The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Devil Got My Woman

[FrostyNarwhal]

It's a God damn shame someone stole that theremin.

[Rory99M]

thats retarded

[L3adb3lly]

...asswipes...everything comes from the blues...this is a punk band...blues was the first punk

[shotgundorothy]

It's like Jon Spencer is possessed and taunted by the spirit of Robert Johnson.

Awesome band.

[Satyagrahaha]

This is not a blues band.... it's a blues EXPLOSION!!!! Get it? "Land mine" is to "soldiers" as "Blues Explosion" is to "blues bands"

[shipitintheremate]

@ouzo6000

It's a sub-genre of blues called 'dirty blues', dan melchior, bob log etc. kind of started with beefheart and tom waits etc.

[JeShok]

Stay with me baby because I got something I want everybody to hear right now ladies and gentlemen I don’t play no blues I play rock and roll that’s right the blues is number one The blues is number one ladies and gentlemen but there’s something I gotta tell you right now I do not play no blues, I do not play no blues I play rock and roll Get it I play rock and roll Yeah, that’s right baby, come on momma Do it baby

[Figoldruid]

@aamikolew - the rolling stones are the gay version of the rolling stones, bro.

[tarabumla]

17 ignorant did not understand anything about the Blues

[tombanger]

I love it! - but that's not the blues no matter how you try to cut it.

[rureethelion]

no one can say "YEAH!" like Jon Spencer :p

[Kedfagan]

lol fuckin love it. I wanna see these guys on x factor

[larrythelurker]

This is some crazy azz white boy playing at the BLUES!

[madFlam1]

boy need to stop shouting/putting on a gay voice

[MACVLikeMetaL]

5.5 o.o BAD

[neoncloud88]

Nice try.. Maybe should picked up some talent along the way.

[aamikolew]

sounds like a gay version of rolling stones

[busessuck1]

oh wow this is such a good cover that if i ever see this loser in the street i'd nut him and take his wallet

[mecadonzilla]

It's not blues. It's not hard core punk. It's blues core.

[bustedup]

Well, I salute the idea of doing someone else's song with your own personal twist.

[lizajane]

oh HELL yes

[xaviervanmeerbeeck]

Skip turns around in his grave...

[SukaNasc]

This is awesome...I love it

[JohnnyFriendly]

If you ain't inspired to learn how to play theremin after watching this, then you've got a serious problem

[tenbarsteam]

This is the BOMB!!!!! Fuckin' love it

[RaygunShaun]

Beck did a fucking awesome cover of this song as well. I believe it's on the deluxe version of Odelay.

[PlanetOfMu]

it's from Wim Wenders movie Soul Of A Man (not Scorsese)..thanks for uploading..greets

[nc73]

@PlanetOfMu

scorsese produced

wenders directed

[PlanetOfMu]

yes Full title is:

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues.

Soul Of A Man: A Film By Wim Wenders

greets

[RokSoggy]

Rockin' version of this song! Check out the cover that I do of it in my videos.

[BritishBluesMan89]

awesome!

[andpyramids]

I like John Spencer, and I LOVE Skip James, but I do not like this. :/

[vomit1976]

check the album they did with R.L. Burnside "A Ass Pocket of Whiskey". It is way bad ass

[acidstar5831]

that album rocks so hard

[PhantaJisto]

Don't like

[batman6458]

I think people are dumb who try to say jon spencer is trying to be the next authentic bluesman and carry over the spirit of the blues. jsbx are first and foremost a punk/ indie band in my eyes just with blues infused, not a bad thing, those are the things adding up to this sensibility.

[RLBURNSIDE1]

You bluesmen out I'm sure know this a skip james song.. you can probably find skip doing this tune on YouTube.. also They opened for RL Burnside late Jon knows his shit .. he ain't trying to be a blackman, he's a wildman performing a blues tune.. If you ever get to see a real blues performance at a house rent party of juke joint you'll find people simulating the deed, rollin on the floor..

