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I cover tha waterfront
Oct. 3rd, 2004 10:59 pmJust heard two cover songs on the way home from Pittsburgh tonight that...well, one is The BizzyBomb, but the other...? I don't really know about Number Two. It might actually be Number Two, or it might be brilliant. Or maybe it's just badly mixed. Let's see.
First, Britney Spears covered Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative." This cover is The Shit, and that's all there is to it. Britney Spears' voice isn't any better, but the sheer awesomeness of the music more than makes up for it. The beat is supergood, powerful and bass-heavy, and there's a breakdown in it that sounds like it dropped out of a Haujobb song. Yes. Daniel Meier-esque, and no lie. On top of that, it's got a stonecold buzzin' bassline that hums in your speakers and an awesome glitchy string/pad solo that proves to me that finally--finally--many elements of IDM and oldskool industrial and whatnot are finally beginning to seep into popular dance music. They are, of course, dumbed down for the General Populace (aka the Brainless Masses), but it's still nice to hear, even if somewhat simplified.
The second cover is A Perfect Circle's cover of John Lennon's "Imagine." The verses of the song are well-done, all spookified and dropped into a vicious minor key...but the choruses sound HORRIBLE: the mixing is execrable (all hihat and barely any bass at all, the instruments muddied up terribly) and there's just something about hearing "You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the other one" in Maynard Keenan's whiny, evil-uncle voice that just conflicts so vastly with my mind that I literally cannot decide whether the song is cool as fucking hell (despite the bad mixing) because it's such a great juxtaposition of the eerie and the wistful, or if it's just terribly-mixed shite hoping to milk some dollars out of John Lennon's immortal wang.
Ohyeah, and I also heard The Killers' "Somebody Told Me" on both the X (105.9, the Shite Station) and WVAQ (101.9, a Morgantown brainless-pop station) on the way back as well. For joy, I say! Finally, there is music on popular radio that I actually like once again! For the first damn time since 1991, I can actually listen to general radio and actually like what I hear...well, a little bit of it, at least. Thank the gods New Wave is coming back. It better stick around longer than seven years this time, too.
First, Britney Spears covered Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative." This cover is The Shit, and that's all there is to it. Britney Spears' voice isn't any better, but the sheer awesomeness of the music more than makes up for it. The beat is supergood, powerful and bass-heavy, and there's a breakdown in it that sounds like it dropped out of a Haujobb song. Yes. Daniel Meier-esque, and no lie. On top of that, it's got a stonecold buzzin' bassline that hums in your speakers and an awesome glitchy string/pad solo that proves to me that finally--finally--many elements of IDM and oldskool industrial and whatnot are finally beginning to seep into popular dance music. They are, of course, dumbed down for the General Populace (aka the Brainless Masses), but it's still nice to hear, even if somewhat simplified.
The second cover is A Perfect Circle's cover of John Lennon's "Imagine." The verses of the song are well-done, all spookified and dropped into a vicious minor key...but the choruses sound HORRIBLE: the mixing is execrable (all hihat and barely any bass at all, the instruments muddied up terribly) and there's just something about hearing "You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the other one" in Maynard Keenan's whiny, evil-uncle voice that just conflicts so vastly with my mind that I literally cannot decide whether the song is cool as fucking hell (despite the bad mixing) because it's such a great juxtaposition of the eerie and the wistful, or if it's just terribly-mixed shite hoping to milk some dollars out of John Lennon's immortal wang.
Ohyeah, and I also heard The Killers' "Somebody Told Me" on both the X (105.9, the Shite Station) and WVAQ (101.9, a Morgantown brainless-pop station) on the way back as well. For joy, I say! Finally, there is music on popular radio that I actually like once again! For the first damn time since 1991, I can actually listen to general radio and actually like what I hear...well, a little bit of it, at least. Thank the gods New Wave is coming back. It better stick around longer than seven years this time, too.
