TONIGHT: That U.S. GIRLS girl we told you about

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TONIGHT: That U.S. GIRLS girl we told you about

POSTED: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 8:00 PM

Filed Under: Music | Philly Bands Show

photo | Jessica Kourkounis

Here's U.S. Girls' version of Springsteen's "Prove It All Night": [audio:http://stream.citypaper.net/music/04_U.S._Girls_Prove_It_All_Night.mp3] And here's what I wrote about it in our April 8 cover story:

Bruce Springsteen's "Prove It All Night," from his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town, is a rollicking rock song about young lovers on the run. It's got room for pounding pianos, a quick saxophone bridge and a blazing guitar solo. U.S. Girls does a version of "Prove It All Night" on 2008's Introducing, and it's pretty much unrecognizable. A percussive clang goes boom boom-boom for the entire two minutes while Remy's strong, spectral voice hovers overtop, but also reverberates as if at the other end of a subway tunnel. Thin hisses and breaths materialize and disappear periodically. If this version shares anything with the original, it's a sense of desperation for its two protagonists. "But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that be nice/ But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight." That's what Springsteen sings in the original. In the U.S. Girls version, individual words are difficult to make out. Instead, it's the mood that gets the urgency across. You have to feel it. Makes you wonder what the Boss would think, if he heard it. Remy did try to track him down and give him a copy once. She was on a tour stop in Atlanta when she heard her idol was recording what would become Magic at a studio not far away. She drove out there only to be told he'd left for the weekend. Instead she had to settle for seeing his guitar and dropping off a burned CD of her music. "I was expecting to get a call like, 'This is Bruce. I heard your cover we gotta work together,'" she laughs. "He loves weird shit! He covered Suicide."

U.S. Girls plays TONIGHT, Wed., April 14, 8 p.m., $5-$10 suggested donation, with Mi Ami, Hot Guts and My Mind, Danger Danger Gallery, 5013 Baltimore Ave., myspace.com/dangerdangergallery.

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