SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE, NUMBER WECANTTAKEITMAKEITSTOPPLEASEMAKEITSTOP
Paul Anka covers The Cure.
(Thanks to Sharon Brennan)
UPDATE: Oh, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
(Thanks to Wendi Martin)
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47th Anniversary in show business? Heck, Paul, I'm doin' better than that! And people like me.
Posted by: Bob Barker | May 20, 2005 at 07:55 AM
Tears in heaven goes swing???? WTFOMGBBQ!
Posted by: ghilie | May 20, 2005 at 07:55 AM
I personally think that Everybody Hurts should have been a polka, not swing. Could make the song really cheery!
Posted by: ghilie | May 20, 2005 at 07:59 AM
WHO thought this was a GOOD IDEA???
Posted by: «LabSpecimen» | May 20, 2005 at 08:01 AM
"This is fun music, this is music to drink cocktails to"
Excuse me? What decade did you say you were from?
Posted by: Sondra | May 20, 2005 at 08:02 AM
All I have to say is . . .
*shudders*
uuurrrrpppppp
Posted by: Jeff P. | May 20, 2005 at 08:03 AM
I think they meant music you HAVE to drink cocktails to.
Posted by: nurse | May 20, 2005 at 08:04 AM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
He's done something I didn't think possible - made the music of the 80s even worse.
Posted by: Jeff | May 20, 2005 at 08:07 AM
"Everybody Hurts"
yes, yes they do
Posted by: Heebiegeebee | May 20, 2005 at 08:27 AM
Any record engineered by Al Schmitt with Vinnie Colaiuta on drums gets my attention.
Posted by: D'Artagnan | May 20, 2005 at 08:34 AM
You know, there are a lot of things Nirvana is credited with. Pushing along the grunge movement, selling a bunch of records, making Seattle cool so people would be open to the idea of paying six bucks for a cup of coffee, and giving drug addicts music to get stoned and hit stuff to. Does Paul Anka have anything to do with any of this?
The world may never know.
Posted by: mb | May 20, 2005 at 08:39 AM
My ears are bleeding just thinking about this record!
Posted by: NiftyWitch | May 20, 2005 at 08:53 AM
Oh my holy god! It's got freaking Jorge Moraga on the viola!!!
I've been a huge fan ever since his solo on stage at Wankerfest in Des Moines.
I'm going to rush out and buy this album, just as soon as the Earth crashes headlong into the sun.
Posted by: Federal Duck | May 20, 2005 at 09:00 AM
Ever hear of Richard Cheese? He does the same thing, covers mainstream songs as lounge. The main difference is: it is intended to be a comedy, it isn't one by default.
Posted by: Bilge | May 20, 2005 at 09:01 AM
NW, I was just thinking the same thing, when I saw your comment.
Glad to see I'm not the only one.
Posted by: Susan | May 20, 2005 at 09:02 AM
Say what you will, but those are top LA studio and Philharmonic musicians on that album.
Not that I'd actually want to LISTEN to it, of course.
Posted by: Balanchine | May 20, 2005 at 09:05 AM
yes, bilge, richard cheese is very funny... his band is often on the radio here and i think i saw them on carson daly once.
Posted by: judi | May 20, 2005 at 09:33 AM
Bilge, the scary thing is that Richard Cheese does it better.
Dav2.718
Posted by: David Hungerford | May 20, 2005 at 09:34 AM
I am very disappointed that "You're Having My Baby" is NOT on this album, I mean, DVD
Posted by: cubie | May 20, 2005 at 09:37 AM
just remember.... neil diamond is on tour!!!
Posted by: queensbee | May 20, 2005 at 09:56 AM
Don't forget, NiftyWitch, if you want your ears to ACTUALLY bleed, just click on one of the nifty radio buttons next to the track titles.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go pick up some iodine, and eardrum bandages.
Posted by: MrDeath | May 20, 2005 at 10:19 AM
Sadly, it's not that bad.
Posted by: Ashamed | May 20, 2005 at 10:50 AM
Wait a minute! There's 14 songs all sung by the original bands!? NO WONDER the album's hip!
oh, HE's singing them????
OUCH!
