Madrugada Song Guide: This started out as a simple guide to the cover songs Madrugada have performed and the songs that were left unreleased in one form or another. Since then, the scope has been widened, and it now aims at including every single song Madrugada, Sivert Høyem & The Opposition / Volunteers or My Midnight Creeps have ever performed, be it original or a cover, with alternate titles, notes about the songs, links to lyrics whenever available and links to the discography for the releases the songs are available on.
| Song title - | 20th Century Boy | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Performed together with a band from Kongsvinger, Pilate, at Lt. Creutz Pub in Kongsvinger, Norway on March 11th 2000. A 14-minute cover version of a song by T-Rex, a glam-rock band from the Seventies. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Carry Home | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A cover of a Gun Club song written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Original version is available on the album "Miami." Madrugada played a version of this song at the end of the Knaack Klub performance in Berlin, Germany in March 2000. It had probably not been rehearsed, as the drums seemed out of order and Sivert could not remember the lyrics. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Come On Home To Me | | Performer - | Madrugada feat. Neil McNasty | | Notes - | Originally written and performed by Lee Hazlewood. Madrugada's cover version features Neil McNasty and was released on the cover album "Total Lee! The Songs Of Lee Hazlewood" by City Slang in Summer 2002. The recording features samples by Neil McNasty, also known as the band's light engineer Neil Solheim. Recorded after Jon had left and before Simen joined on drums, so the initial plan was to release it with only sampled drums. Then Simen joined, and added some percussion at the end of the song. | | Availability - | Total Lee! The Songs Of Lee Hazlewood (CD, 2002) | |
| Song title - | Demon Called Deception | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Originally performed by Grant Lee Buffalo, released on their album "Mighty Joe Moon." Madrugada did a cover of this song towards the end of their set at Muffathalle in München, Germany on November 18th 2002, and a few other times on the European tour in Autumn 2002. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Dirty Pants | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Sivert sometimes sang "So I dance in dirty pants, a drink in my hand. No shirt and broken tooth, barefoot and beaming" and "The crowd is stomping, stomping a song. For me to dance to, break glass and give in" during live versions of "Black Mambo" in 2001. These lines were taken from the Smog song "Dirty Pants." | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Don't Come Around Here No More | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Most likely a cover of a Tom Petty song, Madrugada played this song live a couple of times at the end of 1998. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Don't Let The Flowers Down | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A really beautiful song written by Karl Storm Andersen and originally performed by Ghostrider. Released on the P3-funded compilation album "Jeg Gleder Meg Til År 2000" ("I Am Looking Forward To The Year 2000") in 1999. | | Availability - | Jeg Gleder Meg Til År 2000 (CD, 1999) | |
| Song title - | Everybody Knows | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Originally by Leonard Cohen, featured local artist Terje Nilsen when it was performed for the first time at Bodø Spektrum in Bodø, Norway on March 11th 2006. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Goo Goo Muck | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | The band did a cover of a The Cramps song, written by R. Cook, in late 1999. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | House Of The Rising Sun | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A cover of an Animals song, played during the soundcheck at a concert in Tromsø, Norway early 2000. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Let's Get It On | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | During live versions of "Higher" in Autumn 2001, Sivert sometimes sang "Come on let s get it on, come on let s get it on," which are lines taken from Marvin Gaye s song "Let s Get It On." | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Mother Of Earth (lyrics) | | Performer - | Madrugada, The Silver Band feat. Kebab Kid | | Notes - | A cover of a Gun Club song written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce, first released on the compilation album "Frozen - A Selection Of Polarized Country" in 1999, performed by The Silver Band featuring Kebab Kid, a pseudonym for Madrugada, with The Kebab Kid being the band's sound engineer Lars Voldsdal, who plays acoustic guitar on the original release of this song. A longer version of the song, re-mixed by the band members themselves, is available on the "Electric" EP.
Interestingly, Madrugada's version of this song also includes another Gun Club cover, "Watermelon Man," which they have incorporated into the end of the song.
