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godisinthetv [Edit] [Delete] 19:22, 31 May '09

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Cover versions! They’re quite rampant at the moment. The spectrum as I see it runs from Dirty Projectors’ electrifyingly brilliant and different take on Bjork's beepy Hyperballad which becomes all of an acoustic twinkle, to the wussy Jarvis Cocker trying to take on Eye of the Tiger and failing like a soggy kipper in the face of Jeff Capes. If the latter wasn’t unsettling enough, Pete Doherty wailed and dribbled all over Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon with the stilted weak assistance of the singer from Keane - which actually does sound as painful to kittens as you just imagined in your head.

So, how about we remind ourselves of some covers from over the years which add pizzazz or cleverly and energetically outstrip the muse's versions?

What's your favourite and least Favourite cover version
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STAR TREK: INDEPTH
In no sense is this a standard Star Trek, sensitive Trekkiers be aghast at an especially conscupient young brawler of a J. Tiberius Kirk in an alternate reality of CGI wrecks and promo-editing, who doesnt enunciate exposition with the gravity of Corolonius in the Round. Glossy, insouciant and overloaded with barely reverential intertexts from the creators of Alias, J J Abrams's Star Trek has been called-or accused of being- not just a modernist Space Western movie but a 'Star Wars'-shorthand for a polythene flimsy fazar-fight fantasy. On the first count, sure, it's a star-cowboy story--with all the moral insinuations of that a historically deconstructed and reconstructed Western form supplies, from Duel In The Sun to Unforgiven. A reinvention, of the same genus ostensibly as The Dark Knight , Superman, and even the Spiderman series. But like its relationship to Star Wars, even at moments of convergence, such similarities are in every sense cosmetic; at some level the whole movie is a play on surfaces, being epistemic cosmetics and morality-play rags. It's not just anything, let alone a spaceships for wagons substitute. But it is pretty much all about Kirk- just as Star Wars is superficially about farmboy Skywalker even if he's a cipherous drib; both are like the 'hero with a thousand faces,' who encompasses both a 'Bogart' and a Zack Efron. Speaking of difference between it and Bale's Batman, between the 'Star films as galactic-westerns, and finally Star Trek 2.009 and its antecedents, concerns the nature of it's singular space physicality; then it's Chris Pine's Jim K who embodies those plot and tone modulations with Shatnerian degrees of largesse. He's the hero, right.
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INTERVIEW : ORPHANS & VANDALS
Do you ever get the urge to run, run get gone gone/and a lot of things get abandoned along the way don’t they?!”

“With a lot of the produced music you hear, its hard to hear the real person in it” points out Orphans and Vandals intriguing front man Al Joshua “I was really keen to keep it more alive: that's why we did the album ourselves in our front rooms, we set up the microphones and that's were we recorded ‘Strays’ and ‘Terra Firma.”

The genesis of London based multi-instrumental five piece Orphans and Vandals was borne of Joshua’s similarly frustrating fruitless musical situation, the grind of playing in dead end bands peddling the same old same old, constrained by the hackneyed melodies repeated every night in the same clichéd form. Orphans and Vandals front man AL Joshua talks passionately about a band that changed his life, its birth inspired by a trip from London to Paris – his own pilgrimage to retrace the footsteps of poet Arthur Rimbaud. With this new found lust for escape he let himself off the leash, starting to record songs that ”we're for him” Joshua explains I wrote and recorded the first few ‘Christopher’ and ‘Headful of Tears’ in my house at the beginning, and just gave it away when people asked for it. ...They were done my bathroom, our neighbours were constantly on cocaine fuelled porn marathons, and I liked to keep the sounds that fall through the cracks in the background...
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