Have a Very Inessential Christmas and a Superfluous New Year

December 25, 2016 8:43 AM

The (Onion) A. V. Club presents "From Train to Star Wars electronica, this is 2016’s least essential music"

I did this a year ago as well, complete with links to previous editions.

posted by koavf (4 comments total)

The necessity or value of a cover is a function of how well-crafted and essential the canonical recording is, how accessible that recording is, and what new insight or interpretation is possible of it.

If you use that as your thesis, Train covering Houses of the Holy in its entirety is a uniquely novel idea.
posted by ardgedee at 9:06 AM on December 25, 2016

> If you use that as your thesis, Train covering Houses of the Holy in its entirety is a uniquely novel idea.

Laibach already did that in '88 with Let It Be.
posted by farlukar at 3:26 PM on December 25, 2016

There's less and less "essential" about the AV Club these days, frankly; just witness Sean O'Neal smacking his lips at future installments from Ace Frehley so that he can mine them for future installments of this feature.
posted by Halloween Jack at 5:20 PM on December 25, 2016

Star Wars electronica

Curiously, my favorite album of the year was Akira electronica. Riffing on a film doesn’t have to be inconsequential…
posted by Going To Maine at 2:28 PM on December 26, 2016