• jaycifer@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I liked Stacy’s Mom when I first heard it, but after listening to more and Fountains of Wayne over the years, it just makes me angry because it’s the only song of theirs anybody knows! I like that most of their music is about everyday moments and emotions, but the only everyday moment people know is the milf one.

    And then I start thinking about Bowling for Soup’s cover of Stacy’s Mom, which is by far the worst cover I have ever heard, not because it’s bad in its own right, but because there are no creative decisions taken, nothing to make it their own, they just do nothing with it and on Spotify it has an entire half of the number of plays as the original. The first time I heard the cover, I didn’t realize until the singing started and I thought the voice sounded a little different. And there are people who don’t even realize Bowling for Soup’s “version” is a cover!

    • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Hell yeah, you just made it an “Exercises in Futility” kinda day. Well, musically anyway. I had the rest covered already

  • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I maintain that Cake has never released a bad album, but Race Car Ya-Yas on Fashion Nugget is absolute crap. A festering boil on the face of an otherwise unblemished body of work.

    • Grimm665@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Really? Interesting. I think the version on Alive 2007 combined with Alive and Prime Time of Your Life is like the pinnacle of that album.

      • Feddinat0r@feddit.org
        2·
        2 days ago

        The alive 2007 version fits in the live set. That was much better than the song on its own on the human after all album

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    My favourite singer is Enya, and I still haven’t listened to the album “And Winter Came” all the way through. Her holiday album.

    There’s also a holiday edition of Amarantine and I’ve never heard it.

    I have Apple Music. I have access to all of this. When I added Amarantine, the holiday edition shows by default. I scrolled down to “other versions” and selected the original and added that to my library (I also have the physical CD and I’ve ripped it and the others and many more to the highest m4a/aac fre:ac can do).

    I just don’t do holiday music. Not a grinch or anything, it’s just not for me.

    • kelpie_returns@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      My favorite band (that has done a winter holiday release), kinda totally aced it, so I can’t relate on that. But Enya’s Day Without Rain is and has long been one of my all-time favorite no-skip albums. Especially Tempus Vernum, lately. My only complaint is that it wraps in under 3 minutes tbh

      Edit: links

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        If you like Enya in Latin, check out Pax Deorum off The Memory of Trees. Similar energy but almost scary. Name means “peace of the gods”.

        A Day Without Rain, Amarantine, and Dark Sky Island are in my heavy rotation.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
    MEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Dream Theater - Anna Lee

    It’s an alright song, I guess, but it’s so far away from their other stuff that I do like, and it’s really not my cup of tea.