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September 6, 2005 7:08 AM

Hayseed-Dixie "Ace of Spades" video (link to a quicktime). This band covered Greendays "Holiday" on Top Of The Pops (BBC, UK) last week and in my opinion is was inspired genius. I couldn't find that video, so I'm posting this one instead. And I don't like R'n'B enough to know what this is they're covering. Again a link to a quicktime, but it made me giggle. (more videos/mp3s on their site)
posted by 13twelve (49 comments total)

Though as previously stated, the best thing on the internet is Hurra Torpedo with "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
posted by 13twelve at 7:12 AM on September 6, 2005

"Poop in a jar" has been a long time fave of mine
posted by jsavimbi at 7:14 AM on September 6, 2005

Saw em at Glastonbury. They're very popular in Britain, I think they're touring around here for a long time.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 7:15 AM on September 6, 2005

I'm Keeping Your Poop
posted by jsavimbi at 7:17 AM on September 6, 2005

I think Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 popularised them in the UK.
posted by fire&wings at 7:24 AM on September 6, 2005

Chris Moyles on Radio 1 also.
posted by Acey at 7:27 AM on September 6, 2005

A band called Union Avenue did the same joke with the same song much better several years ago.

(though for all I know, they may be the same band)
posted by cillit bang at 7:29 AM on September 6, 2005

I can't find a free link right now, but search your favorite p2p network for The Gourd's version of "Gin and Juice." You won't be sorry.
posted by gwint at 7:31 AM on September 6, 2005

Hear also: Rodeohead [mp3].
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:42 AM on September 6, 2005

Nice banjo work. Some good fiddle too.

But did you get the subtle lyric change at the very heart of the song? - from Lemmy's impassioned roar:

"I don't wanna live forever!"

to the resigned, comfortable, rocking-chair-on-the-porch:

"I ain't gonna live forever!"

These guys think the "Ace of Spades" is a playing card.

Americans will never understand rock.
posted by cleardawn at 7:51 AM on September 6, 2005

(No, further investigation reveals Union Avenue are a whole other band)
posted by cillit bang at 7:53 AM on September 6, 2005

Their videos are very bad. They should just record live shows.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 7:57 AM on September 6, 2005

Ben Folds' version of "Bitches Ain't Shit" is pretty sweet.
posted by josephtate at 7:57 AM on September 6, 2005

So, please tell us what the "Ace of Spades" is really about, cleardawn.
posted by sharksandwich at 7:58 AM on September 6, 2005

The Gourds - Gin and Juice MP3

Really great version. I actually have the Hayseed Dixie AC/DC covers album as well and it's much much better than a post-modern joke. It really is a good fun uplifting album. Top for drinking beer and laughing hard...

BTW. Interview with Hayseed Dixie here.
posted by Mr Ed at 8:02 AM on September 6, 2005

Its not that Americans dont understand rock.......it seems you dont understand Parody.
posted by Yer-Ol-Pal at 8:02 AM on September 6, 2005

It's about Jesus, Shark.
posted by cleardawn at 8:06 AM on September 6, 2005

Right back atcha, Yer-ol-Pal...
posted by cleardawn at 8:07 AM on September 6, 2005

rollin down the street smokin Endor sippin on gin an juice
posted by Pretty_Generic at 8:31 AM on September 6, 2005

More like this! Please! Don't make me take it to AskMe.

Several years ago I bought a CD called Pickin' on U2. It's bluegrass versions of U2's greatest hits. A quick look at filresharing shows similar albums for Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, and The Eagles. I love Ben Folds' cover of The Cure's "Inbetween Days". I love this Hayseed Dixie stuff.

Please please please share more like this.

I love this shit.
posted by jdroth at 8:41 AM on September 6, 2005

Nina Gordon's acoustic Straight Outta Compton (direct, MP3) is sublime, devine, so fine.
posted by unixrat at 8:56 AM on September 6, 2005

I found the Top of the Pops video. Here it is, weighing in at 125Mb so go easy on it.
posted by mathowie at 9:00 AM on September 6, 2005

The "this" you didn't know is a cover of Outkast's "Roses"...
posted by benzo8 at 9:06 AM on September 6, 2005

Electronic Iron Maiden - the Maxx Klaxon song really is amazing.

mathowie - the links dead mate
posted by 13twelve at 9:07 AM on September 6, 2005

Civil_Disobedient: thank you for that clip! it's hilarious.

I'd only heard their cover of The Darkness, I Believe In A Thing Called Love, live on the radio, which was a riot. Falsetto and banjo make a weird combination.
posted by funambulist at 9:09 AM on September 6, 2005

Saw these guys play in Oxford a while back. dash-slot- was there too. They were awesome.
posted by salmacis at 9:11 AM on September 6, 2005

link should work now.
posted by mathowie at 9:11 AM on September 6, 2005

jdroth: You'll want to check out Dynamite Hack's acoustic folk cover of "Boyz in tha Hood". It's brilliant.

