Gin & Juice (Lounge Version)

Saracenus

Evidently Richard Cheese makes his living doing straight covers of popular songs in Lounge Style. The incongruity of this classic hip hop tune with a Vegas twist struck me as funny and swingin'.b,121b,121embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-4726173678917433868&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"1 /embed1b,121b,121Enjoy.

barjesus

God, I hate shit like this.

Saracenus

Can I ask why? Is it covers in general, the lounge, or something else.b,121b,121Its not a Weird Al parody which grates on me after about the 2nd or 3rd one I hear.b,121b,121I have a collection of covers by various bands and sometimes it can be a work of genius (like Rick Rubin getting Johnny Cash to cover Sound Garden or NIN) or something middle ground like the band Ivy's covers EP. Some times it goes off the rails like the Willie Nelson tribute album which was uniformly bad, bad, bad.

Jimster

Cheese has been deep in this game for a long time. I recall he's also done Grunge's Greatest which was also good. I ride, it's done properly.b,121b,121What about Paul Anka doing Nirvana? I liked it. Sounded powerful. Some of the others on that set were a bit pffft but in general the idea worked for me.

barjesus

I just think sung rap covers as a whole are lame. To each thier own, but its a gimmick and its unoriginal. I love plenty of covers, even enjoy some rap covers of rap songs. Just not singing rap songs. I did like that Goulet skit though...b,121b,121embed width="540" height="444" src="http://static.videoegg.com/videoegg/loader.swf" FlashVars="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://download.videoegg.com/gid329/cid1124/7Y/JU/11806990583cndtNSpS2tGoZQqUwQA&autoPlay=false&forcePlay=false&logo=&allowFullscreen=true" quality="high" allowScriptAccess="always" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scale="noscale"wmode="window" name="VE_Player" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" 21b,121via a href="http://www.videosift.com/video/Will-Ferrell-Raps-Robert-Goulet-skit" title="Will Ferrell Raps! (Robert Goulet skit)"1videosift.com/a1

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b,121I just think sung rap covers as a whole are lame. To each thier own, but its a gimmick and its unoriginal. I love plenty of covers, even enjoy some rap covers of rap songs. Just not singing rap songs. I did like that Goulet skit though...

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font class="post"1b,121b,121Completely cool. Now I understand why it wasn't your cup of tea and that you have a general dislike of raps being converted to song format. I would say you are right that most times the attempt fails, epically. However Gin & Juice was already half way there with it's more lyrical construction and chorus. b,121b,121Plus the cheese of Vegas lounge just tickled me. As noted before Richard Cheese has covered Metalica, Depeche Mode, and others. His band is tight and he commits to the bit and backs it up with musical chops.b,121b,121The Will Farrell bit was stunning. I must have missed that one. It has the required level of over confident buffoon mixed with painful social tone deafness.

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b,121What about Paul Anka doing Nirvana? I liked it. Sounded powerful. Some of the others on that set were a bit pffft but in general the idea worked for me.

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font class="post"1b,121b,121I really enjoyed this album, and the live version of Teen Spirit captures the ironic-festival-fave-phenomenon really well.b,121b,121'Jump' was a bit ehhh, but I mess with the rest.

Jimster

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