School is rough, no doubt about it. But all things must pass, and though I know people are already griping that CMJ's going to turn into this fall's Siren Festival (i.e. great bands but awful crowds), it's still pumping me full of anticipatory adrenaline.
There's going to be a large post on CMJ soon, and that long-awaited list is still in the works. In the meantime, the music release pages are getting updated, and slowly but surely, the Events Calendar is coming alive. But this isn't really the reason for posting.
The true reason is the following: I retract my dislike for The Futureheads. I'd just like to make that public. I retract my dismissal that they were a cheap Franz knockoff, and I apologize for my snobby refusal to post any of their gigs. I was completely and utterly wrong on this one.
The turn-around? The Futureheads' cover of The Streets' "Fit But You Know It", one of the best songs to come out this year. You all have probably heard it a million times already, but I, in my infinite wisdom, only discovered it today after finally relenting against my Futureheads prejudice.
I am a huge Streets fan, and therefore if you cover one of Skinner's classics badly, you're dirt in my music snob book. The Futureheads were batting 0-1 when I clicked the link from Vice Records. But holy shit. Talk about fit and knowing it. This is the most gunning, slam-blastingly amazing cover I've heard in a long time. Simply fucking amazing. Just listen to it, because at this point in time, I don't have the words to do the piece justice. But know that The Futureheads aren't cheap Franz knockoffs. They may not be, say, These Bones or Runner & The Thermodynamics, or even Franz themselves. But they aren't half bad in my book.
The original pirate material, taken by David Atlas for Rolling Stone in May 2004.
The Futureheads cover 'Fit But You Know It
I'm a loser/And I'm not what I appear to be-S.
