Here is the original by Everything Is Everything, with composer Jim Pepper singing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg9LT4qR_Dw
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 15:46 (four months ago)
Which I hadn’t actually listened to until Steve Shasta posted it over here:Pavement:Classic or Dud
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 15:48 (four months ago)
Harper’s Bizarre version sounds very similar:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1L9RPEM634
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 15:50 (four months ago)
Harpers Bizarre
Brewer & Shipley amped it up a bit and apparently messed up some lyrics but it still sounds pretty good.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkVjd1fJMME
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 15:53 (four months ago)
For completism here is The Supremes version that was in the vaults for decades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_kZIHqf4PE
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 15:55 (four months ago)
Ralph Towner with Oregon, featuring a sitar:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtLqPaP_PA4
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 15:57 (four months ago)
mainly familiar with the version from Pepper's Pow Wowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2YeEUlyhQw
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 16 May 2025 15:58 (four months ago)
For corny indie olds, Pavement is the ~third~ Drag City artist to cover WTT… both Jim O’Rourke & Will Oldham have also covered it live in the past 25 years.
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 May 2025 15:59 (four months ago)
!Ralph Towner with Gary Peacock:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_iaZESVRuo
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 15:59 (four months ago)
The only version I know is the Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson Quartet version (Garbarek on soprano sax, Stenson on piano, Palle Danielsson on bass, Jon Christensen on drums). Could easily post this in the "songs you belatedly discovered were cover versions" thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw9d4_luZdE
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:00 (four months ago)
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4kBkgxkMfaAg65eddmBlq9
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:14 (four months ago)
https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2024/06/witchi-tai-tai-by-biologica.html
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:15 (four months ago)
https://www.davidbelbin.com/blog/2017/01/witchi-tai-to/
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:22 (four months ago)
Still have to listen to the Topo D. Bil version.
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:26 (four months ago)
Which is a weird project of Larry “Legs” Smith along with another Bonzo or two and then Chris Squire and Keith Moon.
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:27 (four months ago)
Sorry, “Legs” Larry Smith
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:31 (four months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskGHCHlU7U
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:33 (four months ago)
is there a recording of the jim o'rourke version anywhere?
― ufo, Friday, 16 May 2025 16:52 (four months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU646asPghM
ah here it is, with eiko ishibashi!
― ufo, Friday, 16 May 2025 16:54 (four months ago)
One of those songs that get some people convinced it's going to be a big hit, and then it isn't.
― Mark G, Friday, 16 May 2025 16:55 (four months ago)
Eiko/Tatsuhisa/Gianni/Jim
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 May 2025 16:57 (four months ago)
Love the Harper's Bizarre one, the bassline is sublime.
― Blake the Messenger (Tom D.), Friday, 16 May 2025 17:15 (four months ago)
Apparently Ry Cooder played side guitar on the album. No idea who played bass, whoever the guy in Harpers Bizarre was.
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 18:26 (four months ago)
Like to imagine that band took their name from the third VU album.
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 18:27 (four months ago)
Also had no idea Ted Templeman was in that band.
From the cover of the third VU album
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 18:29 (four months ago)
BMX Bandits used to play this live a lot back in the day which is how I got to know it, don't know if they ever recorded it tho
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 16 May 2025 18:57 (four months ago)
Posts are delivering, thanks
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 May 2025 19:49 (four months ago)
Jack DeJohnette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sldSfKV3jPU
― bbq, Saturday, 17 May 2025 01:24 (four months ago)
Anyone else here hear this song for the first time in the movie Sleepers?
― bbq, Saturday, 17 May 2025 01:27 (four months ago)
No
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 May 2025 03:02 (four months ago)
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 May 2025 03:03 (four months ago)
It’s kind of a slow-motion earworm and, based on the high level of enjoyability or at least tolerability of the various covers, it’s seems to have an indestructible quality
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 May 2025 03:04 (four months ago)
It not it’s second time round
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 May 2025 03:05 (four months ago)
Feel like it’s in a similar space to “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” in that it’s something that sounds like it could almost be Muzak, but instead is incredibly catchy and somehow deep.
― Rocket from the Toonces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 May 2025 04:52 (four months ago)
By ear, D - C /C# - Bm - G - Em - A - D
― calstars, Saturday, 17 May 2025 05:12 (four months ago)
BMX Bandits version was redone with Future Pilot AKA in 2001: https://www.discogs.com/release/1045005-Future-Pilot-AKA-Tiny-Waves-Mighty-Sea
― with hidden noise, Saturday, 17 May 2025 19:45 (four months ago)
What a gift of a thread! + Spotify playlist,.thanks, James! I only knew the Brewer & Shipley version & pavement from the reunion tour. I always spin the b&s in the spring because of their lyric change, not realizing it was in fact a change. The tabla percussion is great on a few of these tracks.
― BrianB, Sunday, 18 May 2025 00:17 (four months ago)
1st version i heard was this...tom thumb, nz band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NjH6vDev18
― unknown or illegal user (doo rag), Sunday, 18 May 2025 00:22 (four months ago)
Xpress-2 f Tim DeLaughter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9NGZqhmCQ
...
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 May 2025 19:36 (four months ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdkZ5f4WFVw
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Friday, 30 May 2025 12:11 (four months ago)
Damn, this really is a Pavement song
― jeff bezoar (sawdust lagoon), Friday, 30 May 2025 20:36 (four months ago)
The only version I know is the Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson Quartet version (Garbarek on soprano sax, Stenson on piano, Palle Danielsson on bass, Jon Christensen on drums). Could easily post this in the "songs you belatedly discovered were cover versions" thread:📹
― 35 Millimeter Dream Police (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 June 2025 13:39 (three months ago)
Pavement too on the nose for me.
― 35 Millimeter Dream Police (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 June 2025 14:08 (three months ago)
JR&tB, wait for the chorus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO1aqqyGcJg
― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 11 September 2025 06:50 (three weeks ago)
Wow love that, what a great idea
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Thursday, 11 September 2025 12:49 (three weeks ago)