Willie Nelson's cover of Paul Simon's 'Graceland'.
Some insane speed-funk cover of 'Pass The Dutchie', of all things.
Information Society's cover of Madonna's 'Express Yourself'.
A cover of Bryan Adams' 'Summer of '69' by some group called Bowling For Soup. (Bowling For Soup sounds a little like Blink 182, which means that in 1969 proper they were all probably about negative ten years old. I wonder: in referring to 69, do they then instead mean the act?)
Speaking of insane, a thumpy-rock cover of 'Happy Happy Joy Joy'.
A cover of the Men Without Hats song 'The Safety Dance' by a group called, I am not making this up, 'Twenty Dead Flower Children'.
Also, in the GenX Nostalgia Corner for the day, today I found, squealed over, and purchased... a Thundercats hoodie.
You heard me. A big ol' black hoodie with the Thundercats logo in red on the chest, and a matching red lining in the hood.
... does that make me the Thundercats ho?
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*points accusingly* Thundercats, HO!
But seriously. I envy you, Mooncalf. Nearly all the radio stations around here play either nothing but that happy-slappy pop crap and that rather angering rap stuff.
Luckily, I can find refuge in my classical music station, but...
Posted by Saikou @ 04/05/2002 09:08 PM EST
Now you're making me jealous because I can only pick up CD101 in the car and not in my apartment.
Posted by inky @ 04/05/2002 11:19 PM EST
MxPx (a semi-christian punk band) did a cover of "Summer of '69" too ^^; seems popular with those types?
Posted by benimaru @ 04/06/2002 12:22 AM EST
Actually...ive heard of Twenty Dead Flower Children...and i think i might have heard them before. Not sure.....
Posted by Cloud @ 04/06/2002 07:50 PM EST
Hmm... Bowling For Soup is fairly well known in Dallas. I'd heard of them, at least.
Posted by Priscellie @ 04/06/2002 09:21 PM EST
I'm listening to it online!
Wow, thanks for the reference Moonie. I LOVE covers.
I think my day was made by the Cult doing "Born to Be Wild."
Speaking of "Relax", have you heard DJ Keoki's cover of it?
He's got some great technoish dance stuff... all of it delectably gay. Particularly "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang."
Grind with me.
Posted by Lyra Silverblade @ 04/07/2002 06:13 PM EST
Ooh, fun!!
*must get a copy of Info Society doing "Express Yourself"*
My favorite insane cover (not that anyone cares) is "Hit Me Baby One More Time" (or whatever it's called) by, supposedly, Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa. The evil, the evil...
Posted by StB @ 04/08/2002 08:34 PM EST
My fave cover is undoubtedly William Shatner singing *ahem* "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". Scary....
Posted by Sheerlyevil @ 04/08/2002 09:54 PM EST
Sheerly: I have William Shatner's 'The Transformed Man' on CD. It's one of my most beloved possessions, because of the sheer gape-and-say-'buh?' factor.
Frighteningly worth a purchase.
Posted by Mooncalf @ 04/08/2002 11:04 PM EST
STB: I adore the Zappa version. It actually makes that song sound GOOD. It was THE first song I downloaded off Morpheus once I got my defunct oakland booty on the light fantastic.
My other taste sensations:
Paul Oakenfeld, "Send Me an Angel"- Return to the days when movies could advertise videogames and still be regarded as legitimate theater! Well, sort of. It was in "The Wizard" with that punk from the Wonder Years. Mmm... 80s.
Oakenfeld makes it sound like it could be put in DDR. Which I bet would be a VERY good original mix thing.
Posted by Lyra Silverblade @ 04/09/2002 02:20 PM EST
ooo-ooo-OOO-oooo...riiiight nooooww.... I actually like the original (Real Life - Reel?) in that embarrassing-synthpop kinda way. *makes note of Oakenfold version* - oh wait, Oakenfeld? Sorry. Oakenfold rings a bell, I think he did some mixes for U2 in the AB days. Anyhow.
And part of the evil of the Zappa version is that it IS good. They bring out all the creepiness inherent in that pop-girl genre and make it much more entertaining.
Posted by StB @ 04/10/2002 03:37 PM EST
