Monday, February 20, 2012
If you are going to do a cover
You should put your own mark on it like the Cleverlys cleverly do with this Zombies hit.
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Well, there's some covers where deviating far from the original is simply sacrilege. Anybody who plays fast and loose with Townes van Zandt's Pancho and Lefty, for example, should be tied to a stake in the middle of a fire ant pile and left to bake in the Texas sun for, oh, a good two weeks or so, that ought to be about right. On the other hand, there's some covers that are so different from the original that they're basically new songs -- sometimes better songs. I'm thinking of Cat Power's cover of "The Sleepwalker", which took a whiny woman-dun-me-wrong song from an obscure emo New Zealand band and turned it into something mysterious and angry about maybe a father-daughter relationship...
That said, if you're going to cover something that was fluff to begin with, well sure, play with it. I don't think anybody ever confused the Zombies with being anything other than fluffy bubble gum pop...
That said, if you're going to cover something that was fluff to begin with, well sure, play with it. I don't think anybody ever confused the Zombies with being anything other than fluffy bubble gum pop...
I will grant you the Zombies were pop but not bubblegum. You need to keep your herring-snapper musical airs to yourself when you talk about others childhoods.
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