Jesse Malin - On Your Sleeve

[Sydneyfan]

For Malin fans - this is an album of pretty diverse covers.

1. Looking For A Love (Neil Young)
2. Rock And Roll Radio (Ramones)
3. Sway (Rolling Stones)
4. Russian Roulette (Lords Of The New Church)
5. Gates Of The West (Clash)
6. Me And Julio Down By The School Yard (Paul Simon)
7. You Can Make Them Like You (The Hold Steady)
8. Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed)
9. Harmony (Elton John)
10. Rodeo Town (The Kills)
11. Wonderful World (Sam Cooke)
12. Operator (Jim Croce)
13. I Hope I Don’t Fall In Love (Tom Waits)
14. Everybody’s Talking (Harry Nilsson)


Check his website for details.

[thefed]

Nice little selection of tunes. That was long my favorite Waits tune. Would have liked to hear him cover a less played out Lou Reed song. Romeo Loved Juliet(or whatever it's called) would have been great.

[Sydneyfan]

Yeah, he's picked some really good tunes. I'm not the biggest fan of his voice though, so it'll be interesting to see what he does with some of them.

[raisemyglass]

Yeah, he's picked some really good tunes. I'm not the biggest fan of his voice though, so it'll be interesting to see what he does with some of them.

I'd be a lot bigger fan of his if someone else could sing the songs he writes for him.

[Sydneyfan]

I'd be a lot bigger fan of his if someone else could sing the songs he writes for him.

Absolutely, me too. I'm not sure I want to hear him sing Wonderful World or Everybody's Talking either.

[jumpshipmusic]

I've heard Jesse do "Everybody's Talking." I think it sounds pretty good.

[Sydneyfan]

I've heard Jesse do "Everybody's Talking." I think it sounds pretty good.

Interesting...thanks.

[Sydneyfan]

You can download his cover of Walk On The Wild Side here:


http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3495972.ece

[thefed]

You can download his cover of Walk On The Wild Side here:


http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3495972.ece


This is cool and interesting. If they wrote anything about someone like Jesse Malin in the Washington Post, it'd be a dinky concert review; and, it certainly wouldn't have a download along with it. Is this indicative of Malin's popularity in Europe, or the UK's mainstream media coverage of more marginal artists?

[Tim Simmons]

Stereogum has his Hold Steady cover

http://stereogum.com/mp3/Jesse%20Malin%20-%20You%20Can%20Make%20Him%20Like%20You.mp3

Way to kill the rock Jesse.

[FrigidRoses]

Stereogum has his Hold Steady cover

http://stereogum.com/mp3/Jesse%20Malin%20-%20You%20Can%20Make%20Him%20Like%20You.mp3

Way to kill the rock Jesse.

That's absolutely disgusting. :downyours:downyours:downyours

[SkortBrun]

"Walk on the Wild Side" sounds good, "You Can Make Him Like You" not so much.

[Tim Simmons]

Yeah, its an awful cover.

[jumpshipmusic]

This is cool and interesting. If they wrote anything about someone like Jesse Malin in the Washington Post, it'd be a dinky concert review; and, it certainly wouldn't have a download along with it. Is this indicative of Malin's popularity in Europe, or the UK's mainstream media coverage of more marginal artists?

I think Jesse may be a bit more popular in Europe. I remember reading reviews in Uncut and Q for his first CD. Almost everything I have read about Jesse in the UK press has been pretty glowing. Jesse goes pretty much unnoticed here---although Spin gave Glitter a pretty negative review---and finding his first two CDs is almost impossible.

[Sydneyfan]

Heh, I don't think this guy liked the new album...

Let me say one thing at the outset: if not for the fact that my words would be disregarded as knee-jerk and intentionally reactionary, I would have no qualms giving On Your Sleeve, the latest album by Brooklyn-based 'folk-rock troubadour' type Jesse Malin, a nice round zero.

It is without question one of the most infuriatingly bland albums released this year; a covers album reworking songs from such luminaries as The Rolling Stones, The Kills and Harry Nilsson ('Everybody's Talking', click for the original) into identikit pieces even more soulless and middle-of-the-road than the originals.

But the main problem isn't necessarily just Jesse's tendency to make every song sound near enough exactly like the ones preceding and following it, but the incessantly grating nature of his voice, which goes between Jon Bon Jovi tribute posturing on 'Russian Roulette' and overstated mouth full of oranges crooning on Lou Reed's 'Walk On The Wild Side'.

And although this album contains none of his own material it holds up the perfect expositional spotlight to Jesse Malin's horrifically generic one-dimensional songwriting structure, and even hardcore fans of the Springsteen wannabe will be struggling to find anything to enjoy in the 14 tracks that span the length of On Your Sleeve, an album as close to a dictionary-standard definition of the word mediocre as there is likely to be in the whole of 2008.

Jesse Malin 4 / 10
Words: Jordan Dowling

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3078623

[hildegoat]

Dear God, I can now hear that horribly nasal voice doing the "wah wah" in Everybody's Talking. *shudder*