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April 02, 2007
Video: Of Montreal, "Tropical Iceland," Bowie covers
I lucked into a ticket for one of Of Montreal's two recent Irving Plaza shows at the last minute, and was pleased as punch to take in all the sublime oddity. I was however saddened to learn that I had missed the previous night's cover versions of songs by personal favorites the Fiery Furnaces and David Bowie. Well, it's some small consolation that a tree no longer falls in the woods without grainy footage and shoddy audio to commemorate the thud.
Of Montreal - "Tropical Iceland"
(Fiery Furnaces cover, live in Birmingham, AL, 2/23/07)
Despite some muddled stage banter, and a mild case of the infuriating "You Tube-out-of-synch-audio syndrome", the quality of the footage aint so bad. As they've been playing this faithful version of "Tropical Iceland" with some regularity, a smattering of MP3 rips have found their way to the web. With varying degrees of audio fidelity, you can try here, here, and here. Twice, the Talking Heads "And She Was" will be slyly inserted, once it will not. Suspense...
Of Montreal - "Moonage Daydream"
(David Bowie cover, live in San Diego, 1/30/07)
Kevin Barnes sounds almost exactly like ol' Blue Eye here, although the fuzzy sound might be cutting him a bit of slack. I will say that OM's style of glam is a closer representation of the Ziggy Stardust sound and presentation then you'd get at an actual current Bowie concert. That and there's probably going to be a foam rubber crab hand. Not in this vid, but lurking backstage, ready to pounce/pinch, no doubt.
Of Montreal - "Starman/ Hang on to Yourself"
(David Bowie covers, live in Chicago, 3/15/07)
And just to prove that he could play the entirety of the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars if asked, we get a double bill of "Starman" and "Hang on to Yourself" less than a month ago in Chicago. The sound here is synched and decent, although the far away camera work is shaky. It cuts out just as things in "Hang on to Yourself" are really launching off, Barnes shaking his ass and devouring the guitar solo. On the plus side, by then you'll be seasick and ready for it to end.
Posted by Jeff Klingman at April 2, 2007 12:14 PM
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