Covers of JoCo songs
We already have threads dedicated to covers JoCo has done, and covers folks would like to hear him do. Here's a thread about covers that other folks have done of JoCo songs. (I searched and didn't see anything similar, except threads for specific covers.)
So what do folks think of this latest offering, "Pwn Monkey (Jonathan Coulton vs. ... well, everyone)?" I know some folks have shared their opinions elsewhere. Overall, I thought it was amusing but not great. Much of it is pretty chaotic. However, I really enjoyed the Tom Sawyer snippet, because it actually fit with the melody so well. In fact, I'm gonna go listen to that part again now... :-)
So what do folks think of this latest offering, "Pwn Monkey (Jonathan Coulton vs. ... well, everyone)?" I know some folks have shared their opinions elsewhere. Overall, I thought it was amusing but not great. Much of it is pretty chaotic. However, I really enjoyed the Tom Sawyer snippet, because it actually fit with the melody so well. In fact, I'm gonna go listen to that part again now... :-)
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I want to heartily recommend gmrtech's IKEA and Code Monkey orchestral covers. I love those two and am sad that he seems to have decided to stop making them. I would pay actual money for a full album of those bad boys.
Or what if he found a way to insert every song with monkeys in it into a giant monster monkey song, like what you would get if the Skullcrusher Mountain scientist decided he wanted to be a rock star?
I'm a big fan of Walt (gmrtech)'s covers too. I'm on a Paul Sahner jag at the moment -- thanks, Rob, for linking his minor-key "Still Alive" cover, and thanks, Paul, if you read this! (Paul's "Still Alive" differs the most from the original, of course, but he does a mean "Madelaine" and a really great "Brand New Sucker," a song which, as soon as I saw he was doing it, I could envision that it was going to be just wonderful.)
Jukebox Hero - Foreigner
Back in Black - AC/DC
?
70s funk instrumental that I can't recall the name of
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
We Got the Beat - Go-Gos
?
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
ETA: Break on Through - The Doors
Don't Bring Me Down - ELO
Rainbow Connection - Kermit :-)
(?) Funkytown - Lipps Inc
?
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
? long stretch of stuff I don't recognize ?
Born in the USA - Bruce Springstein
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Linus & Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
I just posted a cover of Dance, Soterious Johnson, Dance- I hope it holds up!
ETA: Forgot to say (because I forgot it was in this thread), but thanks, Colleen! ("Don't Bring Me Down!" I knew I knew it, but I just... couldn't... place it. Groos!)
Other favorites: Tom Cruise Crazy by Molly (of course!), and some crazy lady singing "Gambler's Prayer" for her husband's birthday....
Back in Black - AC/DC
?The Hustle?
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
We Got the Beat - Go-Gos
Nobody Loves Me_ Portishead
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
ETA: Break on Through - The Doors
Don't Bring Me Down - ELO
Rainbow Connection - Kermit :-)
(?) Funkytown - Lipps Inc
??Let Me Go - Heaven 17
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
? long stretch of stuff I don't recognize ?
Born in the USA - Bruce Springstein
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Linus & Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
Jukebox Hero - Foreigner
Back in Black - AC/DC
?
The Hustle - Van McCoy
?
Pick up the Pieces - Average White Band <-- the one I couldn't remember (Thank you, Amazon)
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
We Got the Beat - Go-Gos
Nobody Loves Me - Portishead
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
[There's something playing over Queen that sounds almost like Eric Clapton's Lay Down Sally?]
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Break on Through - The Doors
Don't Bring Me Down - ELO
Rainbow Connection - Kermit :-)
(?) Funkytown - Lipps Inc
(?) Let Me Go - Heaven 17
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
? long stretch of stuff ?
Born in the USA - Bruce Springstein
Canon in D - Pachelbel
Linus & Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
Without reading your list I threw together my own list as a comment to the original post. For clarification:
0:29 - the "Ohhh!" in the background is from "Unbelievable" by EMF
1:25 - the bass guitar is from "Block Rockin' Beats" by Chemical Brothers
1:47 - the organ is from "Let Your Backbone Slide" by Maestro Fresh-Wes
I know "FunkyTown" and "The Hustle" quite well, and currently believe that they do not appear in this work.
Good job identifying "We Got The Beat". i was never a big GoGo's fan. I cannot confirm the Portishead song either.
I suspect that is "Lay Down Sally" overtop of Another One Bites The Dust, but I can't be sure of it.
I seem to know useless information.
Tom Cruise Crazy
Seriously, great job! I love the Sugar Plum Fairy bits!
Have to admit that even knowing I was listening to DSJD, it took me a few moments to realize what I was listening to. I blame the Stones:
This is probably not what you were going for, but I think the way you've arranged the chorus would be very fitting for the intro music to a newscast.
I actually started thinking of doing something orchestral, but then I realized that it's more realistic to stick to piano, so parts of it are meant to suggest an orchestral reduction. Who knows, my next long weekend is in August...
@Rob: So now the question is who does the role of the fairy, SoJo or Terry Gross? I really wish a) I could meld the (Nutcracker) Trepak better with the bridge, and b) it was a different Cossack dance, which would have allowed the title "Gopak, SoJo, Gopak!"
(Re: Gopak: I have always wanted to write a cut-time arrangement of modern Hindustani music just to be able to call it "Bourree for Bollywood.")
ETA: I see that was adressed. Darn.