Music

Friday Cover Songs – The Worst Covers Ever

29 January 2010

Some of you still think cover songs are bad. I imagine these covers are part of the reason why. This take on Europe’s “The Final Countdown” may be the most terrible thing ever perpetrated on state fairs.  I find it more amusing than I should. A close second to the above is this battle of [...]

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UGC Week: Tunes

28 January 2010

Bill says, “Recommend bands we should listen to and give us reasons why we should.” I think by dint of listening to a lot of music, a mistaken notion that I am smart about music exists among a lot of my friends. I don’t pretend to be; I just like what I like and I [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Bowie’s In Space

22 January 2010

Oh snap! It’s Friday Cover Songs. Two. Weeks. In. A. Row. This week, we’ve got some David Bowie on the menu. Seu Jorge – Life On Mars M. Ward – Let’s Dance TV On The Radio – Heroes The Last Town Chorus – Modern Love I don’t know that I’d list Bowie in that sentimental, [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Leave Britney Alone

15 January 2010

Back in the halcyon days when I did this every Friday, I may have mentioned doing a week of nothing but covers of Britney Spears’ “Womanizer.” Over the past few weeks, perhaps just to try and cope with the crushing grief of FCS’s absence during my quasi-hiatus, no fewer than a half-dozen people have asked [...]

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Humbug

15 December 2009

The radio in our office has been playing Christmas music for a few days straight now and it’s driving me crazy. “But Jeff,” you’re thinking, “you love Christmas.  You’re all about Christmas specials and ugly sweaters and Christmas music – especially Christmas music!” It’s true; I do love Christmas music.  But there are a few [...]

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Friday Cover Song

11 December 2009

Just one today, ladies and gentlemen. But it is a doozy. Chester French – She Wolf (Shakira cover) I owe you all for last week, too, so maybe you’ll get some bonus covers over the weekend.

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Pop Autopsy, Holiday Edition: Christmas Shoes

8 December 2009

At the end of time, the members of New Song will have to fight a rabid Bob Carlisle in a pool of childrens’ tears. As they are locked in vicious battle, “Christmas Shoes” and “Butterfly Kisses” will drone, klaxon-like, from half-functional loudspeakers, punctuated by short bursts of the Reggaeton air horn.  Actually…note to self…work on [...]

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Things Will Shortly Get Completely Out of Hand

3 December 2009

The Mountain Goats wrapped their current tour at the Bell House in Brooklyn last night. I had tickets literally since the first day I could get my hands on them. The band played in larger venues in Philly and in Manhattan just the previous night, but I wanted to see one of my all-time favorite [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Pop Diva Edition

27 November 2009

Christina Aguilera may have faded into obscurity and Britney Spears may have become a mentally ill sexual deviant, but cover songs will always remember them at their best.  Here are some covers of these mid-90s pop powerhouses from some unlikely sources. Elvis Costello – Beautiful (Christina Aguilera cover) Keane – Dirrrty-licious (Christina Aguilera/Beyonce cover) Yael [...]

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Friday Cover Songs – Disintegration Is The Best Album Ever

20 November 2009

Back during Project: Mixtape Week, I commented that I could do a week of nothing but covers of songs from The Cure. If that is something you’ve been waiting for me to do, you can stop waiting. I don’t suppose I’m voicing an unpopular opinion when I say that I really prefer The Cure’s more [...]

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