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    solikewise:

    “Wouldn’t You Love To Love Me?”

    Is it me, or would this have been referred to as a “faithful” cover, had it turned up on the first Neon Indian record?  I kind of think it would have also been the single.

    Which says a lot, since this summer 1978 basement studio demo didn’t find release until 1987, when a substantially remade version showed up on the Taja Sevelle record, because there are some artists who are prolific, and then there is this one guy from Minneapolis who is so compulsively prolific that not only does he have his own prodigious discography, including handfuls of unreleased records, but he has a whole roster of artists for whose records he writes, arranges, produces and performs all the music, only to replace his vocals with theirs and credit the whole thing to them, just so he can get away with releasing a compulsively insane amount of music, and it’s mostly so uniformly amazing that a great song like this doesn’t see the light of day for a decade and winds up on a Taja Sevelle record (though it was first offered to Michael Jackson as an apology of sorts for declining to appear as a duet vocalist on Jackson’s 1987 Bad album).

    Taja Sevelle - “Wouldn’t You Love To Love Me?” via YouTube

    February 19, 2012