Searching for Sexual Healing remake...

November 14, 2006 9:39 AM

Name that remake? I was in a restaurant this weekend and heard what seemed to be a remake of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing."

How to describe it... it was fairly mellow, modern-lounge-y with the bass-line looping... It would be right at home on one of the Hotel Costes compilations.

We asked the waitress who said it was by a group called "Hard Stone." Google search and iTunes searches have come up blank and we think she was wrong, and that, perhaps it was a song that just used samples from the song.

Any hope?

posted by papercake to sports, hobbies, & recreation (9 comments total)

Strangely enough, we just discussed this on Metachat.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:43 AM on November 14, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

Ben Harper does a great version... but his is acoustic and I've only ever heard it done live (or on live recordings). You can download his shows on archive.org.
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 9:59 AM on November 14, 2006

Sounds like the Soul Asylum cover that was on No Alternative.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 10:00 AM on November 14, 2006

Or you could just look in TPS's link. grumble.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 10:02 AM on November 14, 2006

Found it!

Hardstone —Uhiki (Pinye's Remix)
posted by papercake at 10:45 AM on November 14, 2006

And, upon listening without the soundtrack of loud talking and clinking of plates... it's just the bassline and has nothing to do with Sexual Healing.

(The restaurant, btw, was Snack Taverna -- a greek restaurant here in NYC -- and is highly recommended.)
posted by papercake at 11:14 AM on November 14, 2006

Hot Chip just did a great cover of "Sexual Healing." Electronic and chill [what version isn't though?]. This blog has it in a larger zip file with other songs.
posted by yeti at 11:57 AM on November 14, 2006

Could it be this version of Let's Get It On mixed with Peter Gabriel's Digging in the Dirt by the Kleptones (which rhymes with Hard Stone, sorta, and I always confuse Let's Get It On for Sexual Healing myself)?
posted by santry at 12:32 PM on November 14, 2006

Matthew Sweet??
posted by bozichsl at 10:01 AM on November 15, 2006