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Headless Heroes
is not just another cover-project. Producers Eddie Bezalel and Hugo Nicolson have with Alela Diane a singer who has similar potential like once Camille had with Nouvelle Vague. The new interpretations are primarily long-forgotten folk songs rather than old new wave hits. It’s timeless material by Jackson C. Franck, Linda Perhacs and Vashti Bunyan.
Which song do you listen to when...
you feel like 1982?
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
Downtown Manhattan with Eva, Willie & Eddie.
you try to stay up for more than 24 hours?
Terry Riley - A Rainbow In Curved Air
you come home from the club?
The Velvet Underground - After Hours
you take a bubble bath?
Inner City - Good Life
you relax on a beach?
Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness
you ride a bicycle?
Clem Snide - No One's More Happy Than You
you camp in the desert?
Bob Dylan - Lay Down Your Weary Tune
you prepare a candle light dinner?
Leo Abrahams - 2000 Years From Now
It features this guy called Bingo Gazingo who's an 82-year-old outsider poet. He’s incredibly ambitious and determined despite his age, and makes these incredible rants about celebrities like Britney Spears.
you go to a club?
Eddie Murphy - The Boogie in Your Butt
you run from the cops?
Roy Ayers - Running Away
you run naked through a cornfield?
Jason Falkner - Author Unknown
you eat a cucumber?
Kermit The Frog - It's Not That Easy Being Green
you prepare for an important date?
Bruce Springsteen - It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
you want to disturb your neighbours?
Cajmere - Percolator
you drive a car late at night?
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
you drive into the country?
Television - Marquee Moon
you fall asleep?
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
you go fishing?
Django Reinhardt - Tears
you jog?
George Kranz - Din Daa Daa
you play lego?
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
you are love sick?
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
you make breakfast?
David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things
you make love?
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
you pretend to be married?
Gary Graffman - Rhapsody In Blue
you paint your apartment?
Rhythm Is Rhythm - Strings Of Life
you meet your parents?
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe In The Sun
you sit in a plane?
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
you play a game of chess?
Thelonious Monk - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
you read a magazine?
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
you sell crack cocaine to teenagers?
Notorious B.I.G. - Ten Crack Commandments
you shop for shoes?
Burt Bacharach - Wanting Things
you smuggle diamonds?
Peter Gabriel - Big Time
you have to spend a night in a spooky hotel?
DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like (Parts 1-4)
you stay in bed?
Margo Guryan - Sunday Morning
you are stoned?
The Temptations - Take A Stroll Through Your Mind
you sit in the subway?
Tom Waits - Downtown Train
you surf the internet?
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
you want to tell your girlfriend it's over?
Oran Juice Jones - The Rain
you wake up?
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
you walk in the rain?
Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
you wash your hair?
The Godfathers - Birth School Work Death
Questions answered by: Hugo Nicolson
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