Stream: Flaming Lips, Cat Power Yoko Covers

January 28th, 2007

I’m really very unfamiliar with Yoko Ono’s musical work, but I might have to remedy this before Yes, I’m a Witch comes out. It’s the reworking of some of her material by bands like The Flaming Lips, The Apples in Stereo and Cat Power.

Stream:
Cat Power - Revelations WIN | Real
The Flaming Lips - Cambridge 1969/2007 WIN | Real

Cat Power’s is beautiful as always, but the Lips? It’s certainly wild, I’ll give them that. Here’s what Wayne had to say about it.

To be able to play with a track as uncompromising and confrontational as John and Yoko’s “Cambridge 1969″ is ,for any curious artist, a rare treat. We took Yoko’s primal screams and John’s moaning feedback and turned them into a kind of Ornette Colemanesque melody…I fear we may have de-fanged rocks’ most disturbing performance/art/jam.

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