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A few years back Mister Vertigo whispered joy into our ears with a spirited cover of Morrissey’s “Every Day Is Like Sunday”. Now, they’re back and looking for someone else to dance with, setting gazing eyes at Michael Penn’s still-unfuckwithable 1989 classic “No Myth.”
We consider the hit one of the greatest songs of all time, and the Boston band does as well.
“It really is one of the greatest songs of all time!” says Mister Vertigo’s Matthew Hajdys. “Musically, lyrically, structurally… it takes the listener on quite the melancholic journey; a story of a classic break-up by two seemingly very well-behaved and mature people, right?”
Hajdys says they were toying with covering a few tracks from Penn’s catalogue to cover, particularly ’95’s “Walter Reed,” but ended up going with the more well-known hit for a few reasons. Keyboardist/guitarist Eryk Fairchild and vocalist Jonathan Scanlon have been known to play an acoustic version of the song, as a duo, during nearly every Mister Vertigo practice session, and that rendition eventually made its way onto the WZLX airwaves for Anngelle Wood’s Boston Emissions radio show.
“[Producer] Brian Charles heard that acoustic performance from Boston Emissions and almost immediately texted us wanting to record a full band version,” Hajdys says. “His reasoning was that, once again, it is one of the greatest songs ever written, but also that younger folks who maybe aren’t familiar with the original might get a chance to hear a version of, really, just such a great song. So, with that said, we just followed Brian’s lead, went into Zippah and cut the track.”
Mister Vertigo’s version is pretty faithful to the original, but there’s no need to fix something that isn’t broken. “It was about as fun and rewarding as you could imagine,” Hajdys says of the recording session.
Listen to the cover below.
Featured Mister Vertigo photo by Alison Kirkconnell.
