Tag: Pop ballads
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Rolling the credits on 2021 – Billie Eilish vs Taylor Swift
There was a Crumplbangers Discord challenge last week to make an ‘ending’ mashup for 2021 using only 2021 sources, so I decided to use two tracks I loved and actually only heard this year – Taylor Swift‘s new Taylor Version of ‘All Too Well’ and Billie Eilish‘s hit ‘Happier Than Ever’. I realised while I…
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Carpenters Do Disco
I had forgotten about this – after the Carpenters frankly strange yet inspired choice of covering Klaatu’s psych pop odyssey ‘Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft‘ they made their own ‘Star Wars Christmas Special’ after it was a surprise hit. Apparenetly Karen was a big disco fan, but it doesn’t get stranger than her covering Heatwave’s…
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I Can’t Make You Love me
“I think a lot of art and creative material is to remind us what is right under our noses and we forget or we lose touch with it” Mike Reid Mike Reid’s song ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ is stunning, most famously covered by Bonnie Raitt, Adele and George Michael – you’d know that…
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Etta James RIP
Damn it seems a day for RIPs – seems yesterday that I was posting about her Guns and Roses cover but Etta James has died…here is her probably most famous cover, I’d Rather Go Blind. Much covered, never bettered….
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Death of the ‘authentic’ indie artist? (Lana Del Rey)
Currently haunting my days via 6Music is the song by Lana Del Rey – Video Games – and her follow up Blue Jeans is above. LOVE the found aesthetic of the video, the scratchy super 8 and grainy footage – yes it’s done before, but with the new/old song (hiphop mentions in a noir smokey…
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Radio Clash 54: Abba Madda Gabba Yabba Doo
Best show in ages (well since the last one :-P) but sorry a long one again – includes the I Hate ABBA mix, some Madge bootylegness, More Saucepan Cowbell!, and a splodge of hiphop via the Beachie Boys. Take a Chance on Clicking Here (70mins, 41MB) Shownotes Partyben – Computer Talk djbc – Wireless Mathematics…