Tag: American people of German descent
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Brandi Carlile covers Pat Benatar
Going through CoverMeSongs Covers of 2021, and this one by Brandi Carlile hit me like a brick. Covering 80’s classics like Pat Benatar is a major plus from me, but when you realise these were rescheduled shows from 2020 that the lockdown delayed, the message of “We Belong’ gets a whole new meaning. I’m no…
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Happy Hanukkah!
Well 2-3? days late, but celebrating Hanukkah every night Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin are doing Hanukkah Sessions again, celebrating Jewish music in funny and surprising ways. I mean Dave being in a dress isn’t the most surprising thing about the cover of Lisa Loeb’s Stay… And for night two, hey ho it’s the Ramones,…
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Ashley O – On A Roll
Pop versions of Nine Inch Nails aren’t exactly new – PomDeter’s Call Me A Hole *ahem* but nice to see that Miley Cyrus and indeed Charlie Brooker get the pop side of Trent Reznor. As I’ve said about some Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV and Ministry, some industrial songs could be perfect pop – they…
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Music Industry’s Never-Ending End Of Days?
Newsweek concluded their article on what they called “rock’s doldrums” by reminiscing about the “good old days” when Elvis Presley and the Beatles created excitement by providing an identifiable center to the pop music world, recording music that the various segments of the pop music audience could all share. According to Newsweek, Elvis and the…
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Etta James covers Guns n’ Roses
Yes you read right…Etta James who is now 73 has recorded her last and if Wikipedia is correct 29th (!) album, and has covered ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ – just to prove it’s a good song (something I’d never have said before I worked on the video for the Kleptones mashup which convinced me otherwise…my…
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Wassup? Change. Vote Obama.
Darkly funny yet very true. Even Opie and Richie Cunningham, the Fonz and Andy Griffiths want you to vote Obama (and how American are they? Stick that, Palin!): http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f2814b1806/opie-andy-the-fonz-talk-about-obama-from-schloko1 Still not convinced? Check out DJ Paul V’s great Obama mix – and heed what the man says, share, blog, play, spread the word. I love…