The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145738   Message #3372296
Posted By: Phil Edwards
05-Jul-12 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: The futureheads
Subject: RE: The futureheads
I think it's a great album; it includes versions of The Keeper and The Old Dun Cow as well as Beeswing, not to mention some of their own songs & some contemporary covers.

It's not been universally welcomed, it has to be said. Ian "No, Not That One" Anderson took it as the cue for an unusually grumpy thread on fRoots about singaround standards that have worn out their welcome, including The Keeper and The Old Dun Cow. (There are probably some songs everyone would rather not hear again, but personally I wouldn't include either of those - not least because I've never actually heard The Keeper sung live.) As for their take on Beeswing, a friend of mine (who is a huge Richard Thompson fan) commented, "I'd never heard that. And now I wish I'd never heard that." (I like it, though.)