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Do Me Good Like You Should / Don't Let Me Down

RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,987 Posts
edited February 2014 in Strut Central
Is this a cover?

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  • jamesjames chicago 1,863 Posts
    Is this off of a European record?
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,987 Posts
    james said:
    Is this off of a European record?

    Yes....the Hiltonaires on Europa.......most of the cuts are covers.
  • jamesjames chicago 1,863 Posts
    Rockadelic said:
    james said:
    Is this off of a European record?

    Yes....the Hiltonaires on Europa.......most of the cuts are covers.
    Yeah, I ask because while I'm not familiar with that particular song, I'm very familiar with the sound: that one track--very often kind of a midtempo soul-disco thing with burred, Chris Rea-style vocals and maybe some rock moves sprinkled here and there--on an otherwise mostly tepid European record, one track that's so convincing that you're like "Man, that's got to be a cover," but it turns out to instead be a very studied, well-executed approximation. The apex of this sound might be Stretch's "Why Did You Do It." I have a grip of records like this, from way back when I would go record shopping with a portable and was easier to please. I'd hear forty-five seconds of that, and boom, $3.99, gone. Now it's 2014 and I have all these Supermax records and shit. Oof.

    But yeah, I say all that just to say this: I don't think that's a cover. I just don't get that vibe from it.

    (In a side note: five bucks says that one of these dudes went on to join some outfit that's got like fifty records on Ariola, each more grueling than the last.)
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