Paula Anka Ruins The Songs Of Our Youth
Former teen idol (ask grandma) Paul Anka has recorded a new covers album Rock Swings. Check the tracklist:
1. It's My Life (Bon Jovi)And ... they're all swing arrangements.
2. True (Spandau Ballet)
3. Eye Of The Tiger (Survivor)
4. Everybody Hurts (REM)
5. Blackhole Sun (Soundgarden)
6. Wonderwall (Oasis)
7. It's A Sin (Pet Shop Boys)
8. Jump (Van Halen)
9. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
10. Hello (Lionel Richie)
11. Lovecats (The Cure)
12. The Way You Make Me Feel (Michael Jackson)
13. Tears In Heaven (Eric Clapton)
"Sonically amazing, musically impeccable, vocally superb, this album swings hard from start to finish. Crank it loud on a great stereo. Crank it loud in your car with the windows open and the top down. This is fun music, this is music to drink cocktail to, this is a seriously fun album to have in your collection."Blurb via Verve. Or Jennifer Garner.
Thanks reader Marc C. for the heads up! You KNOW I'll share some MP3s when this shit surfaces. It's already hit #1 on Amazon.com Germany.
Posted at 3:39 PM
I think this was the cd that Bennifer2 used when they concived their child.
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I know this will sound like nebbish nerdy irony, but I really REALLY want to hear Neil Diamond cover Interpol's "NYC". That's such a crooner song and I always think of Diamond when that dude goes "Turrrn on the brriiight lights"
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Welfurr, I would pay GOOD money to hear that!
Viva Neil!
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available at http://www.mp3search.ru/ for 10 cents a track.
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Sign of the apocalypse: someone finally ripped off Pat Boone. For those who are lucky enough to have forgotten this nonsense:
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/9325/patmetal.html
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Umm, Paul Anka wrote one of my all time favorite songs. A great '70's love song, "(You're) Having My Baby". The best lines:
Didn't have to keep it
wouldn't put you through it.
You could have swept it [your unborn child] from your life
But you wouldn't do it
no
you wouldn't do it.
And you're having my baby.
Only a man who can write those words can make "Tears In Heaven" swing.
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this reminds me of a tape that this lame-ass motivational speaker played when he spoke at my highschool once. it had swing versions of 'enter sandman', 'creep' and 'wannabe'... it was absolutely terrible.
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It's a whole new season of Punk'd.
Bennifer punk'd Jennifer Garner and got her preggo...
Tom Cruise punk'd Katie Holmes and gave her lip herpes...
Much too hot for Ashton Koocher!
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releasing a swing album that covers Oasis and Soundgarden in 2005 is like releasing an electro album that covers the Killers and Franz Ferdinand in 2015.
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Man...didn't Dick Cheese already do this?
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The idea of Johnny Cash doing things like this was alright to me, but somehow Paul Anka swinging through "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is not.
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Ruxquiero, I couldn't agree more!
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he's jason bateman's father in law, you know. what a weird little world.
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is it paul or paula anka?
is there a paula anka?
.s.
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If these are songs that define anyone's youth, I feel very, very sorry for them.
On a lighter note, the wildly overrated "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is finally put in its proper context as a mass-marketed pop commodity (cue outraged squeaking and beeping from "disenfranchised" twenty- and thirty-somethings).
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Sure, I'll take the bait, but no squeaks and beeps here. It's easy to view Smells Like Teen Spirit as contrived pap NOW. At the time it came out (1992) it was VERY real and it rocked as hard as metal, but was alternrock through and through.
I bought the SLTS single a month or so before Nevermind was released - I already owned Bleach and much of the other "must own" Seattle stuff but just wasn't getting it. The Smells like teen spirit single knocked me on my ass. It was a very powerful song - its hard to picture it 13 years later, but truly - it rocked VERY hard at the time.
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wonderwall? in swing form? thats playing turning a kiss song into a polka or an elvis song into smooth jazz. it should not be done.
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That comment really wasn't worth the response you expected.... your condescending attitude sounds more like a personal problem to me.
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Actually, Pwarf, my comment about Nirvana WAS in regard to when it was originally released.
I appreciate that for you (and for many others) it was a breath of fresh air. My point (ill-expressed as it may have been) was that SLTS was chosen, recorded, mixed, RE-mixed, packaged, and marketed by label execs to have EXACTLY that impact - in much the same way as any other pop record. Speaking as someone who began purchasing records in 1975, my grasp of the history of the punk/hardcore movement (that Nirvana were originally a part of) is necessarily more wide-ranging than that of younger music fans. There were dozens of bands, and hundreds of songs, that were easily the equal of Nirvana and their output; however, they aren't remembered chiefly because they didn't have the push that Geffen (and outlets such as MTV) were able to provide Nirvana. I wasn't necessarily denigrating the band or the song, just attempting to provide some context (admittedly, in kind of a wiseass manner).
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Oh that's right he did do "Your Having my baby", how can I forget that one. With the woman in the chours signing "I'm a woman in love and I love what its doing to me!" I wonder if Assleck sang that to Jennifer2.
He also wrote or wrote the english lyrics to "My Way" I can remember him saying in an interview that he liked Sid Vicous's version of the song the best.
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Yeah, I knew about him being Jason Bateman's father-in-Law too. Wierd. I hope 'Arrested Development' gets renewed. . .
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Mike Flowers Pops did a swingin' version of Wonderwall a few years ago. Big hit in the UK too!
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Listen to Paul talk to his band about 'shirts' and shit... what a lovely man.
http://www.noisetank.com/integrity/
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you can get this album from the oink tracker
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KJB - agreed, DGC made Smells Like Teen Spirit what it was. I can't argue that point at all. If anyone needs to see the strength of the label and the hand they play in creating hits, just take a look at Arcade Fire right now.
Put Arcade Fire on DGC or Sony and trust me, we (and everyone we know) would be sick of at least one of the Neighborhood tracks by now due to excessive MTV and radio airplay.
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30 seconds clips can be heard at the german amazon site. at least we'll know what we're talking about. sort of. http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007MSOWC/ref%3Damb%5Fasin-coop-1%5F186601/028-5534833-7198163
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Just heard this at my local cafe and googled it -- "Eye of the Tiger" caught my ear and then I was oddly compelled. "Wonderwall" is like some bizarre SNL parody of Sinatra. But (and I saw this as a Soundgarden fan who still listens to "Superunknown" on a regular basis), his "Black Hole Sun" is pretty fabulous and really does swing. It's reminiscent of midcareer Sinatra, singing hard-swinging songs about heartbreak and profound loneliness. Anka's version -- "black hole sun (bam!), won't you come (wham!), and take away the rain" etc etc -- has a goofy ironic edge. And the bossa nova Pet Shop Boys is actually better than the original. Of course this all raises the question "What was he thinking?????" Has he listened to Oasis/REM/Nirvana/Soundgarden etc? And the combination of these very different bands has an oddly flattening effect but at the same time pleasantly democratizing result. ( as though we'd ever find the Cure and Lionel Richie and Bon Jovi and Nirvana on the same album).
All in all, puzzling. Is this a novelty album? A serious musical effort? Is Paul Anka high? etc.
OHMIGOD -- he's singing "Jump"!!!!!!!!! There's no more to say.
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Interesting connection:
In "It's My Life" Bon Jovi sings "Like Frankie said I did it my way", quoting My Way by Frank Sinatra. And who wrote that song?
Our friend Paul Anka, of course.
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Well, I like all the songs of the album... Nirvana and Eric Clapton? Why not? When music is all of the same kind it's getting quite boring...
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