Listening Station: Beth Ditto Makes The “Connection”
popbytes‘ Mashup of the Week cuts and pastes together NME darlings past and present, mixing Beth Ditto’s vocals from “Standing In The Way Of Control” into Elastica’s Wire homage “Connection.” As with many mashups, the whole thing threatens to go off the rails around the time the first chorus kicks in, but it’s still worth a listen, thanks to Ditto’s chrome-melting voice sounding like an absolute blowtorch when paired with the crunchy guitars of “Connection”:
A+D – Standing In The Way Of Connection [MP3, link expired; via popbytes]
