RAC featuring Liz Anjos - 1979 (The Smashing Pumpkins Cover)

Remix Artist Collective has linked with André Allen Anjos’s wife Liz for an interesting cover of The Smashing Pumpkins’ classic song “1979.” They transform it into a catchy ’80s pop-infused song. This rendition comes as the result of breaking 10,000 fans on Facebook.

We hit 10k facebook fans! I can’t thank you enough, this is seriously crazy. I decided to do something special for you all. First, a little backstory:

Many many years ago my buddy Filipe gave me a burnt cd with this file on it. It was this new thing called mp3 and apparently it was the future. I happily installed winamp (2.9 for lyfe) and listened to this particular song on repeat. It’s all I had. That might not mean much, but it was just the start of what became my musical journey. I obviously liked music before that, but access was always a serious barrier. Napster came along and suddenly I had access to a lot more (On a 56k connection). A lot of people whine and whine about piracy but forget about the obvious benefit. I’m able to do music for a living today because mp3’s opened the door for independent music. It leveled the playing field. People are far more musically educated today than they were 10 years ago. It seriously educated me. There’s still a lot of horrible music today, but at least you know about the good stuff.

The song was 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. I figured it would be cool to do a cover. It had been a while since I did a track with my wife, so this seemed like a great opportunity for that. We tried to keep it relatively close to the original but definitely putting our own spin on it.

I really hope you like it.

Thank you thank you thank you!

On that note, tune in below.