WTF covers

[Rarebird]

A truly hideous bit of (as Ben Minnotte calls it) Carlos-sploitation, courtesy of the Partridge Family's ghost keyboardist, Mike Melvoin:

I think there were a lot of Carlos-sploitation albums at that time. Not sure if one would consider Tomita Carlos-sploitation, but he defenitly worked in the same territory.

And later we got all those synthesizer-albums by anynomous players, greatest synthesizer hits, often with music not originally done on synthesizers, but also with covers synthesizerplayers like Vangelis.

[Progbear]

I think there were a lot of Carlos-sploitation albums at that time. Not sure if one would consider Tomita Carlos-sploitation, but he defenitly worked in the same territory.

That feels like a bit more of a passing of the torch. Wendy Carlos abandoned the Switched On series with Sonic Seasonings (to less commercial success but to artistic triumph, as I thought her later albums were a lot more interesting). Unlike all those cheap cash-in records like the one I posted, Tomita always felt like a lot of care and thought went into his arrangements and song selection (at least until he let the cheese catch up with him and he started throwing the likes of the Star Wars theme and "Hora Staccato" in there. And even on that album we get an Arthur Honegger adaptation!).

[Rarebird]

That feels like a bit more of a passing of the torch. Wendy Carlos abandoned the Switched On series with Sonic Seasonings (to less commercial success but to artistic triumph, as I thought her later albums were a lot more interesting). Unlike all those cheap cash-in records like the one I posted, Tomita always felt like a lot of care and thought went into his arrangements and song selection (at least until he let the cheese catch up with him and he started throwing the likes of the Star Wars theme and "Hora Staccato" in there. And even on that album we get an Arthur Honegger adaptation!).

Well, Tomita is defenitly one of the better ones going in the tracks of Wendy Carlos.

[Czyszy]

Carlos-sploitation

I'd much prefer Carlos-Santanazation to this stuff honestly. :P

[Rarebird]

I'd much prefer Carlos-Santanazation to this stuff honestly. :P

No thanks. Let Carlos Santana do his own stuff and hold back on the guestvocalists which gives his stuff the impression he is just a guest on someone elses song.

[Rarebird]

Just discovered this. Vicky Leandros covering The Moody Blues

[Unfrankie Valli]

A truly hideous bit of (as Ben Minnotte calls it) Carlos-sploitation, courtesy of the Partridge Family's ghost keyboardist, Mike Melvoin:

Actually if you told me that was a previously unreleased bonus track from Rick Wakeman's 'Rhapsodies' sessions I'd probably believe you.

[Progbear]

Just discovered this. Vicky Leandros covering The Moody Blues

It's not even the only Moody Blues song she did:

[Rarebird]

Original

[unclemeat]

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

I love PMJ, and the first and third of these were great. The "Dancing Queen" ... well, I kept thinking of what Louis Armstrong would have with the same song...

[Rarebird]

I love PMJ, and the first and third of these were great. The "Dancing Queen" ... well, I kept thinking of what Louis Armstrong would have with the same song...

You could try it with AI.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

^^^ Not on my mother's grave.

And my mom is still alive...

[mozo-pg]

The Blonde in Dancing Queen is an amazing beauty.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

What a surprise... she's the same woman as the one in "The Final Countdown." A song I have always hated. I always hated "Don't Stop Believing," until PMJ brought it home for me, but this didn't help a-tall. I said it was "great." What I meant was "a great takedown of a piece of crap." It's still a piece of crap...

[unclemeat]

^ Here's your booster.

[Rarebird]

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

^^^ I can't say these to metal maniacs have made me like this dreadful song, but it was worth watching once for entertainment value...

[abc123]

I don't see why that TEOTH cover by Doro/Halford is in this 'WTF covers' thread, but oh well. Two old-time seasoned rockers covering a high-energy pop-rock song is pretty normal, and they did a great job too, nothing WTF about it IMO.

[MudShark22]

What a surprise... she's the same woman as the one in "The Final Countdown." A song I have always hated. I always hated "Don't Stop Believing," until PMJ brought it home for me, but this didn't help a-tall. I said it was "great." What I meant was "a great takedown of a piece of crap." It's still a piece of crap...

Maybe Kazoos will make the poison go down smooth then? lol

https://youtu.be/3U36zas52wk?si=MJr_nKUkcUlgdwQ2

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[MudShark22]

Unfortunately that kazoo search led me to this - a cross of Kazoos and dragonball z references covering Queen.

https://youtu.be/FSPxBX5RIqY?si=QdjtUR_8c_5zfJ4g

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[Rarebird]

[Rarebird]

This is really a wtf cover

[Progbear]

This one's cool because it's (probably) not the song you think it is:

[interbellum]

Here's Anastasia Minster covering David Sylvian's Waterfront (on request, I assume, by David Sylvian-expert Gerrit Hillebrand). B.t.w. Minster had Steve Jansen on her previous album, so there's more than a thin line between her and Sylvian.):