As we’ve learned of late, covering Talking Heads’ tunes ain’t the easiest thing to pull off (butchering the Heads’ tunes, well now you’re talking). Unlike Weiland ‘n’ Slash and those publicity hungry Exies, however, the Brazilian Girls’ Head-y take is worth the download. The Girls’ pan-global rhythmic chops are a nice fit for “Crosseyed And Painless,” the quartet serving up the track on a liquid-fusion bassline with enough low-mixed electro texture and groove permutations to keep your attention, and keep you away from your inner purist. Good stuff.
The track first appeared on last year’s Red Hot And Latin Redux, though it’s being re-released on Brazilian Girls digital-only remix EP More Than Pussy, featuring Carl Craig’s remix of “Last Call,” two remixes of “Pussy” by armsofghandi, MSTRKRFT’s remix of “Jique,” and two versions of “Crosseyed And Painless” (one in Spanish, hermanos).
More Than Pussy is out tomorrow on the band’s site and on iTunes via Verve Forecast.
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I love this
does anyone know if this is the same version on the red hot and latin redux?
this sounds amazing!!!!!
Correction: “Jique” was by the Brazilian Girls, and remixed by MSTRKRFT (not the other way around).
Or, do the BGs do a remix of the…remix???
I heard Crosseyed & Painless today on KLOCradio…call it fate.
This track is wonderful.
yeah… also that album (Red Hot Latin Redux) not bad.
Cool cover. Both of their albums are awesome, they are extremely tight musicians and their frontwoman Sabinna is beyond gorgeous. Factor all of this and the fact that they probably put on the most fun show I’ve ever seen, (Sabbina making out with chicks on stage, the entire band smoking a j) and you have one criminally underrated band.
This really is awesome.
A lot of Talking Heads stuff (especially the Remain in Light era, which is the period this song is from) was very rhythm-oriented in the first place, so taking it in an electronica/dance direction is a very natural and logical way to cover it. Plus, unlike those other two monstrosities above, I can actually believe that they were/are TH fans, and not just cock-rock dorks looking for a shocking song to cover.
(Well, okay, I can sort of believe that Scott Weiland listened to some TH in his day, too, but Slash? No.)
Want friend to smooth life.