Brendan Benson covers Superdrag
There are certain songs that I wouldn’t necessarily call guilty pleasures, because they are well-written pop songs, but rather — it never stops feeling somehow indulgent to enjoy their toe-tapping majesty this much.
The amp-kicking Superdrag hit “Sucked Out” (from 1996’s Regretfully Yours) remains a song I still like to hear, and when Brendan Benson covered it last week for his Daytrotter session, I was delighted. Benson and Superdrag share similar songwriting chops in consistently solid pop genius, oft-overlooked.
This is a song that Benson has been covering live in concert this summer, and it’s nice to have a clean recording (for free, at that!). The session also gives us three songs from his current album My Old, Familiar Friend (including the creepy melancholy of “Feel Like Taking You Home”).
Sucked Out (Superdrag cover) – Brendan Benson
Download the rest of the free Brendan Benson Daytrotter session here.
RELATED:
-The Fuel/Friends Superdrag interview
-The recent Superdrag Daytrotter session (the original drawing for which was, incidentally and awesomely, modelled after this picture of mine. Hey!)
Name: Heather Browne
Awesome…I thought I was the last person in the western hemisphere who remembered this song. Thanks for the post.
Grillo — October 14, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
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He looks like Lindsey Buckingham in that picture. That’s a good thing.
Sarah — October 24, 2009 @ 1:30 pm