I think the name of the song is just “Ohio.”
I read this thread and find out Madonna’s version of my favorite song has a disco beat. Now, I kind of like disco. But the thought of “American Pie” with a disco beat…I’m sorry, I think I need to go lie down.
Changing my sig, because Wally said to, and I really like Wally, and I’ll do anything he says, anytime he says to.
I think that her song may be a hit, and that’s tragic, since it is pretty awful. Many teens, especially young ones won’t even know it’s a cover song. I can hear some of them now. “Hey, Madonna is singing a song that sounds like Weird Al’s Jedi song.”
Can you hear it too? :rolleyes:
Adam
“Life is hard…but God is good”
After listening to Madonna’s version of American Pie I couldn’t help but think of that Tracey Ullman song from the 80’s. Something about “…they don’t know about us and they’ve never heard of love.” Something about Madonna’s version of the Don McLean song sounds a lot like that Ullman song.
“Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.”
A few years back, several country music stars did a Lynyrd Skynard tribute album. On it was a god-awful rendition of Wynonna doing “Freebird”. I heard it and thought, “What, what could be worse?”
Now I know.
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What is John Kricfalusi (“Ren and Stimpy”) doing these days?
I hate to think that this terrible destruction of a classic song is going to be a hit. Did Madonna really think she was improving on the song?
How do you make something better than perfect?
I have heard Weird Al’s version, but that’s really just for fun. He has parodied many top 40 songs and, for the most part, it’s considered an honour for those songs to be used by Al. The original song even gains more popularity because of it.
As for Madonna’s cover, I suggest we burn every copy of the song. Try to forget it ever happened.
We could burn all the Madonna ‘Pie’ recordings. There are only three problems:
It will show that sales are up, making them play the ‘hit’ more on radio.
Someone would have to pay for them, or perhaps hijack the trucks carring this toxic waste from the reproduction facilities.
Eventually, we’ll have to be accountable for our ‘Madonna Revisionist History’ which insists the song never existed.
Maybe if we had some of those MIB mind-blankers???
-sb
They say the Lord loves drunks, fools and little children.
Two out of three ain’t bad.
I heard it yesterday. Make it stop…make it sttooooooppppppp…
Madonna may be a decent entertainer, but she’s never been able to sing worth crap. She took this catchy classic and made it crap. Someone shoot her please. Or at least slap her around.
formerly known as LauraRae
I’m a Raggety Ann in a Barbie Doll world.
I guess she didn’t have it in her to sing for a whole 8 1/2 minutes.
And has anyone else heard the remake of “I Will Survive” by a male singer that I couldn’t identify? Ick.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.
The name of that band is Cake. I like that version, actually.
“I’ll tell you a secret, baby - maybe you can’t do better - gotta settle for second best” - the Judybats
I think she was squeezing a Chris Gaines out of her ass.
Okay, no more funnin’ around. I just heard Madonna’s latest travesty–by accident, I do assure you. And yes, in musical terms it is only appropriate for a Barbie and Ken wedding or similar venues where the listeners are plastic andlacking in crucial anatomical parts such as gonads, ear canals and prefrontal lobes.
Too bad the protean Material Girl can’t quite transform herself beyond an uncannily canny spinster: irony intended, as a feminine take on “spinmeister”.
“American Pie” was a wispy, perfect for its time tribute to past musical/social influences. “We didn’t light the fire” was a klunky, footnote-intensive smack across the teeth with a ballpeen hammer in comparison.
Too bad Madonna has grown up enough that she aspires to subtlety but hasn’t the least clue how to do it. Now if she’d done a genuine update, by music and reference, that’d be different. And wouldn’t it be great if someone would…but it’ll have to wait.
Madonna’s a star who finally wants to be an artist. But putting music and all it means into context and making new magic out of it, well, that awaits someone else.
Veb
I kid you not, the first thing I thought of when I heard this monstrosity was William Shatner’s rendition of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
TT
“Believe those who seek the truth.
Doubt those who find it.” --Andre Gide
Is the Madonna version that bad? Tonight, I will download the MP3 and give you my review. Unless you can convince me I REALLY, REALLY shouldn’t…
In terms of awful covers and pure rape of classic songs: I once heard a muzak version of Stairway to Heaven in a supermarket. I nearly threw up on the spot and have never shopped there since.
Some things should NOT be touched.
Coldfire
"You know how complex women are"
I think that was the only song ever written by randomly reading the answers from a deck of Trivial Pursuit cards (baby boomer edition) and setting the results to music. It does make decent little cultural literacy test though if you look up any reference you don’t already know.
My Jesus fish can beat up your Darwin fish but forgives it instead.
From the beginning, I’ve thought Madonna sounded like bubblegum. If she’d come along before MTV, nobody would have paid much attention to her: writhing around without wearing much was her primary draw, IMO.
I haven’t heard her “American Pie” remake, thank the good Lord, and may it stay that way.
Agreed. I really like the Gloria Gaynor version, but there’s something that makes me giggle about the fact that a band of good ole’ Southern boys are covering that song, not to make fun of it, but because they REALLY like it!
The first time I heard Madonna’s American Pie, I just kept shaking my head and wondering why. The second time I got angry. Feh. I thought I could respect ANYTHING she did…
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - Wordsworth
Well, I heard the last half of it tonight. I’m at a loss.
Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together.
—Red Green
Drove my Chevy to the levy and the levy was dry, those good ol’ boys were drinking whiskey and rye …
I haven’t heard the Madonna version and, from what I’ve read here, I don’t think I want to. Somewhere in my ancient collection of 45s, I have the whole version of American Pie – it starts on one side and finishes on the other.
Madonna started irritating me around the time she popped her baby out because I used to like her ‘look’ and cool attitude in her films, but lately she has become a cold, calculated business ‘Mom’ and she has certainly lost that ‘innocent’ look she used to have. In fact, she lost a lot of her ‘look,’ with the planes and angles of her face suddenly getting sharper and harder in appearance.
She better not fuck with ‘Barbara Ann’ by the Beach Boys!!! OR Betty Sue by Buddy Holly! I mean, we’re talking shitting on sacred ground here!
What? Me worry?’
Even more horrifying is that movie they made about the song, you know, the one with the kid who sticks his pee pee in the warm pie. . . .
What?
You better be nice or I’ll sic my lackeys on ya.
It’s pretty bad. But for me, the ultimate stupid-idea cover version will always be Nikki French’s remake of “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” If Bonnie Tyler took out a contract on the life of the person who dreamed that one up, no judge in the land would convict her.
Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@kozmo.com
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective