Comments on: Searching for Sexual Healing remake...

Question: Searching for Sexual Healing remake...

papercake — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:39:03 -0800

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?

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:43:39 -0800

Strangely enough, we just discussed this on Metachat.

By: i_am_a_Jedi

i_am_a_Jedi — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:59:00 -0800

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.

By: Terminal Verbosity

Terminal Verbosity — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:00:32 -0800

Sounds like the Soul Asylum cover that was on No Alternative.

By: Terminal Verbosity

Terminal Verbosity — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:02:47 -0800

Or you could just look in TPS's link. grumble.

By: papercake

papercake — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:45:33 -0800

Found it!

Hardstone —Uhiki (Pinye's Remix)

By: papercake

papercake — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:14:20 -0800

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.)

By: yeti

yeti — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:57:09 -0800

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.

By: santry

santry — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:32:45 -0800

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)?

By: bozichsl

bozichsl — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:01:51 -0800

Matthew Sweet??