Ticket Giveaway: Cat Power @ The 9:30 Club on Sunday
This post was written by TNG founder Zack, who is jealous of all the ticket giveaways available to his readers.
Cat Power is sleepy from the wicked witch's poppies. Chan Marshall is a couple different things. She's Cat Power, the smoky voiced singer. She's the inspiration for Dntels's "The Dream of Evan and Chan." (If you can tell me who Evan is I'll forever respect your trivia skills.) But mostly she's unpredictable and known to have minor breakdowns onstage. The combination of physical beauty, raw talent and potential instability is known to make for great live shows — How many of us wish Janis Joplin was still alive? — so it brings me great pleasure to give you the chance to win a pair of tickets to her upcoming show at the 9:30 Club.
To win, simply answer the below question both as a comment and AS AN EMAIL TO ZACK@THENEWGAY.NET. If you do not email me your answer you will not be eligible to win. Also, don't enter unless you can actually attend the show. I get in trouble when tickets go unclaimed:
Cat Power is known for performing covers of existing songs. To win the tickets, simply tell me what the least necessary cover song of all time is. Gwyneth Paltrow's "Bette Davis Eyes?" Milla Jovovich's "Satellite of Love?" Most creatively justified answer wins. Contest closes at noon on Wednesday.
Cat Power plays the 9:30 Club this Sunday, Feb. 8. Tickets are already sold out so this is your last chance.
You can check out a Cat Power mixtape below the fold.
20 comments:
I LOVE the Satellite of Love cover. How dare you call it unnecessary?!?
For those listening to it for the first time, be prepared for some scary sounding vocals at timestamp 2:57. So incredible!
The lease necessary cover of all time just waltzed into my life this weekend and that would be Scarlett Johansson covering Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye"
Talk about assaulting my ears. She has used her celebrity to defile one of the most heart wrenching songs of all time.
If you want to hear it yourself (be prepared to cringe, weep, punch walls)here is the link:
http://perezhilton.com/2009-01-27-scarlet-sings
I'm not competing for the tickets, but some damned band called Wheatus covered Erasure's "A Little Respect." Somehow, the line "What religion or reason / Could drive a man to forsake his lover?" has a bit of the bite taken out of it when sung by straight 20-somethings whose claim to fame was a song called "Teenage Dirtbag."
By the way, what's up with all these actresses thinking they're vocalists all of a sudden. It's reminding me of when both Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner put out albums in the 1970s... For reals!
Mr. Spock singing the Ballad of Bilgo Baggins anyone? Puke!
Ugh, unnecessary cover songs - where to start? For me, this would be probably be a tie between Duran Duran covering Public Enemy or Tori Amos covering Eminem. But seeing as I already have tickets to the Cat Power show it doesn't really matter anyway...
Michael - thanks for the link in your last comment... priceless.
Covers are a hard thing to do. Some covers can outlast and out shine the original (Natilie Imbruglia - Torn), while some just sink.
Rock has forever tried to re-do hip hop songs and it most always fails. During Nu-Metal, Alien Ant Farm famously rode their 5 min of fame with a terrible cover of Smooth Criminal. If that wasn't terrible enough try this on for size: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbUR0SRceD0&eurl=http://idolator.com/5079504/raps-resident-martian-gets-the-alien-ant-farm-treatment&feature=player_embedded
But what really irks me is a compilation of covers called Punk goes Crunk (http://www.amazon.com/Punk-Goes-Crunk-Various-Artists/dp/B0014DC07I/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1233609457&sr=8-1). It has to be one of the most terrible collections ever boasting some of the most ear offending covers made.
Tu-Pac and ODB are rolling in their graves as we speak!
Even worse is the title is wrong on two accounts, because aside from a Lil John cover nothing else is considered the "Crunk" genre, but worst of all none of these bands are "Punk".
Now if a The Clash (all original members) reformed from the grave and covered "Get Low" then the title would be more accurate, but since that would never and could never happen nothing should be called "Punk goes Crunk".
I know it isn't just one song, but it is more offensive than any other cover except Shatner's obliteration of "Common People".
