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Audio/Video: Versions of ‘Maggie’s Farm’ by U2, the Grateful Dead, Toots Hibbert, Bob Dylan & Many More

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Thought it would be a blast to listen to a variety of artists covering Bob Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm.”

Below check out versions by Rage Against the Machine, the Grateful Dead, Uncle Tupelo, The Residents, The Waterboys, Toots Hibbert, The Specials, U2, Richie Havens, Stephen Malkmus, the Charlie Daniels Band and Solomon Burke.

Plus a version by David Grisman, John Hartford and Mike Seeger.

And Bob Dylan with and without The Band.

Hope you have as much fun with these as I did.

Rage Against the Machine, “Maggie’s Farm”:

[In August of this year I’ll be publishing my rock ‘n’ roll/ coming-of-age novel, “True Love Scars,” which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]

Grateful Dead, “Maggie’s Farm,” 1987:

Toots Hibbert, “Maggie’s Farm”:

Maggie's Farm – Toots Hibbert by A Reggae Tribute To Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

Uncle Tupelo, “Maggie’s Farm”:

Maggie's Farm by Uncle Tupelo on Grooveshark

Solomon Burke, “Maggie’s Farm”:

The Waterboys, “Maggie’s Farm”:

I Ain't Gonna Work on Maggie's Farm No More by The Waterboys on Grooveshark

The Specials, “Maggie’s Farm”:

David Grisman, John Hartford, Mike Seeger, “Maggie’s Farm”:

Maggie's Farm by David Grisman, John Hartford, & Mike Seeger on Grooveshark

The Residents, “Maggie’s Farm”:

Maggies Farm by The Residents on Grooveshark

The Charlie Daniels Band with Earl Scruggs, “Maggie’s Farm:

Maggie's Farm (With Earl Scruggs, Randy Scruggs And Gary Scruggs) by The Charlie Daniels Band on Grooveshark

U2, “Maggie’s Farm,” Live at “R.D.S. Showgrounds”, Dublin, Ireland, May 17, 1986:

Richie Havens, “Maggie’s Farm”:

Maggie's Farm by Richie Havens on Grooveshark

David Bowie, “Maggie’s Farm”:

Maggie's Farm [Live] by David Bowie on Grooveshark

Stephen Malkmus, “Maggie’s Farm”:

Bob Dylan and The Band, Oakland Coliseum, 1974, “Maggie’s Farm”:

maggie's farm by Bob Dylan & The Band on Grooveshark

Bob Dylan, “Maggie’s Farm”:

Maggie's Farm by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark

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Listen: Thurston Moore’s 38 Favorite Songs of All Time

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Britain’s The Fly asked Thurston Moore for a list of his favorite songs and he gave it to them.

At The Fly you can hear audio of all the songs. I’ve included audio for some of them.

Thurston Moore’s Favorite Songs of All Time:

1 Tapper Zukie – “Man Ah Warrior”
2 Patti Smith – “Godspeed”

3 Teenage Jesus & the Jerks – “Orphans”

4 Mars – “3E”
5 Public Image LTD – “Public Image”

6 The Slits – “Love Und Romance”
7 The Raincoats – “In Love”
8 Captain Beefheart – “Electricity”

9 Alice Cooper – “Is It My Body?”

10 T. Rex – “Children of the Revolution”
11 Archie Shepp – “Blasé”
12 Billie Holiday – “Gloomy Sunday”

13 Nirvana – “Dive”
14 Mudhoney – “In ‘N Out of Grace”
15 Dinosaur Jr. – “Little Fury Things”
16 Jackson C. Frank – “Blues Run the Game”

17 Bush Tetras – “Too Many Creeps”
18 The Germs – “Caught in My Eye”

19 Boredoms – “Born to Anal”
20 Lou Reed – “Satellite of Love”
21 Beach Boys – “Hang On to Your Ego”

22 David Bowie – “Five Years”
23 Sparks – “Equator”
24 Siouxsie & the Banshees – “Hong Kong Garden”

25 The Damned – “New Rose”
26 The Mentally Ill – “Gacy’s Place”
27 Minor Threat – “Out of Step”
28 Black Flag – “I’ve Got To Run”

29 The Untouchables – “Nic Fit”
30 Iron Cross – “Fight Em All”
31 The Faith – “It’s Time”
32 Void – “My Rules”
33 Negative Approach – “Nothing”

34 Youth Brigade – “It’s About Time We Had a Change”
35 State of Alert – “Gonna Haveta Fight”
36 Anne Briggs – “Go Your Way”

37 The Fugs – “Crystal Liaison”

38 Jimi Hendrix – “Freedom”

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Best of 2013 Dept.: Daft Punk, Bill Callahan Top Mojo’s Top 50

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Mojo Magazine has unveiled it’s list of the Top 50 albums of 2013. Highlights include My Bloody Valentine’s m b v, Deerhunter’s Monomania and Arcade Fire’s Reflektor.

Below is the first 20 picks. For the rest plus streaming songs off the albums, head to Mojo.


