Comments on: Bad Cover Alert http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/03/06/bad-cover-alert/ D.C. News, Politics, Media, Arts, and More Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:14:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: JW http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/03/06/bad-cover-alert/comment-page-1/#comment-2379 JW Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:49:28 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/03/06/bad-cover-alert/#comment-2379 I think you're discounting the pervasiveness of hip-hop. If somebody did an ironic acoustic version of the song for Honeycombs cereal, you'd probably be ambivalent about it. Redoin' a hip-hop track acoustic-style is the same thing, though: The omnipresent sound of culture reprocessed as an in-joke. 'Cause where I come from, Honeycombs and N.W.A. were the constants, yo. I think you're discounting the pervasiveness of hip-hop. If somebody did an ironic acoustic version of the song for Honeycombs cereal, you'd probably be ambivalent about it. Redoin' a hip-hop track acoustic-style is the same thing, though: The omnipresent sound of culture reprocessed as an in-joke.

'Cause where I come from, Honeycombs and N.W.A. were the constants, yo.

]]> By: Mark Athitakis http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/03/06/bad-cover-alert/comment-page-1/#comment-2149 Mark Athitakis Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:44:26 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/03/06/bad-cover-alert/#comment-2149 OK, gotta investigate further here: The Nina Gordon cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otL6FvpALQg), combined with Dynamite Hack's "Boys in the Hood," (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgT9UpyYDis) leads me to think we now have a serious problem with acoustic guitars and last generation's hip-hop. I preferred it when the nerds left the songs well enough alone but made videos with action figures like that one for "Mind Playing Tricks on Me": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIIsOdTc2RQ OK, gotta investigate further here: The Nina Gordon cover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otL6FvpALQg), combined with Dynamite Hack's "Boys in the Hood," (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgT9UpyYDis) leads me to think we now have a serious problem with acoustic guitars and last generation's hip-hop. I preferred it when the nerds left the songs well enough alone but made videos with action figures like that one for "Mind Playing Tricks on Me": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIIsOdTc2RQ

]]> By: JW http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/03/06/bad-cover-alert/comment-page-1/#comment-2143 JW Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:22:27 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/03/06/bad-cover-alert/#comment-2143 I'm partial to the cover of "Straight Outta Compton" by Veruca Salt's Nina Gordon. It's benignly ironic, if such a thing is possible. Pair it with ni9e.com's "Explicit Content Only" version of the N.W.A. album itself, and you got yourself an afternoon o' fun. I'm partial to the cover of "Straight Outta Compton" by Veruca Salt's Nina Gordon. It's benignly ironic, if such a thing is possible. Pair it with ni9e.com's "Explicit Content Only" version of the N.W.A. album itself, and you got yourself an afternoon o' fun.

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