Mostly for sasjhwa, but anyone can listen

[captain_slinky]

This is a collection of "Wrong Music"... cover versions of songs that are just plain WRONG. The ox.net thingee didn't give me the option to re-title any of this stuff, so let me just tell you what you've got here:

The Ataris - Boys Of Summer is an excellent punkish cover of an 80's classic.

Frou Frou - Holding Out For A Hero is an R&B re-imagining of the classic tune from the Footloose Soundtrack. Kevin Bacon is turning in his grave - as are the adjoining 7 graves. And yes I know he's not dead.

Big & Rich - You Shook Me All Night Long is as wrong as wrong can be. The only way an AC/DC cover tune could be wronger is if it had been done as a polka.

Me First & The Gimme-Gimmie's - Annie's Song is the first of two John Denver punk rock covers by this band. These two songs were the inspiration for this list of music.

Unknown - Baby Got Back asks the musical question "What If Sir Mixalot had been white?"

Beseech - Gimme Gimme Gimme isn't that remarkable till you realize that it's a GOTH cover of an ABBA song. If I ever take up Professional Wrestling, THIS will be my Theme Song.

Unknown - Dream On is the prettiest version of an Aerosmith song you'll ever hear. Kinda makes me think of Liv Tyler taking the place of her dad.

Me First & The Gimme-Gimme's - Leaving On A Jet Plane, the second John Denver cover by this band.

The Dan Band - Total Eclipse of The Heart! I searched high and low for this friggin' alum and now I'm proud to share this with you! The ULTIMATE Fratboy Cover of a Chick-Song!

Comments

[freydis.livejournal.com]

I actually have LJ open in another tab, so that I can listen to it, and read the rest of my friends list. Because I'm sick. Sick and wrong.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Which one is your favorite so far?

[freydis.livejournal.com]

Gimme Gimme Gimme. That song was screaming for a goth cover!

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

I didn't listen to all of these. Holding out for a Hero is strangely the version of the song I'm most familiar with. I think it was on some musak I was exposed to at some point on a repetitive basis. I like the first part of the song fine until the dialog parts come in. Then it is just not worth anything anymore.

The John Denver covers were not as bad as I dreaded considering they were completely different interpretations of the songs. Annie's song I don't think they really got. They took something sweet and delicate and poured cold espresso on it. Adding a sexually charged verse just ended it for me.

Jet plane I actually liked their interpretation for as long as I could listen to the driving beats. I'm not fond of music that is forceful for the sake of it. I also don't like that the F word got dropped into the song. When Denver sings a song my kid can listen to it. I don't have to worry about it. It is one of those 60s songs that was sung by a lot of people and it is difficult to separate the cultural awareness of the song's history from its new incarnation. I think that is true of both songs really. Whatever real emotion was put into them was pounded out because the beat is more important than the emotion of the singer's voice. The songs require that emotion to have their full impact. I wonder how they got the license to do them.

Another song that should be on the list is Thank God I'm a Country Boy by Billy Dean. It is a simple song about a simple man and his fiddle. The rock and roll synthesized music is so overwhelming that the meaning of the song is lost. There is nothing simple about it and he isn't a country boy, he's a rock boy (at least in that song). IIRC he also changed lyrics which just irks me when someone does that to a cover.

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

Okay, I just listened to the Big & Rich song. I'm a big fan of B&R. I love their music. This song sucked! Compared to the original it is terrible. Even just based on its own merits it sucked. Those two guys could have really done a far better job on it than that!

[freydis.livejournal.com]

yes. I had heard that B&R was doing a cover of it, and thought "Hm, probably won't be too bad." Boy, was I wrong. Very very wrong.

[nani-ka.livejournal.com]

I've already said I want a techno remix of the Neo-Country classic "I love this bar", & I want my stripper friend to dance to it at work.

'cause that would be a level of wrong heretofore unknown... AND i would make a point of going to her strip club that night EXCLUSIVELY to see that.

Let me know if you find one, yes?

[wildbilltx.livejournal.com]

Pretty good collection of covers, I might post a few of my favorite cover version in a couple of weeks.

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

i think the Atari's cover of boys of summer is the only decent one of the bunch. the rest are varying degrees of karaoke hell.

[aquatwo.livejournal.com]

what is it with you and Bonnie Tyler? lol

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

It's not what you're thinking... it was just sex.

[aquatwo.livejournal.com]

some folk band did a cover of Hit'em Up Style on a Prairie Home Companion 2 weeks ago... was pretty awesome. also, have you heard the the From The Screen to Your Stereo album by New Found Glory (punk band)? the most wrong IMO would be the cover of My Heart Will Go On.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I need to know... what time and day is The Prairie Home Companion on? I only seem to catch it at random intervals.

Secondly, yeah, I *think* I have that New Found Glory album somewhere... meant to put on the Celine Dione cover, but I couldn't find the file :(

[aquatwo.livejournal.com]

KUOW 90.3 FM, Saturdays 15:00-17:00, Sundays 10:00-12:00.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! And just in time for me to be able to listen to the Sunday show!