Comments on: You Spin Me Round

You Spin Me Round

edgeways — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:36:13 -0800

A remake of the same song by Dead or Alive, only much better! Disclaimer: I was the producer of the album this is off of, not a performer. (MI)

By: edgeways

edgeways — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:37:06 -0800

After a short discussion on MeTa I decided to post this. This is one track off an Album (How Long Have You Been In Love?) I helped produce about a year and a half ago. It was to benefit a local performance space. The concept was to have local artists (In Duluth MN) perform songs they fell in love with when they where younger. This track was a remake of the Dead of Alive classic You Spin Me Round. The performers are Scott Starfire Lunt, and Jerrree Small. (Ms Small has real albums available out there on the interweb if yer so inclined to search for them)

The album turned out pretty good, but as a fundraiser it bombed, so now I have a few hundred of these hanging round (hint). With encouragement I may post other tracks.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:38:09 -0800

When I first saw this I thought "Not another cover of this damn song," but I take it all back. This is really good. The vocals are fantastic.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:28:47 -0800

Agreed, this is superb. (One of my favorite goin'-out-dancin' experiences involved this song.)

P.S. Can you get this duo to make us a "Walking on Sunshine"? I've always wanted that song to have this sort of treatment.</halfserious>

By: Richat

Richat — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:20:42 -0800

Yes, this is great. Really great.

By: anomie

anomie — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:55:14 -0800

Please do not hesitate to post more, this song is The Bomb^tm

By: squirrel

squirrel — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:53:51 -0800

Great track! I'm surprised by how well this rather simple and completely disco song translated over. It's actually somewhat haunting. I want more from these two. Thanks.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:42:37 -0800

Jerree Small's MySpace.

By: Tuwa

Tuwa — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:46:24 -0800

A+++. Fast shipping and as described. Would listen to again!!!!1!!!1!one!

By: Mr. Six

Mr. Six — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:47:08 -0800

This is quite pleasant.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:34:35 -0800

dhartung, They prob won't do "Walking On Sunshine" for this space, but I will suggest it to them and if by some chance it gets recorded I'll let you know. Jerree does a few other great covers with another local minor celeb that haven't been recorded, including a Moldy Peaches song as well as "I'm Sticking with You" by the Velvet Underground.

By: muddgirl

muddgirl — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:48:06 -0800

Jerree has a beautiful voice. Thanks for the link to her MySpace (ah, did I just say that? damn).

By: ashbury

ashbury — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:32:24 -0800

super cover. I'd buy more, more more. Thanks for posting this.

By: CrunchyFrog

CrunchyFrog — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:25:16 -0800

BAM! Straight onto my iPod.
Looks like I picked the perfect day to check out music.mefi for the first time.

By: Brainy

Brainy — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:14:30 -0800

squirrel nailed it: "Haunting"

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:05:57 -0800

My goodness. Sounds like Cat Power. But really good, though. Excellent!

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:50:57 -0800

Reminds me of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:25:08 -0800

I agree with much of what has already been said. This is excellent. Quite possibly even better than the original song. Well done!

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:56:19 -0800

Nice. Sounds quite a bit like Low.

By: 5MeoCMP

5MeoCMP — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:47:02 -0800

Love it! Straight on to the playlist, and downloaded a copy for the iPod, too :)

By: tomble

tomble — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:54:32 -0800

Wow, that's wonderful! Her voice reminds me of Beth Orton.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:22:07 -0800

You may know this boo_radley, but Low is another Duluth local band. The male vocal on this song (Scott Lunt) was the subject of a song by Low (the song is Starfire on their Secret Name album). So, I'm sure there is some influence there somewhere.
I actually almost had Low on this album, but the main fellow, Sparhawk is one of the busier people I've known, so it didn't work out.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:08:26 -0800

that's incredibly cool, edgeways. Are there any CDs left?

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:09:07 -0800

oh, yes, I see -- just a few hundred. Email me the details, wouldja?

By: edgeways

edgeways — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:07:34 -0800

certainly, it'll be later this eve as I'm limited right now

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:00:00 -0800

Speaking as someone ~~embarrasingly obsessed with~~ quite keen on old Pete Burns, this is just wonderful.

By: theora55

theora55 — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:21:23 -0800

Edgeways, great song, great version. thanks. If you put the information on getting the cd on your web page, anybody who's interested could find it.

By: SirStan

SirStan — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:01:55 -0800

Amazing song. Im such a sucker for good acoustic covers.

By: Milkman Dan

Milkman Dan — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:47:00 -0800

I got spun right round listening to this record! Ha!

N0 srsly, this was wawwwsome. Thanks for being the middle-man and bringing us this charming, pared-down cover of an old classic, tearing down the boundaries between the much-maligned genre of disco and the realms of credibility, helping us hear for the first time the beauty that overwrought production values of the nineteen-eighties once obfuscated; a track that is certainly bound to earn its place as a mainstay in users' playlists for months to come, at least until Scarlett Johnannsen releases her cover of Tom Waits songs this coming spring.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:38:31 -0800

If the other covers on this album are half as different from the originals and a quarter as awesome as this one, I'd definitely buy a copy of it.

Thanks for posting this song.

By: kaspen

kaspen — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:13:42 -0800

4 years later, I just wanted to chime in with how much I still love this song. Every now and then the mood strikes me, like this quiet morning, and I come back and give it a spin. round, round, round.

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:15:57 -0800

beautiful, beautiful.

By: lilywing13

lilywing13 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:51:11 -0800

Finally making a playlist. This is on it
Wonderful.