Crazy:
The Covers
by
This page is an adjunct to an article in the
2006 year-end issue of Flagpole (which I’ll
link to as soon as it’s published). Most of the mp3s available here are bootlegs,
and as such you can’t buy them; but if you do enjoy the music here, head on
over to Amazon or your favorite retailer
and buy some official recordings or something. I ain’t trying to take food out
of Jack White’s baby’s mouth.
“Crazy for ‘Crazy’” by Jody
Rosen, Slate, September 7, 2006
Rosen examines the exact same phenomenon as
me, and comes up with many of the same conclusions I was going to, forcing me
to expand my dubious theories on white people and their relationship to hip-hop
even further.
St. Elsewhere album review by Byron Crawford
He doesn’t like it so much.
Pretty authoritative.
MP3s (right-click, save as)
“Nel
Cimitero di Tucson” by Gianfranco & Gian Pero Reverberi
The song that started it all, from the 1968
spaghetti Western Preparati la Bara!
“Crazy
(Live Lounge, 3/30/06)” by The Kooks
“Crazy
(Paradise, Boston, 5/29/06)” by The Twilight Singers
“Crazy
(Live Lounge, 5/31/06)” by Nelly Furtado
“Crazy
(Warfield Theater, San Francisco, 7/23/06)” by The Raconteurs
“Crazy
(40 Watt, Athens, 8/19/06)” by Of Montreal
“Crazy
(Remix)” by Gnarls Barkley feat. Joe Budden
“Pixies Are Crazy” by Two-Handed
Engine
My very own exercise in experiential journalism:
What if...Pixies covered “Crazy?,” Marvel Comics style. More something for you to
laugh at, than with, if you will. (Also, sorry for the lack of Kim Deal backing
vocals, but this is a one-man show, so just be thankful they’re not there.)