Walkmen Contest
THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED! THANKS FOR ENTERING.
Friends and readers, today is special: it's my birthday and it marks the first Bows + Arrows contest. Naturally, it is a Walkmen giveaway!
As many of you know, the Walkmen are releasing an album this Tuesday, a song-for-song remake of the Harry Nilsson classic Pussy Cats. To celebrate, and it's a terrific album, I am giving away:
a copy of the album and a special, limited edition silkscreened poster.
Frame it. Also, this is a cd & dvd version, the latter featuring a 20-minute making-of documentary.
So, to win? I'll make it easy:
Leave a comment naming a band or album you'd like to hear the Walkmen cover, along with your email address. Alternately, send your suggestion in an email to brian@bowsplusarrows.com
Be creative! I'll pick my favorite suggestion a week from today.
Here's a few covers they've done to this point, with my favorite being the opener from Pussy Cats, the classic "Many Rivers to Cross."
The Walkmen - Many Rivers to Cross (Jimmy Cliff via Harry Nilsson) [mp3] [buy]
The Walkmen - Another One Goes By (Mazarin) [mp3] [buy]
The Walkmen - There Goes My Baby (Drifters) [mp3] [buy]
The Walkmen - Fly Into the Mystery (Modern Lovers) [mp3] [buy]
The Walkmen's Pussy Cats starring The Walkmen comes out October 24, pre-order it here and view their ecard here
The Walkmen - Another One Goes By (Mazarin) [mp3] [buy]
The Walkmen - There Goes My Baby (Drifters) [mp3] [buy]
The Walkmen - Fly Into the Mystery (Modern Lovers) [mp3] [buy]
The Walkmen's Pussy Cats starring The Walkmen comes out October 24, pre-order it here and view their ecard here
Watch for an interview with the band in the next couple weeks, and good luck!
by brian at 10/18/2006 08:22:00 AM
30 Comments:
Well, i've always thought of The Walkmen when I hear Clem Snide's "No One's More Happy Than You"...
Odd choice, maybe, I don't know - take a listen and see if you can imagine Hamilton belting this out:
Clem Snide - No One's More Happy Than You (mp3 via Sendspace)
Oh - and hapy birthday!
tim
no-cars-go@hotmail.com
Happy birthday!
Call me vulgar, but how 'bout The Walkmen covering some Ween tunes? I dig 'Ocean Man' but it would be cool if they covered one of Ween's more explicit songs. Fun way to end a gig, I think. Plus, there's the added bonus of hearing Hamilton talk dirty, other than on 'Eggnog'.
bleep
freejunktome@yahoo.com
happy birthday from a german reader!!
i discovered so much good and new music because of you and your blog.
all the best to you and keep it up...
robin
what up!
we all miss you on the walkmen board. they guided me to your kick ass site.
i would like to hear them nick drake's pink moon. seeing that it is mostly just intimate guitar and vocals it would require adding many walkmen-esque qualities to it. i prefer covers that rework originals as opposed to duplicating them. if nothing else, the walkmen doing the title track would be quite amazing.
email:
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I think the Walkmen could pull off a cover of Them's first album, "Here Comes the Night." Hamilton Leithauser could clearly match Van Morrison's haunting howl on tracks like "One More Time" and "Here Comes the Night," while Matt Barrick bounces around on some groove-tacular beat for "Little Girl," and I'm sure Paul and Walt would find sonic perfection between twin reverb guitar and Vox Continental organ for "If You and I Could Be As Two" and "I'm Gonna Dress in Black." Just old-fashioned, straightforward rock tunes like "Loop de Loop," a timeless recipe fitting for a timeless band.
email: lap11200@suffolk.edu
the walkmen should cover Under Pressure, the Queen/David Bowie song
cookiesfromelastic@gmail.com
the walkmen could do a bitchin cover of "tusk" by fleetwood mac. via camper van beethoven's version of course.
that would make my nipples hard.
