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Single Minded: Live Cure, Nick Cave Covers the Beatles, Radiohead, Al Green and Sugababes

11/30/07, 10:37 am EST

Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more.

The Cure, “A Forest” [Live]
Chilling Cure performance from 1980, before they got all dolled up in ersatz Gothwear. Truth be told, Robert Smith is creepier without the makeup.

Nick Cave, “Here Comes the Sun” [Beatles Cover]
Nick Cave manages to make even the Beatles’ most optimistic moment sound like a death rattle.

Sugababes, “Hey There Delilah” [Plain White T’s Cover]
Woefully underheard British pop band takes a whack at woefully overheard American sensations. Both come out the better for it.

AZ vs. Al Green, “I Am the Truth” [Mashup]
The sacred vs. the profane: mid-Nineties legend imbues the sweetest Al Green songs with a palpable sense of menace. You should hear his Hannah Montana remixes.

Radiohead, “Nude” [Amplive Remix]
Wow. California MC Amplive slices and dices a (let’s face it, kind of bloodless) new Radiohead song and turns it into a sleek and simmering hip-hop track. If more of In Rainbows sounded like this, we might not feel so chapped about shelling out for the discbox.

[Photo: Getty]


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beatles fan | 3/7/2009, 1:39 am EST

i love the cure 2 !show me show me show me how u do that trick and i wont finish singing the song cuse my brother just told me to shut up hahahaha

kiel | 2/13/2008, 9:09 am EST

i like how rollingstone is ripping on radiohead when they gave the album 4 and a half stars when it came out. its proof they lost touch with the music itself and simply say what they think will please people.

greg 2 | 12/8/2007, 9:50 am EST

to get the amplive album you have to have bought in rainbows….wtf?
http://www.pi tchforkmedia.com/page/news/475 22-too-hort-contributes-to-iin -rainbowsi-remix-record

Dort | 11/30/2007, 5:09 pm EST

Umm, no, they should always kiss Radiohead’s ass because they are fucking amazing. I cannot belive Rolling Stone is ripping one of the greatest bands ever and complementing some obsecure rapper who is run of the mill at best. Makes sense though, RS doesnt really know shit about music.

eep | 11/30/2007, 3:06 pm EST

Nude, along with Reckoner and Jigsaw, is one of the best tracks on In Rainbows and one of their best tracks evah.

Send me yr boxset, I won’t mind.

Mr. Hoogaboom | 11/30/2007, 2:50 pm EST

Mr. Keyes, please do not tell me that you favor Amplive’s remix of Nude in which he raps about thugs and booties over radiohead’s version. I’ll admit, at first I wasn’t a fan of the song. It sounded like a rehash of Ok Computer…but over time I’ve grown to love that song and god, Amplive sucks. His cuts are so cliched. He stutters the music to the point of annoyance and drops generic rappisms that destroy it.

mike | 11/30/2007, 2:25 pm EST

Wait I think you’re missing something more newsworthy! Did you miss Rolling Stone actually disses Radiohead?? STOP THE PRESSES! Am I reading that correctly? They’re calling “Nude” “bloodless”!! Wow.

Congrats, RS, for finally strapping on a pair & not kissing a**. For once! More of this would be appreciated.

Otak | 11/30/2007, 1:51 pm EST

Mellancamp still sucks. Look at some of the other bozos already inducted into Cleveland’s thingy. They’ll put Mellancamp in the bozo hall with The Captain and Tenele (spelling? who cares”)

Jay | 11/30/2007, 11:20 am EST

John Mellencamp announced at his concert last night that he’s been inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame. How about getting this news up on there somewhere? Let’s go. This is huge. It may be harder now for Rolling Stone to underestimate Mellencamp now that he’s officially a rock immortal. I’m sure they’ll still try, however.

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