American Pie
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kained&able
Here for the football.
Thers some good punk covers of it foloating about and i like the song but hate everybody singing it and the maddona cover pushes it into the hate section.
dave
dave
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Isn't it? Buddy Holly would never be caught with this rambling old nonsense, short, sharp Rock 'N' Roll about girls and cars is what the guys in the plane were about. There's also loads of stuff about how much he hated Mick Jagger and the Stones, who were frankly doing a great deal more to keep the music alive back then than Don McLean was, self important tosser.
no. it was ace. an inspired act of cultural vandalism.
I dislike it, and I think Hi-ASL hates it 'cos it is such a load of rambling old petty cobblers
and yet people go on about how it 'really means something'.
It does, but what it means is trite, reactionary and small minded.
Madonna's version strips it of meaning, a good deal of excess verbiage
and gives it a nice fisting of gay disco to boot. It's a total joy.
the only way it could possibly be better is if it were the Pet Shop Boys doing Bob Seeger's 'Old Time Rock 'n' Roll'
another lament for the lost Rock 'N' Roll years that totally fails to be anything like as exciting as the music it wistfully recalls. Just imagine Neil Tennant arching his eyebrow and declaring
"I Like that old time rock 'n' roll.
that kind of music, just soothes my soul."
It'd be genius
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
I remember reading a deranged article on some nazi website that it's really a pean to race war and suchlike but i can't remember how i ever came across it and combining the perusal of nazi sites and the workplace have never gone too well for me.
still, well worth trawling for if anyone is inclined.
oh, and yes, utterly shit song by the way. the national anthem of The Moron worldwide.
still, well worth trawling for if anyone is inclined.
oh, and yes, utterly shit song by the way. the national anthem of The Moron worldwide.
Idaho
continuity character
Doing a shit cover of a song you hate doesn't make it a good song. That just makes it a shitter song.
This is about where I am. It's overlong and too sentimental, but I could think of at least 100 songs which I dislike more without even having to engage more than one brain cell.
that's the entire point of the song
Is the whole "unecessarily literal" thing a profession for you or more of a hobby?
It's about the experience of finding out that the artists who shaped your formative years have died, innit
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
^ it's about that plus thinking that all modern music is shit in comparison and so are the youth of today, while in reality all you ever do is get boringly nostalic with your old mates while drunkingly singing the old songs together and mourning your lost youth.
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
oh and I was at school with someone who was convinced that the Mick Jagger prentending to be Satan/Altamont section was about Jerry Lee Lewis - fuck knows why early 90s schoolgirls were obsessed with a)meanings of old songs and b) deliberetly badly singing them in the gym changing room.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
I'm going to have to take care here to make sense and not sound pompous but your two sentences contradict each other.
I think I agree with the first one - a cover can't make a bad song good, but for me it follows that it also can't make it any shitter. It can be a better or worse version of it, but it's still a good or bad song - although I'm sure there are some cases people can come up with. maybe.
The only example I can think of to illustrate this right now, oddly, is remember that Chris Morris thing with Kilroy running riot naked in a shopping centre?
You needed to know who Kilroy was to get maximum joy out of it but it didn't make Kilroy himself any more interesting. likewise Madonna's version is funny if you know the original but it doesn't make it any better - IYSWIM
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