Posted by: kibby F5™ | May 20, 2005 at 10:56 AM
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Well, I'll bet Paul Anka smells, but probably not like anything having to do with a teen.
Posted by: Gary | May 20, 2005 at 10:56 AM
Gary, must be his Bengay.
Posted by: kibby F5™ | May 20, 2005 at 10:58 AM
Or Aspercreme ...
Posted by: Gary | May 20, 2005 at 11:11 AM
What's he tryin' to do? Out-schmaltz Shatner?
Posted by: I miss Raymond already | May 20, 2005 at 11:46 AM
I like Soundgarden, Paul Anka does NOT smell, and I enjoy a cocktail every now and then....
*hee, hee I said 2 dirty words in one word*
Posted by: Eleanor | May 20, 2005 at 01:27 PM
JUDI - I am sitting here slackjawed by your update. Can't anyone fire him? PLEASE?
Posted by: Brainy Jello | May 20, 2005 at 01:40 PM
Brainy -
I'm not ashamed to say that I love
The Donald - I like his pouty lips!!!
And Trump Tower!
Posted by: Eleanor | May 20, 2005 at 03:20 PM
A musical?
German opera deals with mythological creatures. Instead of a musical, it should be an opera in German.
What is the Deutch word for "apprentice"?
Posted by: Robert | May 20, 2005 at 03:54 PM
except in this opera it's not over until the guy with the hair fires you!
Posted by: insomniac | May 20, 2005 at 04:29 PM
Paul Anka, Richard Cheese, sure. But first, there was "Pat Boone: In a Metal Mood."
You ain't heard nothin' until you've heard Pat cover "No More Mr. Nice Guy," and "Enter Sandman."
Posted by: alanboss | May 20, 2005 at 06:05 PM
... or how about when Mr. Boone "covered" Skinny Dynamo's hit, but thot "Ain't" was in poor taste, so he rewrote it to be Isn't That a Shame ...
just in case any geezers forgot (and FYI to non-geezers) ... it tanked ... badly ...
(Goes out to thumb a ride on Geezer Bus ... uses rigid thumb held in position by splint ... too many meds in GI tract to be the driver ...)
Posted by: U.O | May 20, 2005 at 07:23 PM
alanboss - I can vouge for you, and my ears haven't been the same since.
Posted by: Brainy Jello | May 20, 2005 at 07:45 PM
U.O.
Wow! You just out-geezered me! I'm not familiar with that particular cover. Now I'm gonna have to find it.
Kind of reminds me of the old Alan Sherman bit about "Elderly Man River."
Posted by: alanboss | May 20, 2005 at 08:14 PM
Brain - Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
#1:
Pinky - Well, I think so Brain, but I can't memorize a whole opera in Yiddish.
from Cranial Crusader
#2:
Pinky - Umm, I think so Don Cerebro, but umm, why would Sophia Loren do a musical?
from Mouse of La Mancha
Posted by: Aunt Nancy | May 20, 2005 at 08:23 PM
... um ... AlanBoss ... um ... Stan Freberg did Elderly Man River ... not sayin' Sherman din't also, but Freberg did it first ... sorry ... just bein' afull-bore Geezer ...
(I've got a bunch of Freberg's stuff ... including a United States of America Vol. 1 on vinyl still unopened! [the first one isn't quite worn out yet] and of course Green Christmas and a boxed set collection with VCR highlights and a CD collection of the final 8 radio shows ... I'm sorta a Freberg Freak, in case no one guessed ...)
Posted by: U.O | May 20, 2005 at 08:54 PM
U.O.
Ooooh. Yep! You're (not your) right!
(heh! You out-geezered me again!)
Posted by: alanboss | May 20, 2005 at 10:33 PM
Re: The Paul Anka album.
Having listened to the clips, I would like to give my instant review....
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ROFL
LMAO
*wipes tears of laughter off her cheeks before she shorts out keyboard*
*continues laughing*
Man, they're not kidding when they say truth is stranger than fiction :D
Posted by: KOW | May 21, 2005 at 10:29 AM
Isn't there anything that can be done about Donald Trump? Honestly, who's a bigger threat to America - Osama Bin Laden or Donald Trump? Heck, at least it would be easy to find "The Donald."
Posted by: qetzal | May 21, 2005 at 04:47 PM