Ravi Gunslinger - Borrowed Time (Parquet Courts Cover)

Published 2023-03-05

Week 2 of Ravi G's "cover challenge" is upon us. This week Ravi spun "the wheel of various bands and songs" under closed doors and Borrowed Time by Parquet Courts won. Again, we had literally thousands of requests, many of them not that good, but most of them, simply brilliant. In fact the suggestions were so good that Ravi has decided to carry over some of the suggestions into week 3.

Borrowed Time was originally recorded by a Jonathan Schenke (@jonnytwoeyes) on a tascam 388, and sonically it's a punk masterpiece. Please check out some of his other works, and also read up on the the Tascam 388 - a machine so beautiful that @ponderers wrote a song about it.

Ravi's homage to the Courts features the BBC symphony orchestra.

Here's what he had to say about the recording:

"I've been a fan of Parquet Courts since 2018 having stumbled upon whilst shopping for a new living room floor. I instantly fell in love with their raw Dead Kennedy's-esque energy."

"You know, I felt a lot of pressure to get this right. The last cover got me into a lot of trouble with @wetlegband - they didn't appreciate my claim of my version being better than theirs. And they insist that I didn't have a wet leg whilst recording my masterpiece. Their exact words were that I don;t have a wet leg to stand on. Pfft. Whatever."

"This time I wanted to be sure that my version would be better than the original... so I emailed the BBC Symphony Orchestra... and of course they gladly agreed to help me out."

"Despite my efforts, however, I don't think I could ever out-punk the quartz... gg boys"

Ravi enlisted the help of AI for the artwork, he used the keywords "Something original that looks like the artwork from a parquet courts album." and the binary machine did it's magic.

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