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A Great Cover of “Jump”

I’m not sure how I acquired it, but I just listened to this terrific version of Van Halen’s “Jump” by a Scottish band from the eighties called Aztec Camera.

According to Wikipedia, the song was a B-side for an American single release in 1984. The rhythm reminds me slightly of Rilo Kiley’s “The Frug”, which is also a pretty cool song:

This entry was posted on Friday, December 21st, 2007 at 8:42 am and is filed under Music. Tag Testing Project: , , , , . Photo by . You can skip to the end and leave a response, or trackback from your own site. If you don't see your comment within a day or so, drop me an email. Sometimes my comment spam filter gets overly zealous.

2 Responses to “A Great Cover of “Jump””

  1. Simon Pavitt Says:
    December 21st, 2007 at 11:17 am

    Coming from a UK post-punk background, this was an ironic, tounge-in-check choice of song to cover (if not a direct piss-take).

    Also definitely worth checking out is their album ‘Love’ which has some terrific, up-beat romantic pop songs that have great melodies and lyrics, and manage to avoid being clichéd.

  2. Cameron Reilly Says:
    December 24th, 2007 at 3:52 am

    haha very cool Darren. This popped up in my technorati feed for Van Halen news. Thanks for sharing.

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