singing

spencer may have formed a band, but what i really think the florida flophouse needs to do is release a cd compendium of covers, the proceeds of which would go to charity. for the children. or the beer.

i started thinking about this the other day when stars' "your ex-lover is dead" came on and almost everybody in the house started singing along to it. granted about 75% of us have been going through issues of a relationshipatial nature in the past few months, so it turns out we've already got the lyrics down because we all apparently have listened to that song about 1200 times. each.

the only other contender so far is the nerfherder theme song from buffy, a cover of us doing that would consist of us all air drumming/guitaring and going "DUNNNNNNNNNNNNN DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNN. DUNNNNNNNNNNN DUN DUN DUNNNNN. WEEEOOOEOEEEEEE." which, great, right?

any other blog-cd-cover-appropriate songs out there?

Comments

[Becks]

Beer for children.

[Julian]

I'm sure you'll have some picks from the Buffy musical whenever y'all get to it. As for blogger-appropriate covers:

"Hook" - Blues Traveler

"The Idiot Heart" - Beauty Pill (for the aspiring authors/artistes)

"Army of Me" - Bjork (partly thinking of Glenn Reynolds here, partly just trying to propitiate Gibson)

"The City" - Dismemberment Plan (for our transient metropolis)

"Everybody Knows" - Leonard Cohen (for the "Pump up the Volume" resonance)

"Shadow Stabbing" - Cake ("adjectives on the typewriter / he moves his words like a prizefighter / the frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell")

"We Used to Be Friends" - Dandy Warhols (how did this one not make the initial list?)

"Language is a Virus" - Laurie Anderson (just to be weird)

"Washington D.C." - Magnetic Fields (or maybe more appropriately, "D.C. Will Do That to You" by Smart Went Crazy)

"The Idiot Kings" - Soul Coughing

And for you FLICKr addicts, "I Turn My Camera On" - Spoon

[Matthew Yglesias]

"relationshipatial" is my new favorite word

[catherine]

becks: of course.

julian: those are some great suggestions. you're right, "we used to be friends" should have immediately made the list. so, yeah, we're up to three. i particularly find the suggestion of "hook" extra hilarious. i mean, can you imagine... and when we get to the buffy musical, the only question is, who's going to do the giles/tara duet that makes me cry EVERY TIME? obviously it's gotta be yglesias and kriston.

matt: i coin mad new words.