We've Got You Covered
The Get Up Kids tackle David Bowie.
Funny that one of my favorite Get Up Kids songs would be one that they didn't write. Then again, David Bowie very nearly didn't record "Suffragette City". That's right, he offered it to the much less known Mott the Hoople when the band was about to break up in 1972. They refused it and he wrote the band's most well known tune. "All the Young Dudes". Go look it up if you don't believe it. The rest of us will wait.
Who knows what would have happened if Bowie had recorded the latter of the two songs. Would we hear the Get Up Kids singing about boogaloo dudes? Just like the amount of licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, the world may never know.
As cover songs go, this one is damn good. The Get Up Kids keep the original spirit of the song in tact, but inject it with the infectious disease (in a good way) that is their style of indie rock. It's a great take on one of the classics by the great David Bowie.
The Get Up Kids - Suffragette City [mp3]
Posted by Cory Roop on Nov 23, 2007 @ 12:00 am
Fatal error: Uncaught Zend_Db_Statement_Exception: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ')) AND (th.article_id != '1049') ORDER BY `th`.`id` DESC LIMIT 3' at line 2 in /home1/heavemed/public_html/archives/library/Zend/Db/Statement/Pdo.php:234 Stack trace: #0 /home1/heavemed/public_html/archives/library/Zend/Db/Statement.php(300): Zend_Db_Statement_Pdo->_execute(Array) #1 /home1/heavemed/public_html/archives/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(468): Zend_Db_Statement->execute(Array) #2 /home1/heavemed/public_html/archives/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Pdo/Abstract.php(238): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->query('SELECT `th`.* F...', Array) #3 /home1/heavemed/public_html/archives/library/Zend/Db/Adapter/Abstract.php(706): Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Abstract->query(Object(Zend_Db_Select), Array) #4 /home1/heavemed/public_html/archives/public_html/music.php(66): Zend_Db_Adapter_Abstract->fetch in /home1/heavemed/public_html/archives/library/Zend/Db/Statement/Pdo.php on line 234