What Is It With....
Saturday, February 12, 2005
What is it with doing New Order covers as your 1st single, you got Frente in 94 covering Bizarre Love Triangle then Orgy in 97 and Flunk a Norwegian band in 02 doing Blue Monday. That is one of my pet peeves, a band who releases a cover as their 1st single. You had some ska band who covered Come On Eileen, probably the worst 80s song ever recorded and where are they now? I can't even remember their name, thats how far they have faded from the music radar. T.A.T.U. a Russian girl duo released a Smiths cover as their single but the rest of the cd was crap. They figured that they could play off the whole lesbian angle while releasing a cover and that would get them press and radio play.
Covers as B-sides or just during live sets is fine, Travis probably has one of the most memorable covers, they did an acoustic version of Britney Spear's Baby Hit Me One More Time. This cover rocked, they played it on their 1st tour in the states, and it was so popular they added it to the Turn single. Another amazing cover is Siouxsie and the Banshees Dear Prudence, she took that song and made it her own, you would have never known it was a cover had it not been a huge Beatles hit. Nirvana has some great covers along with Pearl Jam and Oasis.
I found this site while doing my New Order reseach and found it pretty funny, check it out.
http://www.inthe80s.com/
Posted by mardenhill 2/12/2005 05:51:00 PM
