Friday 29 April 2011

Song Of The Day 29/04/2011: Dirty Projectors - Police Story

In honour of events in Whitehall, today's post was originally going to be anti-establishment classic Police Story by Black Flag, until I decided that the blog isn't quite ready for me to be posting Black Flag as the song of the day. So here's the Dirty Projectors version of the song instead.
The Dirty Projectors' album Rise Above apparently came about after songwriter/arranger Dave Longstreth was thinking about the Black Flag album Damaged, and hit upon the idea of recording his own tribute to the album. It's an interesting listen, bearing almost no resemblance to the original, so it's more of a reimagining than a cover album.
The original of this is one of the greatest hardcore songs there is, but I think this version's interesting too. The bizarre vocal gymnastics put a strangely surreal new spin on the Black Flag story.

No comments:

Post a Comment