So it’s Tuesday and that means that it’s time for yet
another exciting edition of Tuesday Two-fer and with that in mind I think I’m
going to try something different with today’s tune because it get’s difficult
to do what I’d say would be more legitimate covers.
Now when I say that what I really mean is that the songs
selected got an actual recording for an album weather it was as a bonus tune
for a deluxe edition or greatest hits package and I prefer to do those because
to be blunt anybody can record a cover for Youtube and just let it do its thing
which isn’t bad and I’ve taken that liberty every once in a blue moon because
occasionally people do some interesting things.
With that in mind I found myself driving home and was
listening to this CD I have where I basically took J. Coles Born Sinner album
and tacked on some tracks at the end and I was reminded of this really bad ass
song that’s kind of more of a reimagining then a cover but I figured that since
it still maintains a decent amount of the thoughts, feelings, themes, and beat
of the song it’s re-doing I’d figure I’d cover it today so not really a cover
per say but rather a different take…
So before I get into the songs in
question I figure I’d give some background into how I came across this little
tune.
As I’ve posted before I use to
spend a lot of time on the Smashing Pumpkins official Forums and whenever I
wasn’t being ignored in the main band section I’d often go troll the general
music thread and one random day I was just looking around and I saw some post
labled 1997 and with curiosity in tow I saw a link to a Youtube video that I
proceeded to click on and was greeted with a video of this rap song that was
sampling 1979 to a video montage of the Sandlot and it blew my fucking mind
just how appropriately amazing this was.
With this new found interest in
mind I did some research and was able to pull up that the rapper in question XV
is actually from Kansas which is pretty cool and he has a couple of other
random songs that I enjoy but kind of eventually phased him out whenever I
spent more time just kind of listening to other genre’s that I more preferred,
but that’s beside the point because this song just kind of more so then
anything else I could care to listen to by him has a more timeless feel to it
that to this day I still find myself kind of rapping his verses when I hear the
original.
So 1997 why does this particular
tune stick so well with me…well it’s in all intensive purposes the fact that the
lyrics almost paint the perfect picture of life for me when I was 12 or 11 and
the use of what’s a really dreamy Pumpkins tune that to this day kind of has
this very innocently child like carefree vibe to it partly because of it’s
amazing music video and it’s fairly care free open ended lyrics and looping
electronic sound with probably the most pop sound that any Smashing Pumpkins
song had ever reached it’s a song that was kind of remained and not taken away
from its initial themes and sounds.
The original of course a classic
in its own right kind of already had lyrics that even when I was a kid felt
like an expression of youthful glee and discovery and it’s the fact that XV
managed to have the same exact thoughts but with a series of verses that more directly
address that which leads me to appreciate it so much because it’s not a cover
and it’s not relying on a gimmick instead it’s the best re-imagining of a tune
I’ve ever heard and it maintains all the joys of the song it’s sampling but it
also manages to be a good tune on its own and it’s that reason that it’s good
enough to be covered on here…wow that was a terrible pun…
So of course I love them both but
feel free to tell me what you think down below…
Smashing Pumpkins:
XV:
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