cover #22: come undone

song: come undone
cover: fear the clown
original: duran duran

comments: dude. really? if, for some reason, after listening to their cover, you want to know more about fear the clown, you can read this massively embellished e-peen strokeage.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
duran duran - come undone
oh, noes, you can't get the fear the clown version on amazon, darn. oh well.

lyrics: mine
immaculate dream
made breath and skin
i've been waiting for you
signed
with a home tattoo
happy birthday to you
was created for you

can't ever keep from falling apart
at the seams
can't i believe you're taking my heart
to pieces

oh, it'll take a little time
might take a little crime
to come undone, now
we'll try to stay blind
to the hope and fear outside
hey child, stay wilder than the wind
and blow me in to cry

who do you need
who do you love
when you come undone?
who do you need
who do you love
when you come undone?

words
playing me deja vu
like a radio tune
i swear i've heard before
chill
is it something real?
or the magic i'm feeding off your fingers?

can't ever keep from falling apart
at the seams
can i believe you're taking my heart
to pieces

lost, in a snow filled sky
we'll make it alright
to come undone now
we'll try to stay blind
to the hope and fear outside
hey child, stay wilder than the wind
and blow me in to cry

who do you need
who do you love
when you come undone?
who do you need
who do you love
when you come undone?

cover #21: wish

i have become aware of an epic battle raging between nine inch nails fans and linkin park fans over the song "wish". originally performed by nine inch nails on their album broken, it was covered by linkin park in june of 2004 in germany. which means that i'm really slow on the uptake, and that kids on youtube have nothing better to do.

FOR INSTANCE, the highest rated comment on the linkin park video: "360 fans jealous of Linkin park Cause they Rocked with this 1...........unlike the Original

Linkin Park Forever"

seriously, did you see how many periods this person used? this is ultra. serious. business.

annnd the second highest rated comment on the nine inch nails video? "LP rock and they r awesome and there cover is pretty kick ass 2

u should just respect other ppl taste of music and if u don't like LP please don't waste ur time on writing comments about them"

which further proves the super cerealness of the linkin park camp in this battle. they are out for blood, people.

the fans of linkin park have made their views quite clear, but what about the nine inch nails side of the battle?

the highest rated comment on the nine inch nails video: "This song won a grammy and it is the only song ever to win a grammy that contains the phrase "fistfuck" You go Trent!"

ah, the nine inch nails front is using a slightly different tact in this war. rather than bash the opposing side, they're boosting the morale of their own team. isn't that beautiful? that's what they teach you in school, kids.

my take? this isn't actually so much a battle as a one-sided shitfest, with linkin park firmly entrenched in the port-o-potty. which, when you consider the style, talents, time frames, and ages of the respective fan bases, makes perfect sense. i personally like both.

nine inch nails - wish


there's no mp3 download of linkin park's cover of wish, so you'll have to live with the video.


lyrics: this is the first day of my last days
i built it up now i take it apart
climbed up real high now fall down real far
no need for me to stay
the last thing left i just threw it away
i put my faith in god and my trust in you
now there's nothing more fucked up i could do

wish there was something real
wish there was something true
wish there was something real
in this world full of you

i'm the one without a soul
i'm the one with this big fucking hole
no new tale to tell
twenty-six years on my way to hell
gotta listen to your big time
hard line
bad luck
fist fuck
don't think you're having all the fun
you know me, i hate everyone

wish there was something real
wish there was something true
wish there was something real
in this world full of you

i want to but i can't turn back
but i want to

cover #20: all that she wants

song: all that she wants
cover band: knorkator
original: ace of base

comments: comedy central's been running old-ass reruns of south park lately, and i watched the episode last night where kyle and stan find the "prehistoric" ice man from three years ago, and dr. mephisto's freaky midget assistant builds an environment for him with a constant loop of "all that she wants".



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
ace of base - all that she wants
knorkator - all that she wants

lyrics: she leads a lonely life
she leads a lonely life

when she woke up late in the morning light
and the day had just begun
she opened up her eyes and thought
oh what a morning
it's not a day for work
it's a day for catching tan
just lying on the beach and having fun
she's going to get you

all that she wants is another baby
she's gone tomorrow boy
all that she wants is another baby
all that she wants is another baby
she's gone tomorrow boy
all that she wants is another baby
all that she wants
all that she wants

so if you are in sight and the day is right
she's the hunter you're the fox
the gentle voice that talks to you won't talk forever
it is a night for passion
but the morning means goodbye
beware of what is flashing in her eyes
she's going to get you

all that she wants is another baby
she's gone tomorrow boy
all that she wants is another baby
all that she wants is another baby
she's gone tomorrow boy
all that she wants is another baby

all that she wants is another baby
she's gone tomorrow boy
all that she wants is another baby
all that she wants is another baby
she's gone tomorrow boy
all that she wants is another baby
all that she wants - all that she wants

light at the end of the tunnel.

well now! such excitement!

ok, not really. "excitement" means that mid-organizing of my spectacularrr cover collection, the external hard drive it was stored on decided to die. i became intimately acquainted with the term "click of death" and its dire consequences, not limited to:

- paying $500 for some guys in a clean room to take apart your drive and take all the crap off of it.

