I read a big piece in one of the weekend newspapers about Kirsty MacColl, who died ten years this December. All her albums are being re-released. I haven't got any of them, only the odd song I picked up here and there. There aren't many cover versions of Smiths songs I like- Morrissey and Marr stamped their own characters all over them so much that almost any cover version comes up short. But this one by Kirsty is as good, if not better, than the original.
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby
As I'm typing this the internet is reckoning that The Smiths are about to reform. My hairdresser says he heard that they were going to do it last summer but The Stone Roses re-union scuppered it and stole the thunder.
... and we all know hairdressers simply know everything!
ReplyDeleteHe sort knows Andy Rourke. Apparently.
ReplyDeleteKirsty is one of the few 'late' performers that I genuinely do miss. She would still be making a variety of eclectric and electric music.
ReplyDeleteI wrote this once ..
http://lastnightanmp3savedmywife.blogspot.co.uk/2005/05/kirsty-maccoll-soho-square.html
That's eclectic and electric (ladyland).
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