Counting down the top 40 covers as nominated and voted on by Coverville listeners! In this episode, we continue to work our way up, going from #20 up to #11! Plus, find out how you can win some goodies, courtesy of TuneUp!
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Hey, can we make negative votes for future Countdowns? I’d cast my antivote for that Shatner…song?
On the other hand, the coincidental pairing of Bad Romance and 99 Problems real works.
And I love the Benmont Tench piano on the Mercy Seat.
Loved the Taylor Johnson cover! I hope to hear more of her stuff on Coverville, especially the Journey cover I somehow missed during the Coverthon.
Holy crap, Bohemian Rhapsody by Bill Shatner has got to be the greatest cover I have ever heard! Sheer genius!
Today, I realized for the first time that the song wasn’t talking about “fields of Bali”.
Is Hugo actually covering Jay-Z? If the only thing that was kept was the chorus, wasn’t he actually covering Ice T who did the song first?
Oh Man, that Shatner track was great!
Love Johnson Jnr too, a star of the future there.
I almost hate to bring a downer upon this show, and I realise that this is pedantry on a Larry David level…but that Bad Romance track was NOT Acapella, which surely is a track with just human voices. There was clearly a drum machine on this track and that ain’t human and I notice this affliction affects about 75% of so called Acapella tracks.
Maybe this is a new sub-genre…how about Drumacella?
Thans, Wayne!
Actually, I firmly believe that On The Rocks IS completely a cappella – however, what you’re hearing as a drum machine is a performer who is doing the percussion sounds with his voice, but running his audio through a fuzzbox-type audio processor to give it more of a “real” drum feel.
Just listened again. It does sound VERY much like a drum machine to me, rather than a beatbox style. And if it is run through an audio processor, isn’t that just like a sampler? – sending any signal through it, whether it be hand claps or vocals, and the output is a drum because that is what you have set up the sampler to produce. Hardly acapella is it?! Just watched them on Youtube on the Sing Off show, and I think one of them was beatboxing on that, but that sounded like it was someone doing the drum sound, whereas I think the recorded version is including a drum track.
Can we ask them?!
“And if it is run through an audio processor, isn’t that just like a sampler?”
I’d still say no – it’s more like running a guitar through a distortion filter.
Wow, I just listened to the Ice-T version of 99 Problems. I’ll give the guy credit, he handles his lyrics very well.