[rlsroyce]

Jon Spencer does not play no blues. He plays.......rock and roll!

[looshkin66]

He says it perfectly in the song "talk about the blues"........The blues are no#1 BUT I PLAY ROCKANDROLL MOTHERFUCKER

[Damianlkh]

@batman6458 He's trying to make music, he plays a lot of blues. Nuff said.

[mrfnk]

@batman6458: punk/ indie wtf? when bluesexplosion was putting out records punk was dead and indi wasn't even a word.

[MsPsychobunny]

@batman6458 batman, i like your attitude. i think people who are dumb dont fucking matter anyhow. i know they dont count..cause they CANT count, yes? it dont matter, i still like you.

[jrmwigga5555]

@batman6458

truth. he himself has said BX isn't a blues band, but a rock n roll band...which they are...and they do it better than anyone imo! lol

[saxonde68]

gimmicky travesty. I love the white stripes, black keys, muddy waters, junior kimbrough, Tom Waits, but this is nonsense. It is a horrible cover of a simply amazing song, I feel like it has lost all of its emotion, all of the mourning that skip james put into it and now it has all the gimmicky feel of Metallica's cover of "Turn the Page"

[Honestjosh44]

Thats some really really bad blues right there- and I dont mean in a good way, crap crap crap

[98jsbx98]

It's not the polished white-boy blues that we mostly hear these days...this is real dirty low down shit. I reckon the original bluesmen would appreciate the attitude of the Blues Explosion. I love it.

[Honestjosh44]

Sounds like polished white boy blues to me- practically a doors impersonation (and a bad one)

[98jsbx98]

Well it's unfortunate if this clip looks that way. I guess we see things in different lights. Check em out live some time and you might just enjoy it.

[lessborrowed]

Hail yeah 98jsbx98! I saw 'em in '96..you might like this band that was out of Buffalo called Lollipop. Check out "Write Me a Poem" on their myspace site.

[vongogol]

the showmanship is just through the roof. jon spencer is one of our generation's great performer. it's not blues, it's not gimmicky. it's just a kick ass rock set.

[Honestjosh44]

Am I taking crazy pills here ? This impersonation is bloody awful, it sounds really awful. Just to reiterate its possibly the crapiest crapfest of crap I have ever seen / heard.

[pandaeyes42]

Blues Explosion!!!

[sonicjay007]

love ye..err.and other words!

[williestratton]

That singer almost reminds me of jim morrison

[Jagger656]

that's alright like the stuff, but lack of bass...wasn't it just a tuned guitar and drums + vocals..no bass? Great live-band.

[YassinAZZ]

nice title it make u think about who's that mother fucker who can be best than you and take ure woman accelly we dont know and i dont want taht thing happen gaod bless us from huamin devils hhhhhhhhh

[GinRacine]

Probably one of the coolest people on the planet.

[pentry73]

Not one of the coolest;Thee Coolest. Jon Spencer is the man.

[NorthAlison]

iDohm Music Magazine

The Blues Is Number One

[tolugo87]

hey!

all together now

"the blues is number 1 but i play ROCK N ROLL!"

[ouzo6000]

I think he is getting unfair criticism due

 to his non- traditional approach to the blues but he does kick ass. He brings to mind

another artist with a a very different kind ( from Spencer )of off kilter blues sound who may have also been dis-approved by

blues purists. His name was Captian Beefheart.

[Tim010987]

Blues "purists" suck; Howlin' Wolf, T-Model Ford, White Stripes, Black Keys, Muddy Waters, Junior Kimbrough, Blues Explosion...it's ALL good. Be adventurous!

[holdbackthetide]

@ouzo6000 Blues was about expression! I agree with you totally. most of the "purist" blues I hear many people imitating these days...well it's dryer than my empty glass of a double whiskey i need to enjoy that crap.

