my soul just died a little bit...

[mckitterick]

...when NPR played a xylophone version of a non-hit Nirvana song.

This comes in second only to when I first heard the Muzak version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in a Seattle elevator.

Ye gods. Am I getting old and cranky or is this really what has become of the anti-pop band's legacy?

Comments

[tanuki-green.livejournal.com]

Am I getting old and cranky or is this really what has become of the anti-pop band's legacy?

I don't think these things are necessarily mutually exclusive...

I felt the same way when I first heard the Muzak version of Rock You Like a Hurricane.

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

I don't think these things are necessarily mutually exclusive...

I was going to say the exact same thing.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

the Muzak version of Rock You Like a Hurricane

OMG - Muzak Scorpions! That's one for the "burn my ears out with a soldering gun" list!

[tanuki-green.livejournal.com]

Yes - it goes right along with the Muzak version of Van Halen's Jump (which is an abomination unto man).

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

It seems sad to think that Punk Rock is now The Oldies.

On a brighter note, I heard Me First and the Gimme-Gimme's cover of Leavin on a Jet Plane on the Bing.com commercial. It made me giggle.

[tanuki-green.livejournal.com]

Me First and the Gimme Gimme's are amazing! You should check out their album that's all covers of show tunes. It's called "Are a Drag". Best version of "Favorite Things" ever!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Hm... maybe I'll give 'em a listen....

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

*snap* Oh hell ya,
I have most of their stuff, although "Love Their Country" was a bit too repetitive. Have you heard "Ruin Johnny's Bar Mitzvah"? Classic covers!

[tanuki-green.livejournal.com]

Yes I have! I love "Come Sail Away" off that one!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Damn.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

I am cringing now even thining about it.

I had a nightmare a while ago

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

that I was standing in a line somewhere and the Muzak started playing Time after Time.

I started softly singing the lyrics and the kid behind me touched my shoulder and said, :"That has lyrics?"

Re: I had a nightmare a while ago

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaah!

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

You won't find that being done to Alice in Chains, brother.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Oh, just wait....

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is the job of the Muzak companies to make sure that the innovative music of yesteryear gets faded and trampled to let the innovative music of now come to the fore.

It is part of the Great Roundo of Tunes.
-=-

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

Everyone who gets older gets to have that experience, it seems. It's just the music that is getting reamed continually changes over time.


D.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yep. I recall when old-school punk started going all Muzak. Ugh.

[scottakennedy.livejournal.com]

On the (at least to me) non-sucky side of Nivana covers, if you've never heard them, you ought to give a listen to the Bad Plus's versions of Smells Like Teen Spririt and Lithium (bass, drum, piano jazz combo, latter track with vocalist).

[cmt2779.livejournal.com]

Let me second this. The Bad Plus covers are awesome.

[bondo-ba.livejournal.com]

Well, 1991 was nearly 20 years ago... And Nirvana was nowhere near as Earth-shaking as some of the things that came before. So yeah, we're all getting old.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

True, but the notion of commercialization is part of what drove Cobain to suicide. That and the heroin and being married to Courney Love....

[tully01.livejournal.com]

The ones that nearly had me prying the speaker out of the elevator wall so I could use the wires to strangle the programmer happened about twenty years ago. Back to back, Muzak 101 Strings versions of "Don't Fear the Reaper" and "White Wedding."

Probably a good thing no one else was on the elevator to hear me screaming in a futile attempt to drown out the horror. Later on I walked down sixteen flights to avoid a repeat.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Good lord, I remember those. On the positive side, Billy Idol did sell out....

[jimmy-hollaman.livejournal.com]

I love music. (thats why i have Bland Play at my parties) But i also have a taste for the strange. Do the theme from 2001 with tubas, i will go for it. Muzac versions of beloved songs that make people cring... well lets say i am in heaven. personal favorite was the muzac version of some Alice Cooper songs and Metalica (original, not before they changed to what ever they are doing now)