You know, I really don't mind this album. The spin the PR is putting on it is horrible, of course, but more than bad press releases, I hate the covers most bands choose to do. They're usually record-collector power plays rather than good artistic ideas--"ooh look at this obscure track I know about and totally appreciate." This is a good list of covers, and depending on how they're executed, I would love to see more like it. OK, I would have picked different songs by some of the artists being covered, and maybe different bands to cover them, but I love those CDs of punk bands covering pop songs, and I like that there are actually current acts being covered here. I think doing covers of your contemporaries is one way of erasing that idea of influences we were talking about, and, as people have suggested, I bet a decent portion (I'd say 8 or 9 of the 15) of these are being done "unironically" or whatever.
That said, WHY ARE THERE NOT MORE DISCO COVERS.
(Uh also, how does one post to poptimists? Assuming I've tried changing the "Post to" field and "Poptimists" is not available.)
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Date: 2007-05-08 03:22 pm (UTC)That said, WHY ARE THERE NOT MORE DISCO COVERS.
(Uh also, how does one post to poptimists? Assuming I've tried changing the "Post to" field and "Poptimists" is not available.)