! The Apples in Stereo turn Neutral Milk Hotel's "King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. missed the mark. Similarly, The Mountain Goats’ “Drug Life”, The New Pornographers’ “Don’t Destroy This Night” and Laura Cantrell’s “Cowboy on the Moon” are all decent offerings. 20 Years of Merge Records - The Covers! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers by Various Artists: Various Artists: Amazon.ca: Music 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! a medical doctor but can't quite graduate from the school of rock. Prime members enjoy Free Two-Day Shipping, Free Same-Day or One-Day Delivery to select areas, Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Reading, and more. So it's hard to believe Merge is already 20 years old, an occasion the label is marking with a big birthday bash-- the five-day XX Merge fest in July-- and a subscription-only series of commemorative retrospectives and remixes. It never allied itself with a scene or a sound, so the mind doesn't automatically tether it to a specific place or time, the way Sub Pop, despite its strong roster this decade, will be most closely associated with Seattle in the late 1980s and early 90s. Part of the larger "Score!" Ad Choices, Various Songs (from Score! An earnest and beautiful take on a great song. 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers, and even gave you a taste of Les Savy Fav covering Superchunk. les savy fav's cover of "precision auto" is key, and st. vincent and the national would have gotten props for tackling a crooked fingers song even if it wasn't the best track on this compilation. Who'd have thought Merritt would prove so difficult to cover? Be respectful! : Listening Log, Top 25 Great Songs on Not-So-Great Albums in 2009, The Song Remains the Same (aka The Best Songs I've Heard in 2009). I’m not even much of a Times New Viking fan, and I thought their cover was easily the highlight of the album. Don't get in arguments with people here, or start long discussions. Presumably, if you’re a rabid fan of the extremely lo-fi Times New Viking, this might be a treat for you, but to this relative newcomer, it was unpalatable in its distorted, unmelodic and generally tinny expression of what was originally a fairly epic, well-orchestrated, and above all, well-mixed tune. 20 Years Of Merge Records: The Covers! Plenty Is Never Enough (Tenement Halls cover) - The Shins 04. 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! Perhaps the most intriguing party favor is Score! The result is a weirder, less polite album, one that showcases a diversity of musical styles and seems much more representative of 2000s indie. Humpday Covers : Score! But where Dark emphasized "primarily folkie tunefulness, baroque lines in which the guitar is subservient to other instruments" (as Scott Plagenhoef wrote in his review), Score! Likewise, don't respond to trollish comments; just report them and ignore them. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. Tracks. by Various Artists. Various Artists – SCORE! Get this from a library! Precision Auto by Les Savy Fav 2:53 $ 0.12. communicating only sincere resignation to the neglect of lust, mischief, and desperation. Complications (The Clean cover) - Broken Social Scene 06. The subject field is required. Oh, Yeah!" Separate up to five addresses with commas (,). 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers by Various Artists, Audio CD, Limited Edition, Compilation, April 7 2009, マージ所属のアーティストの楽曲を、マージ所属ではないアーティストがカバーするという企画盤。, Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2010. A compilation of new cover versions of songs originally released on the Merge Label. Sleep All Summer by St. Vincent And The National 4:33 $ 0.12.