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You can’t win ’em all, nor should you. In this case, I didn’t even try, as these just weren’t anywhere near the Buttsteak wheelhouse. Still, my mind was spinning on ’80s related music and I’d listened to a LOT from these particular bands back in the day, starting with the “big music” era of MikeContinue reading “Covered: World Party and Waterboys”

You can’t win ’em all, nor should you… but occasionally things do fall in line. I wouldn’t have picked “Pretty in Pink” to be a fight and “Overkill” to be accepted right away but the Fabulous Flying Buttsteaks ended up picking up both of these tunes. Not surprisingly, given particular contributions of Fitz and FuzzyContinue reading “Beefsteak Non-Rejects: Pretty in Pink & Overkill”

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 gangContinue reading “Beefsteak Rejects: ’80s(ish) covers”

I’m FAR from the only one for whom Neil is perennially and indisputably the central musical figure.  Man, I could just cover his songs forever.  His songwriting and playing and artistic vision in general… His particular guitar tone and style, lyrical wit and sincerity, simultaneous looseness and unswerving focus.  There is nothing more to be added.  SoContinue reading “Covered: Neil Young deep dives”

Still clearing out the cobwebs, this batch of songs had been in the stalled-out production line since the 2015, partly as an attempt to live inside some songs for the Buttsteaks to possibly cover.  I prefer working on songs in pairs, probably out of ingrained A side/ B side bias, so there are three 45’sContinue reading “Covered: Cure & Smiths & Pogues”