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I don’t know how wonderful this is, but it’s funny that a completely different Chumbawumba song came across my radar today, and then this gets posted.
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The riff from Barracuda was itself “borrowed” from Nazareth’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s “This Flight Tonight”:
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I have not heard that in decades; always loved it.
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This cover has layers. If you haven’t seen this particular band before, enjoy!
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I feel like Heart should have covered this, if they didn’t.
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They seem rad as hell
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I really enjoyed that!
Sonically a solid cover.
Visually daft as fuck.
What’s not to like?
oh, sorry, that’s prolly what I meant to say…
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You know, a while ago, I was wondering about hip-hop but with traditional instruments… I guess that this is what was in my brain!
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Great stuff! I can hear the traditional Irish music in the fiddle (what a friend of mine calls "deedle-e-dee music). There’s a whole lot of information there about how the record companies commodified street/folk music (rap is the folk music of the cities?). Lots of thoughts pinging around my brain.
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Traditional bluegrass instruments? Lots of types of ‘traditional’ instruments. Makes me want to do a search for Hip Hop using various folk instruments from around the world. With a nyckelharpa could be fun.
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I love it… I feel like it could be a whole new hip-hop globalized genre…
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Just let it build.
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I scrolled back but I don’t think we’ve had a Chap Hop cover in here. Here’s essentially a cover of Rapper’s Delight by Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer. Professor Elemental is the more commonly known Chap Hop person but I’ve always enjoyed Mr. B more.
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This is the opposite of a cover song, but a related category I really like: songs made popular by known stars sung by the original singer-songwriter(s).
And in this case, it’s in honor of Roberta Flack.
Ewan MacColl wrote this in 1957 FOR Peggy Seeger, who is the singer here:
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Love me some Reverend Horton Heat (spectacular guitarist too!)
While a bit late, I started to really get into Rockabilly/Psychobilly/Horrorbilly around the time the game WET came out, and also partly thanks to Kieron Gillen putting me onto the wonderful Zombina and the Skeletones.
There seems to be a very active Scandi scene for these genres, and one of the bands I discovered through one of their covers was Hillbilly Moon Explosion.
That cover was Blondie’s Call Me:
They also did a pretty great cover of Jackson, featuring Sparky from Demented Are Go:
They’ve collaborated on a few tracks, and they remind me of the street singers in the game Dishonored 2:
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