1) Dream River, Bill Callahan
2) Random access Memories, Daft Punk
3) The Next Day, David Bowie
4) AM, Arctic Monkeys
5) Pale Green Ghosts, John Grant
6) Monomania, Deerhunter
7) Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend
8) Perils From the Seas, Mark Kozelek and Jimmy Lavalle
9) Push the Sky Away, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
10) The Graceless Age, John Murry
11) Phosphorescent, Muchacho
12) Crimson/ Red, Prefab Sprout
13) m b v, My Bloody Valentine
14) The Inheritors, Holden
15) …Like Clockwork, Queens of the Stone Age
16) Factory Floor, Factory Floor
17) Victim of Love, Charles Bradley
18) Reflektor, Arcade Fire
19) Sing to the Moon, Laura Mvula
20) Electric, Pet Shop Boys

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Watch: U2 Cover Daft Punk, Lou Reed & Bowie at RED AIDS Benefit

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Check out these videos of U2 at the RED Auction in NYC last night, where they were raising money to fight against AIDS.

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Watch: David Bowie Makes Dirt Cheap “Love Is Lost” Video

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This video, which features puppets from David Bowie’s collection and was made by Bowie and apparently edited by him as well, cost $12.99 to make, according to Bowie’s website.

Listen: Hear Four Unheard David Bowie Songs Off 3-Disc “The Next Day Extra”

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David Bowie is releasing a three-disc expanded version of his most recent album, The Next Day and he’s calling it The Next Day Extra. Big wow since the single disc album wasn’t so good. Still, for those who dug it, or if you just want to hear tracks that didn’t make it onto the single disc version of the album, check these out.

Listen: Bowie Promo For 1973 “Pin-Ups” Album

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In 1973 David Bowie released an excellent covers album, Pin-Ups, featuring some of his fave songs.

To promote the album he created this promotion in which he plays five tracks from Pin-Ups: (Things’ “Rosalyn,” Them’s “Here Comes the Night,” the Yardbirds’ “I Wish You Would,” the Merseys’ “Sorrow” and the Who’s “I Can’t Explain”). Each is preceded by a brief anecdote about the band that originally recorded the song.

BBC Radio has dug up this old recording, and you can listen right here, right now.

Art Garfunkel’s Fave Books? Give Me A F***ing Break

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David Bowie’s list of favorite books is one thing. The art rocker is an innovator who has, time and again during his long career, made highly influential work.

A list of Bowie’s fave books provides insight into the mind of this intriguing artist.

Certainly I’d love to see fave book lists from Dylan and Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits and the late Captain Beefheart and the late Frank Zappa and Patti Smith and Kim Gordon and plenty more.

But now we get a list of every book Art Garfunkel has read since 1968. Really, Art, keep it to yourself.

For more on this, read this piece in The Guardian.

David Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books

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Dig this! Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario, which is hosting a David Bowie exhibit, “David Bowie is,” has posted a list of Bowie’s 100 favorite books.

And here it is:

The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby, 2008

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz, 2007

The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard, 2007

Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage, 2007

Fingersmith, Sarah Waters, 2002

The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, 2001

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler, 1997

A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes, 1997

The Insult, Rupert Thomson, 1996

Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon, 1995

The Bird Artist, Howard Norman, 1994

Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard, 1993

Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, Arthur C. Danto, 1992

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia, 1990

David Bomberg, Richard Cork, 1988

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom, Peter Guralnick, 1986

The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, 1986

Hawksmoor, Peter Ackroyd, 1985

Nowhere To Run: The Story of Soul Music, Gerri Hirshey, 1984

Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter, 1984

Money, Martin Amis, 1984

White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1984

Flaubert’s Parrot, Julian Barnes, 1984

The Life and Times of Little Richard, Charles White, 1984

A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980

Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester, 1980

Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, 1980

Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess, 1980

Raw (a ‘graphix magazine’) 1980-91

Viz (magazine) 1979 –

The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels, 1979

Metropolitan Life, Fran Lebowitz, 1978

In Between the Sheets, Ian McEwan, 1978

Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, ed. Malcolm Cowley, 1977

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 1976

Tales of Beatnik Glory, Ed Saunders, 1975

Mystery Train, Greil Marcus, 1975

Selected Poems, Frank O’Hara, 1974

Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, Otto Friedrich, 1972

In Bluebeard’s Castle : Some Notes Towards the Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner, 1971

Octobriana and the Russian Underground, Peter Sadecky, 1971

The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, Charlie Gillete, 1970

The Quest For Christa T, Christa Wolf, 1968

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock, Nik Cohn, 1968

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967

Journey into the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg, 1967

Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr. , 1966

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1965

City of Night, John Rechy, 1965

Herzog, Saul Bellow, 1964

Puckoon, Spike Milligan, 1963

The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford, 1963

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima, 1963

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 1963

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962

Inside the Whale and Other Essays, George Orwell, 1962

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1961

Private Eye (magazine) 1961 –

On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961

Silence: Lectures and Writing, John Cage, 1961

Strange People, Frank Edwards, 1961

The Divided Self, R. D. Laing, 1960

All The Emperor’s Horses, David Kidd,1960

Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse, 1959

The Leopard, Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, 1958

On The Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957

The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard, 1957

Room at the Top, John Braine, 1957

A Grave for a Dolphin, Alberto Denti di Pirajno, 1956

The Outsider, Colin Wilson, 1956

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949

The Street, Ann Petry, 1946

Black Boy, Richard Wright, 1945