-conor
http://www.tamurrecords.org
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The Walkmen should cover Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy." It's definitely a cheesy song, but imagine Hambone completely blowing out his vocal chords on "IFFF it MAAAKES YOU HAAAAPYYY, THEN IT CAAAN"T BE THAAAT BAAAA-AAA-AAAA-AAAAD." Fun, no? fnicolaus@franklinreport.com
probably K.D. Lang
powerlemonade@aol.com
i wanna hear the walkmen do some velvet underground covers. maybe from their self titled. "lady godiva's operation" could work.
jules / artstars@gmail.com
Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
thecanucksforthecup@hotmail.com
four tops - still water runs deep
thatd be hot magic!
brigibs@bgnet.bgsu.edu
slowdive - soulvlaki. the album is so slow yet beautiful, it would be nice hear an upbeat version.
slowdive - soulvlaki. the album is so slow yet beautiful, it would be nice hear an upbeat version.
atruong02@hotmail.com
"tangled up in blue" by dylan. since he copped a lot of the vocal style on louisiana from ol' bobby anyways, i think this would be pretty excellent as redone by the walkmen.
indie.bee@gmail.com
"Rum, Sodomy & the Lash" by The Pogues. They are the only band that can pull off such tunes like "The Sick Bed of Cuchalainn", "Navigator" and "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" that isn't The Pogues.
holybandito@gmail.com
they should cover themselves from an album where they played covers. THINK OF THE DIMENSIONS:
multi.
please send ipod to me, the TRUTH
happy birthday a day late brian!
i don't want to enter the contest, and i'm not sure i'm anyway near serious, but i just heard Paula Adul's "Straight Up" in a drugstore...The Walkmen should totally cover that. or, maybe the song that came on next - "Fly Robin Fly" by The Silver Connection...that could work.
I'd love to hear them cover some oldie ballad...
elvis presley - Can't help falling in love
or anything else from 60's elvis
rosenbaumd325@yahoo.com
OMG, The Walkmen clearly need to move on to doing entire remakes of Roxy Music records next, clearly.
Goodbye Horses- Q Lazzarus
magneticrainbow@gmail.com
Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding album. I think they could do some cool stuff with the songs off that album.
brownysonthemoon@hotmail.com
I'd like to hear The Walkmen cover Dwight Yoakam's "Sorry You Asked"... it always sounds like it would be better slowed down and done less "country"... and Dwight has paid his dues by covering The Clash and Bob Marley. He deserves something back :-) legz.cfc@gmail.com
i'm not entering the contest, i just wanted to say happy birthday! i'm sorry i missed the actual day. hope you had a great one. : )
i'm not entering the contest, i just want to say happy birthday! i'm sorry i'm a day late. hope you had a great one. : )
I'd like to hear the Walkmen cover My Morning Jacket's Z. Someone had already mentioned Blood on the Tracks, but that would be too easy .. Idk, can you imagine the Walkmen doing Z? i think it would rule.
witmachine@yahoo.com
walkmen covering Sebadoh - Bakesale. it sounds so good in my head.
deniskf@yahoo.com.br
They should definitely cover "Grass" by Animal Collective. Barrick's tribal drumming would fit perfectly, as would the organ. And imagine Hamilton singing, "We do the dance upon the plain!"
As far as an older song, I recommend "Runaway" by Del Shannon.
Oh, and my e-mail is jwebb21@ufl.edu.
The Walkmen should cover the Smashing Pumpkins, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". Billy Corgan wrote some really great songs in that period that are in bad need of being reborn by a much better band, with a singer that isn't Billy Corgan. Image 'Tonight, Tonight', 'Bullet with butterfly wings', 'galapogos'. The Walkmen are just the band needed to outdo the Pumpkins at their own game. I'm totally serious about this.
Anyway, I love your blog Brian. Keep it up. It's one of the few sites I visit daily.
-James
zayin_451@hotmail.com
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