Last night I had a dream that I was trapped in a hotel that was subsidizing its rates with advertising in the lobby. Among the commercials was an extended spot for the Insane Clown Posse in which they a) announced that they were recruiting for their own personal police force and b) covered, quite faithfully and with great gusto, the Arcade Fire’s “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out).” This dream—which, I should add, was not the result of a Faygo-and-Molson pre-bedtime cocktail—made me wonder if any of you out there have had similar moments in which cover versions that are odd even for this genre-crossing moment in pop music have sprung from your subconscious. To get your mind rolling, I’ve placed a very special cover after the jump!
Look, it’s ICP covering Sly Fox’s “Let’s Go All The Way”!
Insane Clown Posse – Let’s Go All The Way [YouTube; HT The Sandbox]
A long time ago, I wanted Primus to cover Charlie Daniels’ “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” but now you’d have to bolt me down to listen to Primus. Still, I think it was a missed opportunity that it never happened.
In grad school, my friends and I used to do impressions of what “Shiny Happy People” would sound like if sung by Ethel Merman. (Answer: better than the original.) There was a brief Merman-version of “Love Will Tear Us Apart Again” phase, but “Shiny Happy People” was the one that stuck.
Happy peo-PUHHHHL!
brasstax – Uh… not a missed opportunity at all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRtkek-Et4
@joshservo: Best laugh I’ve had all day. Thanks.
When Kurt Cobain died, a friend said to me, “Now I’ll never get to hear him sing ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart.’”
Also, to drive the girls-who-love-girls wild, I always had a vision of Melissa Ferrick covering the James song “Laid.”
On an extremely long road trip to Florida from Michigan I fell asleep at a rest stop an dreamt that a very static sounding XM station played a cover version of Jay-Z’s “Who you wit” that was amazingly performed by NIN w/ Trent Reznor shouting the chorus through a megaphone. I awoke to a state trooper vehicle lights flashing behind me and the officer asking me to “please step out of the vehicle!” :)