Comments on: A Cover Band Rushes In To Where Kid Rock Refuses To Tread http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 21:38:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685622 Anonymous Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:50:03 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685622 <p>Maybe in the US - however in the UK he Kid or more likley his record company, has sold his soul, dropped on their knees and gave iTunes UK 2 versions of the single (not 1 but 2 - a clean version for the kiddies and explicit for us adults) <br> Reached #1 in the UK a while back and Kid was here in London "delighted" at his UK success and then last seen heading into the Apple Store (to check his latest position - still on his knees)</p> Maybe in the US – however in the UK he Kid or more likley his record company, has sold his soul, dropped on their knees and gave iTunes UK 2 versions of the single (not 1 but 2 – a clean version for the kiddies and explicit for us adults)
Reached #1 in the UK a while back and Kid was here in London “delighted” at his UK success and then last seen heading into the Apple Store (to check his latest position – still on his knees)

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685612 Anonymous Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:21:21 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685612 <p>Yep Moby, the height of hypocrisy really. When are the music press going to challenge Kid Rock over this?</p> Yep Moby, the height of hypocrisy really. When are the music press going to challenge Kid Rock over this?

]]> By: Captain Wrong http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685632 Captain Wrong Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:13:56 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685632 <p>Rumor has it that Elton John and David Bowie sang anonymous covers of chart stuff for a long running series of albums in the UK.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cherryred.co.uk/rpm/artists/varioushothits.htm">[www.cherryred.co.uk]</a></p> <p>Yes, I own this CD along with a ton of vinyl like it. Sad, really.</p> Rumor has it that Elton John and David Bowie sang anonymous covers of chart stuff for a long running series of albums in the UK.

[www.cherryred.co.uk]

Yes, I own this CD along with a ton of vinyl like it. Sad, really.

]]> By: Michaelangelo Matos http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685642 Michaelangelo Matos Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:26:10 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685642 <p>The song debuted on the Hot 100 at No. 65 this week, FYI.</p> The song debuted on the Hot 100 at No. 65 this week, FYI.

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685652 Chris Molanphy Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:20:12 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685652 <p>@<a href="#c7353897">D.R. Mosby</a>: Good web sleuthing! Thank you -- I was looking for something like this months ago for the column and kept turning up dry. I half-thought I might have dreamed the whole thing.</p> @D.R. Mosby: Good web sleuthing! Thank you — I was looking for something like this months ago for the column and kept turning up dry. I half-thought I might have dreamed the whole thing.

]]> By: Michaelangelo Matos http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685662 Michaelangelo Matos Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:34:07 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685662 <p>This sort of thing used to be par for the course. The '50s, of course, were a golden age (not entirely) of cover songs, as this Ace Records comp demonstrates, rather horrifically: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rock-n-Roll-Bell-Ringers/dp/B0009A3POE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219347156&sr=1-1.">[www.amazon.com]</a> The practice seemed to dip in the '60s and come back hard in the early '70s: Peter Shapiro in <i>Turn the Beat Around</i> cites something like a dozen versions of "Soul Makossa" that popped up between Manu Dibango's original becoming a club hit and Atlantic signing it for the U.S., since the original wasn't easily findable.</p> This sort of thing used to be par for the course. The ’50s, of course, were a golden age (not entirely) of cover songs, as this Ace Records comp demonstrates, rather horrifically: [www.amazon.com] The practice seemed to dip in the ’60s and come back hard in the early ’70s: Peter Shapiro in Turn the Beat Around cites something like a dozen versions of “Soul Makossa” that popped up between Manu Dibango’s original becoming a club hit and Atlantic signing it for the U.S., since the original wasn’t easily findable.

]]> By: D.R. Mosby http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685672 D.R. Mosby Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:28:51 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685672 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread#c7352300">Chris Molanphy</A>: I remember the sound-alike singles that you mentioned - I saw a rack of these in a Best Buy once and I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw that the group covering "Tubthumping" was called Chucklebutt.</P> <P>Here's more info on this phenomenon:</P> <P><A href="http://www.the-wallflowers.net/article111097.htm">[www.the-wallflowers.net]</A></P> @Chris Molanphy: I remember the sound-alike singles that you mentioned – I saw a rack of these in a Best Buy once and I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when I saw that the group covering “Tubthumping” was called Chucklebutt.

Here’s more info on this phenomenon:

[www.the-wallflowers.net]

]]> By: DocStrange http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685682 DocStrange Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:04:47 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685682 <P>Oh, by the way, does anyone find it awesome that we live in a small period of time where M.I.A. is in the top ten? Thank you, Judd Apatow.</P> Oh, by the way, does anyone find it awesome that we live in a small period of time where M.I.A. is in the top ten? Thank you, Judd Apatow.

