2009. Upset! the Rhythm
Xiu Xiu side:
I woke up with the original Morrissey version of the song in my head this morning. It is a great song. I love it. I also love a good cover. This is a typical Xiu Xiu cover, more of an interpretive assault but every bit as good as the source material. Full of the bleeps and whirls and experimental weird beauty that I expect and adore from Xiu Xiu.
Parenthetical Girls side:
Where to begin...? How about "O-M-F-in'-G!" Or "...pardon me while I pick my jaw up from the floor." Seriously, this is just...wow. This is one of my favorite songs from the Smiths catalog, and I hadn't heard these Parenthetical Girls before so it was going to be a tall order to be filled by covering this number. I'm a sucker for a good cover, and...pardon me as I pause to move the needle back to the begining of this extremely repeatedly listenable record. Where was I ? Oh yeah...I'm a sucker for a good cover, but a great cover, well I'm yours forever. This song will appear on a mixtape in the future, to be sure.
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