Wife Patrol Covers Carly Rae Jepsen

We've been missing you and missing each other.

To help us stay connected, we've started a record-from-home covers project.

Track 3 in our cover series is a Natasha pick -- Carly Rae Jepsen’s "Run Away With Me" Check out the cover and Natasha’s notes on why she picked this song below.

Cover Notes:

Few songs sparkle quite like Carly Rae Jepsen's "Run Away With Me." My hope in choosing this song was that we could bottle that feeling and share four minutes and 11 seconds of joy with people at a time when they might need it most.

In addition to immersing ourselves in the pop perfection of "Run Away With Me," we all took the opportunity to record parts outside our typical onstage roles. Greg's drums, aux percussion, and keys ground our version of the song. Nicole's glittering ukulele part adds pure magic. And I had a blast playing that iconic sax line and singing lead.

I hope our take on the song makes you smile. Thanks for listening.

Wife Patrol Covers Magazine

We've been missing you and missing each other.

To help us stay connected, we've started a record-from-home covers project.

Track 2 in our cover series is a Greg pick -- Magazine's "A Song From Under the Floorboards." Check out the cover and Greg’s notes on why he picked this song below.

Cover Notes:

Rumor has it this song was inspired by "Notes From Underground," Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 novella about an unnamed man who is so bitter that he feels unable to live in society. It's a real page-turner. I happened to finish reading it on March 13th. That date, for me, was the last day of pre-quarantine life.

I picked this song partly for that coincidence, but also because I think most of us are struggling with the isolation that is required from social distancing. This song and that book do a great job of expressing the spiritual GROSSNESS of feeling isolated. In doing so, they prove what is so valuable about human society. Luckily, this track is extremely catchy, so if the thought of a song about ISOLATION is the last thing you need right now, you can ignore the lyrics and hum the tune. Natasha and Nicole's vocals make it easy.

Wife Patrol Covers Blondie

We've been missing you and missing each other.

To help us stay connected, we've started a record-from-home covers project.

The first song in our series is “Hanging on the Telephone”, first recorded by The Nerves for their 1976 self-titled EP, and later by Blondie for the 1978 album Parallel Lines. The song was picked out by Nicole, check out her notes below.

Cover Notes:

I’ve wanted to cover “Hanging on the Telephone” for a while now, and it seems fitting that we did it in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve never felt more of a longing to connect with the people I’m closest to than right now. Our interactions are primarily phone or screen-based these days, and it’s just not the same as being beside each other. I’m hanging on, one day at a time, for the day that we can all be physically close to one another again. In the meantime, I’ve been reading Debbie Harry’s “Face It” memoir so once again, this cover is super timely.

I’m sure The Nerves had their own meaning to this song when it was first recorded for their 1976 EP. And Blondie gave it new life on 1978’s infamous Parallel Lines. But beyond the desire to connect, for me, this song also speaks to that slightly obsessive feeling you get when you have a crush on someone. You want to talk to them all the time. You want to know what they’re doing, if they are spending time with someone else, and if they feel the same way that you do. So you wait for the text bubble to show that they are replying, or decide that waiting around is wasted time.

I recorded these vocals on my cell phone in a blanket fort. Natasha and Greg took care of the rest in the basement studio. And in a nod to Blondie’s nod to The Shangri-Las, we started it off with an appropriate sound effect. Enjoy, and (hopefully) see you soon.