>Wait. . .I've never heard Robbie do this particular cover. Are you referring
>to that cheesy rock song Suffragette by the Beatles?
>curious, Linda
>
That's Jet all right, Linda--but it was by Wings.
>>
> OK, OK, finally I just have to ask "WHY?!!!" I just don't get it. Why do
> people love for country or alt.country bands or so-called alt.country bands
> to do covers of godawful cheesy rock songs? Why do people respond to these
> more than they do to the, OK, I'm going to say it, "real" songs?
> Dina
>
Two reasons I think.
1. If you do like the twang--then these covers arrive as an incongruous
SURPRISE. You get a response.
2. For those at these alt.country shows who DON'T actually like twang but
only the tiniest rock and roll allusions to it (and they're always afoot),
it gives them something they actually relate to.
So why WOULDN'T those add up to what sounds like more response!
And bonus 3:
It is a passing peculiarity of the late 90s that it passes for ultrahip to
celebrate the most addlebrained and plain dull pop pablum of years gone by,
at the deliberate expense of what somebody's older brother with taste
liked. So you scream for Karen Carpenter and ABBA, natch, and explain why
Jimi Hendrix was the plague and the Beatles overrated. These choices
prove you are most-definitely alternatively, dude.
THIS WILL PASS.
And watch this lil hipster wannabees: in 15 years someone will announce
that Son Volt, Nirvana, and say...Beck..were pretentious 90s shits, and
the embarrassing lunkheads of that time never saw the genius of Shania
Twain...just passing them by...and, of course, that great, unheralded
Norman Fibber Hall.
How could those idiots have missed HIM?
Barry
