Back in 2001 Emm Gryner released an album entirely of covers. Toris Amos did the same. Her’s was more popular. Tori Amos has fans on a cultish level. Emm Gryner sadly does not. Which is a shame, because Girl Versions is a perfect collection of covers. Emm opted to release the album as an album, and not a lavish concept that takes the forms of a multitude of characters. It is less pretentious this way. Heavy songs like *shudder* Def Leppard’s (famous for all the wrong reasons) Pour Some Sugar on Me get reworked into love ballads. I still cannot help but having a snicker at the lyrics, they are rather preposterous and highlight all that was wrong/right with the 80s. Still she pulls it off and gives plastic surgery to a song, the likes of which haven’t been seen since Kenny Roger’s face got smoothed over with a steam roller.
Fugazi’s : waiting room…. or Thrush Hermit’s : Day We Hit The Coast. That was the choice presented to me, I don’t want to upload the entire album, and a line must be drawn, so two tracks only. Thrush Hermit win out, as I feel kinship with their name, I’m a forest hermit. Plus we are both from the East Coast of Canada. BIGUPS. And Joel Plaskett is amazing. Emm’s version lacks the sheer aural assault of the original, but it conveys much more emotion, one would suspect Joel might strum it in similar fashion if he were to rework it. And no Def Leppard will not be uploaded, I have my limits.
Emm Gryner – Pour Some Sugar on Me
Emm Gryner – The Day We Hit the Coast
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