Quick – name two songs by late 80′s chart-toppers Candy Flip. You’ve got three paragraphs to come up with an answer. During this twitchy pursuit of Bad Cover Versions it has occurred to me that all pertinent questions can swiftly be boiled down to one, simpler, one – albeit one uttered through agonised, ragged and [...]
We’ve been here before. What is it about Jimi Hendrix‘s Little Wing that induces such foolhardiness and drives bands to turn their minds inside out attempting to replicate the song? After Sting, apparently overfed on ego and too much fois gras, performed an audio force-feeding and distended the song into a horrifying nine-minute aural catastrophe, [...]
The true, dreadful nature of music in the 1980s is slowly being eroded from our memories. Some do-gooders are trying to accentuate the positive and claim that the decade which spawned hip-hop, the Smiths, Pixies et al was a rip-roaring success. Today, Bad Cover Versions presents the case for the opposition. Greed, as we are [...]
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