What's Next to the Moon: Mark Kozelek: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Up To My Neck In You

2. Love At First Feel

3. Love Hungry Man

4. Bad Boy Boogie

5. What's Next To The Moon

6. Walk All Over You

7. You Ain't Got A Hold On Me

8. If You Want Blood

9. Riff Raff

10. Rock 'N' Roll Singer

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By most sensible criteria, What's Next to the Moon is a truly bizarre venture. Mark Kozelek, the long-standing maudlin singer-songwriter behind San Francisco's introspective Red House Painters, has taken it upon himself to record blanched, acoustic versions of 10 songs by veteran Aussie metal monsters AC/DC. Kozelek is no stranger to cover versions, having previously tackled tracks by Neil Young, Simon and Garfunkel and Yes, but this particular pairing seems a risible mismatch. It's hugely to his credit, then, that Kozelek bleeds from Angus Young and the late Bon Scott's primal songs a beauty and melancholy that one would simply never have thought existed. Shorn of the originals' noisome bluster and bravado, tracks such as "Walk All over You" and "You Ain't Got a Hold on Me" acquire a plangent sensitivity, and even carnal howls such as "Love att First Feel" and "Bad Boys Boogie" resonate with a touching vulnerability. It's a peculiar, unlikely triumph--who would have ever imagined that AC/DC were writing such tender, perfectly-formed gems before ladling their heavy-duty riffs all over them? Now, let's just see Kozelek in Angus's school shorts and cap. --Ian Gittins

Album Description

'What's Next to the Moon' from Red House Painters singer Mark Kozelek, is a collection of 10 Bon Scott-era AC/DC songs recast as quiet, acoustic interpretations. This Badman Records release copes packaged in a digipak.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Jack, Mar 18 2004

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Jellybones (On Tour) - See all my reviews

This review is from: What's Next to the Moon (Audio CD)

Mark of Red House Painters puts his heart into these truly soulful gems by AC/DC. Seriously. I have a lot of the original buried on tape from my metal youth, so these are familiar passages. Mark makes good selections and pays attention to remaining true to the songs intent while stripping them down to and exposing their beauty. The sincerity given to the hidden treasure "If You Want Blood" from Bon Scott era "Highway to Hell" is worth the price of admission. If only he'd payed homage to "The Jack".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Easy listening AC/DC?, Feb 8 2004

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James Reckling (Roanoke, Va USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What's Next to the Moon (Audio CD)

Mark Kozelek has a talent for rearranging songs written by other people into his signature style. He had done it before with the Red House Painters on Silly Love Songs, I'm A Rock, etc. However he really outdid himself here. Who would have thunk that Bon Scott era AC/DC had so much going on behind the power chords? I had to recheck the songwriting credits to be sure that they were indeed written by AC/DC. Very listenable, good stuff. Also check out Kozelek's limited edition White Christmas Live cd. It was limited to 5,000 copies so it may be hard to find, but it is well worth the effort.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm a BIG fan of Bon Scott's AC/DC, Oct 22 2003

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This review is from: What's Next to the Moon (Audio CD)

AC/DC with Bon Scott were awesome. They wrote rock'n'roll songs more or less by the book on how rock'n'roll's suppose to sound, but yet, with a very personal touch. AC/DC sounds like no other band, and no one sounds like AC/DC. I think Mark Kozelek interpret their songs briliant! Bon Scott is hugely underrated as a songwriter, his lyrics are often clever, some very humourus and ironic, yet very soulful. That shines through very clear in Marks versions I think. Hopefully this record will make some people understand Bon Scott and AD/DC's greatness. And also make some AC/DC fans discover Mark Kozelek, not only as a great AC/DC interpreter, but also as an excellent singer/songwriter on his own. I highly recomend this album!

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5.0 out of 5 stars I'm giving it five stars, yep.
I bought this cd because i like the red house painters... and i came into the knowledge that these were ac/dc covers later, after looking at the songwriting credits. Read more

Published on Aug 13 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars navel gazing galore
i really wanted to like this record, not because i'm a fan of either kozelek or ac/dc, but because i like the concept. the execution, alas, is another matter. Read more

Published on May 1 2002