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Wilder ZobyThis week we focus on the song Contagious released by former Chin Chin frontman Wilder Zoby, which is co-produced by EL-P
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SYFFAL Track Marks Volume XXVIII - The Bi-Weekly iTunes Fix for the Music Junkie
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Kristine - Hundreds of Tears (Sheryl Crow cover) taken from Point Break
On a bi-weekly basis I troll the interwebs looking for new artists for SYFFAL’s Track Marks. It’s a labor of love that is so god damn rewarding. When I come across an artist that rocks my ears all I want to do is share them with the world. Usually they oblige my requests for an mp3 to offer as free download and the world becomes a better place. Sometimes they don’t. When an artist does turn down my fawning advances my very next thought is to pitch them on contributing to our pop cultures collide project.
Kristine, AKA the Greek goddess of retro pop followed this model. I was crushed when she could not make A Night Like Tonight available for Track Marks 23 (which would have cemented #23’s status as the grandest volume to date) so I threw a Johnny Utah at the Rose Bowl like Hail Mary at her and asked her to contribute a retro soaked cover for PCC. She agreed. Being the presumptuous bastard that I am I made a few suggestions. To me the theme to Better Off Dead seemed like the logical layup. Kristine scoffed at my suggestions and came back with Hundreds of Tears from the 1991 classic Point Break. I had to commend her choice. She went out of her wheelhouse and at the same time selected a hidden gem from a movie that all of us thought we knew like the back of our surf boards. Fuck I had to watch the Blu-ray (yes I own Point Break on Blu-ray. Don’t hate) just to isolate the scene (Johnny Utah orders some shrimp and fries while wooing Tank girl with false stories about his deceased parents. The bastard) in which this Sheryl Crow song appears in.
Thank you Kristine for giving me a reason to watch Point Break again….and thanks for this killer SPOT ON COVER. Cap locks are very much warranted here because this rendition is soaked in the DNA of the original. If I didn’t know any better I’d say Kristine combed the beaches off of Santa Monica Boulevard so she could run into a sex wax wielding Sheryl Crow. Listening to the cover it sounds as if she ripped out a lock of Crow’s curly hair, analyzed the structure, and made a spot on cover copy. It has blown my mind. Be warned people Kristine will take you to the edge…and past it.
That’s it I’m done. Vaya con Dios, Brah.
A Word From Kristine
If there's anything else almost as good as the 80's, that's the early 90's and films like Point Break. I chose this song because it is a great song off a great film, it is so hopeful in its darkness, written and performed greatly, with a very special vibe overall and I just wanted to get anyone who didn't know or hadn't noticed it up to now to give it a listen. Let's just hope Hollywood never remakes this!
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