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M-I-C-K-E- Why does this sound different?

amyms — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:15:38 -0800

Covering The Mouse. An MP3 blog dedicated to cover versions of Disney songs. My favorite so far is Gene Simmons' cover of "When You Wish Upon A Star."

By: cmgonzalez

cmgonzalez — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:30:11 -0800

Oh wow, I love Disney covers. I also really love listening to international versions of the songs from their movies. Definitely bookmarking this.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:41:26 -0800

I'd like to cover the Mouse. With a shroud. Mind-numbingly banal little cartoon rodent. That said, there are some good songs in the canon, and I think it's a fine thing if people wanna take a stab at 'em. I enjoyed a lot of that Hal Willner-produced Disney covers record from years back, Stay Awake.

By: cytherea

cytherea — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:42:24 -0800

Konishi Yasuharu and Pizzacato 5: Readymade Digs Disney = totes awesomes

By: Wolof

Wolof — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:54:35 -0800

I've had the Willner on a bit lately, and as the flapper says, most of it's really quite good. My favourite number is the Arkestra banging out "Pink Elephants on Parade"; they are an absolutely great straight-ahead swing band à la Fletcher Henderson, in a way the casual listener might not expect from their more familiar interstellar weirdnesses.

By: HotPatatta

HotPatatta — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:30:53 -0800

The Vandals' cover of Supercalifrajulisticexialidocious is killer.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:32:36 -0800

I enjoyed Stay Awake nearly twenty years ago because of Sun Ra. Now "The Mouse" must be covered with dirt. Hard and Packed. Fuck Disney.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:38:00 -0800

Oh. Dear God. I listened. Gene Simmons needs to die. Right after I skull-fuck the one he loves the most*. *Though I am now convinced he loves no one.

By: Foaf

Foaf — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:20:07 -0800

Nice link amyms. The Gene Simmons track was the last song on his first solo album. Unfortunately apart from the first song, it's the best one on the album.

By: Wolof

Wolof — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:10:41 -0800

Gene Simmons needs to die. His intonation was at best approximate, and he made a bit of a meal of the song. The death penalty for that does seem a little harsh, though.

By: EarBucket

EarBucket — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:51:29 -0800

The only Disney cover you'll ever need: Tom Waits, "Heigh Ho." It ain't no trick, to get rich quick If you dig, dig, dig, with a shovel and a pick In a mine, in a mine Where a million diamonds shine

By: EarBucket

EarBucket — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:52:22 -0800

Spoke too soon--he's already got it.

By: jourman2

jourman2 — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:31:29 -0800

Wow, I'm with HotPattata, the vandals cover of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is absurdly good. That's what I call punk rock. \m/ \m/

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:03:32 -0800

The Tom Waits cover is on Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films, which also features Bonnie Raitt's excellent "Baby Mine," Los Lobos' "I Wanna Be Like You," and The Replacements cover of "Cruella de Ville." Simply Mad About the Mouse is a little more mainstream.

By: EarBucket

EarBucket — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:48:11 -0800

Stay Awake also includes a wonderfully goofy Buster Poindexter cover of "Castle In Spain" from Babes In Toyland.

By: Gungho

Gungho — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:48:53 -0800

Only problem with Stay Awake is a number of the songs are tracked in groups so it is difficult to pick out just the song you want to hear. Otherwise it is excellent. The previously mentioned Waits cover of Heigh ho is just bizzare.

By: mephron

mephron — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:19:03 -0800

Another for Stay Awake, and echoing Gungho's comment. I would love a reworking of it that would allow you to go through the tracks one at a time. Example: Garth Hudson - Feed the Birds, NRBQ - Whistle While You Work, Betty Carter- I'm Wishing, The Replacements - Cruella DeVille, and a glorious version of 'Dumbo and Timothy' on guitar by Bill Frisell. Sounds like a winner across the board, right? Except you go from a synth-and-harmonica kind of melancholy piece to NRBQ's bouncy zydeco flavored Whistle While You Work, to a kind of cool jazz version of I'm Wishing, and then to Cruella DeVille done as, I kid you not, a honkey-tonk bar stripper song (complete with members of the Replacements in the background wolf-whistling and catcalling). I would LOVE to be able to listen to them separately without doing a bunch of cutting and clipping. It's one of the few bits of audio I've ever heard Ringo Starr sing on without briefly praying for sweet sweet death to take me away. And Aaron Neville and Dr. John's rendition of the Mickey Mouse Club March is magical. Plus Harry Nilsson doing a cover of one of the least-available-on-film songs from a Disney movie, 'Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah'? It took me a while to warm to Suzanne Vega's version of the title track, and I still skip past Sinéad O'Connor's cover of 'Someday My Prince Will Come' because I just cannot appreciate it at all. But a version of 'Second Star To The Right' with lead by James Taylor, backup by the Roches, sax by Branford Marsalis and guitars by John Scofield? That's something worth keeping.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:47:38 -0800

I've tried to make myself click on the link, but even if they were covered by Siousxie and the Banshees, Laurie Anderson, Oingo Boingo, Annie Benjamin, and Earth Wind and Fire all at the same time, I can't imagine versions of Disney songs that wouldn't cause cavities.