{"id":1571,"date":"2007-07-09T09:20:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T09:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/09\/remake-poll-2-covering-collins\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T09:20:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T09:20:58","slug":"remake-poll-2-covering-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/09\/remake-poll-2-covering-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Remake Poll 2: Covering Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another pop-culture question for the audience: Jason Hare, in the course of <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonhare.com\/2007\/07\/06\/chart-attack-39\/\">recapping a Top Ten from 1985<\/a> makes a shrewd observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Sussudio&#8221; was a damn catchy song in 1985 and while nobody will admit to liking it now, I guarantee you that once an indie band covers it, Stereogum will lose their shit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the question is, who should cover it? I&#8217;m not going to be terribly strict about the &#8220;indie&#8221; classification, as I have trouble keeping track of who has sold out these days, so let&#8217;s leave it open:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Some band working today is going to cover Phil Collins&#8217;s &#8220;Sussudio,&#8221; and it&#8217;s going to be awesome: who is the band for the job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Alternatively, if you find the thought of Phil Collins covers too horrible to contemplate, suggest another cheeseball but catchy song from the 80&#8217;s, and a band that would do a kick-ass cover version of it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(My default answer for any &#8220;who should cover this song&#8221; question is whatever band Greg Dulli is fronting at the moment (Twilight Singers, Afghan Whigs). I&#8217;m not sure how &#8220;Sussudio&#8221; can be made to sound sinister, but I bet they could manage it&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another pop-culture question for the audience: Jason Hare, in the course of recapping a Top Ten from 1985 makes a shrewd observation: &#8220;Sussudio&#8221; was a damn catchy song in 1985 and while nobody will admit to liking it now, I guarantee you that once an indie band covers it, Stereogum will lose their shit. So,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/09\/remake-poll-2-covering-collins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remake Poll 2: Covering Collins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}