I've...urm...acquired a couple of gigs worth of odd and interesting cover tunes. Ska-punk covers of 80s pop hits, folk covers of rap songs, rap covers of folk songs. Everything by Beatallica. Ben Folds' manifold covers (speaking of The Darkness, his cover of "Get Your Hands off of My Woman" is great), and so on. I'll try to post some highlights later.
posted by solid-one-love at 9:14 AM on September 6, 2005

Other tracks to check out then I guess would be The Delltones - Pretty Vacent and Albert Kuvezin and Yst-Kha - Re-Covers (all courtesy of grgx whose iPod I borrowed months ago and still have - cheers bro)
posted by 13twelve at 9:16 AM on September 6, 2005

Heh, yeah -- these guys are great. Saw them a couple weeks ago in Wimbledon at Cannizaro Park. It had been a horrible day weather-wise, so only like maybe 250-300 people showed, but man, what an awesome vibe at the show. Everyone was just having a fantastic time. You want inspired genious? Picture Brother Dale Reno (the mandolin player) standing on a completely dark stage, illuminated by one spotlight, ringing a 'hotel front-desk bell' over his head to simulate the clock tower bells from AC/DC's Hell's Bells. Classic, and incredibly inspired.

They're good guys, too. Invited everyone back to the Cannizaro Hotel where they were staying for some drinking after the concert. Good times, good guys, good music. (Wow, that sounds like a commercial.)
posted by lazywhinerkid at 9:21 AM on September 6, 2005

mathowie - yeeesh! cheers!
posted by 13twelve at 9:42 AM on September 6, 2005

Saw then on August 6th. They blew The Undertones off stage. The Undertones, people.
posted by punilux at 10:11 AM on September 6, 2005

*them*, even.
posted by punilux at 10:12 AM on September 6, 2005

surprised no one has mentioned dread zeppelin yet. you gotta love a reggae-ized zep tunes with an elvis impersonator for a lead singer!
posted by joeblough at 10:26 AM on September 6, 2005

What a literal-minded video that was.
Not a bad cover, though, of a brilliant song.
posted by Dr. Wu at 11:21 AM on September 6, 2005

Hey, anybody got a .torrent of the Holiday.mpg?
posted by psychotic_venom at 11:25 AM on September 6, 2005

This is great, but I hope nobody's surprised that it works so well. Metal and bluegrass have virtually everything in common except the timbre of the instrumentation.
posted by Wolfdog at 11:32 AM on September 6, 2005

Pickin' On Franz Ferdinand. And, yes, that is a link to a bluegrass version of the entire first album ...
posted by Len at 11:40 AM on September 6, 2005

Veddy nice. Reminds me of when these guys covered Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" with a bluegrass arrangement.
posted by alumshubby at 12:57 PM on September 6, 2005

Americans will never understand rock.

Uh. what.


We INVENTED rock, son.
posted by stenseng at 1:00 PM on September 6, 2005

Their version of "Fat Bottomed Girls" is a revelation.
posted by dilettante at 2:13 PM on September 6, 2005

I was hayseed when hayseed wasn't k3wl.
posted by davy at 2:41 PM on September 6, 2005

i love Hayseed Dixie! (in fact, i think i actually found out about them on metafilter...) I have always been a huge fan on AC/DC and i never really realized that their songs are clearly ment to be bluegrass.

Nothing beats the cowbell in Hells Bells.

Nothing.
posted by quin at 7:05 PM on September 6, 2005

Hmm, seems like it was back in 2003. Threads like this make quin happy.
posted by quin at 7:41 PM on September 6, 2005

We INVENTED rock, son.

I doubt that. We, the British, invented rock. We invent most things and then other people do them better and sometimes claim they invented them.

Football, Cricket, Hovercraft....
posted by 13twelve at 3:02 AM on September 7, 2005

Tom Middleton's Crazy Covers Volume 1 has many of the best covers I have heard on it. Includes Ukelele Orchestra of GB 'Dy-na-mi-tee' which are reet good like. Short mp3s on site. Ricky V Vallentine 'Ghetto Classics' - superb-a.
It doesn't include Dinosaur Jnr's version of Just Like Heaven, which I used to think was quite good.
posted by asok at 4:04 AM on September 7, 2005

We, the British, invented rock.

Jesus.
posted by Wolof at 9:00 PM on September 7, 2005

Everybody knows rock-'n'-roll was invented in 1931 in Moscow in the glorious Soviet Union. It went with the electric guitar which was invented there in 1930, which used electricity that was invented in Leningrad in 1928.
posted by davy at 9:52 AM on September 9, 2005

As far as I know, The Big Bopper, Carl Perkins, Elvis, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, and Les "Mr. Electric" Paul were all Americans, my poorly educated Limey friend...=)
posted by stenseng at 2:40 PM on September 15, 2005