From: canetoad	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:05 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Oh, everyone's such a purist!

	From: arguchik	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:12 pm (UTC)		(Link)

yeah, well they have a point.

lullaby renditions of the cure, anyone?

	From: arguchik	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:14 pm (UTC)		(Link)

p.s. they have lullaby renditions of metallica, radiohead, nirvana, and smashing pumpkins too...

	From: canetoad	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:16 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Sigh. I forget, sarcasm doesn't show in print.

	From: arguchik	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:49 pm (UTC)		(Link)

oh...no, i got it. i was laughing at the list, and your comment, and the ridiculousness of lullaby renditions of the cure. sorry, i see now that my comment came across a lot more seriously than i intended it.

but can you help me to understand...how something like "lullaby renditions of metallica" exists. LOL.

	From: canetoad	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:52 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Sorry, I no can haz answer for that. You're on your own.

No, wait. On second thought, I can picture my kids getting into that for some reason...

	From: arguchik	Date: December 11th, 2007 07:04 pm (UTC)		(Link)

i found out about these "lullaby renditions" while at a friend's house on sunday. they're all about the glockenspiel.

(i listened to the sample for "just like heaven" on amazon, and it's actually pretty good as a lullaby.)

	From: jwgh	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:26 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I was curious to see if I'd covered any of the songs, but I haven't.

	From: 2wanda	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:41 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Personally, I think that's really cute.

	From: boutell	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I do too!

	From: mare_in_flames	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Not able to watch the video here at work... but I will say that I just watched the Don Knotts episode of Muppets.

...and in one of the acts, Rolf the Dog covered "What a Wonderful World", and I think I liked his voice singing it even better than Satchmo's. Love! It was done very sweetly, and Rolf was singing to a (live, sleeping, adorable) cocker spaniel puppy, whom he was petting and skritching the entire time. So. Cute.

But other than THAT... yeah, covering that particular song should be... how you say... done with care.

	From: boutell	Date: December 11th, 2007 06:49 pm (UTC)		(Link)

It's actually a very cute cover. I'm positive the onion writer was speaking tongue in cheek.

	From: arguchik	Date: December 11th, 2007 07:07 pm (UTC)		(Link)

the guy is actually an excellent ventriloquist--also an excellent impressionist. probably the best of the former that i've seen; and high on the list of the latter.

the "list of 23" cracked me up. i especially loved avril lavigne's cover of "imagine" and marilyn manson's cover of "tainted love." together, i mean. as bookends.

	From: cdk	Date: December 11th, 2007 09:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)

"One" is the only song in the list that I don't have a copy of. There are five others that I don't have at least two versions of. So my iTunes library concurs on 17 out of 23 songs.