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I have a love of music that is so bad it's enormously entertaining. For example, I've always loved Pat Metheney's "Forward March" which is intended to be the absolute worst high school marching band performance in history (and it is, it is). Or for example, I have an overwhelming fondness for the cd "Sacred Cows" by the Swirling Eddies, in which they take some of the stupidest songs ever put forward by Christian pop artists, and play them as badly as they possibly can be played. (Songs they cover include "Baby, Baby" by Amy Grant, the unbelievably simplistic "God Good, Devil Bad" by DeGarmo & Key, and "I Love Rap Music" by some Christian rap group, I forget who that was -- the Swirling Eddies version gets the lounge-lizard treatment).
There's also the "Golden Throats" series from Rhino Records, which collects hilariously bad song covers by Hollywood/media stars. I have volumes 1 and 4, I believe, including William Shatner's mind-blowing cover of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". Leonard Nimoy takes a turn at "Proud Mary", and when he sings "Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans" in a bored monotone... well, it's kinda scary.
There's also Leonard Nimoy's "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" which comes with a scary video. If you have never seen that, you're missing out... on something.
This week on NPR "Open Source" did a show on Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" and as part of the show, they played versions of that song by Nancy Sinatra and... oh I forget the other guy, but they were both incredibly bad. One of the things that gives that song such meaning is the pain you hear in Bob Dylan's voice. Bland pop singers may have voices that are technically better than Dylan's, but they drain all of the meaning from the song by singing it as a standard pop tune.
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There's also the "Golden Throats" series from Rhino Records, which collects hilariously bad song covers by Hollywood/media stars. I have volumes 1 and 4, I believe, including William Shatner's mind-blowing cover of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". Leonard Nimoy takes a turn at "Proud Mary", and when he sings "Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans" in a bored monotone... well, it's kinda scary.
There's also Leonard Nimoy's "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" which comes with a scary video. If you have never seen that, you're missing out... on something.
This week on NPR "Open Source" did a show on Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" and as part of the show, they played versions of that song by Nancy Sinatra and... oh I forget the other guy, but they were both incredibly bad. One of the things that gives that song such meaning is the pain you hear in Bob Dylan's voice. Bland pop singers may have voices that are technically better than Dylan's, but they drain all of the meaning from the song by singing it as a standard pop tune.
( since this is getting long let's cut here )
