One of the, to me, stranger bits of the consolidated music biz are all the corporation-style cover albums. For example, someone put together a well produced set of cover songs done in simlish, the fake language of the video game Sims. Talk about a strange cross-marketing plan.
AllMusic says the Amadan version (Tell Me Ma) is “traditional”, but lists “Ronan Heenan/Alison Marr/McCroary/Ryan” as composer for the Lick The Tins version (Belle of Belfast City). A quick google suggests tha the traditional badge is fully appropriate.
I just finished reading Anna Karenina, and am finding it’s influence in all sorts of unexpected places. There is a mefite named vronsky, whom I long to memail and ask after his motivations, since I didn’t find Vronsky to be the most heroic character of the novel. I’m listening to Big Country’s Harvest Home, and thinking about Levin’s obsession with his tasks as landowner.
I knew that most Joan Jett songs are covers, but I never would have imagined that “Do You Wanna Touch Me” was her covering Gary Glitter. Then again, maybe I would.
Update: LOLZ, another Joan Jett track, “Doin Alright With The Boys” is a Glitter track?
I’ve had an Amazon wishlist for quite a while. When I first started buying from them, I used an actual Wyse terminal attached to an external modem (for the purposes highly overpowered at 19.2kbps). Sometimes an item ends up on the list that I have no clue why I put it there. Like the 6-CD’s of crappy covers that is Party With Pride,which if my guess is correct, I put on the list for it’s cover of “99 Red Balloons”. But the ‘artist’ names are totally worth the used CD price I paid….”Venus With Penus”…alllllllrighty then =p
I kiss her hands
I kiss her lips
And I left her behind for you.
–Duke of Iron “I Left Her Behind For You”
An amusing song about survival, should one wake up one day in 1000 A.D.
This just proves what I’ve always felt, that people would rather BE motley crue, than just listen to them. It’s no surprise really, rock and roll has always been about the whole package experience =p.
This kid does amazing work. It’s worth a watch and a listen. Note that the low-res version has some weird glitch where it started without an i-frame, but the video gets watchable in a few seconds. The high-res version does not have this issue.