Who the hell covers the Violent Femmes?
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featherynscaleThis morning, as I was driving in to work, I heard something on the radio that I never thought could exist: a cover version of a Violent Femmes song. Now, I do always enjoy an unlikely cover song. But who the hell covers the Violent Femmes? Number one, every person in a developed country born between 1968 and 1990 knows the entire first album. I am certain of this. I mean, I was listening to this in the fourth grade when the college kids were listening to it, and when I was in college, we were still listening to it. They still play Blister in the Sun and Add it Up on the 'alternative' radio now, for the gods' sake. And, number two, what about listening to a Femmes song makes you go, "Yeah, let's cover this"? I ask you. The style is inherently very silly. It's like covering They Might Be Giants or the Dead Milkmen, or something. Except that you'd have to imagine that the Dead Milkmen had the staying power of the Beatles, or something. Like covering a Beatles song in the style of They Might Be Giants, maybe. Don't let that break your brain. Anyway, I think it's pretty ballsy, and it sounded good -- better than the original, though I imagine that's not a high bar to jump.
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Also, on the way in, I heard Muse's "Cydonia", which never fails to crack me up -- it's a fantastically textured song, but there is a bit where the guitar line is the same driving bit from Led Zepplin's "Immigrant Song" (for those younger than me, that would be the song with the viking kittens). And yes, I was doing the Immigrant Song yell in my car this morning, to the wrong song, in a different key. Because I can. At least I do not ever have to wonder why other drivers are looking at me funny.
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Also, on the way in, I heard Muse's "Cydonia", which never fails to crack me up -- it's a fantastically textured song, but there is a bit where the guitar line is the same driving bit from Led Zepplin's "Immigrant Song" (for those younger than me, that would be the song with the viking kittens). And yes, I was doing the Immigrant Song yell in my car this morning, to the wrong song, in a different key. Because I can. At least I do not ever have to wonder why other drivers are looking at me funny.
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Date: 2006-09-28 03:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 03:52 pm (UTC)Also, R&B/Techno/Emo=Prince.
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Date: 2006-09-28 06:11 pm (UTC)Should I expect homewirk? ;-)
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Date: 2006-09-28 03:08 pm (UTC)Who covers the Violent Femmes?
Date: 2006-09-28 04:11 pm (UTC)Can't remember who did it, but I heard an awful remake of an old Zepplin tune recently.
Dood...don't do a bad cover of a great song. That makes kitty angry.
Re: Who covers the Violent Femmes?
Date: 2006-09-28 04:38 pm (UTC)Re: Who covers the Violent Femmes?
Date: 2006-09-28 04:42 pm (UTC)"The Baby Jesus never sleeps while you're being a sinner, yes he'll eat you for dinner."
There are a multitude of lyrics in various songs that make me laugh.
The Baby Jesus never sleeps while you're being a sinner
Date: 2006-09-28 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 04:19 pm (UTC)I do not, generally, keep track of the name of the artist or the song.
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 04:22 pm (UTC)Bad cover versions abound - you heard James Blunt cover The Pixies yet? (there's a reason James Blunt has become a notable piece of rhyming slang...)
Good to hear you dig the Giants and Milkmen. I do a very twisted impersonation of Tom Waits doing the Giants track "The Day" - which I did impromptu during a Discordian combat magic ritual (disrupting an enemy rite with as much mad chaos as possible)...
Also - I always do the Immigrant Song Yell when apropriate - not heard Cydonia yet, though I like Muse.
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:33 pm (UTC)Also, your entire second paragraph is so wrong it must be right. I approve. :)
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Date: 2006-09-28 11:00 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tQL2vOhzf0&mode=related&search=
I estimate it's a d20 sanity loss...
As for the second comment - thankee sai!
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Date: 2006-09-28 11:01 pm (UTC)The Indigo Girls, apparently
Date: 2006-09-28 05:07 pm (UTC)And I count five artists covering TMBG, at least that he's played.
But no Dead Milkmen.
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Date: 2006-09-28 05:12 pm (UTC)In addition, I have personally heard OKGo do TMBG's "Kiss Me, Son of God", so I guess that can go on the list of unlikeliness.
Also, I will be bookmarking that site.
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Date: 2006-09-28 05:33 pm (UTC)Coverville is an awesome podcast. Except on the rare occasions when it's not.
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Date: 2006-09-28 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 05:37 pm (UTC)It may be a
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Date: 2006-09-28 09:11 pm (UTC)might help
Date: 2006-09-28 05:19 pm (UTC)i meant to post:
Date: 2006-09-28 05:21 pm (UTC)Re: i meant to post:
Date: 2006-09-28 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 05:21 pm (UTC)Pandora just played me Bowling For Soup covering Matthew Sweet's "Sick of Myself". Interesting.
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Date: 2006-09-28 05:25 pm (UTC)And, on what sort of channel did Pandora come up with that?
Pandora channel
Date: 2006-09-28 05:48 pm (UTC)Re: Pandora channel
Date: 2006-09-28 07:36 pm (UTC)Oh yeah, and now you know just how little I've progressed on guitar. :-)
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Date: 2006-09-28 08:05 pm (UTC)Hehe. Let me provide a little more information, lest I inadvertently sound cool: I took guitar lessons for about 6 months when I was in high school. I came in with the idea that I was going to learn to play rock music, you know, like you do when you are in high school. I learned to play Blister in the Sun, Stairway to Heaven, Queensryche's Silent Lucidity, some U2 song (at that time, you only had to learn one, and you could pretty much play them all) and Metallica's One. Other than that, I did a lot of classical guitar, which meant that I could read it off of sheet music, and it was as much single-string as chorded. Overall, I was an extremely half-assed guitar player. Then I got poor all of a sudden and quit my lessons, and pawned my guitar. Now, I don't think I could manage any of it at all -- the last time I had a guitar in my hands was probably 1996.
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Date: 2006-09-28 05:30 pm (UTC)The Bobs
Date: 2006-09-28 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 07:56 pm (UTC)All the music in the world is divided into three categories: 1) Albums I Owned, 2) Albums My Parents Owned, and 3) Stuff I Heard On The Radio.
Violent Femmes, Indigo Girls, and anything released after 1994 falls into category 3.
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Date: 2006-09-28 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 08:24 pm (UTC)If someone were to post just a snippet of these lyrics, I would be ever so greatfull as I would be able to get that problem out of my brain and focus on work.
I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record.
Date: 2006-09-28 09:16 pm (UTC)Re: I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record.
Date: 2006-09-28 09:22 pm (UTC)Re: I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record.
Date: 2006-09-28 09:48 pm (UTC)I will look at it when I get home though... :-p
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Date: 2006-09-29 12:12 am (UTC)Re: Here you go...
Date: 2006-09-29 12:49 am (UTC)Covers, covers....
Date: 2006-09-29 12:58 am (UTC)Also, you may like Fiona Apple's cover of Across the Universe (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fionaapple/acrosstheuniverse.html) by the Beatles - it's on the Pleasantville soundtrack, which I also own.
And finally, Jonathan Coulton (http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs) (the guy that sings First of May, that
Re: Covers, covers....
Date: 2006-09-29 10:36 am (UTC)Re: Covers, covers....
Date: 2006-09-29 01:14 pm (UTC)Re: Covers, covers....
Date: 2006-09-29 05:21 pm (UTC)Howeevr, we do for a certainty have his CD now, so
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Date: 2006-09-30 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-30 01:36 am (UTC)Gwen Stefani
Date: 2006-10-17 09:43 pm (UTC)