Gwen Stefani and No Doubt are getting back together for a tour this summer, and in preparation for that they’ve decided to cover another song from the 1980s. Adam and the Ants‘ olde-tyme ode to highway robbery “Stand And Deliver” gets the honors, in a cover that makes the “band” part of No Doubt kind of irrelevant; really, this song could have slid into a platinum edition of Love. Angel. Music. Baby. pretty easily. Original after the jump.
No Doubt - Stand And Deliver [YouTube]
Adam And The Ants - Stand And Deliver [YouTube]
I really enjoyed her phony british accent
I don’t know what i enjoyed more, the sluggish tempo or her bad british accent
I don’t care for this, I think I would have preferred it if they covered “Beat My Guest”. There’s a lot of wailing going on in the tune that I think would have suited her voice better.
@Ned Raggett: The kids today dig the classic rock. Not like in my day, when we had REAL classic rock.
wow, having never seen no doubt back in the day, i had disillusioned myself into thinking this would be my chance to see them in all their ska-punk glory with the same Gwen Stefani who did Saw Red with Sublime. Thanks for saving me some cash.
It’s a fool’s errand to try to cover this song with only one drummer, but to just chuck it in with that clodhopping 2/4 beat is criminal. And what about the yodelling? I thought Gwen was an avid yodeller. I need to throw a transmission through a pub window now…
Not that there was huge amount to forget, but Gwen’s clearly forgotten how to sing since she went solo. Or at least sing without a smirk or some ridiculous affectation.
Do they even know what a record collection is? Even the demo version on the remastered Prince Charming album is better than this dreck.
I dunno, this sounds a lot like old No Doubt to me. A LOT. Only thing is Gwen might not be singing over tracks of her own voice (or background voices), but otherwise this sounds positively vintage.
Note that I’m really not comparing this at all to the original. I’m just sayin this sounds like an album cut from an old no doubt album.
@Ned Raggett: I guess I was just supposing that this might become popular with kids who think No Doubt is classic. Therefore making their knowledge of the original a bit slim? I don’t know?
Either way it’s a travesty!
That pretty much cured me of any desire to see No Doubt live.
It isn’t enough for No Doubt that they almost destroyed my love for “It’s My Life”, now they have to defile the Dandy Highwayman?
Nice ripoff of the Two Tone look, btw.
Like any band, anywhere, could top the original video.
@Nicolars: my thought exactly.
I listened to eight seconds of this (like a rodeo) and I was done.
Seriously, it’s not even “OH GAWD!!! They dared cover Adam Ant,” it’s just a terrible cover, in completely the wrong tempo, and… GAH!!.
@enriquez the water bottle: I had to turn it off after five seconds, I admire your endurance.
This man is my hero for giving Gwen a taste of her own bad medicine.
And it’s frickin’ No Doubt, yet they couldn’t throw in a few bars of ska guitar? Not even a few token’s during the completely pointless (except to bring the running time up to a more contemporary “one minute too long”) drum and vocal at the end?
They not only ruined my morning; but retroactively ruined the past weeks worth of listening to Adam Ant over and over again. I want revenge!
This is terrible. What does Gwen sound like? I think this could have been a great cover, I was actually excited when I saw this, But come on! It’s like they actually tried to make it as awful as possible.
This is how countless youngsters will first hear of this song.
*goes into corner to sob uncontrollably*
@moomintroll: countless youngsters
I dunno, aren’t No Doubt classic rock now?
They mighta scored a few points in my book if they’d covered “Strip” instead. I guess now the ball is in the Pussycat Dolls to cover/ruin it now.
The Sugar Ray cover was better than this dreck.
Couldn’t make it to 1:30. That is just awful.
Sounds like it was supposed to be a cover of Annabella Lwin & Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy” - that went horribly wrong.
(And yes their cover of TalkTalk was insufferable.)
I now have to somehow reconcile the beautiful memory of losing my virginity while SAD played on the record player with the ear-raping I received while listening to this crap. It’s a SAD day indeed, when a forty-something mom can’t even enjoy a walk down memory lane without Gwen mucking it up. Arrgh!
Why couldn’t No Doubt just stay gone? Really…