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Home | Theme Song: "Corcovado"

Apr 25, 2009

Everything But the Girl covers Antonio Carlos Jobim's Brazilian pop masterpiece "Corcovado" in this 2002 remix. "Corcovado" was the B-side one of the band's Walking Wounded singles and later appeared on the compilation Like Deserts Miss the Rain.

I wish I had a copy of the original version, which I think is actually better than this long-form, 2002-style House rendition, which hasn't exactly aged well. (It will certainly take you back a few years, though.) Unfortunately, my copy of the original version is lost on an old hard drive somewhere and isn't for sale on iTunes. You can preview a snippet of the song -- and Tracey Thorn's fabulous voice -- on LastFM here.

Anyway ...

Here is today's theme song, "Corcovado (Knee Deep Remix/Ben Watt Vocal Re-Edit)," by Everything But the Girl. Might want to turn the volume down, 'cause this thing starts off with some pounding drums.

Everything But the Girl is one of my all-time favorite bands.

Audio player above is a bit clumsy. I'm working on building a custom version using Flowplayer that will let you adjust volume, etc.

Update: Beta version of new player is now in place above.

-- Aaron | Link

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The original version can also be found on the "Red, Hot + Rio" compilation, which has some other great tunes on it as well.
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Red-Hot-Rio/release/486038

-- Brad | July 30, 2009