Everything I Do (I Do It For You)
The Fatima Mansions
6:26
3.
Sleeping With The NME
8:34
Total
18:49
Comments:
Already being
familiar with the band and liking the original
version of this song, I figured I'd buy it. It's an OK "rock" version, but a bit too smooth.
As I understand it, Carter USM had
something to say about this cover.
An unexpected bonus was track 2: I had not previously heard of The Fatima Mansions
until I bought this CD. They do a really odd version of the nauseatingly
overplayed Bryan Adams song from the overrated Kevin Costner movie 'Robin Hood: Prince
Of Thieves' (the lesser of the two Robin Hood movies of that year). I like it a lot more
than track 1 - it's almost as if they've set out to destroy the original tune as much as
possible, resulting in a very interesting version, unless you like Bryan Adams.
It's a bit like
Public Enemy meets
Tricky with HP-filtered easy-listening type
vocals (reminding me a bit about Mike Flower Pops, although this was a few years
before they got famous with 'Wonderwall') mutating into Freddie Mercury on napalm.
Sprinkle a few samples on top for extra added fun.
The third track is not a song, but just a discussion among music journalists from
British magazine NME. It's about one of the band members doing a stupid
media stunt, intentionally injuring himself in front of one of their reporters, to prove
they're serious in some aspect. I get the general idea that the band wants to be so
very 'underground' and 'alternative', which is kind of silly regarding how they sound.
Soft and smooth pop-rock. I never understood why British music press made such a fuss
about this band. Then again, I never really understood British music press in the
first place, but that's another topic altogheter.
The first two tracks were taken from 'Ruby Trax', a collection where 40 pop bands
did a cover of their favourite #1 song of all time. The collection was to celebrate the
40th anniversary of said NME, and the money went to charity. Apparently, even
Elektric Music was on this compilation
with their cover of an old
Eddy Grant song, which was quite amusing.
