Ruinednation

Quick update. The first post of mixtape.ruinednation is up for your listening pleasure. This week the mix is focused on cover songs. I will attempt to post a new mix every week.

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Artist: Schlong

Album: Tumours

Label: Very Small Records

Year: 1995?

This week I present you with the hard find and quite excellent Tumours 7″ by Schlong, a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours in it’s entirety. It was released around 1995 on the long defunct Very Small Records.

I remember seeing these guys around that time in Albuquerque and the talent of these guys very impressive and a lot of fun as well. They also played a short set as their bluegrass punk alter ego 3 Finger Spread and did an awesome version of Slayer’s Epidemic complete with a ukulele and a bango.

What set this record a part from most cover albums is that even though they were slightly mocking Fleetwood Mac, it sounds like they painstakingly listened to the original album over and over to make sure they got it right and that every song was recognizable. There are way too bands who do sloppy covers because either they need a filler or they think with their egos and try to make it their own.

Sadly Schlong broke up many years ago and most of their catalog is now long out of print. Except for Punk Side Story, an awesome punk version of West Side Story.

Schlong – Tumours

I did a little mastering to the files because it’s from the 7″ and I played it a lot over the years, but I tried leave it as close to the original sound as possible.

**UPDATE** The guy that ran Very Small Records is posting all the records released including the 3 Finger Spread songs. Head over to http://k9pho.blogspot.com/ and enjoy!