Saturday, July 30, 2005

 

Mike Doughty covering Neutral Milk Hotel

Thanks to Music Cherry for putting up a link to Mike Doughty covering Neutral Milk Hotel's "King of Carrot Flowers Part I" off The Gambler EP.


Press here to play it now.






Ok, I do really like Doughty, and I love Neutral Milk Hotel, so this track is interesting, but, as covers go, it's little flat. I am not really happy about Mike's signing with Dave Matthews' indie label, ATO. Dave obviously has a good sense for talent signing Mike, and Jem, whose new album Finally Woken has been a recent favorite of mine. But Mike's new remastered album is not better off for the change: the tracks all have that distinct Dave Matthews mark of wanton overproduction. Someone slow the man down! We don't need 47 tracks mixed down in one song. Chill with the violins, for the love of hell. Doughty's peircing lyrics and solid guitar rhythms need to be exposed, left naked - not covered in blech. Compare Doughty's new album, with pianos, and cowbells, and god knows what, to his old recordings in his room/studio, with just him and the clean electric guitar.

Sometimes, the original is best left alone.

P.S. Jeff Mangum, where have you gone?

Comments:
I put up the doughty song on Music Cherry, but i didn't write my thoughts on the album.

I have to agree with you on the album. The leaked/stolen/creatively distributed one that's been "out" for almost a year now is far better than the overproduced one. I disagree that matthews bands' stuff is consistently overproduced. If you had only said their records since Everyday, I would go to war to defend you because you're 100% right there. They've gone off the deep end with whizbang fake claps, reverb, etc.

Somehow lots of this made it onto Doughty's record. If it ends up that he sells as well as david gray b/c of it, then i'll happily deal with it because they're still great songs. If not, then I'll be grateful that I still have my old copy.

Doughty's schtick is so thick and unique that changing it makes it lose more than most artists lose from changes, and I'm not sure that the reasons that I (and hopefully man other people) listen to him translate well to the radio.

His lyrics and his ability to pare down every song to its essential elements are what I love. I was just listening to an old song he wrote with Soul Coughing called "The Brooklynites" that I've heard at least 50 times before, when I finally really got how clever it really was:

"six hoodlums- dicey- surround you on the corner of Baltic and Smith... their faces apostrophe'd with headphones"

Getting that sublety on the radio is a tough feat, but I do really miss the "i spent all weekend recording this in my bedroom" feel the old record had.
 
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