Scarlett Johansson's "Anywhere I Lay My Head"

[tristy]

It's leaked, which I guess is about 3 weeks before the release date. It's her cover album of Tom Waits material, with backing vocals by David Bowie, and an original tune.

I'm off to find it now. I know a few people were interested in this, so I thought I'd post it up.

[GRIFT]

The original track was written by Tom Waits and his wife/long time collaborator Kathleen Brennen. It is fittingly called A Song For Jo

[tristy]

Really? Because her artist MySpace page says it was written by Sitek & Johansson.

Ten tracks are covers of songs written by Tom Waits (many of them in collaboration with his wife Kathleen Brennan). The remaining song is an original, written by Johansson and Sitek.

http://www.myspace.com/scarlettalbum

Edited May 1, 2008 by White Power Tristy

[Hobo]

I've heard the leaked versions of Fannin Street and Anywhere I Lay My Head.

The latter is particularly horrible.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Yeah, her cover of Anywhere I Lay My Head was kind of the opposite of good.

[Skummy]

As I said in YI's Corner; Anywhere I Lay My Head sounds like Eurythmics, Falling Down sounds like an Arcade Fire B-Side. Not heard anything else yet...kind of set back my unreasonably high expectations of the album, though.

[Liam]

Am I missing why everyone had such high expectations?

Edited May 1, 2008 by rvdwannabe

[Skummy]

I had high expectations because I love Tom Waits, and he endorsed said album, and David Bowie sang on it, and the only song I'd heard Johansson sing before was "Summertime", and I for some reason expected this to be a fairly jazz-y showtunes-y affair, which would've been lovely.

[Iain76er]

Q gave the album ***. It is Q though, so pretty much disregard the score.

[GRIFT]

Really? Because her artist MySpace page says it was written by Sitek & Johansson.

Ten tracks are covers of songs written by Tom Waits (many of them in collaboration with his wife Kathleen Brennan). The remaining song is an original, written by Johansson and Sitek.

http://www.myspace.com/scarlettalbum

I must have misread the article I picked up that information in. It said something along the lines of: Anywhere I Lay My Head features four songs written by Tom Waits, six songs written by Tom Waits and Brennan, and one original composition, "Song for Jo."

Upon review that could suggest that that original is by Johansson.

[Guest Kou]

Johansson needs to die for these sins.

[brenchill]

That Falling Down track is fucking awful. I thought it was a wind up at first.

"Anywhere I Lay My Head Coming 5.20.08"

Thanks for the warning.

Edited May 2, 2008 by dukechill