[sonjarobot21]

imposter?! hes not a jazzstudent, he plays opentunings: rudimentarily punkrock but it has definitive groove! WHY IS IT arrogante to SCREAM skips text??! its absolute with FEELING: agressive, loud, rudimentary. but no fake--- its live! ... a poser?! fuck yeah! its a musician on stage. a show is his job. its no (no) blues band. the blues is -more- a feeling than music style. white, yellow and violet people can feel trouble, too. make your own thing!

[ihateanglophiles]

So only jazz students are impostors, what?

My open tunings prevent me from being a phoney, what?

Feelings, schmeelings.

I see your "punkrock" has a lower case 'P'.

The real musician always sings/plays for and moves her/himself first...unless it's a clown show.

[imaswinginlad]

Do you really think that when Jon Spencer crawls on the floor screamin' (jay hwakins) and howlin' (wolf), he does that for the fun and for the show ? Please, he does that for himself first.

Go back to the fifties and leave modernity alone.

[imaswinginlad]

Here you're being ridiculous, it's obvious that your answer is not at all as good as the comment of sonjarobot21. It's not even funny anymore.

[sonjarobot21]

okay its not.. the sound of old traditional delta blues, its "garage-rocknroll" "noise" "punk" however named by the industry... but its a performance with passion, possibly inspired by an great traditional blues song. so as an performance it is the truth! BLUES EXPLOSION is just a name for a "garage punk rock band" it has nothing to do with traditional folk music IMITATION!

[sonjarobot21]

imposter?! hes not a jazzstudent, he plays opentunings: rudimentarily punkrock but it has definitive groove! WHY IS IT arrogante to SCREAM skips text??! its absolute with FEELING: agressive, loud, rudimentary. but no fake--- its live! ... a poser?! fuck yeah! its a musician on stage. a show is his job. its no (no) blues band. the blues is -more- a feeling than music style. white, yellow and violet people can feel trouble, too. make your own thing!

[ihateanglophiles]

Puede usted dicirme donday aye los biblotecta?

Spencer's not a bluesman, you don't say.

Chuck Berry plays rock'n'roll.

Spencer is a charlatan, an imposter, a poser, a fake, etc.

If only y'all had a little taste.

[imaswinginlad]

Ooh, seem like we have a clever one here...

[faunoram]

algunos idiotas necesitan dejar de masturbarse con sus opiniones y simplemente relajarse y disfrutar la música

jon spencer es de puta madre!!!!

rock on!!

[imaswinginlad]

"oooh, rich-boy whitey got the blues" this is stupid, Jon Spencer has always said that he's no bluesman, he plays rock'n'roll. And if you're not happy with it, go listen to old black bluesmen and give us a break.

P.S.: I love the blues AND rock'n'roll, no contradiction. I also listen to Bob Dylan, is it right ?

[brewereric]

i agree...wtf is he trying to prove....

[ihateanglophiles]

"Do you hear that......

It's Skip James rolling over in his grave."

Right on, brother.

[ihateanglophiles]

How dare a no talent arrogant prick like Spencer have the gall to massacre this blues by the great Skip James....oooh, rich-boy whitey got the blues.

Can I get a fucking witness!

[Bohumill2]

he only screaming...this version of that great song is ruined by singer...

Its my opinion

[tobia54]

unfortunately....your opinion is wrong!

It's my opinion!! :P

[Bohumill2]

unfortunately...this song isnt about screaming!

Its my opinion!!

[bjstratford]

fuck yeah! slim harpo would be so proud of you guys!

[frietag]

so like. whis is hardcore Blues? BLUESCORE! lol. when i listen to the blues. Im just getting into it to so yeah. I only have 2 preffered songs. Devil got my women. Skip James if i spelled that right. Or Lead Belly Where did you sleep last night. Or in pines however you reffer to it. I actually preffer it over nirvanas cover.

[wwgt]

Let not the labels be put upon music...

Kurt Cobain could have been called

a cover band , for what its worth,,

keep listening and dont be so quick to judge..

just turn it up , or turn, it off..

