Entertainment For Lively Minds
When Pigs Fly
Posted by Beany on 4 March 2010 - 5:20pm.
This CD has the sub-title "Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear". It has been on my very long shopping list of music I have wanted to own for 8 years, but could not be arsed to order it from America. Today I found it in a second-hand shop in Manchester for the princely sum of £3. For lovers of cover versions it is a treasure.
Soundclips can be heard here www.pigsflycd.com/mainpage.html
Don Ho "sings" Shock The Monkey. Peter Noone nails White Wedding. Billy Preston develops Girls On Film. Marvellous!
So do the Massive have any examples of Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear?
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'Nails' White Wedding?
YMBK: I never thought I'd be itching to hear a Billy Idol song as originally performed by Billy Idol quite so much ever in my life.
Is the rest of the album similar sludge? I don't think I dare try any more clips to find out!
Pigs did fly
God Save the Queen sung lustily by tens of thousands at Croke Park
Ok.beat this
On Radio Four's 6:30pm slot driving home yesterday the uberR4 literary quiz The Write Stuff contained a 'who sang this' round...so head to Spotify and search for Norman Mailer and album Stranger Than Fiction for a whole album of authors singing. Stephen King's band is reasonably well-known but I offer in the pigs flying competition...
Norman Mailer growling his way through Alimony Blues
Amy Tan (suger-sweet author of Chinese-American novel) - singing These Boots Were Made For Walking including a spoken word ending with the words 'beat your butt' and whipcrack sound effects
Ken Follett (cardigan airport thriller man) takes on Hoochie Coochie man.
Your ears will be truly...well not sure how to descibe them.
Update...Maya Angelou takes on Right Said Fred!
This is my new favourite album ever...
with kazoo!
that album again, Stranger Than Fiction but search for Normal Mailer and you'll find it. You won't regret it.
Can I just add...
*cough* I love you... in a manly way of course
http://open.spotify.com/album/2G3OA8pl0lknlJCp68hGxS
I'm cool with that.
On closer inspection it's Maya Angelou AND Jessica Mitford tacking RSF. Wouldn't you like to see some footage from that recording session? Puts Macca and Jacko in perspective...
I never knew that
When Pigs Fly is also on Spotify. Doh.
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Gz9Cz7SjmKvQ1ETLs4UrW
I was listening to...
Elvis Costello doing Christina Aguilera's Beautiful on Spotify yesterday. It's... good. It was recorded for an episode of House.
Paul Anka - Rock Swings
spotify:track:7wYJxzPPkq3ZazLC8sAjXd
I always enjoy his version of Smells Like Teen Spirit - doesn't have the prdictable over-familiarity of the original
Richard Thompson
Could you ever imagine loving a version of THAT song enough to join in the singalong.
Beany...
RT is a fuckin' genius. There is none better. None.
Gulp!
I'm agreeing with you. He takes a song you might have hated and gives it a twist that makes it his own.
None better? Sure many would have their own favourites who are not RT.
(ducks)
Cor!
I just looked for the album on Napster.
There's nine other albums called Pigs Might Fly. Anyone heard of The Chicarones, Agent Felix or Figment?
Our was at the bottom of the list. I am about to explore.
Beany try this
Soft Safe and Sanitized Vol 3
Percy Faith doing Ballad of John and Yoko
Mel Torme doing Sunshine Superman
https://www.secondspin.com/music/product-detail.jsp?id=771384
There's also Golden Throats, The Great Celebrity Sing off
Leonard Nimoy doing Proud Mary and William Shatner doing Lucy in the Sky
https://www.secondspin.com/music/product-detail.jsp?id=868476
Ta!
Leonard Nimoy is a class act. I have many of his CDs and LPs, as well as Brent Spiner's offering. This track features Patrick Stewart.
Afro-funk Cover of Girls Aloud
Brit Girl band covered by a Ghanaian Funk band. This has to appeal to the Massive. They disabled the embed but go here
I offer the massive
a steel band covering Joy Division
Reg Dwight Plays Pop
There was a whole CD released of Elton doing covers like this for all those nice cheapo Top Of The Pops LPs on Pickwick and such. It was then given away free with one of those nice Sunday papers.
There was supposed to be a similar CD being released of covers done by a certain Dame but it has yet to see the light of day.
Not exactly a cover version
but this track by Supergrass has always made me giggle in the way it sets a tune around some common-place vernacular:
http://open.spotify.com/track/2XNhkkMAGJxcpnAIBTg2C8
Mr Last meets Mr Lemmy
It's worth reposting this here - I know you're a fan, Beany - James Last doing "Silver Machine":
For more hot brass action doing unlikely cover versions, try The Hot 8 Brass Band (from the US) and Oompah Brass (from the UK).
"Like A Rolling Stone" - Sebastian Cabot
Actor Sebastian Cabot (Bagheera in Disney's "The Jungle Book", amongst more highbrow credits) reads "Like A Rolling Stone". The band seem to be playing "Ring of Fire"...