Caturday Covers: Wild is the Wind
Posted: June 19th, 2010 | Author: BPB | Filed under: Caturday Covers | 2 Comments »
Johnny Mathis originally recorded Wild is the Wind for a 1957 movie of the same name, so his version is all sad and schmaltzy and Hollywood. Then Nina Simone took it and made it like when heroin makes all your teeth fall out. Then David Bowie took it and made it like when Dennis takes his shirt off on It’s Always Sunny in Philadephia. Then Cat Power took it and made it my favorite Cat Power cover, all bummed out on red wine. Fucking devastating. And then Bat for Lashes took it and, like, prissied it back up:
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Guess this doesn’t count does it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MCWUw0AqMk