Halloween 2014 - Phantom of the Paradise Covers by Sc Mira and More

Sweet Apple (with Robert Pollard) - Reunion


The Afghan Whigs - Lost in the Woods



Sc Mira - Somebody Super Like You (Phantom of the Paradise cover


Sc Mira - Life At Last (Phantom of the Paradise cover)


Sc Mira - Halloween (The Misfits cover)


M83 - Graveyard Girl


Dream Syndicate- Halloween Live 2012


King Tuff - Black Moon Spell


The Rosebuds - Where the Freaks Hang Out


The Casket Girls - Same Side


Hunters and Collectors - Ghost Nation Rough Mix


Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends


Split Enz - Ghost Girl


Dead Man's Bones - My Body's A Zombie For You


The Replacements - Rock 'N' Roll Ghost

Happy New Year's Eve Birthday, Paul Westerberg and Color Me Obsessed with The Replacements

Today is Paul Westerberg's birthday, so Happy Birthday to him, Happy New Year to the rest of you. His recently released tune My Road Now popped into my head while watching Color Me Obsessed, the doc on The Replacements that includes no members of the band and no music by the band (which you can stream in its entirety here).

My Road Now



Westerberg and Tommy Stinson are putting out some music to benefit The Replacements' Slim Dunlap who suffered a stroke last February, you can get more info at paulwesterberg.com or soon at the Songs for Slim facebook page and website. Chris Mars has done a track (adding to the one he's already released for Slim), and it looks like 17 more artists will be recording songs for the cause including Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, and Jakob Dylan.

Color Me Obsessed



Love Untold



Nowhere Man



Westerberg and Joan Jett

Tommy Stinson - It's a Drag



Tommy Stinson - Meant To Be



Tommy Stinson - Zero to Stupid



Chris Mars - Popular Creeps



Chris Mars - Monkey Sees



Slim Dunlap - the Ballad of the Opening Band

Slim Dunlap - Hate This Town

The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me

Hoo boy. A while back (almost a month!) The Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me turned 25, and I meant to post about it, but Timothy Bracy And Elizabeth Bracy did such a good job of it here it seemed unnecessary. However, I wanted to post all of the songs without making you open new links, and I really wanted to do something because the album still seems to be in the shadow of Let it Be. I think this one is just as good or even the band's best, but maybe that's just because Let It Be is so revered it almost over-hyped for me. Is Let it Be so much better? No, it's possible people love the cover, the title, the fact it didn't come out on a major label, the time it came out, and so on. For me, Pleased to Meet Me is the bee's knees. Alex Chilton? Skyway? Can't Hardly Wait? Vslentine? I defy
anyone to proclaim any 'Mats album has 4 greater songs.





Note - the tune below is not the exact one on the album - I couldn't find it online for you, this is a
demo version, but it still shows how good the song is.





Wanna disagree with Scruffy?! Leave a darn comment!

Covers 2: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

photo by Tom Brogan

You can always tell fellow music obsessed types by the music they listen to themselves. Ted Leo clearly loves music, as evidenced by the gargantuan amount of cover songs he's unleashed upon us fellow music geeks. You Ain't No Picasso has amassed a startling collection of covers you can snatch up here. How did he know I love Nick Lowe? How did he guess my fascination with Split Enz? Has Mr. Leo been spying on me and my current fixation with The Replacements? Maybe not, but if he starts doing Son Volt, Hardship Post, and Robyn Hitchcock or the Soft Boys, I'm gonna get worried. Here's a sprinkling, download them all and much, much more at YANP.

So It Goes (Nick Lowe)




Six Months in a Leaky Boat (Split Enz)- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists




Can't Hardly Wait (The Replacements)




I'm Looking Through You (The Beatles)




Joey (Concrete Blonde)




Outdoor Miner (Wire)




The Onion's A/V. Club are putting 25 video cover versions out there, and Ted Leo did the first. Tears for Fears? The other covers sure look interesting, with Scruffy favourites like R.E.M., Guided By Voices, and Pavement all making the cut.



Ted Leo and the Pharmacists have a new record out called The Brutalist Bricks. Here's a couple from that one.




Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - Even Heroes Have To Die by Royalty Central


Ted Leo - The Mighty Sparrow by nmemagazine