A New Orleans brass band reinterpret Love Will Tear Us Apart
October 28, 2018 3:17 AM Subscribe
From New Orleans, Hot 8 Brass Band rework the 1980 song Love Will Tear Us Apart with a video filmed around the city. Hot 8 Brass Band, active since 1995 through much adversity and Grammy-nominated in 2013, have also covered Sexual Healing and Ghost Town. Performing on Clapham Common, England, Get Up, Can't Nobody Get Down, St. James Infirmary and Bingo Bango.
The part-wise broken down decomposition in the beginning is the ne plus ultra of... something. Factory Records and Marvin Gaye would both approve.
posted by axiom at 3:37 AM on October 28, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by axiom at 3:37 AM on October 28, 2018 [6 favorites]
Factory Records and Marvin Gaye would both approve.
Look, everyone — it’s the first sighting in the wild of a wholly new English sentence!
(I happen to agree with it, too.)
posted by wenestvedt at 4:12 AM on October 28, 2018 [8 favorites]
Look, everyone — it’s the first sighting in the wild of a wholly new English sentence!
(I happen to agree with it, too.)
posted by wenestvedt at 4:12 AM on October 28, 2018 [8 favorites]
As someone who likes Hot 8 Brass band and has listened to Love Will Tear Us Apart a dozen times in the past week, thanks very much for this.
Maybe this is a version I can put on without making all my friends sad :) I like it.
posted by AnhydrousLove at 5:17 AM on October 28, 2018 [6 favorites]
Maybe this is a version I can put on without making all my friends sad :) I like it.
posted by AnhydrousLove at 5:17 AM on October 28, 2018 [6 favorites]
The Ghost Town cover is quite something else. As a twelve year old in England, watching the country literally burn through TV news, the original did and still has a lot of meaning.
posted by Wordshore at 5:23 AM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Wordshore at 5:23 AM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
As so many other in this vein, I first discovered this on The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show and yes, that's the same Craig Charles from off Red Dwarf.
posted by MartinWisse at 6:17 AM on October 28, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by MartinWisse at 6:17 AM on October 28, 2018 [3 favorites]
I don’t know if I saw these guys play live at a small club in New Orleans years ago - if it wasn’t them, it was another local group clearly inspired by them - but the brass cover of Sexual Healing has been stuck in my head ever since.
Thanks for posting.
posted by caution live frogs at 6:33 AM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
Thanks for posting.
posted by caution live frogs at 6:33 AM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
Oh god yes the sexual healing cover is so good. Now to check the rest. Thank you!
posted by ominous_paws at 6:39 AM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by ominous_paws at 6:39 AM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I never realized this until now, but the original Love Will Tear Us Apart is in a major key. Like Happy Birthday, or All Star. I’m not sure what mode this (awesome) version is in, but it isn’t major, and that contrast gives the original version a whole new layer of pathos in my mind.
posted by STFUDonnie at 7:13 AM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by STFUDonnie at 7:13 AM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
That was really good, and so was the video.
posted by Dip Flash at 8:28 AM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Dip Flash at 8:28 AM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
Thanks for this. That interpretation was awesome and that video was perfect for it.
posted by Chrischris at 8:47 AM on October 28, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by Chrischris at 8:47 AM on October 28, 2018 [3 favorites]
That really was awesome all around. I'm inspired again... both the music and the video. All of it. Thanks!
posted by emmet at 10:36 AM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by emmet at 10:36 AM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I'm still waiting for the joy division cover album that's all steel drums and New Orleans brass bands.
I don't know why it works, but it's hot as hell.
posted by GuyZero at 2:33 PM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I don't know why it works, but it's hot as hell.
posted by GuyZero at 2:33 PM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
I never realized this until now, but the original Love Will Tear Us Apart is in a major key. Like Happy Birthday, or All Star. I’m not sure what mode this (awesome) version is in, but it isn’t major, and that contrast gives the original version a whole new layer of pathos in my mind.
This version and the original follow identical melodies. They’re not in different keys.
posted by Autumnheart at 4:30 PM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
This version and the original follow identical melodies. They’re not in different keys.
posted by Autumnheart at 4:30 PM on October 28, 2018 [1 favorite]
My wife and I visited New Orleans for a week leading up to Halloween in 2004. She was scoping potential psychology internships at Tulane and LSU so we decided to make a week of it.
I swear, we saw the Hot 8 play in Jackson Square on one of those afternoons. Like, just walking along like tourists, and just coming up on this band playing for a crowd of fellow tourists and they were tight as hell. And the fact that they called themselves the Hot 8s stood out to me because it's a callback to Louis Armstrong. I remember they were hawking CDs at the time and now I wish I would have snagged one.
So, this was a very welcome post for me. Love to have that memory jogged in my mind and confirmed that, yes, they were/are that good.
posted by Big Al 8000 at 8:38 PM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
I swear, we saw the Hot 8 play in Jackson Square on one of those afternoons. Like, just walking along like tourists, and just coming up on this band playing for a crowd of fellow tourists and they were tight as hell. And the fact that they called themselves the Hot 8s stood out to me because it's a callback to Louis Armstrong. I remember they were hawking CDs at the time and now I wish I would have snagged one.
So, this was a very welcome post for me. Love to have that memory jogged in my mind and confirmed that, yes, they were/are that good.
posted by Big Al 8000 at 8:38 PM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
This version and the original follow identical melodies. They’re not in different keys.
My knowledge of music theory is fairly basic but I’m hearing the same melody with a different tonal center - in the Joy Division version it sounds like whatever note lands on the last note of the main melody (“-gain”). You can hum that note throughout and it won’t sound wrong. In the brass version I hear the center as the first note of the melody.
posted by STFUDonnie at 10:38 PM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
My knowledge of music theory is fairly basic but I’m hearing the same melody with a different tonal center - in the Joy Division version it sounds like whatever note lands on the last note of the main melody (“-gain”). You can hum that note throughout and it won’t sound wrong. In the brass version I hear the center as the first note of the melody.
posted by STFUDonnie at 10:38 PM on October 28, 2018 [2 favorites]
I sorta got into an internet beef with MC Bat Commander over ditching the brass on the A&R's say so on an AMA.
His argument was economics, less people to pay per gig, and I kinda lost my cool there. Because this is a beautiful, glorious thing, and not even unique. Dirty Dozen Brass Band was my first boo, and Trombone Shorty played in my town.
Chicago? Chicago. 25 or 6 2 4.
Then I realized I was in an internet beef with MC Bat Commander, and chilled. A bit.
Can we all agree a syncopated tuba solo is a beautiful thing? I think we should.
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:56 AM on October 29, 2018 [4 favorites]
His argument was economics, less people to pay per gig, and I kinda lost my cool there. Because this is a beautiful, glorious thing, and not even unique. Dirty Dozen Brass Band was my first boo, and Trombone Shorty played in my town.
Chicago? Chicago. 25 or 6 2 4.
Then I realized I was in an internet beef with MC Bat Commander, and chilled. A bit.
Can we all agree a syncopated tuba solo is a beautiful thing? I think we should.
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:56 AM on October 29, 2018 [4 favorites]
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