Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Lunch Hangover!
The Music Editor (ME) was watching American Idol while on the phone with a friend who was also watching American Idol. It was Diana Ross night and unfortunately the friend was not familiar with Ross' solo hits, so she didn't notice when one contestant flubbed the words to "Love Hangover," nor could she relate to the judges' disappointment that the contestant cut-out the fast, uptempo second half of the song. Nor could she understand how the editor, who was in the begining stages of puberty at the time the song was a smash hit and who only vaguely understood what the clipped moans and grunting sounds Ross tacked on the end of the song's lines were evoking.
The ME has also tried to convince Monz that the Afghan Whigs cover of "Come See About Me" is the greatest cover version of a song ever done. It takes the desperate, pleading lyrics and removes the from the bouncy, uptempo music. The melody is the same, but now it's played in a slow, grungy (yes) dirge, with lead singer Greg Dulli softly, sadly singing until immediately after the instrumental break, when he screams "Sometimes Up!" before whining "Sometimes Down" and returning to normal -- the realization of an instant, momentary panic attack.
If you haven't heard it, you don't know. Just like Monz lunch: a possibly yummy chicken pot pie from Boston Market, but with his stuffed-up nose he can't taste anything!
The Music Editor (ME) was watching American Idol while on the phone with a friend who was also watching American Idol. It was Diana Ross night and unfortunately the friend was not familiar with Ross' solo hits, so she didn't notice when one contestant flubbed the words to "Love Hangover," nor could she relate to the judges' disappointment that the contestant cut-out the fast, uptempo second half of the song. Nor could she understand how the editor, who was in the begining stages of puberty at the time the song was a smash hit and who only vaguely understood what the clipped moans and grunting sounds Ross tacked on the end of the song's lines were evoking.
The ME has also tried to convince Monz that the Afghan Whigs cover of "Come See About Me" is the greatest cover version of a song ever done. It takes the desperate, pleading lyrics and removes the from the bouncy, uptempo music. The melody is the same, but now it's played in a slow, grungy (yes) dirge, with lead singer Greg Dulli softly, sadly singing until immediately after the instrumental break, when he screams "Sometimes Up!" before whining "Sometimes Down" and returning to normal -- the realization of an instant, momentary panic attack.
If you haven't heard it, you don't know. Just like Monz lunch: a possibly yummy chicken pot pie from Boston Market, but with his stuffed-up nose he can't taste anything!
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We should add that Monz was completely unmoved ten or so years ago when the ME played this for him, evoking some sort of generalized generic dis of indie bands. We also know Monz hates posts when the editors pretty much just use his blog as a platform for their own musings, but we figured since he couldn't taste lunch he wouldn't mind. Thanks Monz!
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