Category: Music

While I’m posting oddball covers of pop tunes, I thought I’d throw in

this one for good measure. You may not know it, but Bill Cosby also

does jazz/funk performances. Some of them are quite good, and some of

them are…odd. Here’s an odd one: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band! [2.1 MB, MP3]

…is this one:

…and now someone’s decided to replace “whatever” in Liam Lynch’s My United States of Whatever with it, creating a new single, My United States of NOOOOOOOOOOO! [2 MB, MP3]

It made me laugh.

Speaking of humourous lounge-y covers of pop tunes, Richard Cheese’s

new album, Aperitif for Destruction, hits the stores tomorrow.

The album will feature lounge-versions of the following pop/rock tunes:

• Me So Horny
• Man in the Box
• Let’s Get It Started
• You Oughta Know
• Brass Monkey
• Welcome to the Jungle
• People Equals Shit
• The Girl is Mine
• Add it Up
• Do Me
• American Idiot
• We are the World
• Been Caught Stealing
• Sunday Bloody Sunday
• Enter Sandman
• Somebody Told Me

For a sample of some of Mr. Cheese’s work, give his cover of Puddle of Mudd’s She Hates Me [explicit language, 2.4 MB, MP3] a listen!

I found some more Paul Anka goodies (see this entry for his cover of The Cure’s Love Cats)! Richard Cheese, you’ve got some serious competition now!

• Hello, originally performed by Lionel Richie [4.8 MB, MP3]
• Jump, originally performed by Van Halen [3.4 MB, MP3]
  

• Wonderwall, originally performed by Oasis [3.4 MB, MP3]

For your easy listening pleasure, here’s Paul Anka doing his rendition of The Cure’s Love Cats [3.7 MB, MP3]. Go on, annoy your goth friends right now!

Here’s Meco’s disco version of the Star Wars theme

[5.9 MB, MP3], a big radio hit when I was in the fifth grade and when

the tag line for the movie was “the story of a boy, a girl…and a

universe!”