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Wham!'s cover of The Sisters of Mercy's This Corrosion is perfectly wrong in every way. (slyt)
How is this a cover?
posted by quaeler at 7:57 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by quaeler at 7:57 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
AMAZING
posted by Lawn Beaver at 7:57 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Lawn Beaver at 7:57 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Pope Guilty - have you bled all you can, you can’t bleed no more?
posted by 41swans at 8:09 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by 41swans at 8:09 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
How is this a cover?
Well, George Michael's singing isn't that terrible here. Such standards!
posted by Peter H at 8:10 AM on March 22, 2018
Well, George Michael's singing isn't that terrible here. Such standards!
posted by Peter H at 8:10 AM on March 22, 2018
I am typically not into covers of songs BUT I can't deny that Lambchop's cover of This Corrosion is the best one there is.
posted by komara at 8:11 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by komara at 8:11 AM on March 22, 2018 [7 favorites]
This is a horrible, horrible thing and I hope everyone involved knows they are horrible people.
posted by dw at 8:13 AM on March 22, 2018 [10 favorites]
posted by dw at 8:13 AM on March 22, 2018 [10 favorites]
Ok, but now do it with Busta Rhymes "Gimme some more".
or I mean whatever Hype Williams video you like
posted by selfnoise at 8:24 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
or I mean whatever Hype Williams video you like
posted by selfnoise at 8:24 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
I am typically not into covers of songs BUT I can't deny that Lambchop's cover of This Corrosion is the best one there is.
Well this was a disappointment. Apparently there is something called Lambchop that isn't a puppet.
posted by biffa at 8:53 AM on March 22, 2018 [41 favorites]
Well this was a disappointment. Apparently there is something called Lambchop that isn't a puppet.
posted by biffa at 8:53 AM on March 22, 2018 [41 favorites]
If this is wrong I don't want to be right.
posted by chavenet at 9:09 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by chavenet at 9:09 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
What a fraud, I was totally looking forward to a children's show lamb sock puppet singing This Corrosion. Dreams crushed.
posted by I-Write-Essays at 9:12 AM on March 22, 2018 [9 favorites]
posted by I-Write-Essays at 9:12 AM on March 22, 2018 [9 favorites]
I too was really hoping for the other Lambchop :(
posted by supermedusa at 9:12 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by supermedusa at 9:12 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
Every time I listen to anything from Floodland I'm always reminded of how much Andrew Eldritch hated the production on First and Last and Always, and I laugh.
posted by Palindromedary at 9:20 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by Palindromedary at 9:20 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
"This Corrosion" is still one of Jim Steinman's finest works – yes, the man who wrote "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Celine Dion's classic "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" was the producer of several Sisters of Mercy tracks, and was the guy behind that awesome massive choir. Given the fact that "This Corrosion" was pretty clearly supposed to be a snide rip on Wayne Hussey for being bombastic and awkward with words, I guess it really works in the mouths of Wham.
posted by koeselitz at 9:21 AM on March 22, 2018 [14 favorites]
posted by koeselitz at 9:21 AM on March 22, 2018 [14 favorites]
Floodland is one of the greatest albums ever, and Eldritch and Steinman together kills so hard.
Additionally, speaking of Wayne Hussey, I refuse to believe that these are not actual Mission lyrics.
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:25 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
Additionally, speaking of Wayne Hussey, I refuse to believe that these are not actual Mission lyrics.
posted by Pope Guilty at 9:25 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
"This Corrosion" could have been a Meatloaf song? Now I've heard everything.
posted by rhizome at 9:31 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by rhizome at 9:31 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
yes, the man who wrote "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and Celine Dion's classic "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" was the producer of several Sisters of Mercy tracks
Jim Steinman is pretty much the original motorcycle goth, so, yeah, it kinda makes a bunch of sense.
posted by Sys Rq at 9:36 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Jim Steinman is pretty much the original motorcycle goth, so, yeah, it kinda makes a bunch of sense.
posted by Sys Rq at 9:36 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Yes. I am laughing so hard.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 9:42 AM on March 22, 2018
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 9:42 AM on March 22, 2018
I've never before experienced anything that encapsulates my personality so completely!
posted by A hidden well at 9:44 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by A hidden well at 9:44 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
If George Michael came back and covered This Corrosion it would be a real step up for 2018.
posted by GuyZero at 9:56 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by GuyZero at 9:56 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
Choose Death
posted by Kitty Stardust at 10:11 AM on March 22, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by Kitty Stardust at 10:11 AM on March 22, 2018 [8 favorites]
I honestly don't remember This Corrosion being this unrelentingly upbeat and poppy. (I mean, just the song, not the Wham! edit itself.)
This means I should probably think about some of my current musical choices.
Anyway, I was always more into Tones On Tail over Love and Rockets.
posted by loquacious at 10:12 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
This means I should probably think about some of my current musical choices.
