Lo, I do jump on the mummer wagon. I present to ye: Buskin Boots
June 6, 2020 10:19 PM Subscribe
Hildegard von Blingin' presents, for the discerning clergyman, noble, or muck-gathering peasant, Medieval Style covers of Pumped up Kicks, What is Love, and Bad Romance.
This is a microgenre.
Medieval Coffin Dance, Anno Domini 1250
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 11:12 PM on June 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
Medieval Coffin Dance, Anno Domini 1250
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 11:12 PM on June 6, 2020 [3 favorites]
Was bopping along to What is Love and lost it at the nonny nonny no....
posted by ninazer0 at 12:41 AM on June 7, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by ninazer0 at 12:41 AM on June 7, 2020 [4 favorites]
The name is great and I like this (though the music doesn't actually sound a lot like the actual Hildegard's). I really like covers that take familiar songs and bring them into another style entirely, like what Nouvelle Vague does.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:49 AM on June 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Dip Flash at 5:49 AM on June 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
Bully-rook and buskin are both 16th century words, so more Elizabethan / English Renaissance than medieval, but I don’t blame von Blingin’ for not going full Middle English. “Me and yow coud writen a badde romaunce” is about as understandable as it would get.
posted by jedicus at 6:36 AM on June 7, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by jedicus at 6:36 AM on June 7, 2020 [3 favorites]
I was not aware that this is a genre I needed to know about. Thank you!
posted by rmd1023 at 6:57 AM on June 7, 2020
posted by rmd1023 at 6:57 AM on June 7, 2020
Will buy the album. Soon, please.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 8:45 AM on June 7, 2020
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 8:45 AM on June 7, 2020
This is possibly my favorite thing ever in all my years on this planet. Thank you! ❤️
posted by hilaryjade at 9:40 AM on June 7, 2020
posted by hilaryjade at 9:40 AM on June 7, 2020
Me and yow coud writen a badde romaunce
This is amazing and now I want a Chaucer Remix.
posted by biogeo at 10:57 AM on June 7, 2020
This is amazing and now I want a Chaucer Remix.
posted by biogeo at 10:57 AM on June 7, 2020
Side anecdote: when I was a kid I got way overenthusiastic about naming all of my computer hardware, and came up with a system for selecting random words from our massive Random House dictionary, I think using dice rolls or something, to serve as names. This is how my hard drive ended up getting renamed from "Macintosh HD" to "Buskin." I still have a directory floating around from now decades worth of backups and transfers to new computers called "Buskin backup". Not long after this, I abandoned the system (partly from getting a bit older and deciding that not everything needed its own name, and maybe it was a bit silly to put labels on my monitor and speakers), but when we expanded our computer with an additional hard drive I decided to stick with the medieval footwear theme, which is why I also have a directory somewhere called "Sabaton backup". I was a weird kid.
posted by biogeo at 11:13 AM on June 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by biogeo at 11:13 AM on June 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
The "Roxbury Tavern" sign in the illustration on the "What Is Love" video was a great little sight gag.
posted by NoxAeternum at 11:46 AM on June 7, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by NoxAeternum at 11:46 AM on June 7, 2020 [4 favorites]
Also, someone in the comments came up with the perfect name for this sort of cover - bardcore.
posted by NoxAeternum at 11:50 AM on June 7, 2020 [14 favorites]
posted by NoxAeternum at 11:50 AM on June 7, 2020 [14 favorites]
I meant to post this the other day but just listened to Buskin Boots on repeat instead. Thanks for sharing this delight with the world of MeFi.
posted by brook horse at 11:58 AM on June 7, 2020
posted by brook horse at 11:58 AM on June 7, 2020
Buskin makes me feel good
posted by taquito sunrise at 3:15 PM on June 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by taquito sunrise at 3:15 PM on June 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
I love all of these more than the originals.
I went in thinking I’d like What is Love the most, but it’s Buskin Boots that gets played on repeat.
posted by AxelT at 2:19 AM on June 8, 2020
I went in thinking I’d like What is Love the most, but it’s Buskin Boots that gets played on repeat.
posted by AxelT at 2:19 AM on June 8, 2020
I love this, and will be putting my name down for the album. There will be an album, right? I think Richard Thompson did a similar thing with Oops I Did It Again a while back too.
There are quite a few groups doing classical style remixes of pop songs, but bardcore is a new one on me.
posted by Fuchsoid at 2:30 AM on June 8, 2020
There are quite a few groups doing classical style remixes of pop songs, but bardcore is a new one on me.
posted by Fuchsoid at 2:30 AM on June 8, 2020
This instrumental cover of "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" by Stary Olsa just makes me so damn happy.
posted by moonbird at 8:12 AM on June 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by moonbird at 8:12 AM on June 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
Somebody That I Used To Know has also been added to the von Blingin' catalog, and I think her adaptation of the lyrics was particularly good with this one. Meanwhile, YouTuber the_miracle_aligner has created a version of Buskin Boots Pumped Up Kicks that is a full translation/adaptation into Old English.
posted by biogeo at 10:24 PM on June 21, 2020
posted by biogeo at 10:24 PM on June 21, 2020
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Thanks, I needed this right now.
posted by biogeo at 10:54 PM on June 6, 2020 [2 favorites]