This from 1981, Debbie Harry & that green frog…

Wow! New single out in UK on May 28th – here are the details:

7″ Part One (with free poster)
All My Friends (Franz Ferdinand Version)
No Love Lost (cover of Joy Division)

7″ Part Two
All My Friends (John Cale Version)
All My Friends (album version)

Enhanced CD
All My Friends (Edit)
All My Friends (Franz Ferdinand Version)
Freak Out/Starry Eyes
All My Friends (video)

Monday May 28th sees the release of the 12″. Like this:

12″
All My Friends (album version)
All My Friends (Harvey Mix)
Freak Out/Starry Eyes

All tracks will also be available to download.

Has anyone else ever released a single that’s a cover version by another band? Let alone 2?? If you want to hear Franz Ferdinand’s take on All My Friends, it’s up on the LCD myspace: www.myspace.com/lcdsoundsystem & the official video for the LCD version is on Youtube here:

Well worth checking out, and I’m very interested in hearing the John Cale version too!

Bill

According to the analysis of my last.fm stats. Here’s the proof:

Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter result

1 – Bloc Party: 61% mainstream

2 – New Order: 39% mainstream

3 – The Beatles: 101% mainstream

4 – Belle and Sebastian: 53% mainstream

5 – LCD Soundsystem: 24% mainstream

6 – Camera Obscura: 15% mainstream

7 – Arctic Monkeys: 51% mainstream

8 – The Smiths: 50% mainstream

9 – Cheap Trick: 11% mainstream

10 – The Cure: 72% mainstream

11 – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: 25% mainstream

12 – Prince: 29% mainstream

13 – Babyshambles: 16% mainstream

14 – The Rapture: 16% mainstream

15 – Kaiser Chiefs: 38% mainstream

16 – Maxïmo Park: 13% mainstream

17 – Kooks, The: 0% mainstream

18 – Little Man Tate: 2% mainstream

19 – The Jesus and Mary Chain: 16% mainstream

20 – Klaxons: 9% mainstream

Full details here if you’re interested: http://mainstream.freevicente.com/?user=billyb0ng0 And if you have a last.fm account, go here to work out how mainstream you are: http://mainstream.freevicente.com/ Bill

I picked this up the other day, cos it looked rather familiar…

Hmmm, I like it actually, I’m almost flattered! Nice work, whoever did this, though Holger Czukay’s not a patch on Debbie Harry, and you spelt Popol Vuh wrong. Still, it looks a great night – I couldn’t make it along as I was catching up with a friend returning briefly from London, but if anyone went, let me know what it was like.

Bill