August 20, 2011
Saturday Night Tunage IX
The original plan for tonight was to write up a post on the PBY Catalina. I've discovered instead that I don't have the mental oomph to tackle that the way it deserves. Today was move-in day for the first-year students at Duck U, and our first really busy day of Fall Book Rush. It was also Day 6 of 12 in a row for me. I came home, had something to eat, and fell asleep in my comfy chair. But what I do have the mental oomph for is some Tunage!
...and where there's Tunage, there's DJ Wonderduck! Tonight, my children, in tribute to all the 18-year-olds spending their first night at Duck U., I bring you music from before they were born... mostly! Let's get on with the show...
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It's OK to take your time on the post about the PBY. I'd prefer a good post, that you enjoyed writing, to a post you hammered out and hated doing.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at August 20, 2011 09:38 PM (+rSRq)
Posted by: brickmuppet at August 21, 2011 01:20 AM (EJaOX)
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There are two versions of
Tales of Mystery and Imagination. (ToMaI.)
The original version lacks the readings by Orson Welles, and some other flourishes, but it also lacks the over-processing of the second release.
In 1985, Parsons took the recording budget from Arista for
Stereotomy and bought himself a fancy new all-digital 48-track recording studio. And so, a few years later, he took all the original analog tapes for ToMaI and digitized them, and remixed the album with all the original material reinserted and some tracks re-recorded entirely.
In the process, he added too much reverb to everything, for one thing. It sounds awful compared to the original re-release. So on the one hand you have the awesome introductions by Orson Welles, but you also have startlingly bad engineering from one of the best audio engineers in the business. Argh etc.
Posted by: Ed Hering at August 21, 2011 10:52 AM (v62gL)
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Ed, there are actually
three versions of ToMaI. In 2007, a "deluxe edition" was released that included the original version, the 1987 remix, and most importantly, eight tracks of previously unheard material.
I've thought about getting that, I have.
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August 13, 2011
Saturday Night Tunage VIII: The Covers
I've wanted to do this theme for a while, and tonight, I'm gonna do it! Run in fear everybody!
See what I did there?
For some reason, many people hate cover songs. They believe that there's no way a copy can be as good (or better) than an original work, that even thinking such a thing is an abomination. Well friends, I'm DJ Wonderduck, and I'm here to say that such thoughts are hooey. HOOEY, I say!
Let's get right to it!
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"Jacob's Ladder":
Huey Lewis and the News had a hit on their hands with that song in 1986, and as for me it was the whole reason I bought their otherwise tepid album "Fore!".
...but the song was written in its entirety by Bruce Hornsby, and appeared on his second album "Scenes from the Southside" sometime in the next year. And the Hornsby version was vastly inferior to the Huey Lewis version.
Thus we have the original artist performing a crappy cover of his own song.
Posted by: Ed Hering at August 14, 2011 05:35 AM (8KFNL)
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I love covers, and the 'Cars' cover there is one of my favorites. In the same theme, may I recommend Coal Chamber 'Shock the Monkey', and two from Type O Negative: 'Summer Breeze' and 'Light My Fire'?
Also, totally for laughs, track down the Gourds and "Spoken Word" covers of 'Gin and Juice'.
Posted by: JP Gibb at August 14, 2011 07:32 AM (S3r8/)
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I strongly recommend Elektra's 40th-anniversary cover collection,
Rubaiyat. Some don't work terribly well, but most are quite good.
I can't decide which one is the most soul-scarring, though: The Gipsy Kings
Hotel California, Faster Pussycat's
You're So Vain, or The Sugarcubes
Motorcycle Mama...
-j
Posted by: J Greely at August 14, 2011 07:11 PM (2XtN5)
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Anime picture, cover songs?
Needs a Yuuko Gotou, Smells Like Teen Spirit mention for the funny.
Posted by: Mikeski at August 14, 2011 11:49 PM (GbSQF)
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I got
so very tired of that "Sweet Jane" cover... one of the stations I worked for, the PD must've had a serious thing for that version because it played
all the damned time.
The thing with Bruce Hornsby was that it seems he was a better songwriter than a performer.
Coal Chamber's "Shock The Monkey" rendition (complete with Ozzy) amuses the hell out of me. In a similar Genesis-related vein, Disturbed's "Land Of Confusion" works far better than I originally expected.
Posted by: GreyDuck at August 15, 2011 07:46 AM (7lMXI)
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