Dramatic Bootlegs

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I was listening to "Dreadlocked Child" today and thinking that what I love about it is how schlocky it is - much more OTT and melodramatic than the original, taking on an air of grandeur in the process. It's sort of like looking at ruins from the Roman Empire - at once impossibly impressive and yet falling to pieces.

What other bootlegs are like this? Oh, and discuss generally, too.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Craig David-Fill Me In Vs Eye of the Tiger, it's as if Craig is going to go round and pound the hell out of the interfering parents.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i was going to say the same thing about craig david vs fischerspooner!

― minna (minna), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

My favourite example of this BTW is the bootleg of Missy's "One Minute Man" that appears about 36-38 minutes into The Avalanches' "At Home 7/10/01" set, which matches it with some awesome eastern-tinged orchestral funk (J Walk's "Soul Vibration"? This may be wrong), making the whole thing sound like the grand finale to an alien musical.

The same mix does similarly excellent work with "Get Ur Freak On", finding some scary Turkish gypsy music that fits brilliantly with the vocals *and* the arrangement of the original, resulting in what sounds like an impossibly far-out version of "Kiss Kiss". I love bootlegs that possess this sense of ambition - not so much in unlikeliness and incongruity as in grandness and largesse.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah the Fischerspooner one is like that aswell, although I remember thinking it had this spy movie feel to it, I guess Fill Me In does a little bit anyway.

Jon Carter used to play the accapella of that Missy song that goes "she's a bitch etc" (is it called bitch, I don't know) over Enter Sandman's guitar intro, similar example to the Craig David one actually.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 19 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

being Scrubbed -it's really evil somehow.

― threemetalinsects (threemetalinsects), Sunday, 20 October 2002 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

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