Has Peter Gabriel‘s version of Street Spirit (Fade Out) been aligned merely with the word ‘bad’? How gauche. This cover is worse than bad: it’s so astonishingly stupid that there are a number of taxing questions that could legitimately be asked with a straight face. Could two five year old children have done any worse? [...]
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 [...]
Flashing a permanently wide-eyed, mouth-breathing, minimum-brain-function gawp at every sight that slides uncontrollably before his freely-swivelling eyes, Mika’s demeanour suggests a man still impressed by the sudden excitement provided by a pop-up toaster. And, dressed in the manner of a Synesthete who had just woken from a 25-year coma and subsequently refused all fashion assistance, [...]
“Sometimes, there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there.” As we all know, The Stranger in The Big Lebowski is always spot-on. That was The Dude, all right. And if we extrapolate his logic just a tiny bit further, surely we can conclude that “sometimes there’s [...]
Picture the scene. It’s 1990. You are Public Enemy – young, gifted and the “black CNN”. You’ve released your angriest, funkiest, most brazenly controversial record yet – Fear Of A Black Planet. The key track is 911 Is A Joke, a fiercely critical song highlighting the longer response times of US emergency services visiting black [...]
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