{"id":12525,"date":"2020-07-06T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12525"},"modified":"2020-07-04T19:22:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T19:22:49","slug":"rainy-days-mondays-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=12525","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Days &#038; Mondays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of proper rainy days songs taken from a new split we&#8217;re reviewing this week on RPM its Frank turner &amp; NOFX.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sZHl6PSN1SA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3AK30C0J9D0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: large;\">NOFX\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: large;\">and\u00a0<b>Frank Turner\u00a0<\/b>will release a split covers album,\u00a0<b>\u2018West Coast Vs. Wessex\u2019\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a0<b>July 31, 2020<\/b>. Due for release via Fat Mike\u2019s own\u00a0<b>Fat Wreck Chords<\/b>\u00a0label, the project brings together for the first time ever the long-running Los Angeles punks and the London-based singer and ex-Million Dead frontman, for many years now both friends and fans of each other\u2019s music. With supporting live shows also shortly to be announced, the 10 strong track-listing of \u2018West Coast vs Wessex\u2019 captures NOFX tackling five selections from Turner\u2019s sizeable solo back catalogue, with Frank reciprocating with recordings of five of his personal favourites picked from NOFX\u2019s 37-years-and-counting career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just how often does the leader of one of your favourite bands ask you to do a split album? One where his band covers your songs? It\u2019s the situation Frank Turner found himself in last year, when Fat Mike of NOFX asked if he wanted to do a split covers album. \u201cAnd I shit the bed and said, \u2018Fucking of course I do! That sounds incredible,\u201d Turner recalls.<br \/>\n\u2018West Coast Vs. Wessex\u2019 does sound incredible: NOFX filtering five of Turner\u2019s songs through their singular sensibility, with Turner doing the same on five NOFX songs. But these aren\u2019t simply double-time versions of Turner\u2019s folk-punk tunes or slow, acoustic re-workings of NOFX\u2019s iconic SoCal punk anthems. Both NOFX and Turner took time to play with the possibilities each other\u2019s music presented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listened to all his records, and I picked the ones that I thought I could make more interesting,\u201d notes Fat Mike. \u201cWhat I did is change a lot of chords. Frank, he beats me in the singing department. So I can&#8217;t sing better than he can, but I can maybe throw in a melody here or there or chord that he hadn\u2019t thought of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turner took a similar approach. \u201cI didn&#8217;t want to just do straight covers of anything. I wanted to try and pick songs where I felt like me and my band could bring something different to the table,\u201d he says. \u201cBut it did strike me that it would be cool to demonstrate to the casual NOFX fan, who doesn&#8217;t know who I am, that I am actually a fan. I didn&#8217;t just go to Spotify and pick the five most-listened-to songs.\u201d For the record, only one of his choices appears on Spotify\u2019s top five for NOFX: \u2018Bob\u2019, which Turner here transforms into a wistful country song. He pulled from deeper album tracks for his other covers: a punk-ed up &#8216;Scavenger Type\u2019, a barroom singalong \u2018Perfect Government\u2019, the post-hardcore \u2018Eat the Meek\u2019, and a spare, haunting \u2018Falling in Love\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything he picked was from the \u201990s, so I took that as it\u2019s okay to mostly do his early stuff too,\u201d says Fat Mike, who channeled \u201890s NOFX for their interpretations. \u201cPeople who hear it, they all say it sounds like old NOFX.\u201d The band\u2019s climactic take on \u2018Substitute\u2019 could\u2019ve fit on \u2018Punk in Drublic\u2019, whilst \u2018Worse Things Happen at Sea\u2019 simmers with an ominous portent. The jaunty \u2018Thatcher Fucked the Kids\u2019 sounds like a companion to NOFX\u2019s \u2018Philthy Phil Philanthropist\u2019. \u2018The Ballad of Me and My Friends\u2019 &#8211; lilting and bittersweet in Turner\u2019s original &#8211; goes balls-out here. \u201cGlory Hallelujah\u201d sounds like a lost track from Fat Mike\u2019s Broadway musical, \u2018Home Street Home\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Turner and his band, The Sleeping Souls, recorded their songs between their rehearsal space and during tour commitments, with Frank tracking his vocals from his bunk on the bus. NOFX recorded at Fat Mike\u2019s Six Floggs studio, with production by the D-Composers (Fat Mike, Johnny Carey, BAZ Bastien, Yotam Ben Horin).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s difficult to describe quite how it feels to hear back a song that you wrote played by NOFX, one of your favourite bands, in a style that is unmistakably theirs,\u201d Turner says. \u201cIt tends to make me just laugh in a really elated kind of way. It&#8217;s just like, \u2018Holy shit, this is \u2018Substitute\u2019 done by NOFX! This is fucking insane!\u2019\u201d Fat Mike was similarly psyched. \u201cWhen Frank picked \u2018Falling in Love,\u2019 I was so fucking stoked,\u201d Mike says. \u201cThen I heard it, and I go, \u2018Holy shit, he just kicked our ass.\u2019 I was pleased with all of them. I thought he did a really good job &#8211; and not such a good job that we couldn&#8217;t beat him on a few songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there are no losers on West Coast Vs. Wessex. The Frank Turner-Fat Mike Mutual Admiration Society has produced 10 hooky re-imaginings of each others\u2019 music. The novelty may pique listeners\u2019 curiosity, but the songs will keep them coming back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always thought and always maintained, well before we were friends, that Mike is a great, classic songwriter,\u201d Turner says. \u201cAnd that&#8217;s what sets NOFX apart from many of their peers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What about him?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust for me to be able to stand up in front of the mirror and look at myself and say, \u2018You&#8217;re doing a fucking split with NOFX\u2019\u2014that is an absolute dream come true for me,\u201d he says, laughing. \u201cI mean, I don&#8217;t quite know where my career goes from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Punk in Drublic Festival 2021 European Tour Dates Feat. 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NOFX\u00a0and\u00a0Frank Turner\u00a0will release a split covers album,\u00a0\u2018West Coast Vs. Wessex\u2019\u00a0on\u00a0July 31, 2020. Due for release via Fat Mike\u2019s own\u00a0Fat Wreck Chords\u00a0label, the project brings together for the first time ever the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[204,1264,1720],"class_list":["post-12525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-fat-wreck-chords","tag-frank-turner","tag-nofx","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12529,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions\/12529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}