GLAM! #2 by Cloudland Blue Quartet
Recorded over 14 days from February to June 2023 as demos for his band Capital Models re songs they might cover or, in a few cases, already do, CBQ has compiled another 35 performances for this Record Store Day release.
Most have never been heard before, while a few have been featured on his weekly Eclectic Selection podcasts on Mixcloud.
Every vocal is a 1st take - indeed, as with 2023's "GLAM!", David had never sung many of these songs prior to these renditions.
So, you may spot fluffs & errors from the very off (comedic vocalising on "Rocket Man" or the close of "Saturday Night's Alright" or his perhaps "almost but not quite" rendition of "Wild is the Wind"), but is he really desecrating the catalogues of David Bowie (11), Lou Reed (3), The Kinks (3), Elton John (2), Pink Floyd (2), Roxy Music (2), T Rex (2), The Monkees (2), The Rolling Stones (2), Alice Cooper (1), Bob Dylan (1), Brian Eno (1), Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (1), Elvis Presley (1) or The Beatles (1)?
You are the judge!
4LP Box Set
Side 1
20th Century Boy
Make Me Smile
Sorrow
Rocket Man
Knock On Wood
Side 2
Venus In Furs
Five Years
You Really Got Me
The Bewlay Brothers
Side 3
Street Life
Femme Fatale
Hang On to Yourself
The Wonder of You
Wish You Were Here
Side 4
Waterloo Sunset
Brown Sugar
Starman
Like a Rolling Stone
Side 5
I'm Waiting for the Man
John, I'm Only Dancing
All Day and All of the Night
Honky Tonk Women
Side 6
Wild Is The Wind
By This River
Billion Dollar Babies
Love is the Drug
Metal Guru
Side 7
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Suffragette City
I'm A Believer
(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone
Side 8
Ashes to Ashes
A Day in the Life
Comfortably Numb
Rock'n'Roll Suicide
Tracklist
| 1. | 20th Century Boy | 3:30 |
| 2. | (Come Up and See Me) Make Me Smile | 4:20 |
| 3. | Sorrow | 2:36 |
| 4. | Rocket Man | 4:24 |
| 5. | Knock on Wood | 2:59 |
| 6. | Venus In Furs | 5:12 |
| 7. | Five Years | 4:31 |
| 8. | You Really Got Me | 2:13 |
| 9. | The Bewlay Brothers | 5:37 |
| 10. | Street Life | 3:25 |
| 11. | Femme Fatale | 2:36 |
| 12. | Hang On To Yourself | 2:44 |
| 13. | The Wonder of You | 2:27 |
| 14. | Wish You Were Here | 5:07 |
| 15. | Waterloo Sunset | 3:24 |
| 16. | Brown Sugar | 3:54 |
| 17. | Starman | 4:15 |
| 18. | Like A Rolling Stone | 5:38 |
| 19. | I'm Waiting For the Man | 4:30 |
| 20. | John, I'm Only Dancing | 2:46 |
| 21. | All Day and All of the Night | 2:28 |
| 22. | Honky Tonk Women | 3:08 |
| 23. | Wild is the Wind | 6:34 |
| 24. | By This River | 2:55 |
| 25. | Billion Dollar Babies | 3:37 |
| 26. | Love is the Drug | 4:01 |
| 27. | Metal Guru | 2:32 |
| 28. | Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) | 4:49 |
| 29. | Suffragette City | 3:26 |
| 30. | I'm A Believer | 2:49 |
| 31. | (I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone | 2:31 |
| 32. | Ashes to Ashes | 4:18 |
| 33. | A Day in the Life | 5:08 |
| 34. | Comfortably Numb | 6:29 |
| 35. | Rock 'n' Roll Suicide | 3:02 |
Credits
Recorded at Crispycat, Edinburgh UK, 8, 15, 17, 23, 24, 28 February, 6, 12, 14, 15, 30 March, 18 May, 5, 7 June 2023
PLAY LOUD!!
License
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A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones using sellotape on the keys of his dad's Bontempi Organ. The subsequent junk shop purchases of an electric guitar & fuzzbox and the acquisition of an old Beatles songbook, led him into songwriting...