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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Coffee & Breakfast with Neil Young + Five Good Covers: Cortez the Killer


Neil Young, ~1974

Coffee & Breakfast with Neil Young on a Saturday morning sounds pretty good. Zuma days on the beach.

Also, Five Good Covers: Cortez the Killer (Neil Young) » Cover Me:


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10 comments:

  1. Jimbuck24/13/2013 10:34:00 AM

    Nice. There's also Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' version. And, slightly, off topic, the Red House Painters do "Silly Love Songs" with the music essentially "inspired by" Cortez the Killer. Brilliant.

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  2. setlistthief4/13/2013 12:23:00 PM

    Here's Tomas Ulrich's Cargo Cult cover of Cortez:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YXn7zZmgS8

    Jawdropping!

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  3. Skillit-Art4/13/2013 03:17:00 PM

    This is the best Cortez cover:

    http://youtu.be/ux6v5iIn5NA

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  4. setlistthief4/13/2013 04:35:00 PM

    Hey, S-A, that one's pretty damn good.

    As simple a song as is Cortez (three repeated chords for 7+ minutes) it is incredibly difficult to play. I've heard many covers that end up overwrought and completely lose the "feeling" of the song. That said, here's Michael Hedges' (RIP) lovely cover.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jguk6OfvZfE

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  5. Anonymous4/13/2013 05:14:00 PM

    Wouldn't Cortez be in the next Archives? What the shit happened to that, it's been 4 years.

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  6. Regualr Stairs4/14/2013 11:30:00 AM

    Screaming Females beats them all - Jersey Strong! (ha!):

    https://soundcloud.com/smpl/screaming-females-cortez-the

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  7. Tweck94/15/2013 10:00:00 AM

    Built to Spill's cover of Cortez is amazing.

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  8. John4/15/2013 10:08:00 AM

    Skillit-Art: Wow, that Scott Kelly version is great. I've never seen him solo, just with the mighty Neurosis, but this was brilliant. Bruce Lamont's saxophone sounds incredible here!

    Another version I really like is the one by Marissa Nadler. Absolutely haunting:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq2agFH_13k

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  9. JCP4/15/2013 01:57:00 PM

    The best version of Cortez I've ever heard is by Noah Hunt and the All Stars, featuring Scotty Bratcher on guitar. There are several videos of this on Youtube, although the best one seems to have disappeared.

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  10. Steve4/17/2013 11:31:00 AM

    This is my cover...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLXqc6PRYc

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