update: added covers from venice is sinking and the black heart procession… thanks for the tips!

mp3: setting sun – you got lucky
mp3: handsome furs – you got lucky (live)
mp3: venice is sinking – you got lucky (live)
mp3: the black heart procession – you got lucky (live)

two covers of tom petty and the heartbreakers’ 1982 hit “you got lucky”. setting sun’s cover was included on the recent buffetlibre dj’s comp rewind 2 and was recorded, mixed and mastered in the span of 24 hours. that’s pretty impressive, though i guess handsome furs’ cover technically beats it since, being a bootleg, it was recorded in under 4 minutes… this live recording is pretty old, from december of 2007… but its been getting a lot of plays recently as the song immediately following the last track of face control in my library…

anyway, to the recordings themselves… setting sun’s version remains firmly planted in the pop world of the original and amounts to a fairly faithful modern translation…. theirs is a pop song and it does its job well… handsome furs’ cover echoes the sound the band established on plague park… turning the song into something i could hardly imagine once occupying the billboard hot 100 …and making it a much more interesting, and moving, cover in comparison… which is probably why i keep letting “radio kaliningrad” run into it.

Related posts:

1. cover of the week – wolf parade stuff
2. cover of the week – the national
3. cover of the week – the feelies
4. cover of the week – black cab
5. cover of the week – nick thorburn