Redeeming the Unredeemable: Good Covers of Bad Songs
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Re: Redeeming the Unredeemable: Good Covers of Bad Songs
As much as I love the Kinks, I thought Bowie gave "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?" the treatment it deserved.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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this exercise is harder than I thought it'd be
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Like BS version, but I think DB nailed it myself.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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Silk purse out of a sow’s ear and all that.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: Redeeming the Unredeemable: Good Covers of Bad Songs
Greetings is his worst album until the 90s, so I'm not to upset about any preferences for Bowie Saint. Of the Greetings songs, Saint is one of the best, if not the best ones.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Yeah, they were a pretty good cover band.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Also, any Bowie band from the mid-70s was tight as hell, so the relative quality of his covers was down to the source material and his vocal delivery, because the band itself was going to step up.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
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I'm with ya on both counts
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Re: Redeeming the Unredeemable: Good Covers of Bad Songs
I've got to say the Born in the USA album hasn't aged well with me. I liked it when I was 15, but now I feel it's where he starts becoming a parody of himself.
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?
Re: Redeeming the Unredeemable: Good Covers of Bad Songs
Something for revbob to sing along to.
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?
Re: Redeeming the Unredeemable: Good Covers of Bad Songs
In honor of Rocktober, a 'Jortsville special:
Got a Rake? Sure!
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" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
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Man, I was excited when I clicked on it, but they never really get out of first gear. It's like they want to be respectful to that turd.
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But it's a decent polishing of the turd!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Oct 2021, 9:55amMan, I was excited when I clicked on it, but they never really get out of first gear. It's like they want to be respectful to that turd.
Got a Rake? Sure!
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Re: Redeeming the Unredeemable: Good Covers of Bad Songs
To the degree that I'd rather listen to the Donnas than REO Speedwagon … but that's axiomatic.JennyB wrote: ↑01 Oct 2021, 10:25amBut it's a decent polishing of the turd!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Oct 2021, 9:55amMan, I was excited when I clicked on it, but they never really get out of first gear. It's like they want to be respectful to that turd.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft