This week, Peter Gabriel releases a new acoustic album entitled SCRATCH MY BACK, with no guitars or drums.
On the album, Peter covers songs done by other artists. Later, a companion album of Peter Gabriel covers by other artists will be released on a disc entitled I’LL SCRATCH YOURS.
The songs on SCRATCH MY BACK include:
- HEROES by David Bowie
- THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE by Paul Simon
- MIRRORBALL by Elbow
- FLUME by Bon Iver
- LISTENING WIND by Talking Heads
- THE POWER OF THE HEART by Lou Reed
- MY BODY IS A CAGE by Arcade Fire
- THE BOOK OF LOVE by The Magnetic Fields
- I THINK IT’S GOING TO RAIN TODAY by Randy Newman
- APRES MOI by Regina Spektor
- PHILADELPHIA by Neil Young
- STREET SPIRIT by Radiohead
Some of the covers to be on I’LL SCRATCH YOURS have been announced to include the following:
- Paul Simon doing BIKO
- Stephin Merrit of The Magnetic Fields doing NOT ONE OF US
- Randy Newman doing BIG TIME
- Tom Yorke of Radiohead doing WALLFLOWER
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Web Watch knows that it’s wrong to laugh at other people’s medical situations.
However, Web Watch can recommend laughing at the questions that can arise from some of the more unusual medical issues that can crop up from time to time.
Because let’s face it – some folks have either some amusing medical problems or they don’t mind asking in public what are normally private conversations that one should have with their personal physician.
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