REUPHOLSTERED SONGS PART 2 - COVER SONGS IN 6 CATEGORIES
I love covers songs. Songs that were “covered” by people who didn’t write or originally perform the best-known version of the song. Tribute bands, and lounge acts, for instance, are also called “cover bands.”
This is a collection of songs that were covered, reinvented, or “reupholstered” by a group who felt compelled to do so, for whatever reason. It occurred to me, a long time ago, that there are SIX BASIC KINDS of cover versions. So, I’ve divided songs into the following SIX genres; songs that have been reupholstered by making one of the following six adjustments to the best-known version.
Reupholstered Songs:
Instrumentation (Drastic changes in instruments—swapping kazoos for electric guitars for example)
Slowed-Down Covers (Songs made different from the original by slowing the song down)
Sped-Up Covers (Covers made different from the original by speeding the song up!)
Ironic Covers (Covers where I suspect the band is trying to be funny/ironic in their choice of material)
Twee Covers (Covers done twee; using children’s choirs, toy instruments—overly cute & sweet!)
Same Cloth (Covers in which the band, or the version, are cut from the same cloth as the original!)
I posted these, and my reupholstery manifesto online a LONG time ago, but here they are preserved for posterity and paving the way for me to revisit the series—which is well underway!
Volume One of the first three kinds of Reupholstered Songs were posted last Wednesday:
Volume One of the SECOND three kinds of Reupholstered Songs (IRONIC, TWEE, & SAME CLOTH) are being posted today!
The order is intentional. Each collection was designed to be (burned onto a CD and) listened to in the order they’ve been compiled. You are, of course, free to do as you wish.
I hope you will have the Upper-Class of reupholstering. I don't know if you agree, who will play Otis' Respect now that we have Aretha's. This was done soon after Otis' version and while he was still alive. House of the Rising Sun, Hey Joe. Lately I found out that Kiss had covered God Gave RnR from Argent. I think it was a redundant cover, but it overshadowed the original in the public opinion. Rarely disco versions are better than the original (i.m.o. Donna Summer - Could It Be Magic has improved Barry Manilow, though he does a great live version) Did you know that one of the Disco classics (Born to be alive) is in fact a reupholstered song? Originally by Paris Palace Hôtel, Patrick Hernandez had his own song reupholstered.
ReplyDeleteWhich song do you think is creatively an improvement of the original.
Downloaders are asked to share their favorite REUPHOLSTERED JOKE. (Bonus points if it’s music-themed.). I WILL BE AWARDING A (link to a) NO-PRIZE for the joke I like most!
ReplyDeleteIs there a more often reworked joke than “How many ____ does it take to change a lightbulb?”
Here’s my contribution:
“How many narcissists does it take to change a lightbulb?”
“One. They hold the bulb while the world revolves around them.”
Reupholstered Songs Ironic Vol. 1:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/5rD39pyf
Reupholstered Songs Same Cloth Vol. 1:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/GdBgTBRH
Reupholstered Songs Twee Vol. 1:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/NBFNLYi9
How many pessimists does it take?
DeleteTwo. One to change the bulb, and the other to complain about how much better the old bulb was.
I'm looking forward to Reupholstered Songs So That's Where My Keys Went Six Years Ago
ReplyDeleteI was on a yacht, last month, with people I don't wan't to gloat
ReplyDeleteStyles Swift and Sheeran sing, and than sinks the boat