Archive | Rampant Foolhardiness

01 November 2010 ~ 1 Comment

The Script – Lose Yourself

Bands covering hip hop isn’t as unwieldy an idea as it sounds, so how do almost every band get it wrong? This question is left rightly unanswered in this Eminem cover which is less Straight Outta Compton, and more Sliding Hopelessly Into Comedy. More importantly, just how much does Danny from The Script truly believe [...]

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10 September 2010 ~ 7 Comments

Peter Gabriel – Street Spirit (Fade Out)

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? [...]

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15 June 2010 ~ 7 Comments

Paul Young – Love Will Tear Us Apart

“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 [...]

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06 June 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Sting – Little Wing

Go on – admit it: you’ve done it too. You quickly glanced around to check no-one else is in the room, grabbed your imaginary guitar and silently howled along to Jimi Hendrix‘s Little Wing, lost in a moment of true beauty. And by doing this, you share something – not much – but something, with [...]

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