Favorite Cat Power songs?
 

(in no order)

Say
King Rides By
Sweedeedee
Colors and the Kids
Werewolf
The Greatest
The Moon
Islands
Willie
Fool
Shaking Paper
Maybe Not
Taking People
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Rockets

track six moon pix, the one with head in the title.

Back of Your Head.

Anything not on the greatest except the title track and the last two songs. And a few on you are free aren't my favorites.

living proof, american flag, knocking on heavens door
(im a noob)

at first thought and subject to change:

3 times
rockets
sleepwalker
mr. gallo
itchyhead
enough
we all die
great expectations
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ice water
(pretty much all of dear sir and myra lee actually)

nude as the news
fate of the human carbine
water & air
cross bones style
wild is the wind
i don't blame you
werewolf

anything off moon pix and myra lee...

nothing off you are free and the greatest

free
ice water (i love this song)

agreed with the moon pix & myra lee assertions, especially tracks 1,2 and 7 from myra lee, and moonpix (2,3,4,5,6,10) and nude as the news, salty dog and sea of love.

I only know the covers album. I like just about everything on there.

She does a mean cover of Oasis's 'wonderwall'.

the covers album was the turning point of her career and music going from awesome to not.

I've never been massively into her at any point of her career but i rather like the odd song or two.

So do you count the Covers Album as awesome or non-awesome, T&B?

i think it's on the awesome side, althouh i think her previous records are more awesome, but to my mind there's a marked change in style on that record, it's much less dark and claustrophobic feeling than her previous stuff, and indicates towards the lighter feeling of her subsequent records.

I like the one where she doesn't sing, play any instruments, or go anywhere within a 20 mile radius of any recording device.

I disagree...I almost never listen to Dear Sir or Myra Lee. Covers is one of my all-time favorite albums.

10

Werewolf
Moonshiner
We All Die
I Don't Blame You
(I can't get no) Satisfaction
Back of Your Head
Ice Water
In This Hole
Fate of the Human Carbine
King Rides By

yeah, but it's a well established fact that you have rubbish taste

what.... not a single mention of her best song...

crossbonestyle

wrong

Im not a huge fan of cat power but i adore her version of "sea of love". It sounds so incredibly gorgeous and simple. Just her beautiful vulnerable voice and her strumming that harpischord. If she has a more beautiful song than that I'd like to hear it.

i don't think that should be considered as "Cat Power" (you know what i mean) cos its... covers, i think this option should be voided. i like You Are Free, and i kinda don't like the Greatest. Moon Pix is awesome too.

metal heart.

Dito on metal heart.

Also "I am not what you want".

Metal heart is one of her tunes that i rather like.
That i know her cover of 'wonderwall' was only played on the John Peel show but it's widely available for download.

Nude as The News
Cross Bones Style
In this Hole
Good Clean Fun
Colours and The Kids
Say
Peking Saint
You May Know Him
Fate of the Human Carbine (this one gives me shivers)
Babydoll
Evolution
He War

I don't like the latest CD that much.

Word.

both written (or at least involved in...chris matthews sang SW) by peter jefferies (1st was on a This Kind of Punishment record, the latter on his 1st solo release). he's a fucking king.

bathysphere
love and communication
hate
babydoll
not what you want

Cat Power is an untalented girlie feminist hipster poet.


not that i'm against feminism or anything

why do you say she is a feminist?

and why is everyone so down on you are free?
i love you are free and dear sir, but im not too big on the rest, although there are still alot of songs on the others that i like.

i cant listen to you are free as often as id want to though. its too sad.

feminist my ass. there is no feminism allowed in this household.

all the women are submissive in your house aren't they?

Bathysphere is a Smog song, not a Cat Power Song. (Of Course, you already knew that.)

cat power covered it though.

That still doesn't make it a "Cat Power Song".

That would be like if someone asked me what my favorite Phish song was and I answered "Loving Cup", "Emotional Rescue", "Ramble On", "Good Times Bad Times", "The Real Me", "Take Me To The River"...etc.

Yeah, they've covered all of those tunes, but it still doesn't make those tunes "Phish Songs".

she didn't write it, but it has become part of her reportoire, and how come you aren't pointing out who wrote all the various tracks from her covers album when people choose them among their favourites?

Because almost all of those people mentioned that they enjoy her version of the song, or someone else mentioned the original artist, or they were obvious covers (i.e. Satisfaction). And also, because Smog is a great artist and if people like Cat Power's version of Bathysphere, they would probably enjoy hearing the original (in case they aren't familiar with it), so I took the opportunity to point out that it is in fact a Smog song (and an excellent one at that).

Why are you so defensive and attacking? I merely pointed out the truth and added info to the thread.

because i am a moody bastard. incidentally, i find cat power's version pales in comparison to the original

Off the top of my head and in no particular order:

Rockets
Mr. Gallos
Nude as the News
Cross Bones Style
Fate of the Human Carbine
No Sense
Willie
Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down
Taking People
Yesterday is Here
I Found a Reason
In This Hole
Sea of Love
Satisfation
Metal Heart
What Would the Community Think
Enough
I Don't Blame You
Werewolf
Babydoll
King Rides By
Ice Water
Back of Your Head
Fate of the Human Carbine
No Sense
Red Apples
Shaking Paper
Etc.