The New Pornographers' live cover of Dreams

[Livia]

http://obscuresound.com/mp3/newlive-dre.mp3

A rare New Pornographers bootleg (less than 1000 copies released) recently surfaced online, being a standard thirteen song set. I’m not sure if it is a collection of various boots from different shows, or one whole show. I do know that their cover of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ was played on October 12th, at Webster Hall in New York. The cover is the one of my favorite songs from the release, with the band’s reputation as an exceptional live band proving to be correct (through headphones, anyways — I have yet to see them in person). Neko Case’s rendition of ‘Dreams’ is just fantastic, doing her readily available Stevie Nicks interpretation. For some reason, this cover was considered to be one of those hidden tracks on the release, with twenty-four out of twenty-seven minutes of the song being silent. I cut out the silence, so you can get straight to the point. For those like me who haven’t witnessed one of the greatest acts of the decade live yet, this could be the closest way for now. That is, unless you live in Australia, where they recently confirmed eight dates for December.

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