Monday, March 10, 2008

New(ish) Everclear coming in April

Left out of Spin's recent article on 2008 albums to watch for was Everclear's forthcoming The Vegas Years, out April 15. Inexplicably, it's on Capitol, which dropped the band sometime around 2004.
This does explain why Everclear played so many covers when I saw them last fall: the Vegas Years is gonna be a covers album.

The album's probably on Capitol because most of the tracks were previously-recorded. It's going to include a live version of "Brown-Eyed Girl," (the overproduced studio version was on 2001's Songs from an American Movie, vol. 1), and "Boys are Back in Town," from 1999's Detroit Rock City soundtrack.

There are also a couple of Saturday morning cartoon covers: "Land of the Lost," and "Speed Racer." Sponge did the Speed Racer theme for 1995's Saturday Morning Cartoon Greatest Hits... maybe these two were rejects from that album?

Complete tracklisting, according to the band's website:

1. Rich Girl (new recording, originally by Hall & Oates)
2. Our Lips are Sealed (Go-Go's, most recently done by Hilary Duff)
3. The Boys are Back in Town
4. Bad Connection (originally by Yaz)
5. Kicks (new recording; originally by Paul Revere and the Raiders)
6. Pocahontas (originally by Neil Young)
7. Night Train to Memphis (originally by Little Jimmy Dickens; also done by Jerry Lee Lewis)
8. This Land is Your Land (originally by Woody Guthrie; Everclear version first appeared on Wake Up Everybody in 2004)
9. American Girl (originally appeared on a 1994 Tom Petty tribute album, as well as 1996's "Heroin Girl" single)
10. Brown Eyed Girl (live)
11. Southern Girls (originally by Cheap Trick; this version first appeared on the Japanese version of So Much for the Afterglow, then the 2001 single for "Wonderful")
12. Land of the Lost
13. Speed Racer (appeared on the same two albums as Southern Girls)
14. Live Intro
15. 867-5309 (Jenny) (live) (originally by Tommy Tutone)

Here's the video for "Boys are Back in Town":

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