Okay, you people are lucky. Oh yeah. I coulda linked frivolous ditties like Starship's "We Built This City" or C.W. McCall's "Convoy" or Jigsaw's "Sky High".
But no, I've centered on weightier numbers. Just 'cuz that's where I'm at tonight. So I give you Greg Lake.
Picking up the torch from Greg, there's the Fureys with Davey Arthur singing about more people dying in vain. Which of course is infinitely more uplifting than the Pogues "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" -- that includes the line "And when I woke up in my hospital bed / And saw what it had done, Christ I wished I was dead / Never knew there were worse things than dying."
And in keeping with the death-pop theme, there's this beauty of Nirvana covering Terry Jacks' 1974 classic "Seasons in the Sun". I like it not so much for the irony, but particularly for fact that all three bandmembers play opposite - Cobain on drums, Grohl on bass, Novoselic on guitar. And they all look totally lost. But I like that.
Shit, where's Henry Gross when you need him? "Shannon is gone, I heard she drifted off to sea..."
Puppies are great.
1 comment:
The Nirvana song sounds a lot like Radiohead's Creep. I do like the kitsch factor of the performance, although the song itself blows, as do the others...interesting choices, though, Philbony!
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