Gingerbread Man on 1/5/2006 at 04:03
I still can't get over Tom Jones and the Cardigans doing Come Together. There are times when a cheese-take on a classic -- and usually the further apart the original and the remake are the better -- are just perfect. That said, I never heard any of Pat Boone's ill-fated heavy metal (such as it was) album, and I've not heard lounge versions of metal classics like Iron Man and Two Minutes To Midnight... but if they're sufficiently different, I think they have merit. One thing I hate is when bands "cover" a song by performing it nearly exactly the same as the original. I've been guilty of that myself a few times, but our live version of Kashmir made up for it, I hope.
Maybe I'm a sucker for satire and kitsch, I dunno. I sure do like good covers, though... the Brothers Johnson doing Hey Jude is the awesomeness.
lol so far off topic I should have just shut up
PigLick on 1/5/2006 at 04:13
Man i gotta hear that B. Johnson cover! Also, Evrythings ruined by FNM, or Fountains of Wayne?
Gingerbread Man on 1/5/2006 at 04:16
FNM... I don't know shit about Fountains of Wayne.
The brothers Johnson cover i have is on an album of Beatles covers (the name I don't know, and I can't be arsed to dig through the cupboard to find it) that also had old-style Peter Gabriel doing Strawberry Fields, and Tina Turner covering something or other.
But the Brothers Johnson Hey Jude is just an incredible blues / 70s RnB whatnot take on the song... it's seriously fantastic.
eidt: oh wait it's also on All This And WW2
Phydeaux on 1/5/2006 at 06:09
I rather like Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude" too (and "Hey Joe", and pretty much all of his stuff).
But where this new wave of lounge music is coming from, I don't know. For some reason the young folk like that Michael Buble (I think he sucks). Call me crazy but I'd rather hear Frank or Dino sing. The Paul Anke and Pat Boone ones are mind boggling craptastic. The only one of these types (sort of) I can stand is Richard Cheese, and that's only a few of his songs. "Shake Ya Ass" and "Down WIth the Sickness" crack me up. But most of them, bleh. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. The Anke and Boone ones are absurd, and might be amusing to some, but for me, they're either too absurd, nor not absurd enough, if you know what I mean.
Lee Press-on and the Nails' version of "Hot for Teacher" is pretty good.
BlackErtai on 1/5/2006 at 06:36
Fuck off Frozenman, that's an awesome show. And the Flaming Lips covered lots of Floyd, and it's still badass (yes I'm saying the Lips are a jamband, get over it, I know they aren't really). Gov't Mule doing some Floyd/Beatles tracks is the coolest shit you'll ever hear.
PigLick on 1/5/2006 at 07:32
I dont think you've heard some really cool shit though. (I know you have just joking)
Andrew McLeod on 1/5/2006 at 08:39
Quote Posted by Parker'sSire
jjjust listtennned tt t-to the clips...
"It's My life" = neither one.
It's a B-bon Jjjovi song... I don't know if anyone else d-did it...
Dr Alban has same name of song.
Para?noid on 1/5/2006 at 15:20
Fuck, I forgot about Bon Jovi. Which is probably good. Fuck Bon Jovi.
OnionBob on 1/5/2006 at 15:43
my god, this illustrates a point i've wanted to make for a long time. just because people play instruments or are in bands doesn't make them musicians. i can't fathom the complete lack of musical hearing/understanding that enabled them to get the context and the main riff wrong. not to mention the guitar is flat.
Rug Burn Junky on 1/5/2006 at 15:58
I've been a sucker for lounge covers ever since I first heard Black Velvet Flag doing Suicidal Tendencies' Institutionalized and TSOL's Code Blue a decade ago. Anybody who thinks that Lounge Against the Machine's cover of Gin & Juice is anything less than pure brilliance needs to have their head examined.
And pretty much any song done as a punk cover works brilliantly, the cheesier the better. This has been true since the Sex Pistols covered the Monkees' (I'm not your) Stepping Stone in the 70's, or 7 Seconds covered 99 Luftballons in the 80's right on through to anything done by Me First & the Gimme Gimmes.
Same thing goes for Reggae/Ska bands (Dub Side of the Moon, Toots doing Louie Louie and Take Me Home, Country Roads, etc.)
Say what you will, and I've certainly vacillated on it myself over the years, but I fuckin' love the Tori Amos version of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
