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Dashboard Confessional to Unload Cover Album on Tour

Posted by: Brandon Allin (09/23/07)
Dashboard Confessional will be selling The Wire Tapes, Volume One, a virginal collection of exclusive cover songs, on tour this fall. The album will precede the group's forthcoming effort, The Shade of Poison Trees, which is due out on October 2nd via Vagrant Records.

Track List
1. Theme From Volume One (Originally performed by They Might Be Giants)
2. Valens (Originally performed by The Movielife)
3. El Scorcho (Originally performed by Weezer)
4. A Year in the Past, Forever in the Future (Originally performed by Grade)
5. Overkill (Originally performed by Men at Work)
6. If I Needed You (Originally performed by Townes Van Zandt)
7. Angels of the Silences (Originally performed by Counting Crows)
8. Catch (Originally performed by The Cure)
9. Pretty Pathetic (Originally performed by Smoking Popes)
10. Crazy (Originally performed by The Afghan Whigs)
11. Better (Originally performed by Regina Spektor)

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10:27 PM on 09/23/07
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interesting choices..
10:28 PM on 09/23/07
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irthesteve
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it's pretty good
10:30 PM on 09/23/07
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i wanna hear valen and el scorcho
10:31 PM on 09/23/07
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i like it. he didn't pick a lot of obvious songs, songs a lot of bands are constantly covering. this could be a worthwhile disc.
10:32 PM on 09/23/07
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The Movielife and Grade...I'm sold
10:34 PM on 09/23/07
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5. Overkill (Originally performed by Men at Work)

Cannot wait to hear that.
10:37 PM on 09/23/07
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second that
10:38 PM on 09/23/07
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5. Overkill (Originally performed by Men at Work)

Cannot wait to hear that.
go grab it over in the multiple threads that it has been posted in
10:41 PM on 09/23/07
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5. Overkill (Originally performed by Men at Work)

Cannot wait to hear that.

It sounds a lot like the version performed on S2E1 of Scrubs but a bit more jazzed up.

The covers all rock. Hard.
10:45 PM on 09/23/07
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Is it bad that I really want to hear Dashboard Confessional cover 'Catch'?
10:49 PM on 09/23/07
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will this be available online or anything? or just on the tour?
10:52 PM on 09/23/07
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I'd love to hear El Scorcho.
10:53 PM on 09/23/07
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i really want to hear his version of el scorcho and overkill
10:55 PM on 09/23/07
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Chris can't stand being overshadowed by NFG.
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