The Onion AV Club Undercover
I’m a sucker for good cover songs, so this intrigues me.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/introduction-to-av-undercover,38989/
The Onion AV Club came up with a list of 25 songs they would like to see covered. Some cool, some odd, some “bad-but-would-be-interesting-to-hear-covered songs”. As each band goes and picks, their song is removed from the list so the final band has no choice but to cover the last song left (whatever it is).
The first one up is Ted Leo doing Everybody Wants To Rule The World, which is pretty good. Straightforward, but good considering I’m not normally a superfan of his voice or anything he acquits himself pretty well.
I’ll definitely be curious to hear all of these.
Comments
I just think that the 80’s are probably the last decade where the was some degree of universality about most “alternative” (for lack of a better word) music. The 90’s were just a bunch of fragmented scenes and trends and overly hyphenated music. Rap-Rock? Ska-Punk? Nu-Metal? I can’t really think of many songs from that era that would be universal enough for most bands to look at and have a lot of choices as far as what they know.
Although admittedly the focus does seem to be much narrower than the past years list was, which at least had Guided By Voices and Superchunk and Neutral Milk Hotel songs mixed in with 80’s and some 70’s songs. But maybe last year those songs were voter write in requests rather than choices from the outset.
I request:
- Yaz – Situation (cause they’re so 80’s-centric)
- Bruce Springsteen – Wild Billy’s Circus Story (cause guaranteed at least one is just gonna be a dude with a guitar, so why not make it awesome?)
- Weezer – Say it Ain’t So (cause I wanna hear someone other than myself shout long to this for a change)
Paris said:
Yacht Rock? What does that entail?
Really is everyone else unfamiliar with this term or just Paris? It’s pretty recent terminology but it basically means that sort of vaguely jazzy, smooth, borderline easy listening California style 70’s rock. Think Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs, Christopher Cross, Doobie Brothers….maybe even the Eagles. That type of stuff.
Quintessential yacht rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkDkMT4YTUU
Though I always figured Steely Dan to be more prog rock. Now, Donald Fagan’s solo album….
Kevin said:Paris said:
Yacht Rock? What does that entail?
It’s pretty recent terminology but it basically means that sort of vaguely jazzy, smooth, borderline easy listening California style 70’s rock.
Does it tend to be a little corny too? I think I heard Vampire Weekend described as “yacht rock,” but that might just be regarding their boat shoes.
^ lol