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- Bruce Springsteen Tribute CD : Play Some Pool, Skip Some School, Act Real Cool
- Format: CD Album
- Catalogue Number: WIACD020
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Where Its at is Where You Are
- Release Date: 10 August 2009
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PRICE: £10.99
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Bruce Springsteen Tribute CD : Play Some Pool, Skip Some School, Act Real Cool
Limited edition double cd. The songs of Bruce Springsteen have been re-born in the able hands of 38 indie, folk and underground acts, including the Wave Pictures, Darren Hayman (ex-Hefner), Glam Chops (with Eddie Argos from Art Brut) and even a fiddle solo from the Velvet Underground's Doug Yule. The double album is named "Play Some Pool, Skip Some School, Act Real Cool" (a line from the classic "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)"), and is brought to you from the ever reliable where it's at is where you are label.
These acts have been inspired by Springsteen’s woodsman folk, tender ballads, fist-pumping anthems and emotional rock; their interpretations of Springsteen’s back catalogue – from the classics to the rarely visited side roads – reveal the breadth of The Boss’s influence and the inspiration his rich career gives to many bands from different strands of today’s underground.
If a handful of highlights had to be picked from this treasure trove of talent they would undoubtedly include the Wave Pictures' stripped bare anti-folk reading of "Racing in the Street" (a track they had so much fun recording they did ten more Springsteen covers, which will be given away with the lead single); Matador Record's new signing Jennifer O'Connor turning the
bombast of "Cover Me" into a beautiful Joni Mitchell-like folk ballad; Jeff Mellin excitingly bringing Doug Yule out of retirement to play fiddle on his version of "Brilliant Disguise"; Help Stamp Out Loneliness going all creepy Nico fronting Stereolab on CD 2 opener "I'm On Fire", and Fergus Lawrie (ex Urusei Yatsura) and the Violence Jack Off rendering "No Surrender" completely unrecognisable behind walls of Sonic Youth feedback on the closing track.
Along the way the Boss is reinterpreted as glam stomper (Glam Chops), drivetime AM radio singalong (Darren Hanlon), epic dreampop fragility (Jeniferever) and a girl fronted beachboys barbershop gone country (Piney Gir)... Yup, it's an album of highlights... "where music and passion are always in fashion".
Track Listing
The Wave Pictures - Racing in the Street
Jennifer O'Connor - Cover Me
Airport Girl- The River
MJ Hibbett & The Validators - Glory Days
Shaun Wolf Wortis - She's the One
Glam Chops - Born In the USA
Jeff Mellin - Brilliant Disguise/ Brilliancy medley
Lucinda Black Bear - Born To Run
Darren Hanlon - the Promised Land
Gregory Webster - You’re Missing
Allo, Darlin' (featuring Paul from Hexicon) - Atlantic City
Boy Genius – Badlands
The Gresham Flyers – Magic
One Milky Wimp - Johnny 99
Thewintersleep - Dancing in the Dark
Jeniferever - One Step Up
Travis Elborough - My Hometown
Pete Weiss - Candy's Room,
Eux Autres - My Love Will Not Let You Down
Help Stamp Out Loneliness - I'm on Fire
Swedish Chef - Used Cars
Hillary And The Democrats - Thunder Road
Orange Nichole - Mansion on the Hill
The Manhattan Love Suicides - Stolen Car
Piney Gir - Waiting on a Sunny Day
The School - Hungry Heart
Harvey Williams - I Wanna Marry You
The Vatican Cellars - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Joel Mellin - The Rising
The Foxgloves - Downbound Train
The Andersen Tapes - Prove It All Night
DJ Downfall feat. Amelia Fletcher - If I Should Fall Behind
Darren Hayman - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Summer Cats Vs Motifs - Born to Add
Alexander's Festival Hall - Empty Sky
Butcher Boy - Streets of Philadelphia
Brontosaurus Chorus - Because the Night
The Volence Jack Off - No Surrender
