The bits of recontextualising that I tend to enjoy (I love live drummers playing drum & bass beats for example) seem to be a completely different beast to most of this stuff. I don't understand the point of the slow ukulele versions of everything - they all sound the same, they never sound remotely exciting, and if it was ever an amusing novelty then it certainly isn't one now.
I like the Senor Coconut Kraftwerk album though. And Nouvelle Vague was ok at the time (dare I revisit it?). Where's the line? Dub Side of The Moon? Hayseed Dixie?
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
Primary takeaway from this thread imo is that a lot of ILX users know insufferable people who are fans of Youtube cover bands.
in my experience it is far more common *not* to be a fan
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Friday, 19 May 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
*more uncommon
Is this the one that started it all off in its most recent form?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc
Think people found it hi-lar-i-ous at the time. Not so much now.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:54 (six years ago) link
who are you arguing with here
― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne
myself, mostly
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
Having just seen it on TotP83, is "Only You" by the Flying Pickets tge first example of this?
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Saturday, 20 May 2017 23:02 (six years ago) link
not quite 'contemporary pop music' but fucking hell a slowed-down sensitive singer-songwriter take on 'heads, shoulders knees and toes' is a new low
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTdp7jSRDqk
― the shape of a hot willie lumpkin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
The best part of that song is when it gets going so fast that it barely hangs together like a Bad Brains song for 2 year olds or something.
― how's life, Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
Oh God, there is an advert with a horrible version of "I Will Survive" doing the rounds at the moment, which almost has me throwing my shoe at the telly, Baghdad style, every time it comes on.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
I tried to persuade a group of nursery staff one time that toddlers love Melt-Banana but they wouldn't listen
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
(xp) Turns out it's by Cake, so somebody here probably likes it.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
I have complex moral qualms about KFC using DMX on that new advert
― put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
XP The Cake "IWS" cover was a big radio song in the states for them around 20 years ago.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 August 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
I like the Cake cover. (I'm probably a representative of the people this thread is railing against tbh.)
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 3 August 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
cake's "i will survive" cover is truly the antecedent of this execrable lineage
― dyl, Friday, 4 August 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
I'm trying desperately to remember what it was not, but I saw yet another movie trailer using yet another slow, piano-y, "emotional" version of an up-tempo rock song for what seems like the zillionth time and I wanted to burn down the theater with myself and everyone else trapped inside.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 4 August 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
the cake i will survive cover was on the same album as the distance, which was popular in the uk, but i can't remember if i will survive charted
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 August 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
i thought this was funny in 1983.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaufhdtVCJ8
― scott seward, Friday, 4 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link