[frietag]

Im just having fun relax. It just that this guy seems more suited to hardcore stuff with the way hes singing.

[wwgt]

all-right, I took my pill..'

just kidding,,rock on

[ihateanglophiles]

shut the fuck up, you know-nothing-know-it-all retard

[LaKasiaMala]

Great , just great

[ittemimario]

can someone tell me why ed gein was blind

[RockabillyLSD]

Hey, it's Blueshammer!

[appiccer]

that's the blues. GRANDE JOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!!!!!

C'MON

[ProfessorHoffman]

Do you hear that?

It's skip james rolling over in his grave

[cl0udtop]

I think you either get JSBX or ya don't.

best live band I've ever seen. Three guys made a couple of thousand people LEVITATE.

I can now die happy.

[templemma]

Lets be fair the blues has been absolutely de-souled by a million greying white guys playing balless, soulless copies of their heroes in pubs and bars across the many lands giving firm credence to the term DAD-ROCK. The blues is primal emotional stuff and the punk-rock of its time

[templemma]

The fact there are so few people who actually interpret the blues with feeling and gusto (Like these guys THE BLUES EXPLOSION and arguably the White Stripes amongst others) is all the more reason why the blues is no longer culturally significant. It is barely alive accept for the efforts of this and a few other bands and artists. So nyah nyah nyah Prof.

[ncbrosig]

"It is barely alive accept for the efforts of this and a few other bands and artists"

'accept', in this case meaning 'except'. In other words: grammatically inept.

Seriously though, time changes everything. You can call it progress or regression but if music was always the same we'd be offing ourselves like the Japanese.

[templemma]

Oh I'm sorry ... an oversight nullified my argument did it? Do behave and try to pull your head out of your colon - no pun intended (sic with a fekkin Umlaut for good measure).

And really what the hell are you going on about with the Japanese? Do you have a prejudice you'd like to demonstrate in the public realm? Or make a statement that we can understand by referencing the phenomena in question? Your Grammar is however IMMACULATE.

[ncbrosig]

No prejudice, in fact I've spent some time in japan and loved it. I also think that this is pretty good art. Everyone gets inspiration from somewhere. The reference was to the suicide rate in Japan, it's the highest in the world. They also have very shitty music. Check out the band 'Melt Banana' and you'll see what I mean. Coincidence? Thank you, by the way, for the compliment.

[ncbrosig]

Also, nice colon pun, even if it was unintended.

[templemma]

No hard feelings and yes the colon was intended ;) Lol Melt Banana rule man! I guess Indie Art Rock aint yr bag? Well different strokes for different folks! Maybe you will like Cornelius more, or Shonen knife? Maybe not The Boredoms! Som J music is cool if you dig around.

[ncbrosig]

Yea, I'll definitely check them out. I'm more into the blues though, but you can learn from anything. I found this link from checking out Skip James videos. Check out The Reverend Gary Davis's "Death ain't got no mercy in this land" on this site. Reference returned.

[templemma]

You might dig R.L. Burnside "A ass pocket of whiskey, and a front pocket of Gin" - Proper old blues dude with the Blues Explosion being his backing band. Some stuff on Youtube. You might like PJ Harvey's cover of Wang Dang Doodle here too.

[ncbrosig]

I know about R.L. "Can I get 40 nickels for a bag of potato chips?" Ass pocket of whiskey is a bad jam, good drinking music. I have the album. Um, let's see here. I reckon we have comparable knowledge if you know about R.L. You dig ruckus blues. Sniff around for some soledad brothers on here, their live shit is pretty sweet. "Gospel according to John" might be a good starting point if you don't already know them.

[andreastrato]

yeeeeeeah!!!!

[iwascruel]

choice cover by a choice band.

[pgeneratorx]

heavy.

[rp61wasinnocentok]

The blues is number one...

[gonso1971]

Best band ever BUT no longer playing..what a huge pity

[electrosquid]

yes

[HoGraz]

Intense.