After seeing Luna’s concert
film Tell Me Do You Miss Me-and the
DVD included a flier about Luna’s online only covers album, Lunafied. I was
able to find it on iTunes, so I downloaded it and have been enjoying it. They
did two of the songs in the film Harry Nilsson’s “Everybody’s Talkin’”-complete
with a kazoo solo as well as Beat Happening’s “Indian Summer.” (I don’t know
the original but I really like Luna’s version). There are two versions of Serge
Gainsbourgh’s “Bonnie and Clyde” in which Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier plays
Brigitte Bardot to Wareham's Serge. Not to mention New York legends like the
Velvet Underground (a very hypnotic take of “Ride Into The Sun”), Blondie (“In
The Flesh”), Talking Heads ("Thank You for Sending Me an Angel"), and
Suicide ("Dream Baby Dream"). They also do a cover of Donavon’s “Season
Of The Witch”(from the I Shot Andy Wharhol OST), homage to The Dream Syndicate (“That’s What You
Always Say”) and Boston legend Jonathon Richmond (“Fly Into The Mystery”). This
might be collection for serious
fans like myself, but I think there’s a lot to like about the collection-if
nothing else it shows what a reliable curator of cool music Dean Wareham is.
Oddly, my favorite cover didn’t make it: a stripped down barebones versions of
Gun-N-Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine.”
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