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CMU Approved
Approved: 50 years of Dr Martens
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 7 April 2010
Oh, I do like a good cover version. You know, where the coverer takes the original off in a totally different direction, and creates something as wonderful or, sometimes, better than the original version. And I think most of these covers should fall into that category.
The Dr Martens people are marketing the fiftieth anniversary of some shoe or other by getting ten contemporary artists to record new and, it seems, more bleepy cover versions of “cult classic songs”, each of which will be available to download or stream via the boot firm’s website.
Already online are The Noisettes doing Buzzcocks, DaM-Funk doing The Human League and my personal favourite so far, The Duke Spirit’s version of Sham 69’s ‘The Kids Are United’. Coming later this year, possibly with less bleeps, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will do The Pogues, Buraka Som Sistema with rework Neneh Cherry and, perhaps most interestingly, The Cinematic Orchestra will make a version of Jeff Buckley’s ‘Lilac Wine’. Definitely worth keeping an eye on if you, like me, dig a quality cover.