Anyway, I was always more into Tones On Tail over Love and Rockets.
posted by loquacious at 10:12 AM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
That's ok, Loquacious. Just wait for Katrina and the Waves' version of Slender Fungus.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:14 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:14 AM on March 22, 2018 [4 favorites]
A modest proposal:
“Wake Me Up, Adrenochrome”
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:17 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
“Wake Me Up, Adrenochrome”
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:17 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
Postpunk.com: "Sisters of Mercy frontman Andrew Eldritch made his vision thing a reality by enlisting Hip Hop legends Public Enemy to go on tour together, along with post-punk legends Gang Of Four, hard rock band Warrior Soul, and rap group Young Black Teenagers for 1991’s “The Tune In, Turn On, Burn Out” tour."
posted by Kitty Stardust at 10:23 AM on March 22, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by Kitty Stardust at 10:23 AM on March 22, 2018 [5 favorites]
So, in a similar vein, I feel the need to share this cover version of Bjork's "All is Full of Love", as performed by the Mayekawa HAMDAS-R robot ham deboning machine (dropbox link to SLmp4 because YouTube won't host it because copyright).
I think you'll agree that these are much more realistic robots than Bjork's co-stars!
posted by cstross at 10:26 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
I think you'll agree that these are much more realistic robots than Bjork's co-stars!
posted by cstross at 10:26 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
Wake Me Up, Adrenochrome
Careless Floorshow
posted by Peter H at 10:36 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
Careless Floorshow
posted by Peter H at 10:36 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
Since nobody else went there yet, I might as well...
*taps bar*
"SIX PINTS OF WATER, PLEASE"
posted by Smart Dalek at 11:07 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
*taps bar*
"SIX PINTS OF WATER, PLEASE"
posted by Smart Dalek at 11:07 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
I honestly don't remember This Corrosion being this unrelentingly upbeat and poppy.
And it's got so much going on. Choir, hard rock guitars, a harpsichord(?). It's maximalist production for sure. No one was able to make goths dance to a saxophone solo like the Sisters used to. Sigh.
posted by Kitty Stardust at 11:16 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
And it's got so much going on. Choir, hard rock guitars, a harpsichord(?). It's maximalist production for sure. No one was able to make goths dance to a saxophone solo like the Sisters used to. Sigh.
posted by Kitty Stardust at 11:16 AM on March 22, 2018 [6 favorites]
Oh dear...
Rick Astley - Personal Jesus
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 11:20 AM on March 22, 2018 [8 favorites]
Rick Astley - Personal Jesus
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 11:20 AM on March 22, 2018 [8 favorites]
Someone decided to use footage from Only Lovers Left Alive in a video for Some Kind of Stranger. Nice.
posted by homunculus at 11:52 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by homunculus at 11:52 AM on March 22, 2018 [3 favorites]
Just wait for Katrina and the Waves' version of Slender Fungus.
Want.
posted by the painkiller at 11:54 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
Want.
posted by the painkiller at 11:54 AM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
Wham!'s cover of The Sisters of Mercy's This Corrosion is perfectly wrong in every way. (slyt)
Starting with its lack of being a cover!
posted by Celsius1414 at 12:14 PM on March 22, 2018
Starting with its lack of being a cover!
posted by Celsius1414 at 12:14 PM on March 22, 2018
Starting with its lack of being a cover!
I'm just playing along with the spirit of the Youtube post - Opening titles and all that.
George Michael's lip syncing is abysmal at points, though. Totally phoned in!
posted by Peter H at 12:22 PM on March 22, 2018
I'm just playing along with the spirit of the Youtube post - Opening titles and all that.
George Michael's lip syncing is abysmal at points, though. Totally phoned in!
posted by Peter H at 12:22 PM on March 22, 2018
And here I thought it was entertaining to watch The Wizard of Oz with Dark Side of the Moon playing...
posted by Chuffy at 1:17 PM on March 22, 2018
posted by Chuffy at 1:17 PM on March 22, 2018
To be fair, pale yellow Demi-gloves may just what Goth needs for its next incarnation....
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:28 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:28 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
My favourite (semi) related cover: Confide in Me, by Sisters of Mercy. Oh, and Baby Got Back, by Rasputina. Poor audio and video in both cases, and yet so excellent.
posted by glitter at 5:33 PM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by glitter at 5:33 PM on March 22, 2018 [2 favorites]
If George Michael came back... it would make more news than just that he released a new track!
posted by hippybear at 5:57 PM on March 22, 2018
posted by hippybear at 5:57 PM on March 22, 2018
This is pretty much how I feel about the world these days.
posted by srboisvert at 12:41 PM on March 23, 2018
posted by srboisvert at 12:41 PM on March 23, 2018
The humor in the video can not make up for the massive disappointment of learning that there really was no Wham! cover of This Corrosion, or one by the beloved hand puppet either.
posted by bongo_x at 4:31 PM on March 24, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by bongo_x at 4:31 PM on March 24, 2018 [2 favorites]
"Andrew Ridgeley and that other guy from Wham!" used to be a standard throwaway joke of mine, but it just makes me sad now
posted by duffell at 5:54 AM on March 25, 2018
posted by duffell at 5:54 AM on March 25, 2018
I'm sorry, I lasted 30 seconds before I realized that I could have been watching the original, what with Patricia Morrison and all, and now I'm in my happy goth place.
posted by uberchet at 12:38 PM on April 2, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by uberchet at 12:38 PM on April 2, 2018 [4 favorites]
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posted by Pope Guilty at 7:51 AM on March 22, 2018 [11 favorites]