{"id":383,"date":"2010-09-08T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T22:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astick.net\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2010-09-08T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T22:04:12","slug":"but-wont-it-be-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/but-wont-it-be-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"But won’t it be absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cover songs again. First up, I mentioned Tetrastar’s “Soulja Boy” in a previous post. Well everyone should go to their website<\/a> and download the free<\/strong> album Songs We Didn\u2019t Write<\/em>. If Dragonforce, Jonathan Coulton, Modest Mouse, Sparks, and System of a Down cover versions weren’t enough to tempt you, there’s an almost sacrilegious yet strangely brilliant cover of Hallelujah as well. Plus the mindblowing “4 Chord Song”.<\/p>\n

Next, the most 80s thing ever (and probably NSFW):
\nAmanda Lear – Wild Thing<\/a><\/p>\n

Last, a cover version found in a really odd way. I was listening to the Dandy Warhols 2003 album Welcome to the Monkey House<\/em> for the first time in ages. At least I was until partway through the opening title track when I noticed the lyrics:<\/p>\n

When Michael Jackson dies
\nWe’re covering Blackbird
\nAnd won’t it be absurd then
\nWhen no one knows what song they just heard
\nUnless someone on the radio tells them first<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So on a whim I googled “dandy warhols blackbird”, and it turns out they kept their promise. And it’s pretty good too:
\nThe Dandy Warhols – Blackbird<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cover songs again. First up, I mentioned Tetrastar’s “Soulja Boy” in a previous post. Well everyone should go to their website and download the free album Songs We Didn\u2019t Write. If Dragonforce, Jonathan Coulton, Modest Mouse, Sparks, and System of a Down cover versions weren’t enough to tempt you, there’s an almost sacrilegious yet strangely … Continue reading But won’t it be absurd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covers","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moononastick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}