various dates & sources (most all from studio or demo sessions)
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NOTE: This set includes 3 previously unreleased Beatles covers. Sources for the tracks are too numerous to detail here. In general, some are from a previous incarnation of worldparty.net, the old karlwallinger.net, as well as the bonus DVD that came with the Seaview edition of Dumbing Up. Be prepared, though, since they’re all over the map re: sound quality, volume levels, bit rates, audio imperfections, etc. None is previously released, as far as official/commercial releases go.
ROB SEZ: Karl freaking Wallinger!! There was no other musician making rock and pop music in the 1980s and 90s more talented or under-appreciated than K.W. I can’t think of a single person I’d put above 'Mr. World Party'' with the possible exception of Prince. Abundant evidence for my claim can be found in this here post. These ‘leftovers’ (left off the reent 5-disc Arkeology box set — which is all rarities) would be the envy of many better-known artists. The Mrs. and I caught a WP live show in 2014, and Karl still had it. It's a huge loss that he's gone.
(Check the sample and get a 4-minute master class re: how to take a classic tune and make it one's own.)
ROB SEZ: Karl freaking Wallinger!! There was no other musician making rock and pop music in the 1980s and 90s more talented or under-appreciated than K.W. I can’t think of a single person I’d put above 'Mr. World Party'' with the possible exception of Prince. Abundant evidence for my claim can be found in this here post. These ‘leftovers’ (left off the reent 5-disc Arkeology box set — which is all rarities) would be the envy of many better-known artists. The Mrs. and I caught a WP live show in 2014, and Karl still had it. It's a huge loss that he's gone.(Check the sample and get a 4-minute master class re: how to take a classic tune and make it one's own.)
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| Karl & Co. play Chicago, IL in 2006 photo by Barry Brecheisen |
01 Leave You to Find You
02 Don't B Late 4 2morrow
03 You're a Hurricane,
I'm a Caravan (demo)
I'm a Caravan (demo)
04 Picture This (unfinished demo)
05 These Are the Days
06 Yeah Yeah Yeah
07 Nowhere Man
08 The Long & Winding Road
09 All You Need Is Love
10 Everybody Dance Now
11 Show Me to the Top (diff. mix)
12 Hollywood (groovy remix)
13 Strange Groove (live)
14 Photograph ('failed version')
15 Backwards for Your Love
16 (mystery track)
Special thanks to Scott for sharing tracks 1, 3, 4, 7-9
MP3 (variable bit rates)
World Party is Karl Wallinger ... and whomever he collaborates with. Just about everything you hear in this set is played, sung & produced by KW.
World Party’s most recent release is Arkeology,
a 5-disc archival treasure trove
(I own this, and I LOVE it. Read Bill Kopp's review
of Arkeology at his Musoscribe blog HERE).
Learn more about the music of Karl Wallinger and World Party at the official site and/or AllMusic
Once again... thanks. I'm in mid-download mode, after listening to the Long and Winding Road cover. Wow! It's phenomenal - an excellent combination of reverence and redefinition.
ReplyDeleteOh yes -- Karl can and does do that! Enjoy....
DeleteI'm putting together an album of all the World Party covers of Beatles songs. Does anyone know what year the versions of "All You Need Is Love" and "The Long and Winding Road" are from?
ReplyDeleteOh wow! I have nearly everything World Party's released; this is a godsend. When I saw them in '93 (opening for 10,000 Maniacs near Buffalo, Natalie's next-to-last show w/10KM); WP played a very groovy "All You Need is Love" w/a psychedelic light show; and riffed out a few bars of "Everybody Dance Now."
ReplyDelete@Paul: I once played all of their extant Beatles/McCartney covers on my radio show, most of them from 'Arkeology.'
I removed some pops and hiss from These Are The Days for those interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8N_wws_CS4
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