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Saturday, February 18, 2006

Ming Tea returns! (sort of) Susanna Hoffs / Matthew Sweet




Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs have teamed up for a primer of 1960s pop called UNDER THE COVERS VOL. 1 due out in April on Shout Factory! This is the first project they've colloborated on since teaming up to be Austin Powers’ on-screen band Ming Tea. For this project, however, they take the moniker Sid & Susie (at least online -- the record has their real names. Susanna and Matthew are two truly under-rated songwriters and performers and are scholars of the pop craft of the late 1960s. The tracklisting looks impressive too. A great compaion piece to Children of Nuggets , on which (it is NO coincidence) songs from both Matt and Sue appear.

Their MySpace page has full versions of 3 songs:

The Beatles' And Your Bird Can Sing
The Bee Gee's Run to Me
The Velvet Underground's Sunday Morning

1. I See The Rain (The Marmalade)
2. And Your Bird Can Sing (The Beatles)
3. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)
4. Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Fairport Convention)
5. Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young And Crazy Horse)
6. Alone Again Or (Love)
7. Warmth Of The Sun (The Beach Boys)
8. Different Drum (The Stone Poneys)
9. The Kids Are Alright (The Who)
10. Sunday Morning (The Velvet Underground)
11. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young And Crazy Horse)
12. Care Of Cell ..44 (The Zombies)
13. Monday Monday (The Mamas And The Papas)
14. She May Call You Up Tonight (The Left Banke)
15. Run To Me (The Bee Gees)

1 Comments:

  • Arrrrg. I missed Van Dyke Parks! Well $18 is steep for Hotel Cafe. I love Warmth of the Sun. Certainly work checking out...but I got a lot more milage out of the free Sea Wolf show at the Echo. Amazing band. Blog post to come....

    By Blogger JT Griffith, at 1:15 PM  

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