]]> By: DocStrange http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685692 DocStrange Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:04:00 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685692 <P>@<A href="http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread#c7352570">ITMS</A>: Or they can just leave it as is, like they did with their disturbing version of "Feel Good Inc." which keeps both utterances of the word "shit".</P> @ITMS: Or they can just leave it as is, like they did with their disturbing version of “Feel Good Inc.” which keeps both utterances of the word “shit”.

]]> By: ITMS http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685702 ITMS Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:44:44 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685702 <p>Note that the song is released by "Hip Kiddy Records". At least Kidz Bop would change the lines about whiskey, making love, and smoking funny things...</p> Note that the song is released by “Hip Kiddy Records”. At least Kidz Bop would change the lines about whiskey, making love, and smoking funny things…

]]> By: Audif Jackson Winters III http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685712 Audif Jackson Winters III Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:40:14 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685712 <P>If only Hit Masters had taken a comedic cue from Tommy Lee and listed the track by artist "Kid Pebble."</P> If only Hit Masters had taken a comedic cue from Tommy Lee and listed the track by artist “Kid Pebble.”

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685722 Chris Molanphy Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:37:29 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685722 <p>I was gonna maybe mention this in the column tomorrow, but let me bring it up now, because I'm having a hard time finding evidence online for this. Basically, I'm going almost entirely on memory here...</p> <p>This isn't new. Back in the mid-late '90s, when the labels were deep into Stage 3 or 4 of their decade-long Kill The Single campaign, a bunch of no-name acts started releasing CD-singles of big radio-only pop hits. Only they (or, likely, the K-Tel-like label putting the covers out) were even cleverer than Hit Masters: each single had a band title mimicking the name of the original band, so that the single would get filed alphabetically in the singles racks in nearly the exact spot a fan would go searching for the song. So a cover of Smash Mouth's "Walking on the Sun," for example, would be by a band called <a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/661997">Smack</a>, for example.</p> <p>It was a short-lived phenomenon - I'm thinking '97 through at most '99. I suspect it didn't last because by the end of the '90s, the single had been so eviscerated by the labels that brick-and-mortar retailers were scaling back or eliminating their entire singles sections, and there wasn't anyplace for Smack and its brethren to flog their wares at unsuspecting pop fans anymore.</p> <p>I guess somebody remembered the strategy, hence this Kid Rock cover. It's hilarious because he's a much bigger, more obvious target than Smash Mouth or the dozens of other no-singles late-'90s acts were -- what other current act is trying to garner across-the-board radio play with an unavailable-at-iTunes single?</p> I was gonna maybe mention this in the column tomorrow, but let me bring it up now, because I’m having a hard time finding evidence online for this. Basically, I’m going almost entirely on memory here…

This isn’t new. Back in the mid-late ’90s, when the labels were deep into Stage 3 or 4 of their decade-long Kill The Single campaign, a bunch of no-name acts started releasing CD-singles of big radio-only pop hits. Only they (or, likely, the K-Tel-like label putting the covers out) were even cleverer than Hit Masters: each single had a band title mimicking the name of the original band, so that the single would get filed alphabetically in the singles racks in nearly the exact spot a fan would go searching for the song. So a cover of Smash Mouth’s “Walking on the Sun,” for example, would be by a band called Smack, for example.

It was a short-lived phenomenon – I’m thinking ’97 through at most ’99. I suspect it didn’t last because by the end of the ’90s, the single had been so eviscerated by the labels that brick-and-mortar retailers were scaling back or eliminating their entire singles sections, and there wasn’t anyplace for Smack and its brethren to flog their wares at unsuspecting pop fans anymore.

I guess somebody remembered the strategy, hence this Kid Rock cover. It’s hilarious because he’s a much bigger, more obvious target than Smash Mouth or the dozens of other no-singles late-’90s acts were — what other current act is trying to garner across-the-board radio play with an unavailable-at-iTunes single?

]]> By: Al Shipley http://idolator.com/400707/a-cover-band-rushes-in-to-where-kid-rock-refuses-to-tread/comment-page-1#comment-685732 Al Shipley Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:26:25 +0000 http://c634008cc12920550a005a2ff7c0344f#comment-685732 <P>This is kind of like when "This Is Why I'm Hot" first blew up and Mims wasn't on iTunes yet, but a Jae Millz freestyle over it was, and that freestyle briefly came close to topping the iTunes chart:</P> <P><A href="http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2007/02/something-odd-that-i-noticed-on-itunes.html">[narrowcast.blogspot.com]</A></P> <P>Wow, that's the 2nd time Mims has been mentioned in an Idolator comments box just today. Possibly all year. Go Mims! It might be time for a comeback!</P> This is kind of like when “This Is Why I’m Hot” first blew up and Mims wasn’t on iTunes yet, but a Jae Millz freestyle over it was, and that freestyle briefly came close to topping the iTunes chart:

[narrowcast.blogspot.com]

Wow, that’s the 2nd time Mims has been mentioned in an Idolator comments box just today. Possibly all year. Go Mims! It might be time for a comeback!

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