Finishing up Big Band Week we have a Terrible Track that comes from a live concert in London last year.
English alternative rocker, Jarvis Cocker, thought it would be a great treat to put on a two and a half hour concert of Disney music by some of the UK's most alternative musicians as part of his Meltdown festival in June 2007. He called it Forest of No Return and his main influence was Hal Willner's 1988 compilation album STAY AWAKE.
I didn't get to go to this show but a friend found a bootleg copy of it and sent it to me. The bootleg really is just a guy with a recording device in his jacket pocket. The sound quality is awful and that is one big reason why this is a terrible track.
ED HARCOURT, an English singer-songwriter sang a few numbers throughout the night but this one was probably his weakest. There are parts where I question if even knows what the melody is supposed to be. And about three minutes in, when he starts getting more...creative with the melody, it causes me to skip to the next track.
However, his piano playing is quite excellent and I read a review that said he had a whole-head rabbit mask put on his head right before his piano solo. Ed was still able to pull of a good solo.
The big band arrangement of this piece sounds great but the crappy recording and bad singing causes me to put this on the "terrible" list. I would love to hear a studio recording of this song! Will we get it? Maybe in a world of my own.
4 comments:
I was there.. been thinking of that concert all night.
It was certainly one of the more bizarre nights of my life, but one I wouldn't have missed for anything. Unfortunately, the sound, even live was pretty bad. Lots of feedback, and it was pretty un-rehersed.
Jarvis also did a night of TV themes with the KPM Allstars, which a friend went to and said was fantastic.
That I would love to hear! Next to Disney songs, TV Themes (especially cartoon themes) is one of my favourite genres!
Some of the tracks from Forest of No Return are super bizarre. It really captures the feel of the Stay Awake album. I'll post more in the future.
Supr bizarre is an understatement! Jarvis, Pete Doherty and Nick Cave howling along to "home sweet home" was so so bizare! Actually, all the Nick Cave moments were bizarre!
Vote 2008 - Weird World of Cover Tunes
Alice in Wonderland's my favorite Disney animated film, so I relish the rare opportunity to hear one of its many songs covered. But this is...well, just odd. It sounds hardly anything like "World of My Own," and isn't even that pleasant to listen to on its own right. I've heard worse (and will be voting for worse in that respective category), but this cover weirds me out more than anything.
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