TULLYCRAFT Tuesday
Each Tuesday we feature a band or artist covering a Tullycraft song. Today's song Superboy & Supergirl (from our first album Old Traditions, New Standards) is by MY PLACE IN SPACE aka Darren Cloutier. If you're in a band or know a band that covers a Tullycraft song, send it our way and we'll put it on the site!
posted by Sean at 12:10 PM
11 Comments:
I see you changed your mind about posting "Look How We Killed The Riot Grrrls", presumably because you didn't want to highlight (juxtaposed, as it was, on that 7", with the cruel "Josie") that dark place in your heart where you nurse your abiding hatred of punky girls.
In any event, I always enjoy Tullycraft Tuesday, even if I don't like the cover version posted. This cover of "Superboy & Supergirl" starts out promisingly, with the chunky guitars, but then, unfortunately, this fellow begins to sing. Or, rather, caterwaul. Is it meant to be faintly mocking of Tullycraft, a musical caricature of Sean Tollefson?
Or does it just plain suck?
T-Train, do you already have the winter blues?
No need. Blue is the Tullycraft color!
Not exactly T-Train. The link for the MP3 wasn't working and my G5 died this morning. I just got home from the Mac store. I won't have it back for 5 days (they tell me). "Hatred for punky girls?" Believe me when I tell you I loved the Riot Grrrl movement. Dig out your old Spin magazines - they called me the "riot boy." "Look How We Killed The Riot Grrrls" was a meant as a joke because "Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About" had become such a ridiculous anthem - why not give it credit for destroying the Riot Grrrls as well? Listen to the lyrics.... there's no way the song is smarter than you! It spells it all out! I'll post it next week when my computer is fixed.
p.s. I save the dark place in my heart for the truly awful indie-pop like Kissing Book, I would never waste it on the kick-ass punky girls.
Not the blues that I have today: it's not enough to do. (Took a day off, unbelievably. What better use of it than to make jokes that are misunderstood?)
Of course you don't hate punky girls.
But the song may indeed be smarter than I am: I hadn't put 2 and 2 together to make "Pop Songs". Listening to "Riot Grrrls" now, with the backstory, it makes that much more sense...
I cross my fingers for you that the G5 repairs are successful and speedy. Hopefully a frustrating day hasn't been made any worse by folks like me.
In the meantime, I've been listening to "Maybe Baby" frequently lately. I hadn't paid attention to it before. It's a little gem. Someone should cover it so I can slag off on them too...
Guess what? "Maybe Baby" already is a cover.... by us! The band that wrote it was called The Ninjas. Brothers Eric and Bjorn who went onto form the New York art-rock band Black Dice would probably be embarrassed by their indie pop past, but I love it! So much so, that we recorded a cover of their song "Maybe Baby."
Get a room you two.
john emofunk enjoys sloppy seconds. pay him no mind
serious this is interesting....keep up the dirty dialogue!
Maybe we could get the Ninjas' version posted here, sometime in the future, because there's about zero chance I'm ever going to find it elsewhere, baby.
You don't like Kissing Book? Wow, they were one of my favorite bands ever. Or this a joke within a joke (within a joke)?
Andrew and I (maybe his brother as well) played through 'That Thing You Do!' a few times...sigh...yesteryear
http://www.amazon.com/That-Thing-You-Do-Soundtrack/dp/B000002BQD
---from the review: "I defy you to resist the title song."
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