REUPHOLSTERED SONGS PART 2 - COVER SONGS IN 6 CATEGORIES

REUPHOLSTERED SONGS PART 2 -  COVER SONGS IN 6 CATEGORIES

I love covers songs.  Songs that were “covered” by people who didn’t write or originally perform the best-known version of the song.  Tribute bands, and lounge acts, for instance, are also called “cover bands.”  

This is a collection of songs that were covered, reinvented, or “reupholstered” by a group who felt compelled to do so, for whatever reason.  It occurred to me, a long time ago, that there are SIX BASIC KINDS of cover versions. So, I’ve divided songs into the following SIX genres; songs that have been reupholstered by making one of the following six adjustments to the best-known version.

Reupholstered Songs:

Instrumentation (Drastic changes in instruments—swapping kazoos for electric guitars for example)

Slowed-Down Covers (Songs made different from the original by slowing the song down)

Sped-Up Covers (Covers made different from the original by speeding the song up!)

Ironic Covers (Covers where I suspect the band is trying to be funny/ironic in their choice of material)

Twee Covers (Covers done twee; using children’s choirs, toy instruments—overly cute & sweet!)

Same Cloth (Covers in which the band, or the version, are cut from the same cloth as the original!)

I posted these, and my reupholstery manifesto online a LONG time ago, but here they are preserved for posterity and paving the way for me to revisit the series—which is well underway!

Volume One of the first three kinds of Reupholstered Songs were posted last Wednesday:

Volume One of the SECOND three kinds of Reupholstered Songs (IRONIC, TWEE, & SAME CLOTH) are being posted today!

The order is intentional.  Each collection was designed to be (burned onto a CD and) listened to in the order they’ve been compiled.  You are, of course, free to do as you wish.

 

REUPHOLSTERED SONGS - COVER SONGS IN SIX CATEGORIES

REUPHOLSTERED SONGS - COVER SONGS IN SIX CATEGORIES 

I love covers songs.  Songs that were “covered” by people who didn’t write or originally perform the best-known version of the song.  Tribute bands, and lounge acts, for instance, are also called “cover bands.”  

This is a collection of songs that were covered, reinvented, or “reupholstered” by a group who felt compelled to do so, for whatever reason.  It occurred to me, a long time ago, that there are SIX BASIC KINDS of cover versions. So, I’ve divided songs into the following SIX genres; songs that have been reupholstered by making one of the following six adjustments to the best-known version.

Reupholstered Songs:

Instrumentation (Drastic changes in instruments—swapping kazoos for electric guitars for example)

Slowed-Down Covers (Songs made different from the original by slowing the song down)

Sped-Up Covers (Covers made different from the original by speeding the song up!)

Ironic Covers (Covers where I suspect the band is trying to be funny/ironic in their choice of material)

Twee Covers (Covers done twee; using children’s choirs, toy instruments—overly cute & sweet!)

Same Cloth (Covers in which the band, or the version, are cut from the same cloth as the original!)

A seventh might by Stylistic Reupholstery, but that’s… um… “covered.”  A jazz version of a rock song, or a folk rock approach to a heavy metal song, will usually also fall under one of the five headings above.  Part of my goal—as always—is to include as many styles of music as possible with each volume.

I posted these, and my reupholstery manifesto online a long time ago, but here they are preserved for posterity and paving the way for me to revisit the series—which is well underway!

The order of the songs is intentional.  Each collection is designed to be (burned onto a CD and) listened to in the order they’ve been presented.  You are, of course, free to do as you wish.