Spreading The Cheese
Since Ben was talking about Rodeohead (a bluegrass cover version of Radiohead) I thought that I needed to share one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine.
Basically, Dick and the crew do lounge covers of popular pop songs. His lastest album “I’d like a virgin” is his best yet. Songs like “Hey Ya”, “Rock the Casbah”, “Are you gonna be my girl?”, “Gin and Juice” and even “War Ensemble” by Slayer get the lounge treatment and it is hilarious. He has two other albums out too, both equally as funny.
I collect cover songs, the wierder the better, so if you have any other good cover tunes or bands I should check out, please let me know.
June 13, 2004 @ 12:47 pm
I will have to send you some of my DMB covers.
June 14, 2004 @ 9:48 pm
Don’t know if it really qualifies as a cover, but in the late ’70s an Australian band called Radio Birdman released a song called ‘Aloha Steve and Dano’ that was a punk rock take on the theme to the Hawaii Five-O television theme. I have it somewhere on vinyl, but haven’t heard it in years. OTOH, some truly bizarre covers were recorded by the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra at right about the same time. There was a full album, but all that I recall is their covers of Whole Lotta Love and Also Sprach Zarathustra
June 18, 2004 @ 11:27 am
I used to have a tape (cassette) called “A Classic Case” which was a bunch of Jethro Tull songs done by the London Symphony Orchestra. I later found that they do that sort of thing all the time, but “A Classic Case” was the first one I found. They had Ian Anderson on flute, so it was really authentic sounding. A really good tape- I don’t think it’s being made anymore, though. I guess you could get it on E-Bay.