My Winter Song - Sara Barielles Cover

This song is quite beautiful to me. Sara Barielles has played Joe's Pub, where the live version of Our Hit Parade has been running. She in fact played the early show before our March Edition. Boy did she have a lot of equipment. This song stands up with just piano and vocal. It is really quite beautiful to me. Like The Knife's Heartbeats...

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Imma Be - Black Eyed Peas Cover

This new Black Eyes Peas material is not doing it for me, at all. There are no songs here. So in protest, I merely sang/spoke the lyrics over a beat from the apple loops library. To be honest, the real song is not much different. Oh sure, I could have redone the vocals a few times to try and get them right, but with lyrics like

imma be imma be imma be be be

it didn't really seem like it was worth the trouble..


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I Run To You - Lady Antebellum Cover

I am a sucker for male/female co-vocals. From X to Richard and Linda Thompson, I find it such an interesting dynamic. Lady Antebellum has that dynamic but in modern country. The song is only so so. But the lyrics are a bit odd. What are they running from? Seems like alcoholism or something...

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LoveGame - Lady Gaga Cover

I've been with Lady Gaga up until now. Thought she was amazing on American Idol, think her style is fresh (though a little too Grace Jones to be a tribute) and Poker Face is a great single. This is not. Peaches-lite...

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Her Diamonds - Rob Thomas Cover

Well, well, well. Rob Thomas comes back. And isn't a terrible song. Not great but serviceable. Not sure what he is referring to when he talks about her diamonds.


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MEDLEY MONDAYS - No Boundaries/The Climb - Kris Allen/Miley Cyrus Cover

Why people had to go and re-write a Miley Cyrus song for American Idol I will have no idea..


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F@#k MY Butt Y'all/ Snap My Bra - Phil Collins Cover by Neal Medlyn

FUCK MY BUTT YA'LL/SNAP MY BRA
This is a variation on an instrumental song by Phil Collins called "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," which is actually the title of a British movie that pops up on Turner Classic Movies ever so often. I have not seen the movie so I'm not sure how they relate, but I felt that this little ditty fits very well with the titular hype-man admonitions I always like to yell to a booming beat. Et voila!

Incidentally, I hired myself out as a hype-man for boring arts when I lived in Austin. For a quarter I'd go to a poetry event or art opening or bad play and shout out loud "Fuck YES this goddamn play fucking RULES!! What the fuck is the MATTER with you guys? I see this actor do that line and i'm like BODANG!!!!"

I was only hired once.

NM

PS - This song is included on my album NEAL MEDLYN DRUNKENLY LISTENS TO PHIL COLLINS AND TELLS YOU ABOUT HIS FEELINGS, available at http://www.nealmedlyn.com


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