Not exactly the same thing, but there’s this really dreary Sia-esque cover of “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” that I keep hearing snippets of on TV (maybe it’s the theme to some show?). Perhaps this doesn’t miss the point nearly as much as that Whitney cover you’re talking about, but at least the Tears For Fears song had an actual pulse.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Monday, 29 January 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
pretty strange to read this thread in 2018
― ? (seandalai), Sunday, January 28, 2018 5:31 PM
Agreed. Shakey with pretty much the only right take way back when.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 January 2018 05:56 (six years ago) link
Welp, up to a point: "I couldn't care less about the language/cultural baggage issues people are harping on."
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 January 2018 06:01 (six years ago) link
this is a thing that's happening now (4 years old but they're a lot more popular now)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibceUSL0lPU
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2018 06:35 (six years ago) link
Wow this thread. I would like to hear from the 2005 posters, have you changed your minds in the last 13 years or are you still willing to defend this?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 January 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed two listens to the Nina Gordon 13 years ago, but Neanderthal's link there is an absolute warcrime
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Holy shit this thread is insane
― the man from P.O.R.L.O.C.K. (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY3jOkM3JFY
― sleepingbag, Monday, 29 January 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
i saw the Skivvies live. they're Broadway performers with pretty great pedigree, Lauren Molina played Ms Lovett in Sweeney Todd on Broadway. when the set was just them doing pop/cabaret-type numbers it was fun. the shit like Kelis's "Milkshake" and other "lol yuk yuk we're doing hip hop in hoedown style" numbers made me seek the nearest exit.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
ooooh here we go, this is what this thread needs for 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlSmsKJq3CI
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 3 February 2018 02:41 (six years ago) link
still otm about the ignition cover though
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 3 February 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
taking a bunch of disparate songs, flattening them, sucking out any specific emotional content and re-constituting them as a consistent musical paste
the generic condensation of the experience of a streaming playlist, designed for tastefully inoffensive coffeeshop audio
― j., Saturday, 3 February 2018 03:01 (six years ago) link