A Song for All Occasions (30 Days of Music) #2

[wishfulclicking]

Day 02 - Your least favorite song
Put Yo Hood Up (cover) by Set Your Goals

My weakness for covers has been documented before: I love the ridiculous ones and the ones that add something special. This one made me skip and almost regret my decision to buy this album. For anyone thinking that I should automatically regret buying Punk Goes Crunk, you haven't heard Lorene Drive's Hey Ya :)

It's difficult picking my least favorite song because I don't listen to things I don't like.

Yes, it is past midnight but I haven't slept yet and I spent most of my night doing house stuff. Also: the cool thing about box.net is that you can listen to the track without downloading, so click the link and test out the song if you want before saving it.

Comments

[stripped]

I only actually have one song off of Punk Goes Crunk (I'm pretty sure ATL's cover of Umbrella is from that) but you've made me curious enough to go dl the Hey YA cover. I love love love covers.

As for SYG -- I saw them last fall on the AP tour. And it's funny, when I saw your list for the meme I was thinking what would I pick as a least favorite song because I have a really hard time with that and SYG floated up as one of my options. I bought their CD so I'd know them for the tour so I wouldn't be bored at the show and it didn't help. They just don't hit me well at all musically.

[wishfulclicking]

The Punk Goes Crunk taps into my love for ridiculous covers but I only like half of them, and mostly for random reasons. Like hearing a growl in 'Still Fly' makes that song even more hilarious or having the lead singer from The Starting Line sing 'I lick the opposition cause she don't take no pill' somehow gives me perverse glee.

The thing with SYG is that this blog I followed made such a big deal about them and their album and I got really excited for it because I'm always looking for great new music. The blog went on to call it a return to more masculine pop punk (that's the main idea) and it made me curious, but the album was such a disappointment. I couldn't like anything on it and I really wanted to like it.

[stripped]

Oh man, I love that icon.

Er. Now that we've got THAT randomness out of the way...

I heard a lot of really amazing press about SYG as well, before I saw the AP tour last fall (which I was seeing for TAI because I would cheerily follow William Beckett to the ends of the earth and beyond). But when I got the SYG CD, it more irritated me than anything else. It's one of the ones I tend to skip when it comes up on iTunes in shuffle mode; there are only a few songs on it that don't make my skin itch immediately.

Seeing them in person was worse, however, and I just can't see them the same after. They seemed like two boys in a band that wanted to make noise and do poor rap and play in a basement while their friends slam dance (a circle pit opened in the first show I saw them in, and it may have been one of the scariest and most fascinating things I have ever seen... but I couldn't MOVE for fear of getting knocked out by the HUGEMONGOUS frat boys who didn't care who was around them). So I have to admit, their fans helped turn me off, because I just couldn't stand them, they were that drunk and rude and nasty.

I'm... not usually this vicious towards a band! I swear. But TAI just has the luck of ending up on tour with a mix of incredibly awesome discoveries mixed with bands I never want to see again (the first time I saw them, one of their openers spent the entire set FLAT... not just flat but I want to rip my ears off levels of flat). I guess it's the price I pay to see them.

[coverallthebasses]

the hey ya cover is on my valentine's day mix!
... that was actually for you....

just saying. :)

[stripped]

*embarrassed look* I have a bad habit of listening to mixes and not actually noticing the songs/titles/artists, just kind of grooving on the mmmmusic. I have been known to say "I love that song" and have no clue what I'm talking about... I mean, clue that I love it, yes, but no clue what song it IS...

*goes off to very specifically listen to THAT song...*

[coverallthebasses]

haha, wow. okay. :) well, i hope you like it now that you're consciously listening to it! although i feel like that's one of the more recognizable songs off of that mix...

[stripped]

Oh it's a totally recognizable song! When I went and specifically pulled it out to listen to by its lonesome, I sort of sat back and analyzed why I hadn't connected it up. And I realized that when I was listening to the mix at work, I don't glance at iTunes to see details on the songs usually. And I already know Hey Ya and love the original (it grew on me, after I hated it at first... it's one of those songs which all of a sudden something clicked and I was like I HAVE TO OWN THIS). The cover isn't so significantly different from the original that my brain couldn't do a "I know and love this" and I just smiled happily when it came on, sang along, and hadn't quite twigged onto consciously that it was a cover.

What's scary is how often this happens. There's one song that I just realized last weekend was Simple Plan that I had thought for almost a year was Angels & Airwaves, because I first heard it in a mix that included both bands, and the SOUND is very much like A&A. So until I was listening very specifically to the Simple Plan disk, I just lumped it in with A&A.

My brain has a habit of doing more pattern recognition where music is concerned, and less actual memory and noting of details. *wry smiles*

[coverallthebasses]

haha, that's interesting! i like getting to know how other people listen to music. either way, i'm glad you like the song!