Man that song is amazing! RIP George Michael. Limp Bizkit should remake it, just to get that career back on track. But then again, I love song covers. Which this blog is going to be about!
What, did you think this blog was going to be about being a parent? As you can tell if you're an avid reader (which I know you are) I haven't written a blog in weeks. Why? The kid is super time consuming! It's tough, because when she's asleep, you want to sleep, but then you end up doing something else. Then when you want to sleep, you gotta take care of the kid. Adult stuff. So the blog has sadly been thrown to the side, until now. But I will put a few random thoughts on parenthood right now:
- kids love to cry for no reason, it's not just food and poop
- if you are watching a show, they will cry at a really good part
- when they smile at you, your heart freaking melts
- random strangers will come up to you and the baby, and do baby talk
- oh, and our stroller is a celebrity, bigger celeb then the kid. It's a stroller that folds up in to a car seat, people lose their minds, and randoms won't stop talking to us about it
So if you know me personally (and if you don't, you should, I'm great) you know I love music. I also really, really, really love rock covers of pop songs. Above I referenced one of the most well known covers of a song, Faith.
It's good....but it goes off the rails at the end. I don't even like it to be honest with you. If you're going on a cover from Limp Bizkit's collection, unpopular opinion I know, but I love Behind Blue Eyes...sorry, not sorry The Who fans (overrated band btw...sorry, not sorry).
Since we're on the rap/rock trail, let's get to the next cover that is phenomenal...Word Up! by Korn.
Incredible, isn't it? Rap songs in to rock is really hard, and they did it. The only one that did it better was a band named Framing Hanley, who covered Lollipop by Lil Wayne.
Another little known rock band that was amazing was Local H, who had a song called Bound For the Floor (trust me, you've heard it), but they have an insanely good cover of Toxic by Britney...
On the other spectrum of that, there is a remake of Cry Me a River, which was my favorite cover of all time, until the lead singer of the band did something so horrendous, I don't want to mention it in this blog. Feel free to pull it up, but I just can't listen to it anymore. So my favorite cover now falls to a different Britney song.
Britney would be proud!
Wow, remember that version of Britney Spears!? Around the same time I discovered the song above, Johnny Cash had released his classic cover of a Nine Inch Nail song, Hurt:
Nirvana also had an amazing cover of well, of the David Bowie classic, The Man Who Sold the World:
Nirvana drummer, also known as the coolest guy in music Dave Grohl has a great cover of Tiny Dancer, go ahead and take a listen, if not just for the chorus.
Finally, if you are a visitor here, you know of my love of Hall and Oates, picture found here: Hall and Oates and Jeff
Well here is a cover of my favorite song by them, I Can't Go For That (No Can Do).
Which this link brings up two questions:
1) Why aren't kazoos in more songs!?
2) There need to be more song titles that use a parenthesis. If my band (Gotch Gracy) actually had any songs, we'd have a parenthesis in about half of them.
So these are just a few of the best covers of all time. I know I missed a couple (Killing Me Softly by the Fugees, Metallica's version of Turn the Page, any cover of Rebecca Black's "Friday")... so the following song is one that SHOULD be covered, like immediately. But first, a side story.
My cousin Brad and I (who are starting a podcast, stay tuned), had a debate over which song should have a cover. I always pushed for Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson, which in my head I assumed I always told him. Fast forward a few years, the lovely band Alien Ant Farm came out with a cover! Overjoyed at me being awesome and thinking it'd be a great rock cover, I told Brad. Brad... let's just say he doesn't believe I ever said such a thing. Brad is a jerk, this will be covered on a future podcast, guaranteed.
To move along to his song that would make a great "rock" cover, Lisa Loeb with "Stay"....he is correct, if he in fact came up with that idea on his own....
Well that's it for this week, thanks for reading like usual. I have no clue what the next blog will be about, definitely not Trump or politics...unless it's the "long awaited" who is the next person who should run for president. Until next time!
Jeff Kleeman
