Jesse Malin - On Your Sleeve
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Artist: Jesse MalinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Music Label: One Little Indian Us
Soundtracks:
- Leaving Babylon (Bad Brains)
- Me And Julio Down By The School Yard (Paul Simon)
- Sway (Rolling Stones)
- Russian Roulette (Lords of the New Church)
- Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed)
- You Can Make Them Like You (The Hold Steady)
- Harmony (Elton John)
- It's Not Enough (Johnny Thunders)
- Looking For A Love (Neil Young)
- Lady From Baltimore (Tim Hardin)
- Operator (Jim Croce)
- Fairytale of New York (The Pogues)
- Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen)
- Everybody's Talking (Harry Nilsson)
Music reviews of On Your Sleeve
Music Review: It Has Its Moments
Rating: 3 Stars
...but unfortunately, they're very few. While it's nearly always interesting to hear a musician cover the songs that influenced them, it doesn't always work. In order for a cover version to be good, it needs to be translated through the covering artist's sensibilities, while still remaining somewhat respectful to the source material. Think Pin Ups [ECD], or Warren Zevon's cover of "Back in the High Life Again."
Jesse Malin, a very good singer and songwriter in his own right, mostly fails to bring anything new to these songs. However, there are exceptions--an acoustic workout through the Hold Steady's "You Can Make Him Like You" strips the song down to its bare essentials and reveals something previously hidden behind the original's desperate wall of noise. "Hungry Heart" and "Harmony" are likewise retooled just enough to put a new spin on the material, and they work nicely. However, his cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sway" doesn't sound that different from any cover band playing for beer on a Saturday night might play it. Still, though, the album only truly falls on its face once--with the cover of the Pogues classic "Fairytale of New York." There's no way Malin can even come close to either adding anything to or changing the wrecked emotional impact of the original.
Everything else is, at least, pleasant. His takes on Jim Croce and Harry Nilson are fine, and it's interesting to hear a song like "Walk on the Wild Side" performed by anyone who isn't Lou Reed. If these songs were sprinkled throughout a much longer live set, or included on the odd album here and there, I'd like them a lot better. As it is, seek out Malin's own songs, instead.
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14 tracks, chiefly solid-gold cover songs. Saw cut into title spine just 'nicks' art.Alternative Rock CDs
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