Available in a live recording from Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway on December 2nd 2005 on the "Live At Tralfamadore" CD and "Live At Oslo Spektrum" DVD. This performance features legendary Gun Club (and Cramps and The Bad Seeds) guitarist Kid Congo Powers on slide guitar. According to Robert, this live performance is "a very dirty, rocking version of one of our favourite songs, really cool. Kid Congo is the nicest, kindest, coolest human being, a fantastic character and person. He was on tour in Europe so he just flew into Oslo for the Spektrum gig. He came to the soundcheck and, on the night, he made his guitar sound like wind and fire. That’s his trademark." (Madrugada biography, 2006) | | Availability - | Frozen - A Selection Of Polarized Country (CD, 1999)
Electric (CDEP, 2000)
Live At Tralfamadore (CD, 2005)
Live At Oslo Spektrum (DVD, 2006) | |
| Song title - | One With The Birds | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A cover of a song written by Will Oldham and performed by him as Bonnie Prince Billy, available on his "Blue Lotus Feet" EP. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Pale Blue Eyes | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A well-known Velvet Underground song, covered by Madrugada at So What, Oslo, Norway February 7th 2000. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Positively 4th Street | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Originally written and performed by Bob Dylan. Covered by Sivert playing a solo acoustic version on two occasions, once in at Studentersamfunnet in Trondheim, Norway in Spring 2001 and then at the Bob Dylan 60th birthday celebration at Rockefeller in Oslo, Norway where only Sivert appeared. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Preaching The Blues | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A cover of a Gun Club song, played at a concert in Tromsø, Norway early 2000. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | River Guard | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A cover of a Smog song from their album "Knock Knock" from 1999. Covered at a private party at Pigalle and three other times. Played semi-acoustically. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Rollercoaster | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Written and originally performed by 13th Floor Elevators some time in the end of the Sixties. Madrugada s version is inspired by the cover of the song done by Spacemen 3 in the Eighties. This song was only played as an extended version of "We Are Go," Madrugada s version included song ideas that would later end up being used on "Got You" on "Grit." | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Sister Morphine | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Written and originally performed by Rolling Stones, available on their "Sticky Fingers" album. Madrugada started doing an amazing cover of this song, which Robert refers to as "probably the best rock song in the world," during the festival tour Summer 2001. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Slip Inside This House | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Cover of 13th Floor Elevators, written by Roky Erickson. | | Availability - | Various Artists - No Music Requests (CD, 2004) | |
| Song title - | Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Traditional song from "American Negro Spitiuals," written by J.W. and J. R. Johnson in 1926. First known to have been covered by the band in Fribourg on November 24th 2005, where Sivert came back onstage for the encore and started humming the melody of this song, with the crowd joining in for an a-capella version. Then also performed and recorded live at Spektrum in Oslo on December 2nd 2005 and released on the live album "Live At Tralfamadore," featuring the Bodø Sinfonietta. | | Availability - | Live At Tralfamadore (CD, 2005)
Live At Oslo Spektrum (DVD, 2006) | |
| Song title - | Sympathy For The Devil | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | This cover song originally written and performed by the Rolling Stones was played quite frequently during the Norwegian tour in late 1999. They played it in the middle of "Higher" at Grand Kjelleren in Egersund, Norway on November 12th 1999, but were critizised in the concert review for not playing it as good as the Rolling Stones do. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | The Fire Of Love | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A cover of a Gun Club song, available on their album "Miami" from 1982. Originally written by Jody Reynolds and Stardivant Sonya and originally performed by Jody Reynolds in 1985, available amongst others on the "Born Bad Volume Two" compilation album on Born Bad Records in 1986. This song has also been covered by MC5 in 1971, The Nomads in 1994 and Cobra Verde. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | The House On Highland Avenue | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A cover of a Gun Club song, written by Jeffrey Lee Pierce. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | The Partisan | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A cover of a Leonard Cohen song, played semi-acoustically at Studentersamfunnet in Trondheim, Norway on August 18th 2000 and solo by Sivert at a soundcheck on the "Industrial Silence Tour 2000." | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Thirteen | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A cover of a Danzig song, played solo on acoustic guitar by Sivert in an arrangement by Johnny Cash, who also covered the song. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Thrasher | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | Madrugada's cover of this Neil Young song is available on the "Everybody Knows This Is Norway (A Norwegian Tribute To Neil Young)" compilation album released in Summer 2001. Recorded by Robert and Sivert at Robert's Pearly Gate four-track home-studio, produced, engineered and mixed by Robert. | | Availability - | Everybody Knows This Is Norway (CD, 2001) | |
| Song title - | Trouble In Mind | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | An acoustic song sometimes played at the end of the set on the Norwegian tour 2001. A very old gospel song that the band itself did not know the name or the origins of. The original song was performed by Bertha -Chippie- Hill and written by Big Bill Broonzy, but Madrugada did a cover based on Nina Simone-s slightly different version of the song. | | Availability - | Unreleased | |
| Song title - | Venus In Furs | | Performer - | Madrugada | | Notes - | A great cover of the Velvet Underground song, which they played live quite frequently during the European tour in Spring 2001. | | Availability - | | |
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