{"id":1911,"date":"2021-06-18T00:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2021-06-18T00:38:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:38:41","slug":"dispatches-for-luna-max-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches for Luna &#038; Max (#13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A triptych of covers:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZnTHH3pUqg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PyN_d28-sfw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASQ2Y07ukGo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s the thing, I&#8217;m not a Springsteen fan. He&#8217;s\u00a0<em>fine<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t even really love the original version of this song (although I think I could personally get down with it as a karaoke jam).<\/li>\n<li>I do wonder what it says about my tastes that three artists I <em>do<\/em> like all offer drastically different takes on this song. Is &#8220;Dancing in the Dark&#8221; the indie-rock version of &#8220;My Favorite Things&#8221; or &#8220;I Got Rhythm&#8221; for jazz musicians? A familiar slate on which to do something innovative, meaningful, personal?<\/li>\n<li>A few words on each of these versions:\n<ul>\n<li>The brattiness of the Downtown Boys in this song is just straight up jubilant. Also that&#8230; sax solo. The skronkiest of saxophone solos. It sounds both entirely out of place and imperatively necessary\u2014something that could probably be said about\u00a0<em>every<\/em> sax solo on the two Downtown Boys records.<\/li>\n<li>Hot Chip does their Hot Chip thing adequately in this. I think it&#8217;s the interpolation halfway through of an LCD Soundsystem song that I love enough that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=994\">used it<\/a> when I announced my first professor gig nearly a decade ago and that I also had a good friend perform a version of during my wedding ceremony. You just like it when things you like get combined into one (it&#8217;s the sonic peanut butter and chocolate model). I think it&#8217;s why everyone continues to love that damn cover of Somewhere Over the Rainbow\/What a Wonderful World that gets played everywhere for everything in all contexts forever (we will have our culture collapse as a montage to Izzy&#8217;s, sadly, singularly memorable recording for most).<\/li>\n<li>I guess Lucy Dacus offers the most conventional cover of the three. I think I get wrapped up thinking about how damn good of a songwriter she is. I mean, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0WDZdT04ls4\">Night Shift<\/a>. I dig the levity and the <em>fun<\/em> here and it&#8217;s a joy that, to these ears, goes beyond The Boss&#8217;s original.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I should note that, while I don&#8217;t really love Springsteen, I guess I appreciate the work in his wake. This cover aside, I am a big fan of dumb bombastic sax-heavy pop. The upcoming Bleachers album feels like it&#8217;s basically one big Springsteen tribute (he even shows up on the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E4uA85iWsIg\">single<\/a> on the album). I am overdue to draft a dispatch entry on just how much I like Bleachers, btw. Also, in the same way that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dWRCooFKk3c\"><em>that\u00a0<\/em><em>solo<\/em><\/a> feels like the entire reason My Guitar Gently Weeps was brought into reality, I kind of think one of Springsteen&#8217;s greatest accomplishments was paving the way for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TtdLEKv27y0\">this<\/a> Sharon Van Etten cover.<\/li>\n<li>I think the line &#8220;This gun&#8217;s for hire&#8221; is one of the dumbest things ever written in a song.<\/li>\n<li>And it gets immediately forgiven because I love belting along with &#8220;Even if we&#8217;re just dancin&#8217; in the dark&#8221; right after it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m sick of sittin&#8217; &#8217;round here tryin&#8217; to write this book.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell people this is awesome:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1911\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1911\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1911\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span>Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span>Reddit<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1911\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pocket\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-pocket sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=pocket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pocket\"><span>Pocket<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A triptych of covers: Here&#8217;s the thing, I&#8217;m not a Springsteen fan. He&#8217;s\u00a0fine. I don&#8217;t even really love the original version of this song (although I think I could personally get down with it as a karaoke jam). I do wonder what it says about my tastes that three artists I do like all offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell people this is awesome:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1911\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1911&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" 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