Titus Andronicus covers The Spider Bags

New Jersey indie rockers--and P4K favorites--Titus Andronicus recently recorded a session with Daytrotter that includes a song familiar to fans of boozy, mildly twangy, garage rock debauchery in Chapel Hill: "Waking Up Drunk," by The Spider Bags, from their 2007 LP, A Celebration of Hunger on Birdman Records.

The members of Titus Andronicus had the followng to say about their song selection:

This song is not by Titus Andronicus, but actually by a band from North Carolina called Spider Bags, who are the greatest band in the world. This song was on an album called A Celebration of Hunger,which was the best album of 2007 by a wide margin. That album has been unequaled by any album which came since, with the exception of the early mixes we have heard of the new Spider Bags album, Midnight Moving Skies, which is also profoundly amazing. It is staggering to me that Spider Bags are not exponentially more popular, since they are the greatest band in the world and everyone who hears them falls in love with them. We have played with this band quite a few times, and sometimes we have to play after them, at which point we in Titus Andronicus feel very embarrassed. Also, whenever we are in North Carolina, Dan McGee, who is the singer of Spider Bags, lets us stay at his house. Very gracious. Spider Bags are number one.

Download Titus Andronicus' version here.
And download The Spider Bags' version here.