Even irregular MRML visitors know that Dylan and punk rock are the twin engines of this blog. Hence, when I can engage both obsessions - things go zoom! So that brings us to late seventies UK band The Mods who played a revved-up mod-punk/power-pop hybrid including an organ and hand-clap powered version on the too-rarely covered Dylan outtake, "If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Gotta Stay All Night)". It's a rock-solid version but one so obscure it isn't even listed in the exhaustive Dylan Covers DataBase!
The Mods - If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Gotta Stay All Night)
As with many of their fellow late seventies UK bands, The Mods learned a bit about what it was from The Jam. However, The Mods' seemed willing to pinch from a a greater array of sixties icon then Mr. Weller & co, who had really honed in on the The Who, The Kinks and The Small Faces.
The Mods - This is What it's All About
To download this wonderful piece of obscurica, go visit my friend Razor over at his great blog Short Sharp Kick in the Teeth.
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The Dylan cover is cool and all but it's "This Is What It's All About" that totally blew me away. Awesome, awesome song. I take it there's no re-issue to speak of?
ReplyDelete"It's a rock-solid version but one so obscure it isn't even listed in the exhaustive Dylan Covers DataBase!"
ReplyDeleteIt will be soon! Thanks for the link.
CPB
ReplyDeleteI was way-impressed with both but chose that last track to buttress my argument for their great worth.
Dave
Glad to have informed the mighty DCDB of something instead of the other way around!