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Posted by gavortnik on January 4, 2009
Sorry, Shanoah, but the only cover of any song that comes to my mind is Sinatra’s cover of Foreigner’s I Want to Know What Love Is.
No, not Frank Sinatra. Rank Sinatra.
Aussie Rank Sinatra is a decomposing corpse who deconstructs the decomposing corpse of pop music – at times with a chainsaw, or so it seems. You can occasionally hear him on WFMU, and when you do, you realize what a perfect match the two are: the bastard child of karaoke and death metal. I likes it.
Courtesy of plastidecor.
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Posted by shanoah on January 4, 2009
Really? Everyone has done a cover of at least one Beatles song, Sean. It’s one of the first places new musicians seem to look for songs to sing. That, and the Greateful Dead, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and Bob Dylan, anyways. Or maybe that’s just the bands I listen to.
I thought I’d play some more Beatles music today. Of course, this first song is by “Dirty Mac”, and not technically the Beatles:
Yer Blues – Dirty Mac
As you can see, this is not the Beatles. This is John Winston Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and Mitch Mitchell. And I would so love to have seen that live. I love this song, though I do wonder exactly how much they’d been smoking before that intro.
Don’t Bother Me – The Beatles
This is the first song George Harrison ever wrote solo. He apparently had the flu at the time. He’s actually described the song as being fairly crappy, but showing him that he could write. I personally think the songs pretty good, though it could do without the “rock and roll, man” at the end of this take.
Think For Yourself – The Beatles
And this is another song written by George, on a theme very near and dear to me. George actually didn’t recall who he wrote it about and thinks it might have been the government. Which stands to reason. Distrust of the government is one of the logical results of thinking for yourself, after all.
Of course, this also naturally leads into Monty Python’s The Life of Brian.
Brian: You’ve got to think for yourself! You are all individuals!
Crowd: Yes, we are all individuals!
Brian: You are all different!
Crowd: Yes, we are all different!
Single voice: I’m not.
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