What are you listening to Today?

Listening to...

Kid Cudi - Pursuit Of Happiness ft. MGMT, Ratatat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xzU9...eature=channel

and

MGMT - Kids
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4EK4HSPkI

Got 2 new albums last night:

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

OK Go - Of the Blue Colour of the Sky

Both are pretty damn good.

The Clash - Clash City Rockers

(cuz ya need a little jolt of elec-trical shock-ah!)

Listening to...

Datarock's "Red" album. Song Amarillion

Dallas celebrities butchering a Faith Hill song in a promotional video for the Super Bowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p4b7B2t1OA

Warning: This is very cringe-inducing singing.

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Originally Posted by inudesu

Dallas celebrities butchering a Faith Hill song in a promotional video for the Super Bowl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p4b7B2t1OA

Warning: This is very cringe-inducing singing.

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No worse than the original, IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Ov0cDPZy8

Mayer interpreting Petty. I like this.

But his attempt at the greatness of Crossroads doesn't work for me. Not at all.

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Originally Posted by Guisslapp

No worse than the original, IMO.

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Big difference in the visual asthetic.


And then there is that whole "pitch" thing.

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Originally Posted by inudesu

Big difference in the visual asthetic.


And then there is that whole "pitch" thing.

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meh.. pitch is irrelevent now that auto-tune is available:bigcry:

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Originally Posted by inudesu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Ov0cDPZy8

Mayer interpreting Petty. I like this.

But his attempt at the greatness of Crossroads doesn't work for me. Not at all.

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You pretty much know it is going to suck when a sucky musician covers a song that already sucked. Damn, Inu, I like you, but I don't think we could ever do a roadtrip together.

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Originally Posted by inudesu

Big difference in the visual asthetic.

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We can agree on that.

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Originally Posted by Guisslapp

You pretty much know it is going to suck when a sucky musician covers a song that already sucked. Damn, Inu, I like you, but I don't think we could ever do a roadtrip together.

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It may not be clear from this thread, but my tastes run fairly wide. We'd probably just have to listen to Zepplin and Hendrix. That ain't bad road trip music.

And Free Falling is a great song, by a great artist, and in this case being covered by a . . . let's say "capable" one (I assume you mean Free Falling, and not Crossroads).

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Originally Posted by ITdrummer

meh.. pitch is irrelevent now that auto-tune is available:bigcry:

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I almost said "at least one was auto-tuned into having the right pitch".

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Originally Posted by inudesu

And Free Falling is a great song, by a great artist, and in this case being covered by a . . . let's say "capable" one (I assume you mean Free Falling, and not Crossroads).

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Ironically, the subject of "Free Falling" came up less than one hour ago when someone sent me an email with a typo -- "fell free" instead of "feel free." I disparaged them for the typo and then proceeded to disparage Tom Petty and the song.

The mayer version of "Free Falling" is ok. I like the music, but he does too much with his voice. Seems like he's trying too hard.