Sunday

Moodymann - Don't you want my love

ARMS - BACKWARDS RECORD

A collection of other people's songs, played and recorded by ARMS.

September 2nd, 2014

Covering other people's songs is a funny undertaking. Everyone has their own barometer for this sort of thing—for one guy, a song might seem completely off-limits, a violent absurdity, while for someone else it hits that little sweet-spot, where it almost seems self-evident as a perfect song to cover. Who knows what guides these preferences? Somewhere between personal taste, a feeling of kinship with the emotions expressed, a sense of identification with a given songwriter's craft... 

Either way, the songs on Backwards Record all felt just right to me, tapping into this magical continuum of songwriting that vibrates in my echo chamber at just the right frequency. I recorded these song over the last ten years or so, inspired by in-the-moment feelings—a rediscovery of the (still underrated) songs of They Might Be Giants; a strange and wonderful correspondence with Susan Lane, widow of the Faces' Ronnie Lane; the tragic death of Broadcast's Trish Keenan—and as such their aspirations were just to see what would happen if I recorded them.

Backwards Record is a collection of songs that have made me get all feel-something-y over the years and I hope that my appreciation comes across in this humble mess of internet doodaddery. Enjoy it with my compliments.

- tg

Ooh La La (The Faces)

Norma Jean Bell - I'm The Baddest Bitch (In The Room) (Moodymann Mix)

Dion - The Wanderer

Yaw - Where Will You Be

Cosmo's Factory

Run Through The Jungle

The Best Of The 70's (seventies)

Lovely Day

Bang: The Bert Berns Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Baby, Please Don't Go (feat. Van Morrison)

Kissing A Fool

At Last

Playlist: The Best of Dionne Warwick

Walk on By

Fetenkult -Oktoberfest Hits 2007

Jailhouse Rock

Elvis' Golden Records

All Shook Up

50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records, Vol. 2

A Big Hunk O' Love

Mama's Gun

Bag Lady

Live As It Gets

Papa Was A Rolling Stone

The Complete Atlantic Albums Collection

Land of 1000 Dances (2007 Remaster)

a preview of our second single of the upcoming LP "The Haunted House of House".  enjoy!

vinyl release: March 26th 2012

Session Victim - A1. Cow Palace - DOG24

Try & Love

It's Not Easy

Lyrics

I want to know
What you want from me
Ill try my best
If you let me

I want to know
That i'm not like the rest
Let me show you
Take my hand

Let's jump in the river and swim far away
Let's jump in the river and swim far away

Let's jump in the river and swim far away
The feelings aren't new the feelings will stay
Let's jump in the river and swim far away

(SICK AS SOLO)

Let's jump in the river and swim far away
The feelings aren't new the feelings will stay
Let's jump in the river and swim far away

The River

MARVIN GAYE -INNER CITY BLUES - (FRAMEWORKS EDIT)

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