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

[Mari]

and here's a Yousendit-link for Go Your Own Way

http://s46.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2...E1HGRXXAKJ870X

[shackin'up]

Holy frick what a fantastic version-thanks!!!!!

I'll have to change my screenname into "CHECKIN'OUT"

serious, this version kicks ass totally. Is there more?????? I'm an instant fan!!!

TRACKAGHOST you MUST hear this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shackin'up]

a very adequate review:

Dougal Reed | Rumours (Kitty Kitty)
I rarely read press releases, not for any moral reason, I just lose them and this is a time I’m glad I did. The picture on the front is enough to scare small, even medium-sized, children. Then there’s the content... I seem to recall reading something about a man upset that his beloved Fleetwood Mac album was worn out and not being able to get another, but then I put the bit of paper down... anyway... nothing can prepare you for this. Dougal has, indeed, covered the entire ‘Rumours’ album, almost single-handedly too. You could ask “why?” and you probably will. The main posers of that question would be the band themselves, closely followed by the words “couldn’t we have done that?” for there are aspects of this version that whup the original. Anyone who’s seen Yo La Tengo kick a familiar song to pieces during a live show will appreciate the type of performance. Songs are lovingly destroyed by lack of funds to acquire the correct instruments or any technical recording devices, you half expect to hear the phone ring in the background, but then again, this looks like a man who lives beyond the reach of the modern world. Distortion is high, maybe to mask his vocal range when tackling the female parts, when not sung by Marianina Cecilia Pascale, or just because there wasn’t a volume control on the recorder. This is shown on You Make Loving Fun where you do wince and cover your ears slightly, but then again, it could easily be John Ottway singing. Dreams has some wonderful shared vocal though, I wouldn’t actually call it harmonising, over a spooky saw and other assorted noises that crash into Never Going Back with a harmonica and loud guitar fighting with screeched vocals. Don’t Stop is almost normal, until the chorus collapses into wails and guitars that Yo La Tengo would be proud of. Go Your Own Way could be the work of karaoke terrorists and should have you screaming along in unison and sympathy. The highlight of the album is The Chain, sounding better for the pummelling it’s given. It’s throbbing bass part is gloriously recreated before leading into a howling finale, which is how it should have been all those years ago and maybe BBC wouldn’t have lost Formula 1 to ITV had it been the case. You have to wonder why the Mac are so ridiculed listening to this as I Don’t Want To Know could easily be Pulp. It’s a shocking thought, but maybe they were actually huge pioneers of their time and shouldn’t be treated with such scorn. As the album ends in a blur of noise and throbbing guitar it seems a huge can of worms is opening. Were they really the White Stripes of their day?

Laurence Arnold
November 2001

[sparky]

Interesting little rave up of an arrangement. But my god that man's VOICE. It makes Billy Corgan sound smooth. Shrill, nasal, occasionally off key. Next time I need to strip paint - I'll put that on and turn it up.

[Dreammms]

Originally Posted by sparky

Interesting little rave up of an arrangement. But my god that man's VOICE. It makes Billy Corgan sound smooth. Shrill, nasal, occasionally off key. Next time I need to strip paint - I'll put that on and turn it up.

[Mari]

more info...
You can buy the album HERE:

http://www.opalmusic.com/a_to_z/quic...dougalreed.htm
http://catalog.songsearch.net/catalo...ugal_reed.html
http://www.rocketgirl.co.uk/store/ht...p?stockID=1388
http://www.piccadillyrecords.co.uk/v...ters=R&genre=1
(you can hear Dreams on this site!)
http://www.find-cd.co.uk/CH/CHOOSY024CD.htm

http://stage.vitaminic.com/main/dougal_reed/
(has a clip of his Songbird)

etc.. etc.. just google.
btw, Gerald? try a Dutch sites only search, haven't checked out the searchresults yet, but it's available here too.
(edit, now I have: Bol.com has it)

(I know I will f-ing buy it!!! It's available on vynil too, yumm.)

[Dreammms]

Originally Posted by Mari

http://www.piccadillyrecords.co.uk/v...ters=R&genre=1
(you can hear Dreams on this site!)

The clip of Dreams sounds pretty good. You said that you were listening to I Don't Wanna Know. Where did you hear that?

[Mari]

www.bol.com

That's a direct link to a Dutch online shop that sells the album, you can hear clips of all the songs there.
I found a lot of it on Soulseek though (one of those p2p networks). But to be fair to the artist, I'm going to buy the album anyway

[Dreammms]

Originally Posted by Mari

www.bol.com

That's a direct link to a Dutch online shop that sells the album, you can hear clips of all the songs there.
I found a lot of it on Soulseek though (one of those p2p networks). But to be fair to the artist, I'm going to buy the album anyway

thanks for all these links.