Re: one more

RE: Collecting versions of Iron Man...

not really... it's so stupifyingly easy with file sharing to scratch
an itch like that, you don't even have to try.

This might look like an obsession of mine, like collecting Plans From
Outer Space, or Revolution #9 covers... but it isn't.

I think my first was the Cardigans version which I found on the much
missed Napster, or possibly Bear Share.... I was looking for Lovefool,
didn't know what it was called (thought it was "love me love me" or
something like that) so I just searched on their whole catalog.

I thought it might be amusing, and it exceded my expectations. That
was the end of it until I decided that I wanted to share it with you
guys, looked on WinMX, and found an interesting variety of versions,
all of which were loathsome.

The Bad Plus version came from a CD I checked out from the library. I
had heard another one of their CDs, which I didn't like - but I'm
trying to figure out why the critics (and Joe Sibley) are going nuts.
They did a version of Teen Spirit on the other CD that was similar to
their approach to Iron Man.

I actually dislike all versions of Iron Man except the Cardigans, and
a version a seemingly retarded or mentally ill busker played on his
tuba outside the opera house in seattle as we left the "A Mighty Wind"
concert.

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:23:30 -0800, Hugh Beaumont
wrote:
> Bad Plus is about right. Obviously some very good musicians with
> little or no taste; or maybe they jsut decided to be all avant garde
> intentionally.
> Either way, it was either over my head or under it...
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:38:44 -0800, Matt Love wrote:
> > then off to bed.
> >
> > the bad plus are sort of the great white hope of jazz that is not
> > winton marsalis
> >
> > I find this kind of a difficult listen, but funny. I'm not sure if
> > they were trying to be funny, but whether they meant it to be funny or
> > not, that's what i got from it.
> >
> >
> >
>