COVERS WEEK
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
from the album The Covers Record
2000
iTunes
originally recorded by
The Rolling Stones
Out of Our Heads
1965
iTunes
A minute or so into The Covers Record, the self-explanatorily titled 2000 album by Cat Power (a.k.a. Chan Marshall), it’s easy to conclude that you’ve got the album pegged. Opening by reinterpreting The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” as an impossibly melancholy dirge, Marshall seems to merely be playing the familiar game of reworking classics in incongruous ways. But Marshall, a singer and arranger so talented she seems incapable of hitting a wrong note, is more daring than that: She reinvents “Satisfaction” by stripping it down to a few verses, leaving out the chorus, and bringing out the sadness and alienation within.
Congratulations to Cat Power for being the first artist thrice blogged here.