Hallelujah
Dec 22nd, 2008 | By Bock | Category: MusicI am just so tired of these empty-headed little girls and their vapid karaoke nonsense.
Here’s the man, singing his own song.
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Sweet.
well said.
Sooo true. But it doesn’t end there. I saw Boyzone murder Fairytale of New York on Friday. A colleague n her early thrities thinks that they wrote Father and Son. Fuck, it seems to never end.
Shouldn’t there be ‘listed songs’, like buildings. Songs that cannot be touched, modified or covered once they’re been created and covered. Not having my own blog, what do you think the main ones would be? I’ll start;
Hallelujah
Father and Son
Fairytale of NY
Anything Phil Collins covered
Lucky me! have not heard the song being desecrated, (yet) nor do I know the name of the winner of the stupid competition. Bah humbug Bock to you and yours, the Browns are playing down in the other place later, might see you there for a pint. Mist
Eagle I agree with you except for “Father and Son” or anything that murderous little bastard Cat Stevens (or Yusuf whatever he calls himself these days) ever wrote, and in that case I would say “black-listed” instead of “listed” just in case any royalties accrued to him or his latter day cronies.
That castrated version of Hallelujah is an abomination. And Jesus yes, that version of Fairytale where they replaced “faggot” with some twee shite which I can’t remember, was another one.
Come to think of it Eagle I don’t agree with you – you can’t disallow all covers or you might miss some classics like Hendrix’s All Along The Watchtower. What you gotta do is stop some people like boyzone recording anything – full stop!
Or Joe Cocker’s With a Little Help From My Friends, or EmmyLou’s Here There and Everywhere, or Jennifer Warnes singing anything by Lenny. Or Police and Thieves by the Clash. Or all of Freddie White.
“What you gotta do is stop some people like boyzone recording anything – full stop!”–Silverfox
Priceless.
I’d ban the Three Irish Tenors. And The Singing Priests. And Daniel O’Donnell.
But it’s all a matter of taste. And you can’t dictate taste to people. It’s as bad as anything in a police state.
You’re right. It’s the Jazz Police!
:chuckle: :snort:
(I’m on the Sherry already.)
No I’m not, I’m kidding. Happy Christmas all. Or ‘Happy Holidays’ if you prefer.
Didn’t plan to ban *all* covers. Jesus, no, I might have a problem with Watchtower though, Dylan’s is still the best, hmmph. Agree that BZ and all pop tv covers should be banned, in fact Louis Walsh and his cohorts should be stopped, and stopped NOW before it gets worse.
Bock, agree entirely on Freddie White, Jenny Sings Lenny and the others. Covers ARE good, but not all covers, oh no.
Someone told me that the High King of all Karaoke Cretins, Ronan Keating (sorry for desecrating the blog with his name) “covered” Fairytale of New York on RTE last week and managed to omit the “bad/swear” !!!! words. Some feat, must have been a classic version.
The same stupid “My best friend is Jack Daniels” fuck who likes to play at being a hard-man can’t even say “cheap lousy faggot” on national TV?
Sure, who’d be offended by that?…..Louis Walsh?
So for the season of goodwill that’s in it, fuck all the whooo-hooo-yeahhh-oooouu-bbbbaaabbbbby vocal gymnasts and x-factor generation.
I’m off for the Happy Birthday Jesus break-up/piss-up. Keep the counters clear for drinkers.
Being from Canada, I don’t really know of the problem, but I discovered your beautiful post on Leonard Cohen, and left you a message. Thank you!