Cheesetastic Rock Music Post
While there's no doubt that it's been a fantastic summer for music, there's one song for me that has managed to silently crawl up to the upper tier of my list. Was it the solo-filled "Icky Thump" by the White Stripes? Spoon's horn laced pop of "The Underdog"? Ted Leo's irresistable listing of oppressed minorities in "CIA"?
Nope. It's a track by the New Pornographers... and as good as "Challengers" is (believe me, it's astounding), its not even a new one.
No friends, I am ashamed to admit that my secret love of Summer 2007 was a song Carl, Neko, Dan and company recorded years ago for a Canadian metalhead mockumentary known as "FUBAR" (which I'm told by the fine folks over at Pajiba is worth checking out).... a cover by a little known 80s band called Toronto.
Ladies and Gentlemen.... "Your Daddy Don't Know", in mp3 as well as all its music video glory:
The New Pornographers- Your Daddy Don't Know
(LJ readers may have to click on the link up top to see it, as You Tube doesn't play nice with my feeds... any bloggers out there know how to fix that?)
As undeniably amazing as that video is, I managed to find the original today, and well... you just can't out-cheese the 80s, no matter how hard you try:
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BONUS! As no post on incredibly cheesy rock music would be complete without some love for "Don't Stop Believing", I urge one and all to click on over to the MySpace for "Guilt by Association", an indie comp of bad pop covers, for an astounding all a capella rendition of the Jounrey classic by onetime Decemberists collaborator Petra Haden.... and I do mean ALL a capella.
Nope. It's a track by the New Pornographers... and as good as "Challengers" is (believe me, it's astounding), its not even a new one.
No friends, I am ashamed to admit that my secret love of Summer 2007 was a song Carl, Neko, Dan and company recorded years ago for a Canadian metalhead mockumentary known as "FUBAR" (which I'm told by the fine folks over at Pajiba is worth checking out).... a cover by a little known 80s band called Toronto.
Ladies and Gentlemen.... "Your Daddy Don't Know", in mp3 as well as all its music video glory:
The New Pornographers- Your Daddy Don't Know
(LJ readers may have to click on the link up top to see it, as You Tube doesn't play nice with my feeds... any bloggers out there know how to fix that?)
As undeniably amazing as that video is, I managed to find the original today, and well... you just can't out-cheese the 80s, no matter how hard you try:
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BONUS! As no post on incredibly cheesy rock music would be complete without some love for "Don't Stop Believing", I urge one and all to click on over to the MySpace for "Guilt by Association", an indie comp of bad pop covers, for an astounding all a capella rendition of the Jounrey classic by onetime Decemberists collaborator Petra Haden.... and I do mean ALL a capella.
posted by Jeff Lakin at 12:54 AM
7 Comments:
Cheers for this, have only really discovered New pornographers in last few months.
Ed, 17 Seconds
As you might imagine, to Canadians, Toronto was actually a pretty huge band for a few years in the late '70s/early '80s. Fronted by Holly Woods, they managed to bestow upon a hungry country several slabs of catchy pop-rock in the style of the time.
I love the NP cover, but you gotta admit, it's good because the original was too!
Don't know how I came across it, but I've actually been grooving to this tune for about a year now. It's a pop nerd masterpiece, for sure -- how it never became a Pat Benetar-style hit in the STates I'll never know.
Maybe we can blame it on the original video -- take it from someone who was there, even for the '80s, the was cheezy with a capital Z.
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