Cover time.

[oneirophrenia]

OK, in order to destress myself after work tonight, I'm making a list of all the songs I want to cover in the near-to-distant future. Feel my wannabe-80's-synthpop-star wrath!

• Prince, "U got the Look." Currently working on this bitch, actually. It's a very simple song, yet funkee as hell. Plus, it sounds great with MechaPegritz and Godzilla samples worked into it.


• Comsat Angels, "I'm Falling.". Not exactly a lovesong...more of an "oh, crap, I never expected this to happen...but I guess it's pretty fresh!" kind of song. Definitely a sentiment I can relate to, especially lately. This has been one of my favorite songs since I was eleven and it was featured in one of my alltime favorite movies, Real Genius. Now I must do my own totally special Real Dumbass version of it.


• America, "Lonely People." 'Cause...well, I am. Very. Well, not horribly so--but definitely enough to make me want to remake a folk-rock song as a scary darkwave track.


• Mitch & Mickey, "Kiss at the End of the Rainbow." Oh, dear. An actual lovesong. Must be something wrong with me....No, wait a sec--it's Mitch & Mickey for gods' sake!


• Devo, "Girl U Want." I like songs about girls that have "U" in the title as well, apparently. I totally have to do a math-rock/nerd-techno cover of this


• Way of the West, "City for Lovers.". A total disco-booty-rock jam. Nuff sed.


• Q-Feel, "Dancing in Heaven." Another total disco-booty-rock jam.


• Malice Mizer, "Brise." If I could only find the lyrics....


• The Cars, "It's Magic." One of my alltime favorite songs from when I was a kid....I totally want to do a magnificent eurobeat version of this, totally gay-barred out.


• John Prine, "All the Best." What a bitter, sad song. Probably the most bitter, most sad song I know of. Well...a lot of John Prine is like that. Maybe I'll do "Sam Stone" or "Souvenirs" as well.


• My Favorite, "Absolute Beginners Again." 'Cause that's how I've been feeling lately: like I'm totally back at square one. Only this time, proceeding to square two won't be anywhere near as hard as it was before!


• Dean Martin & Tony Bennet, "Some Enchanted Evening." Sooooooooo smoove. For the girlies, obviously. Well...maybe one in particular, but the rest of y'all can be down with it, too.


• The Soggy Bottom Boys, "Man of Constant Sorrows." I'm gonna be real friggin' drunk when I do this one....


• Starsailor, "Love is Here." Uhoh. Another love song? Christ...there's something wrong with me. Well, doesn't change the fact that it's a damn good song. I'll have to industrialize it properly, though.


• Dio, "Rainbow in the Dark." Three words: Gay. Bar. House.


• The Cure, "Close to Me." I've always loved this damn jam. Time to redo it using only Atari sounds!


• Debbie Gibson, "No More Rhyme." Because I often wish I was a blonde, teen-pop songstress, too. Plus, this is such a pretty song, and it reminds me of eighth grade and one of the biggest crushes of my entire life: Jennifer Clark. It is from this girl that my predilection for tall, fair, statuesque blonde women comes from, so blame her if I drool sometime. And blame the song, too, 'cause I can't think of one without the other.


• When in Rome, "The Promise." Yeahyeahyeah, another love song. Sure proof I'm deranged. Even surer proof is that I actually want to do a fairly faithful, non-screaming-and-machine-noises cover of this song. It's a great song, with a wonderful, powerful melody, and rather touching lyrics if, like me, you still nurse the bloodied remnants of a romantic heart in the late night hours when no one's around.

OK....That's enough. Now I'm actually gonna go work on "U got the Look."

Comments

[beeporama.livejournal.com]

You can do a covers album! w00t! Now you just need a head-up-your-arse "concept" album, maybe a rock opera, and you too can be a Pretentious Late 70s/Early 80s Rock Band!

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Dude, I've already released concept album! Mind you, I released it on tape when I was...ummm, 23, I think--but it's concept was totally rockin' with Dokken: it was all about Nyarlathotep coming back to earth as a disco-funk band and destroying the universe through the power of rock!

Remember: when it comes to pointless, goofy pretention, Pegritz is *always* on top of things.

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

"Man of Constant Sorrow" also known as "Farewell Song" was written by Richard Burnett in 1913, or so. Even wasn't sure if he wrote it, but it sure as hell ain't belongin' to no soggy bottom boys nor to some movie musak producer, thankyouverymuch.

I been listening to versions of that there song since I was a wee tike.

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm just most familiar with the Soggy Bottom Boys' version. :) My ultimate plan is to eventually just get a bunch of folks together here on my porch with a banjo and some geetars, get drunk as shit, and do a whole mess of old bluegrass jams and record them like field recordings.

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

Just make sure you get the ORIGIONAL lyrics. I can give you some referances to whose recordings of it match the most closely to it's origional form if you like.