Musical Miscellany
Repeated iPod Playing: Fool's Paradise by Monday Morning. Wonder of it All (Next Year) is getting a lot of airplay on Air 1, and deservedly so. It's got the catchiest hook since Deeper by Delirious (with even the song title borrowing a phrase from the latter anthem).
Best Cover of a Christmas Song: Little Drummer Boy by Guns n' Roses Audio Adrenaline, as found on the WOW Christmas compilation CD. One of the Amazon.com reviewers refers to it as a weird, punked-out version, but my response is, "and your point would be?" I can't think of a song more deserving of being "punked out," unless it's MLB's least favorite seasonal song, Go Tell It On The Mountain.
...it was the guitar player's (that's me) least favorite Christmas song...
Ah, my respect for you -- already Olympian in magnitude -- has just increased.
Posted by: Eric at December 18, 2006 03:40 PMi think that might be everyone's least favorite christmas song. i HATE "go tell it on the mountain".
eric - we recorded a few christmas tunes this past week during some down time if you're interested. it includes a serious reworked version of 'oh holy night'.
http://www.justincofield.com/christmas
Posted by: kyle at December 18, 2006 05:22 PMKyle, that's a really nice arrangement of "O Holy Night"...good work!
I was interested to see that your drummer plays the cello.
Posted by: Eric at December 18, 2006 08:34 PMSweet version!!! Thanks for the heads up! Now I'm heading over to Kyle's suggestion to listen to their songs!
Posted by: Janie at December 18, 2006 08:35 PMJim plays guitar!! Wow!!!
Eric, now we can seriously have a hootenanny when he comes back out! All the Midland bloggers can bring out their instruments and jam out...maybe even get a gig at Jerrie's??? ;)
Posted by: Janie at December 18, 2006 08:39 PMJim has, in a previous life, cut a CD. Kyle, as you can tell, is a professional musician (and also owns a recording studio). Unfortunately, my musical talent ends at my blogroll.
Posted by: Eric at December 18, 2006 08:41 PMEver thought about taking up Spoon playing? Or getting one of those little shaker eggs?
Posted by: Janie at December 18, 2006 08:45 PMeric - thanks! it was fun trying to come up with something different than the standard versions you've heard all your life.
i have one of those shaker eggs and those things are darn difficult! i'll stick with stealing licks from albert king and albert collins.
Posted by: kyle at December 18, 2006 09:27 PMAbout the publisher
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I was in a worship band that did a version of Go Tell It On the Mountain. While not punking it out, we did Beatle-ize it. Specifically, we did it a la "A Hard Day's Night" complete with groovy opening clangy guitar chord and guitar/piano solo. The reason? It was the guitar player's (that's me) least favorite Christmas song and he refused to do an untweaked version.
Posted by: Jim at December 18, 2006 02:43 PM