You can’t win ’em all, nor should you. And, honestly, sometimes it seems a fair miracle that the prickly and musically diverse Buttsteak organization ever agrees on ANY songs to cover. We do try and get some boxes checked for everybody, though, and the cuts here represent some balloons I floated over to the gang around the time of one or more of our “recent” get-togethers. As I like to sometimes do, I started some demo versions, both to give myself a chance to try the songs on for size and to provide the fellers with something they could listen to rather than relying on the ol’ imagination. Well, as happens, the versions stalled out but I managed to go back and wrap ’em up. The song list varies from the good idea to less good, with songs that I think we should still do and some middle-of-the night head-scratchers. Happy to spill the beans on any and all! Ayway, good clean fun, and will include some more on another post.
JK
Life During Wartime (Talking Heads, Fear of Music, 1979)
Next to You (The Police, Outlandos d’Amour, 1978)
We Got the Beat (The Go-Go’s, Beauty and the Beat, 1981)
Only You (Yaz(oo), Upstairs at Eric’s, 1982)
I Held Her In My Arms (Violent Femmes, The Blind Leading the Naked, 1986)
Seven Seas (Echo and the Bunnymen, Ocean Rain, 1984)
Roadkill Buttsteak 