This Butthole Surfers cover of the Gordon Lightfoot tune "The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald" is gold. It's apparently so rare, the band's drummer King Koffee only recalls playing it once.
It sounds completely different from the original, stretching it into something else. It however maintains the same main line that keeps the original's sound to some extent. Lightfoot's music is not really known for it's music aspect. Emphasis is normally placed on Lightfoot's well written lyrics. The Butthole Surfers really played on a different angle for this particular song.
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