GOOD COVER/BAD COVER #6 - LCD Soundsystem vs Samantha Mumba

GOOD COVER

LCD Soundsystem
Drunk Girls

is basically just
White Light/White Heat
David Bowie

Okay, first of all this is actually a second-hand cover as it's originally by The Velvet Underground, however the David Bowie version is vastly more upbeat, stabbier, and boasts more swag than Tyler The Creator slapping Cher Lloyd in the face with his genitalia. It's this version which has clearly been lifted and remangled into "Drunk Girls".

Perhaps Mr. Murphy wrote this as a homage to Bowie, or just a reference towards his influences. Perhaps it's just lazy songwriting, but you can't fault this track for it's sheer fun factor. Pop music as it should be. The trouble with a lot of modern pop music is that it lacks charisma and/or balls hence why it's refreshing to hear this track has more energy than an 8-year old on a Relentless binge.

It's snotty, it's rampant and that riff is shamelessly stolen, but who cares right? The video is kinda upsetting though...

Meanwhile; here's the original...

BAD COVER

Body II Body
Samantha Mumba

is a total farce of
Ashes II Ashes
David Bowie

Whilst we're onto Bowie, remember this gem? Hopefully you won't even remember Samantha Mumba, the British Rn'B hopeful with the face like a kicked rottweiler/Falcor from The Neverending Story? At what point did she come to terms in her mind that a nobody like her, inappropriately touching a Bowie song in this manner would go unnoticed and go without severe retaliation from not just the UK public, but the entire world?

Luckily, she soon realised that singing wasn't for her and decided to attempt a stint in the movies. Remember the modern day spin of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine"? Genuinely suprised she didn't have a crack at "The Bible: The Movie" whilst she was at it. Where do these people get off?

Back to the song/abomination, you wouldn't take "Stairway To Heaven", change the lyrics and whack a garage beat behind it and call it "Airface II Seven" would you? 10 years on and I'm still outraged.

I will say however, no matter how awesome Bowie's quirk-funk space classic may be, the video for "Ashes II Ashes" is still possibly the shittest thing I've ever seen, even for 1980's standards.