- sticking the drive in a plastic bag and putting it in the freezer for an hour, then removing it and acting really damn quickly, as this is probably your absolute last chance.

i, however, opted for:

- smack the stupid thing until the arm jumped back into place.

and i was victorious! all data was moved successfully to my shiny new laptop with its magical 500gb of storage, and i am now in the process of organizing my collection and collecting data for each song.

NOT ONLY THAT, i think i've found a good widget (HAHAHA THAT WORD IS SO FUNNY SERIOUSLY) for playing music, via mixpod.com. i'd actually link it here, but don't worry, you'll be seeing plenty of linkage to it in each post, as it's embedded into each code snippet it produces for playlists. i then go in and make it not so retarded-looking while still maintaining the links because, hey, they're providing a service that is easy, looks sleek, and is useful. that deserves some linking.

the part i like the best about the coming changes is the amazon associates account i signed up for. now, if you hear a song here you like, you can, with one click, make your way to the convenient amazon.com mp3 download, thus supporting my lavish, high-falootin' lifestyle of grandeur. because i can do that on 15% of a $.99 download. duh.

so this blog will return soon

there will be changes.

all right, the two of you who read this, this is how it's going to be.

#1: things are going to get more intense. i.e, i'm going to start posting both the cover AND original song, for convenient side-by-side comparison. you could say things are going to get more extreme, except that that's the pussy way to spell it. so, i guess, prepare for things to get more X-TREEM. and by X-TREEM, i mean i'm going to start posting both the cover AND original song, for convenient side-by-side comparison.

#2: i will also start posting, with each song, where you can purchase the song and/or the album it appears in.

#3: i will allow myself the lenience of accepting that some songs are ironic only in the sense that they're not really ironic, just stupid and/or funny, and therefore the only real irony is the fact that they appear in a blog called ironic covers (ironic because they're not)

#4: other things. which i originally typed as "othings". this is how languages evolve, and you're seeing it in action.

well hell.

file factory no longer streams files. so now i have to find a new place to store and stream. awesome. plzstandby.

covers #19: caught a lite sneeze

song: caught a lite sneeze
cover band: evans blue
original: tori amos

comments: i couldn't listen to the whole cover, it annoyed the SHIT out of me. hence the irony, that someone could take something so beautiful and make it suck SO HARD.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
tori amos - caught a lite sneeze
god, why would you want to buy evans blue - caught a lite sneeze?

lyrics: caught a lite sneeze
caught a lite breeze
caught a lightweight lightning seed
boys on my left side
boys on my right side
boys in the middle
and you're not here
i need a big loan
from the girl zone

building, tumbling down
didn't know our love was so small
couldn't stand at all
mr. st john, just bring your son

the spire is hot
and my cells can't feed
and you still got that belle dragging your foots
i'm hiding it well, sister ernestine
but you still got that belle dragging your foots

building, tumbling down
didn't know our love was so small
couldn't stand at all
mr. st john, just bring your son

right on time
you get closer and closer
called my name
but there's no way in
use that fame
rent your wife and kids today
maybe she will
maybe she will

caught a lite sneeze
dreamed a little dream
built my own pretty hate machine
boys on the left side
boys on the right side
boys in the middle
and you're not here
boys in their dresses
and you're not here
i need a big loan
from the girl zone

building, tumbling down
didn't know our love was so small
couldn't stand at all
mr. st john, just bring your son

cover #18: our lips are sealed

song: our lips are sealed
cover band: poe
original: the go-gos

comments: poe's version is actually titled "my lips are sealed", seeing as she's one person (mostly).



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
go go's - our lips are sealed
amazon doesn't have poe's odd, disturbing version of our lips are sealed (featured in the movie "gossip"), so you'll have to brave the wild frontier.

lyrics: can you hear them
they talk about us
telling lies
well that's no surprise

can you see them
see right through them
they have no shield
no secrets to reveal

it doesn't matter what they say
in the jealous games people play
my lips are sealed

careless talk
through paper walls
we can't stop them
only laugh at them

spreading rumors
so far from true
dragged up from the underworld
just like some precious pearl

it doesn't matter what they say
in the jealous games people play
my lips are sealed
pay no mind to what they say
it doesn't matter anyway
my lips are sealed

early in the morning
in the middle of the night
two dead boys got up to fight
back to back they faced each other
drew their swords and shot each other
a deaf policeman heard their noise
came and shot those two dead boys
you don't believe this lie is true
go ask the blind man, he saw it too

hush my darling
don't you cry
quiet, angel
forget their lies

there's a weapon
we must use
in our defense
silence
when you look at them
look right through them
that's when they'll disappear
that's when you'll be feared

it doesn't matter what they say
in the jealous games people play
my lips are sealed
pay no mind to what they say
it doesn't matter anyway
my lips are sealed