A Head Full of Wishes

A Head Full of Wishes is a site for Galaxie 500, Luna, Damon & Naomi, Dean & Britta and Dean Wareham. With news, articles and lists of releases and past and future shows.

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Originals
Indian Summer by Beat Happening (covered by Dean Wareham and Luna)

I've done plenty of Indian Summer posts over the years so I'll keep this one brief...

Originally by Beat Happening on their fab 1988 album Jamboree

Indian Summer - Beat Happening (play on YouTube)

Covered by Dean Wareham on a Chemical Imbalance single while he was still a part of Galaxie 500

Dean Wareham - Indian Summer (Chemical Imbalance)

Covered by Luna on an EP 1992…

Luna - Indian Summer (play on YouTube)

… and played at most of their shows over the course of their lifetime - they played it the first time I saw them in 1992 and it was the last song I ever saw them play in 2005

Indian Summer - Luna, 1992 (play on YouTube)
Indian Summer - Luna, 1999 (play on YouTube)

UPDATE 2016-06-13: … and still finishing shows with it on the reunion…

Luna - Indian Summer, 2015 (play on YouTube)

I collected a few of the many covers of Indian Summer on Eeverything's Swirling a couple of years back.

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