{"id":2445084,"date":"2019-06-07T11:39:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=845609"},"modified":"2019-06-07T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:39:22","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-priests-disco-cover-of-danzigs-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-priests-disco-cover-of-danzigs-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Priests\u2019 Disco Cover of Danzig\u2019s \u2018Mother\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Danzig<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMother\u201d is a great song, but more importantly, it\u2019s a great song that lends itself well to covers. A heavy-metal track about censorship with a melody that wouldn\u2019t be out of place in a Supremes song, \u201cMother\u201d has been covered by everyone from Sleater-Kinney and Coheed and Cambria to Ryan Adams and Wye Oak since it debuted in 1988. (The more well-known version of the song, \u201cMother \u201993<\/a>,\u201d came out five years later.)<\/p>\n

Priests<\/a>, the DIY band from D.C. who released The Seduction of Kansas<\/em><\/a> earlier this year, released their own version of \u201cMother\u201d on Friday and, in their words, \u201cmade it disco.\u201d Though the Priests<\/a> sound often gets grouped into punk or art-rock, this is far from the band\u2019s first disco homage. \u201cSuck,\u201d the closing track from their 2017 album Nothing Feels Natural<\/em>, calls to mind the spartan four-on-the-floor beats of ESG, and several call-and-response tracks on The Seduction of Kansas<\/em> resemble a stripped-down version of the B-52\u2019s dance-rock.<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s \u201cMother\u201d cover follows a similar path, at least for its dubby middle third. The track begins with a wall of sci-fi synths and layered vocals from singer Katie Alice Greer, but that quickly drops away like a curtain to reveal a hollowed-out cowbell, shakers and vibrating strings. Priests slow \u201cMother\u201d down to a menacing creep, and Greer keeps her voice to a throaty whisper right up to the exploding chorus, at which point the song gradually adds on layers of snarling guitar, bass, drums and an urgent horns section. By the time \u201cMother\u201d comes to a close, the cover has transformed into a steady march towards hell, led on by Greer\u2019s wails. This is still disco, sure, but it\u2019s disco that wants you to dance for your life.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danzig\u2019s \u201cMother\u201d is a great song, but more importantly, it\u2019s a great song that lends itself well to covers. A heavy-metal track about censorship with a melody that wouldn\u2019t be out of place in a Supremes song, \u201cMother\u201d has been covered by everyone from Sleater-Kinney and Coheed and Cambria to Ryan Adams and Wye Oak […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 12:29:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}