Never fear though. I have another fav. JLK is "of the firm opinion that you can ruin ANYthing.....ANYTHING by doing a country version of it". Just to prove her wrong, I give you this:
Ben Folds Five live cover of "Champagne Supernova" originally by Oasis.
I can't seem to embed it in the post (it will only go into the sidebar), so just click the link. There's no video.
Now, I'm not a tremendous Oasis fan (understatement of the year), but this song is just breathtaking.
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To demonstrate that the previous entry is not a fluke, I also recommend ANYTHING (but particularly "Highway to Hell") by Hayseed Dixie. They are an AC/DC cover band (get it? try saying "Hayseed Dixie" aloud) and they are just fucking awesome!
Wonderful, isn't it? I have no fucking clue what the accompanying video is all about.
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And now for something completely different!
Worst cover ever:
Britney Spears
No, no, no, no, no, no, nooooooooo!!!!!111!!1!!!!!11!!!
Wrong-wrong-wrongity-wrong on sooooooo many levels. First of all, she's got no business even approaching this song, nor does she have any business doing classic rock. Period. (Don't even get me started on her cover of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock and Roll", originally by the Arrows.) But just to add insult to sacrilege, she uses what is widely believed to be The Best R&R Song of All Time to open her own lollipop garbage! But the wrongity of the whole thing doesn't stop there! Oh no! Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, did you notice that the whole performance starts with her seated in a chair in a Michael Jackson get-up? Which she then proceeds to tear off and prance around in a costume that is all but, and certainly suggests, total nudity a la "Flashdance".
Just in case you missed the heretical mash-up of artists/genres/pop-culture references, I bolded them for you.
"One of these things is not like the others,Oh right, none of them belong together!
One of these things does not belong...."
What the fuck is going on here!?!? The whole unholy union is like a musical representation of hell. It couldn't possibly be worse than this. I dare anybody to find something that is more of an affront to rock and roll than this criminally bad piece.
OK, so what have you got Acadamnit, Toaster, Hermie, BeanMom, Nat, and Stephanie?
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That *is* a great cover of HTH!!! Check out this shit:
http://physioprof.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/covered111bajillion11111/
I done did what I got. Posted.
OMFG! What the fuck is up with Britney's striptease "outfit"?? It looks like a cheap, hooker-ish version of Marilyn Monroe's almost-dress in Some Like It Hot ... at least Marilyn was entertaining and in a fan-fucking-tastic movie.
The Oasis thing doesn't count, AA, because all they did was *sing* it country style.
And no....I gotta stick to my original statement. Because I *hate* that cover of HTH. But to be fair, I hate any and all country music, sooo....
And WTF is up with the Britney video?? OMG. It's like she's living in this fantasy land where her biggest fans are NOT 12 year-old girls who really don't care just how naked she looks on stage.
sry, country music is 100% not for me. but i will agree times1trillion with your worst cover. that made me wanna hurl.
Point of clarification: I am not a country music fan. I like Johnny Cash, and even some alt-country (e.g. Wilco) but modern country is something that brings up desperate and claustrophobic memories of the one-horse town I grew up in. That being said, I can appreciate a countrified cover if done well -- I rather enjoy the irony, and the playfulness involved in the re-imagining, as long as it doesn't take itself too seriously. I think that both of these tracks demonstrate this rather well. Just hoping to bring some of that appreciation to a wider audience.
In short: if those "countrified" covers don't make you chuckle a little, you've no sense of irony. Or humor.
Well, I probably spent way too much time thinking about this one, but it is now done.
Okay, I can't decide which was more bizarre--Britney Spears stripping down from that Michael Jackson-like outfit, or the anime/video-game/Japanese cartoon-thing that accompanied the Highway to Hell song.
I don't know much about country music, but I do like those country covers, by the way.
And AA, you've exposed my utter ignorance to the music world. I don't even own an ipod. It's been years since I've bought a new CD (and yes, I know that no one buys CDs anymore. But I'm so lame I don't even know how to download music). I'm afraid I'm going to have to bow out of this cover meme? The music I listen to in the car these days are all childrens' songs.
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