Giant Drag's cover of "Wicked Game" makes me very happy - as in jumping around in my lonely apartment and scaring the cat happy. *sigh* Good times!
You know who has a great cover of "Wicked Game"? This early '80s post-disco, gay clone singer from San Francisco, Paul Parker. He's still around and occasionally making music, and he also did a surprisingly wonderful dance cover of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time."
oh i forgot about the first trivia question, it's evan dando.... strangely enough i broke out "it's as hame about ray" today
Didn't Celine Dion do a cover of AC/DC's Shook Me All Night Long?
In retrospect, I guess Celine achieved her goal, as she shook me all night long...in and out of dry heaves and quiet sobbing. Then again, if that is my usual reaction de Dion, I suppose it doesn't count (?).
i can't go but i think madonna's american pie should be a front-runner for least essential cover ever. it's not like it was an under-appreciated gem to start with. if you're going to play a song everyone is already sick to death of, please add a banjo a la dolly parton's stairway to heaven.
Clearly the least essential cover of all time is Madonna’s “American Pie”
Is this the most creative answer ever? Absolutely not. I probably am not the only person who will name it. But some questions beg the most obvious answer, because sometimes there is one answer that exceeds all others to such a dramatic degree rendering all other answers unequivocally off-base. This is one of those cases.
Here is the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USr-cBcJtHs
Let me direct you to the 30 second mark, where Madonna begins to do the college girl on special k dance during a completely unnecessary and cringe inducing electronic solo. Fast forward to the 1 minute 50 second mark where she commemorates this American standard by doing a retarded stripper dance and briefly flashing her areola
By the way, have you been listening to this techno beat? Did she do this in garage band? Are there enough anti-superlatives to describe its awfulness?
Hey, you know what else we need. Another music video that pans through multicultural faces looking serious.
I actually can’t mock anything after the 3:15 mark because I couldn’t watch anymore.
i must say, i contemplated recording my own cover of "hit me baby (one more time)" and posting it on the internet in an attempt to win these tickets.
then, because i'm home alone, i decided to see how much of the song i actually know. apparently, i know almost the whole thing, but i will never know because i got bashful when i realized the construction workers in my basement can hear me.
if i am guaranteed the tickets, i might just re-record the britney's whole first album.
sick days are great for taking over the most recent comments section.
anyway, i found the most unnecessary cover and it's new --
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&batch_id=WnBRblFOWkJ1Yk4zZUE9PQ
beyonce is the perfect human being, so there is no reason in trying to imitate her greatness. imitation isn't always the most sincere form of flattery, sometimes it just makes you look like the less beautiful, less talented, less bootylicious one.
i'm obsessed with this!
once i heard cat's having sex outside of my house when i was little and it kind of sounded like this katy perry cover of sam sparro's 'black and gold'
Lemme take a stab at this...Ugly Kid Joe's "Cat's Craddle" has to be the most unnecessary cover song ever recorded. And ya know what's really sad, kids at my middle school in the early 90's thought it was an original. Okay, but it's a toss up between that and Mr. Bigg's "Wild World".
If I remember correctly, both videos were on episodes of Bevis and Butthead.
The least necessary cover song of all time would have to be, the newly leaked cover of Jeff Buckley’s last goodbye which was butchered by Scarlett Johansson to be used for the soundtrack of “He’s just not that into you”
Completely frivolous.
I would say Charlotte Gainsbourg breathily speaking the lyrics of Dylan's "Just like a woman" on the I'm Not There soundtrack. I love breathy voiced French women AND Dylan music AND covers, but this rendition is just -slightly- more musical than Shelley Duvall's spontaneous recitation to Woody Allen in Annie Hall. He subsequently injures his jaw. Anyone?
Contest is closed. The winner is... Amoryblaine for invoking multicultural faces looking serious. Making me laugh out loud is always a great way to win these things.
Very close seconds are Selenasd and Kasey. Keep checking for more ticket giveaways.
Alas, there were several other great answers, but the people that left them didn't follow my instructions. To win, one must leave their answer as a comment and an email. If you don't do both, you don't win.
-Zack
at least it was my horse. and this is just like project runway: follow the directions of the challenge or you will lose.
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