I start to feel old when I hear songs I grew up with in the 80's being played as cover songs by new artists.
Loping Squid recently shared with me this post about Top Ten Cover Songs that Outshine the Original. I started to write this as an individual response to Loping Squid, but then decided to post it here for commentary by a broader audience.
Here are my somewhat random thoughts on the above mentioned Top Ten post...
I don't agree with Gary Jules' rendition of Mad World supposedly being better than Tears for Fears' original. However, I did enjoy the video and the cool moving images the people on the sidewalk made. Definitely watch #9.
Not really related to the Top Ten post itself, but seeing the Pet Shop Boys on the list brought up another teleportation song memory for me. I've been a big fan of the Pet Shop Boys for a LONG time. Whenever I hear songs off their album "Please," my mind is instantly teleported back to 1986 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. I bought that album on a cassette tape at the mall there before embarking on a Tiger Cruise with my dad. During the next week at sea, I listened to that tape over and over and over again. A couple of the songs gained such popularity on the radio (e.g. West End Girls, Opportunities) that they don't hold special significance from that trip anymore, but I still associate the lesser-known songs with that Tiger Cruise. End of flashback, resuming original topic.
I never realized They Might Be Giants' "Istanbul" was a cover song!
Is it me, or does it seem really odd for Johnny Cash to be doing a cover of a Trent Reznor song?
Cover songs aren't so bad though. What really drives me nuts is when I get in an elevator and hear a soft flute playing the tune to a favorite song of mine from high school. Then I REALLY feel old.
BLUNOZ
From September 2007 to September 2008, this blog started out as a journal of my family's adventures around Hawaii. Then from 2008 to 2011, we lived in the Northern Virginia (NoVA) suburbs of Washington, DC. From the spring of 2011 to 2013, we called the Pacific Northwest "home." In June 2013, we moved back to the DC suburbs again. I like finding cool things for us to do that get us out of the house, so I will continue to blog about our adventures around the DC area, as well as periodic musings about whatever else strikes me as funny or odd.
Note: These are my frank and honest opinions. Nobody is paying me to write anything in my blog.
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- My name is Kevin. I'm 40-something. I have a lovely wife (LW) and two great little boys, Eldest Son = ES and Younger Brother = YB (in older posts, I previously referred to him as Youngest Son or YS). I'm a submarine officer, and I've been in the Navy for 21+ years. I started this blog to document our family adventures around Hawaii for family and friends. After that we moved to DC and then to Bremerton, WA. We have since moved back to the DC suburbs and I continue blogging about my random observations of life.
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Where'd I get the name "blunoz" from?
On my first deployment as a junior officer on USS PROVIDENCE (SSN 719), I had the awesome experience of going north of the Arctic Circle. The Navy has many customs and traditions, and when you cross a significant invisible line in the ocean like the Arctic Circle or the Equator, you have to go through an initiation ceremony. When I returned from that first deployment, I got a new license plate on my car, but had to fit it into 6-letters, so I condensed blue nose into "blunoz."
2 comments:
Oh come on...LS didn't know that 'Istanbul' wasn't an original either...am I the only person that loved the original version???
How did I miss you listening to Pet Shop Boys on the Tiger Cruise? I think I was in my "christian rock" phase in 1986. I was probably too busy listening to Petra to ask what you had on your Walkman.
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