The Wildhearts

Sifting through the WH catalogue on itunes looking to see if the new track was online yet seeing that it was supposed to be today, and noticed said track - 'wild zero', anyone shed some light on the info of this please?

Its a guitar wolf track, wild zero is a wildhearts cover of said band's track on a tribute album "we love guitar wolf very much". They wrote a new song in a similar style to it as a bside in the stormy/vanilla radio era called "return to zero", get it on coupled with ;D

From The Wildhearts News Page:

26 Jun 2004 - Wildhearts - Guitar Wolf Tribute - Wild Zero

This week saw the release in Japan of the Guitar Wolf tribute album - "I Love Guitar Wolf Very Much", featuring a contribution from The Wildhearts. Ginger explains all:

"We were asked by Hijaku (guitar Wolf manager) at the tail-end of the last Japanese tour if we would like to record a song for the Guitar Wolf album, and of course we said "arigato".

Choosing a song would have been impossible, unless I already had designs on doing a cover of "Wild Zero" with The Wildhearts one day. Which I did.

I always thought we'd do an amazing version of "Wild Zero" since I first heard it and hey presto... the proof of said statement is unleashed onto an unsuspecting, but largely deserving public.

Our version is sonic warfare that rivals even the mighty 'Wolf' themselves... but alas, nothing comes close to the majestic fury of Guitar Wolf."

The album, also featuring The D4, The John Spencer Blues Explosion, Snuff and Puffy Amiyumi among others, is released on Ki/oon Records and is available from amazon.co.jp

Hope that helps
Kris

how did I miss that.... I guess this is a stupid question but is it worth searching out??

I forgot all about this. After several unsuccessful attempts to win the album on ebay I gave up. Didn't even think of looking on itunes

Just downloaded it and it ROCKS!!

And if anyone likes low budget insane zombie action check out the Wild Zero movies starring Guitar Wolf as themselves. It is quite barking.

I think theres a myspace music page someone created with it on, try searching for wildhearts

Great great track and just gonna tie me over till tomorrow when the new track comes out wooooo!!

fireup wrote:how did I miss that.... I guess this is a stupid question but is it worth searching out??

The CD's worth getting just for the J Mascis & The Fog version of Cyborg Kids. It's sublime. Wild Zero is cool without being essential listening. My Heart Is On Mars is also tremendous.

Awesome track i downloaded it the same time as sweetest song and have had a quality day rocking out to both :twisted: