RAM On L.A.
March 16, 2009 - By Bobby Solomon - Category: Design & Life & Music & Technology
Aquarium Drunkard, aka Justin Gage, released an awesome project a couple weeks back called RAM On L.A., a tribute to the Paul McCartney classic, RAM. He gathered a bunch of hip, East Los Angeles bands together like Earlimart, Bodies of Water and The Parson Redheads to create a beautiful, contemporary version of this classic record. The album is amazing and it’s suggested that everyone who downloads the songs donate money to No More Landmines, a cause that Paul proudly supports.
I’m a big fan of RAM, some of you might remember I put Ram On onto the +KN Mixtape Sunshine Sometime, it’s an absolutely amazing song. Since I’m kinda nutty, I decided to create my own cover to this sweet comp’, because… well… the original artwork needed some love.
Below is the tracklisting, download it here.
Earlimart / Too Many People
Frankel / 3 Legs
The Parson Redheads / Ram On
Bodies of Water / Dear Boy
Radar Bros. / Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
Naptunes / Smile Away
Los Baby Fools / Heart Of The Country
Le Switch / Monkberry Moon Delight
The Broken West / Eat At Home
Amnion / Long Haired Lady
The Parson Redheads / Ram On (reprise)
Travel by Sea / The Back Seat Of My Car
Bobby
Comments
If you've got something to say, keep it positive.The download links 403. Help?
Same here. Noticed they’re all linked to AD’s site. Maybe he’s got some htaccess or mod_rewrite magic happening (understandably)?
Yeah, I didn’t try that last night. I added link to DL from.
Haha, I’m kinda nutty myself. Also made my own cover for a free album I love, since I really disliked the original.
In case you’re interested, here’s the original:
http://www.last.fm/music/Charlie+Yin/Astronaut
And here’s my version:
http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/6342/alternativeastronautcovcj2.jpg
Either way, thanks for telling us about the album and making such a nice cover! *Downloading now*
@Simon – That looks waaayyyyy better.
GREAT alternate album cover, Bobby.
@Satisfied75 – Thanks Justin!
So do we have to DL each track individually? Or am I missing something? (It’s finals, what can I say?!)
Hats off to this one!
and I love the cover too Bobby.
Thanks for posting this! Ram was one of my favorite albums (although I only had it on cassette) as a kid, and I’d kind of forgotten about it. Awesome.
“East” Los Angeles bands?
Yeah…I don’t think so.
Well both Justin from Aquarium Drunkard and I both live in the east side, so we might have an idea…? Maybe?
Don’t criticize unless you can back it up, my friend.
There is also an East Coast version of this project, released by the very talented Tom Scharpling, hots of The Best Show on WFMU.
Check it out. Funny Coincidence
http://pitchfork.com/news/34726-death-cab-ted-leo-danielson-do-mccartneys-irami/