back when I had a recors label, I released an album by a band called Hammerdown Turpentine that did a pretty fun bluegrass version of 911 is a Joke. Somone (maybe from Veruca Salt) did a really nice acoustic version of Straight Outta Compton.

i duuno. some are better than others, gin &juice is a lil played out. but then again, les claypool is rarely paid attention to anymore unless it's semi-related to residents rumors -- who should really do a hip hop album.

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

SEP 09, 2005 09:26 PM

I think I just hate folk music and I hate ironic covers so the combination of the two is totally nauseating.

Do11face

Bedford, TX

September 2003

SEP 09, 2005 09:34 PM

I think it's fun....it always makes me giggle when I hear them...

garamondyo

New York, NY

June 2005

SEP 10, 2005 10:20 AM

Thistle said:
I think I just hate folk music and I hate ironic covers so the combination of the two is totally nauseating.

would it be better or worse to think they weren't being ironic?

and not for nothing, Dolly Parton singing Stairway to Heaven - totally earnestly and super duper country, gets me off. so is there room for the inverse?

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

SEP 10, 2005 04:01 PM

garamondyo said:

Thistle said:
I think I just hate folk music and I hate ironic covers so the combination of the two is totally nauseating.

Hm. I don't think of Dolly Parton as particularly folksy. Nor ironic. So she's A-Okay.

Lemonkid

Canada

May 2003

SEP 10, 2005 04:09 PM

Thistle said:

garamondyo said:

Thistle said:
I think I just hate folk music and I hate ironic covers so the combination of the two is totally nauseating.

Hm. I don't think of Dolly Parton as particularly folksy. Nor ironic. So she's A-Okay.

I'm curious... when you're saying "folksy' who're you thinking of exactly? Could you name a couple of artists?

MrStitches

Brooklyn, NY

November 2003

SEP 10, 2005 04:09 PM

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

SEP 10, 2005 04:19 PM

Lemonkid said:

Thistle said:

garamondyo said:

Thistle said:
I think I just hate folk music and I hate ironic covers so the combination of the two is totally nauseating.

Hm. I don't think of Dolly Parton as particularly folksy. Nor ironic. So she's A-Okay.

I'm curious... when you're saying "folksy' who're you thinking of exactly? Could you name a couple of artists?

I actually can't name any artists, because I'm unfamiliar with folk. To me Dolly Parton is country. When I say folk I mean like hippy dippy jam band folk. Maybe I'm using the wrong word. Which is why I say "folksy" as in kind of folk-like rather than folk genre specifically.

NatasKaput

Bozeman, MT

December 2002

SEP 10, 2005 04:27 PM

Mike Doughty's cover of Mary J Bliege's Real Love is the best cover i have ever heard

Mhyque

Decatur, GA

May 2005

SEP 10, 2005 08:29 PM

lil_tuffy said:
Somone (maybe from Veruca Salt) did a really nice acoustic version of Straight Outta Compton.

Yeah, Nina Gordon. I just listened to that, it's great.

When I saw Aqueduct months back, they opened with a cover of "Damn It Feels Good To Be a Gangster" and that was awesome. The Mountain Goats tacked on a verse from "Ignition" onto a cover of "The Boys Are Back In Town" that is equally delightful.

Also, Travis Morrison's cover of "What's Your Fantasy?" grew on me after a few listens.

edited for spelling, bitches

[Edited on Sep 10, 2005 by Mhyque]

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