the zutons are the only 'z' artist i have on my ipod. they are there as part of bbc radio 1's "live lounge" compilation (vol 3, ) , in which bands do acoustic covers of their own or others' songs. the compilation is the source of some of my favourite quirky takes on various songs. the zutons' contribution to this particular album is a cover of christina aguilera's 'beautiful'. the original in itself is pretty cheesey, and i sort of expected a tongue-in-cheek version of it. there's something about male vocalists covering female originals which i kinda enjoy - the same live lounge album has a great cover of katy perry's 'i kissed a girl' by mcfly which fits this bill. the zutons' cover is good, although perhaps not as impertinent as i had hoped for. it was enough to make me want to hear a bit more of the zutons, though, enlisted the help of my beautiful assistant, myspace.
myspace led my nicely to 'valerie' - a song which on first listen i really enjoyed; funky guitars, rough man-vox, a nice take on what i thought was amy winehouse's song. i must've been in "cute zutons covers of female songstresses" mode, because little did i know, it turns out the zutons' version is actually the original (2006) and winehouse covered them... for a radio one live lounge session. full circle and all. to be honest i think the richness of her voice does it more justice, but i do really like the zutons' version.
either way, two good things have come out of today:
one: i thoroughly recommend this live lounge album, and i've been inspired to find myself volumes one, two and four.
two: i enjoyed album / compilation listening so much that i've now decided to go from a - z in albums. i may be getting lazy with weekend blogging, but i'm not ready to give up on this experiment just yet.
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