Dougal Reed - Rumours

[Mari]

talking about covers, here's what I just bumped into while searching on soulseek..

http://flakmag.com/music/2001/2.html
5. "Go Your Own Way" | Dougal Reed
Rumours | (The Kitty Kitty Corporation) | 4:20

No Flak year-in-music feature would be complete without a cover tune, and the enigmatic Quickspace side project Dougal Reed obliged with a whole album of them. Rumours is a top-notch, top-to-bottom reworking of Fleetwood Mac's 1977 album of the same name.

Dougal Reed's version, however, was released with surprisingly little fanfare. A press release on The Kitty Kitty Corporation's website announced that Rumours was an album recorded by two brothers, James and Dougal Reed after Dougal wore out his copy of the classic LP. But gosh, that guy on the cover of the record sure looks a lot like Quickspace's frontman, Tom Cullinan, and isn't that Quickspace's singer/guitarist Nina Pascale singing the Stevie Nicks parts? And the album is on the record label run by Quickspace's Sean Newsham, who's thanked in the liner notes.

Not surprisingly, Rumours sounds a lot like Quickspace's garagey Krautrock. "Go Your Own Way" has been so thoroughly Quickspaced that anyone unfamiliar with Fleetwood Mac's version would be hard-pressed to figure out it was a cover. Cullinan starts the song off with an off-key, half-whining "Loving you is not a good thing to do," which makes him sound like the loneliest, most pathetic man in Camden, if not the world. The remaining Quickspace flourishes, including sloppily bowed guitar, distorted arpeggios and synthesized strings, take Lindsey Buckingham's kiss-off anthem to such incredible heights, you'll wish you'd been dumped, too.
(— Eric Wittmershaus)

sounds fun, btw