The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79844   Message #2299530
Posted By: matt milton
28-Mar-08 - 09:31 AM
Thread Name: Songs that should have been folk songs
Subject: RE: Songs that should have been folk songs
Whenever i listen to the brilliant album 'Germ Free Adolescents" by the punk band X Ray Spex, I always think their songs are crying out for a folk cover or two. They often have these really modal-sounding vocal liness, and their singer, Polly Styrene, does these little vocal ornamentations that sound unwittingly (I assume) like traditional southern Irish trills. A cover of "Germ Free Adolescents" or "The Day the world turned Dayglo" on bouzouki and guitar, or maybe squeezebox, would sound amazing...