Contemporary pop music thru the filter of a gentler, more segregated age: Postmodern Jukebox etc

the whole notion of this is that people know and in many cases love carly rae jepsen and they get an excuse to listen to an older, unpopular style of music by hearing carly rae jepsen done in that style.

in the case of my friend who is deeply into this shit, she'd never listen to carly rae jepsen on her own in a million years but postmodern jukebox-style covers provide the veneer of muso chops and knowing distance which make the original i dunno 'respectable' in her opinion

i guess another way to say that is that she's enjoying the music despite the original rather than because of it - like the talent of postmodern jukebox allows them to overcome the lacklustre origins of the song by turning it into a smug dinner-jazz atrocity

Moog Cookbook's Black Hole Sun > Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun > corny jazz Black Hole Sun

a lot of people think jeff buckley's version of "hallelujah" is the best ever too. as long as you don't act like it's a fucking christmas song i'm fine with that.

lol I've been needing a new display name, t'anx! xxp

a lot of people think jeff buckley's version of "hallelujah" is the best ever too. as long as you don't act like it's a fucking christmas song i'm fine with that.

leaving aside for a minute the relative artistic merits of buckley's version, it's not like he was recontextualising the work of disposable pop sensation leonard cohen in the same way postmodern jukebox might say they were for carly rae jepsen, was he?

yr welcome dan, use it wisely xp

yeh, hecker's "acid in the style of david tudor" falls into this category for me. check it out you will not believe what i have done

noted chart-botherer david tudor

600 david tudor fans can't be wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55rtXg0ZsLE

Steve & Eydie ahead of their time...

leaving aside for a minute the relative artistic merits of buckley's version, it's not like he was recontextualising the work of disposable pop sensation leonard cohen in the same way postmodern jukebox might say they were for carly rae jepsen, was he?

― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne (bizarro gazzara)

do they say that? i don't really follow it that closely, but are they actually promoting their recontextualization as "improving" on the original, or is that just what many of their followers read into it? i mean i don't think even pomplemoose would talk shit about earth, wind, and fire.

Primary takeaway from this thread imo is that a lot of ILX users know insufferable people who are fans of Youtube cover bands.

"know" insufferable people. ha ha.

i have no objection to a good novelty cover from time to time. for instance miche braden's cover of "sweet child o mine", which if it isn't "postmodern jukebox" proper it's close enough as to make no nevermind. somebody is "racist" for preferring braden's rendition to the original, sung by a fucking racist hoosier?

noted chart-botherer david tudor

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600 david tudor fans can't be wrong

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for instance miche braden's cover of "sweet child o mine", which if it isn't "postmodern jukebox" proper it's close enough as to make no nevermind. somebody is "racist" for preferring braden's rendition to the original, sung by a fucking racist hoosier?

who are you arguing with here

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?

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

*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.

who are you arguing with here

― Drive Your Lover Wild In Bed By Cosplaying As Jeff Lynne

myself, mostly

Having just seen it on TotP83, is "Only You" by the Flying Pickets tge first example of this?

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 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.

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.

I tried to persuade a group of nursery staff one time that toddlers love Melt-Banana but they wouldn't listen

(xp) Turns out it's by Cake, so somebody here probably likes it.

I have complex moral qualms about KFC using DMX on that new advert

XP The Cake "IWS" cover was a big radio song in the states for them around 20 years ago.

I like the Cake cover. (I'm probably a representative of the people this thread is railing against tbh.)

cake's "i will survive" cover is truly the antecedent of this execrable lineage

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.

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

i thought this was funny in 1983.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaufhdtVCJ8