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I was in a trendy club today and 'get lucky' was played. The 'posh' people we're pretty into it.

― Moka, Sunday, April 28, 2013 12:19 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That said, they were all pretty drunk.

― Moka, Sunday, April 28, 2013 12:19 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

wait how else are you supposed to listen to music in a trendy club

I think at this point it's pretty safe to say than rather a lot of people are really into this record whether they're drunk or not.

lmao:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Cp55MvX54

I've been enjoying watching the "tribute" versions pop up on Spotify

Whippersnappers into it. Spent last night dealing cards to my students at After-Prom. Many were irked the prom DJ didn't play "Get Lucky."

there's an Enrique now?

lol at that daughter cover

it's kinda really great

Get Lucky has moved up to number one here in the UK selling 155,000 copies which is the biggest sales for a number one single this year by quite a long way. I thought this would be a hit but had no idea just how big it was going to be, the video isn't even out yet.

I have no idea whether being no.1 means anything anymore

did it ever?

It definitely did, before we became middle-aged

for one thing, it used to mean "big hit"

genuinely dislike the daughter cover. beyond done with "plaintive indie cover of exuberant pop hit."

Such a shame, that used to be the best style of music.

tbf, i did quite like the macha cover of cher's "believe", once upon a magical time

being #1 means your song is objectively better than everyone else's that week.

http://www.billboard.com/charts/1976-10-16/hot-100

i assume there's no physical release yet, right?

in which case i think you can compare 155k to this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart_records_and_statistics#Number_one_singles_on_downloads_alone

it's the biggest selling download-only single ever, apart from RATM. or am i missing something?

oh wait, they gave up on that list 3 years ago

It's probably up there with the best selling download only number ones but I'm sure all the X Factor winners singles are above it.

Being number one doesn't mean that much but this looking like it might be the biggest single of the year is pretty unexpected and amazing. One More Time is their only really big single until this one. I wonder if they can keep up these kind of big sales for the album?

tbf, i did quite like the macha cover of cher's "believe", once upon a magical time

― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Sunday, 28 April 2013 10:07 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I bought this EP! Not sure if I still have it. I remember liking the "Believe" cover but in retrospect think of how much damage it was to go on to cause. Macha are like that Cyberdyne scientist in Terminator 2.

I remember liking the "Believe" cover but in retrospect think of how much damage it was to go on to cause.

Great EP except for the Cher cover which I did not know was influential as much as prescient.

The daughter cover is for shame, FOR SHAME.

she's my daughter

she's all our daughters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlhRQ-rj5ew

If anything Travis's cover of Britney was the high profile flashpoint.

I think there's thread on that somewhere? iirc the ur-text was pinpointed to Coltrane's My Favourite Things cover.

FACT, Mixmag, The Clash, etc all tweeting praise for that terrible Daughter cover ffs

interesting to see that the posters promoting the single (which have replaced posters promoting the album) don't mention Pharrell.

And now a reggae cover:
http://www.puna.nl/2013/04/26/video-postmen-get-lucky-daft-punk-giel3fm/

jazz musicians were doing takes on pop hits well before that. for this specific kind of rock very serious take on contemporary pop hit i'm thinking vanilla fudge is patient zero. for indie variation (and specifically the post-eggers new sincerity indie variation which eliminates replacements, ciccone youth, pavement, etc) maybe macha/bedhead is the inciting incident but it seems like even that has always been around in some form or another, it was just such an easy way to get on a college radio station playlist.

anyhow heard 'get lucky' out saturday night, loud cheer from club full of kids as soon as it started, numerous sorority girls loudly singing along, already knowing every word. sounds GREAT on a big system btw.

I love the way this thread has turned into middle-aged men analysing how kids react to the song: "the experience is working, the nubile subects react positively to this DISCO creation..."

Afghan Whigs' Uptown Avondale got loads of praise for being obviously bathed in pure love, so the ironic cover must've been a big thing circa 1992.

I don't think covering Motown is really what we're talking about here, especially given the Afghan Whigs presumably didn't cover those songs in a milquetoast sensitive indie wastrel way.

I've read about the Replacements' cover of Kiss's "Black Diamond" as being a significant one in the sense of a knowing "we are this kind of band covering that kind of band."

Sid Vicious did My Way in the 70s.

Gah, wish I had gone back and read the whole convo and not posted that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE9IchvpOPk

Milow's international breakthrough came with the release of the single "Ayo Technology", a song originally written and recorded by 50 Cent, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, from the album Milow. The single peaked at number one in The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, peaked at number two in Germany, Spain, Austria, and peaked in the top ten in France, Italy and Finland. The song was a huge commercial success, receiving a platinum certification in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark and gold certification in Spain and The Netherlands.

I think that Travis on Britney Spears is a slightly different though linked phenomenon, in that it never really rose above its own look-at-me status (it feels like an acoustic duo covering hits at the pub).

The plaintive indie cover which liberates the melancholy heart from the shiny cage of the pop song is drawing from, like, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra as much as it is from the lol-irony tradition.

The "Believe" cover is poised between these two paths.

Has there been a plaintive indie cover of Fairground Attraction's "It's Got To Be Perfect", I wonder.

As Tim pointed out on another thread, Frente's Bizarre Love Triangle was way ahead of the curve here, but more in a Susanna way than Travisesque lols. Radio 1's Live Lounge (source of the Daughter cover) is responsible for turning it into a longrunning trend. Who can forget Razorlight's Hey Ya! or Snow Patrol's Crazy in Love? I wish I could.

The reverse, ie pop acts covering indie, is often better, eg Amy Winehouse's Valerie or Sugababes covering Hard-Fi.

The Beatles 'Please Mr Postman' vs Stevie Wonder 'We Can Work It Out'

true, but the reverse also tends to demonstrate how superior the pop acts' own material is

xp

see also britney's "i can't get no satisfaction"

haha well 'i can't get no satisfcation' is not exactly an indie song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll0SslHsZ6I

I really want to blame the Lemonheads for this phenomenon, even though the closest thing that they get to the exact formula is probably their awful 2002 version of Xtina's 'Beautiful' which was well after 'Believe'. It definitely feels like the overly sincere cover version has been something that Dando was working on from pretty early on in their career though, thinking of stuff like the Manson cover version on Creator, then Suzanne Vega's 'Luka', then 'Mrs Robinson', then god knows what after that. All that ridiculous sensitive-puppy, wounded emoting, yeucchhh.

"the experience is working, the nubile subects react positively to this DISCO creation..."

genuine lols over here

Frente's Bizarre Love Triangle was way ahead of the curve here,

Frente's version was a cover of Even As We Speak's cover