Sweet Jane With Affection
June 10, 2007
Do you like Sweet Jane by The Velvet Underground?
Do you like Love and Affection by Joan Armatrading?
Course you do.
Way back more than a year ago I posted this.
Crazy as it seems, I’m now going to quote myself from that post:
…Also get hold of “Sweet Jane (With Affection)” by Two Nice Girls*, which blends Joan Armatrading’s Love and Affection with The Velvet Undergrounds’s Sweet Jane, because the two songs, when you slow them down, are very, very similar.
Cowboy Junkies did a great version of Sweet Jane on the Trinity Sessions album, but the Two Nice Girls version is achingly beautiful. It will tear and strengthen you heart like love and springtime. Stick that on and it’s like the blossom falling across the city while caterpillars explode into butterflies.
* Now you don’t have to, because about half an hour ago I managed to track down the song. I remembered writing about it back then, so I wanted to share it here.
Listen – Sweet Jane With Affection
Rare hybrid covers and money off your pizza. Where else, right?
5 comments
I still like the Velvet Underground version better, but this is pretty good.
You should do an audio posts label so that we can find them all.
Righto – trouble is, not all of them are songs. Some are just sounds. I’ve resisted having categories, since everything seems to cross over two or three different ones. (music, accents, grammar, coincidence, philiosophy, travel, jokes, etc and the categories in the banner art at the top right – Rants, Ideas, Songs, Guitars and Philosophy)
*mumbles*
didn’t see them up there.
Banner art – the top right. Guy with the megaphone? To the right of the logo. I say logo, it’s just my handwriting.
You’re not missing much if you can’t see it. They were supposed to be clickable, but I decided I didn’t like categories.
For another song mix, try this one yourself:
REM’s “The One I Love” and Neil Young’s “My, My, Hey, Hey” (or whatever that song is called).
I’ve only heard it done live, by a friend of mine, so I know of no recording of the mix, but it is easy enough to play at home on your own guitar. Hell, if I can do it…
Leave a comment. Play nice. I will turn this blog around.