It's an
advert for chocolate. It's a
man in a gorilla suit drumming to a
track by
Philip Collins Ltd.
It's been very popular. It's
won awards. It's
been spoofed. And it's been mashed-up... some bad (
Metalica (sic),
ACDC,
Guns and Roses), some good (
Bonnie Tyler,
Subsource,
A Skillz,
Bon Jovi,
Deep Purple,
Nirvana) and some utterly sublime (
'Enders,
Bodyrockers,
Cameo). But
great adverts don't always equal
great sales. Bonus:
Monkey Drummer. (
Previously)
posted by fearfulsymmetry
on Dec 23, 2007 -
38 comments
When Bad Singers Happen To Good Songs: The Songicides! In today's
Spectator Markus Berkmann amusingly raises the deadly spectre of the worst
covers ever recorded. We're talking assassins here. I nominate Phil Collins's massacre of Holland/Dozier/Holland's "You Can't Hurry Love", as originally sung by Diana Ross and the Supremes; U2's goring of Cole Porter's "Night and Day", best sung by Sinatra or Ella and, worst of all, though he's my favourite artist, Leonard Cohen's mangling of Irving Berlin's classic "Always". What's
the worst cover version you'd like to report to Musical Homicide?
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Sep 4, 2003 -
137 comments
Blame Phil Collins? We knew Blame Canada wouldn't win, and to be fair, Phil probably deserved it - my real question is "what did you think of the 'Blame Canada' production number?" It was the only reason I watched tonight (not being a big awards show guy), and I'm just curious to hear what other people thought of it. Did Robin Williams wreck it? What about the mounties chorus-line? Did anyone else think he was going to do the entire song with the tape over his mouth?
My only other Oscar observation: Angelina Jolie seemed thrilled and suprised to get Best Supporting Actress. Do you think that she would have gone with the Elvira look if she expected to win?
posted by CrazyUncleJoe
on Mar 26, 2000 -
13 comments
