Modern Noir-ish Covers?
June 1, 2017 11:41 AM Subscribe
I'm looking to put together a playlist of covers of modern music that would fit alright in a noir/hardboiled theme. Maybe as the credits music for a noir TV show or something. Preferably instrumental, but vocals are ok too!
Current examples:
- Everything in Its Right Place, Robert Glasper
- Paranoid Android, Brad Mehldau
- Billie Jean, Sebastien Llado Quartet (Spotify)
Current examples:
- Everything in Its Right Place, Robert Glasper
- Paranoid Android, Brad Mehldau
- Billie Jean, Sebastien Llado Quartet (Spotify)
Westworld's Season 1 soundtrack has a number of incredible instrumental covers; the two that immediately jumped to my mind as sounding more modern (as opposed to primarily a pastiche of Old-Timey saloon music) are Paint It, Black and House of the Rising Sun.
posted by the return of the thin white sock at 12:45 PM on June 1, 2017
posted by the return of the thin white sock at 12:45 PM on June 1, 2017
Hmmm...these are original songs, but they are pretty noir:
Strangers on a Train, Lovage. No wait, To Catch a Thief might be better. Most of the album Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By fits, really.
Ditto anything by Black Box Recorder, though if I had to narrow it down, perhaps England Made Me or Brutality? Kidnapping an Heiress or Lord Lucan Is Missing both deal explicitly with famous crimes --- too on the nose?
posted by Diablevert at 2:12 PM on June 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
Strangers on a Train, Lovage. No wait, To Catch a Thief might be better. Most of the album Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By fits, really.
Ditto anything by Black Box Recorder, though if I had to narrow it down, perhaps England Made Me or Brutality? Kidnapping an Heiress or Lord Lucan Is Missing both deal explicitly with famous crimes --- too on the nose?
posted by Diablevert at 2:12 PM on June 1, 2017 [1 favorite]
lizzy mercier descloux's cover of "fever" as "tumor" feels like something that would appear in a modern, self-aware noir.
the soundtrack to westworld is full of covers of 80's-90's stuff (radiohead, the cure) that is played on a player piano in the show and seems to fit with your examples above.
posted by noloveforned at 3:22 PM on June 1, 2017
the soundtrack to westworld is full of covers of 80's-90's stuff (radiohead, the cure) that is played on a player piano in the show and seems to fit with your examples above.
posted by noloveforned at 3:22 PM on June 1, 2017
A cover of Black Hole Sun performed by Nouela. It was part of the soundtrack for a 2014 neo-noir film called A Walk Among the Tombstones which starred Liam Neeson.
posted by fuse theorem at 4:17 PM on June 1, 2017
posted by fuse theorem at 4:17 PM on June 1, 2017
A lot of Scott Bradley's Postmodern Jukebox would qualify. Just as one example, there's this cover of Seven Nation Army. For more examples, check out their Youtube channel.
posted by yankeefog at 3:27 AM on June 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by yankeefog at 3:27 AM on June 2, 2017 [1 favorite]
My apologies. I somehow missed the "modern" part of your request.
posted by 4ster at 3:26 PM on June 2, 2017
posted by 4ster at 3:26 PM on June 2, 2017
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posted by SaltySalticid at 12:08 PM on June 1, 2017 [1 favorite]