POO: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

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allmusic.com lists 67 seperate versions of this song. Which ones are any good? Which ones are fucking awful? Which one should I download after I've got the BJ Thomas original?

And so on and so forth.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

They're all pretty awful, I'd say, BJ Thomas' included.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Agreed, they're all awful; if you MUST have one, pick Shonen Knife's version.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 22 January 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

remember in the late 80s/early to mid 90s when indie bands doing mainstream/cheesey songs was kind of, y'know, funny, in an ironic way?
(lemonheads Mrs Robinson, the whole tribute to the Carpenters etc). i say fuck a shonen knife. and the 90s. toast the new millennium!

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i like Mercury Rev's version

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The Happiest Guys in the World's reworking - "Snowflakes Keep Falling On My Head"

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Weirdly enough, the Manic's cover of this is the second best thing they've ever done. The best obviously being their cover of "Last Christmas".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 22 January 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

RE:"remember in the late 80s/early to mid 90s when indie bands doing mainstream/cheesey songs was kind of, y'know, funny, in an ironic way?"

It's not ironic if one A: actually likes the song they're covering (which Shonen Knife have stated they do) and B: makes a legitimate effort to do a good version of it (which they also do).

Tossing around and misusing the term "irony" to refer to anything with a sense of humor or that's unexpected, however, is very '90's. So toast the new millenium indeed.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the Mrs. Robinson by the Lemonheads was a nice, relatively fairthful, not "funny ironic whatever" version....it was nice....I'll bet a million that Dando loves that song.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 22 January 2004 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The song is great, you assholes.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 23 January 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

blowfly - my baby keeps farting in my face (RKFOMH pastiche)

― searchanddelete, Friday, 23 January 2004 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll second that. Mercury Rev's version is pretty great.

― danh, Friday, 23 January 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know anything about Blowfly, but it sounds like they've copped a record called "Raindrops" by Keith and the Impact Allstars, Jamaican, early 1970s.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 23 January 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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