January 18, 2005 | Posted by anders at 12:01 AM

nina with attitude

nina gordon

Anyone who was conscious during the mid nineties surely remembers Veruca Salt. "Seether", "Number One Blind", "Volcano Girls", two girls playing fuzzy pop punk songs on Gibson SGs, videos with raw meat. It's all coming back, right? They were pretty hard to miss. They were also pretty good so I didn't mind too much.

Anyway, they split up. Louise Post went one way with VS (and put out "Resolver", which didn't sound much like the old stuff, but I liked it anyway), and Nina Gordon went off on her own and put out a slightly more poppy solo album.

History's boring though. And none of it prepared me for hearing the song that a friend sent me: Nina Gordon covering "Straight Outta Compton". Yeah. NWA. Sung by a sweet sounding woman with an acoustic guitar. I can't get enough of it.

Her site has a whole mess of songs to download too. Many of them are just short samples, but the cover of Skid Row's "18 and Life" is complete and well worth the download.

Comments

You've made my day. I agree she's all over the place though. I love VS, and her solo record, and that when I saw them play, she stripped down to her new Ann Summers collection... anyway... post some old VS perhaps?

Cheers!
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Posted by: hamish at January 18, 2005 10:51 AM

I love these covers. I can't help it.

Posted by: Wendy at January 18, 2005 2:30 PM

Mmm, Nina.

Posted by: Chris at January 18, 2005 3:13 PM

I love bizzare rap covers. And I love Nina Gordon's voice. The two together are magic!

Posted by: brooks at January 18, 2005 9:18 PM

the covers are all from a comedy show called bring the rock. nina is in this band called the electrick snowflake and they do bizarre covers in absurd ways. you can hear more of them at gregbehrendt.com in the media section. greg puts the nights on and he is one of the funniest people ever. ever.

Posted by: erin at January 19, 2005 6:24 PM

how funny is that ..

Posted by: at January 21, 2005 2:10 AM

u r well fit. I wud shag the granny out of u. e-mail me if u wanna hook up ;-).

Posted by: sam white at July 17, 2005 12:45 PM

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Posted by: ahmad at July 31, 2005 4:58 AM
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