Poopot's Cover Challenge #28 - the letter O

TTony

I have 2 or 3 that are developing in parallel.

I could really do with some of @stickyfiddle 's girls to help out on mine too ...

idiotwind

flying_pie said:

I'm kind of regretting deciding to cover Britney Spears in the style of Opeth as syncopated metal riffs in time signatures I'm not accustomed to paying in has turned out to be a challenge. And then there's the matter of coming up with some drums.... Yeah...

Oops, sounds like we've done the same as with No Limit, where you have a well crafted high effort version and I have a dashed off joke version.

I've got plenty of ideas for everything for a while, except Q which is a bit of a dead spot

stickyfiddle

For Q my immediate thought was just to do a QOTSA song and to hell with you all  

But actually, my music app throws up a couple of reasonable options that actually start with Q..
- Quiet Town (The Killers, from the excellent Pressure Machine)
- Queen of California (Mayer)
- Quiet Light (The National in a lovely baritone range )
- Queen of Lower Chelsea (Gaslight Anthem) 
- A Quick One While He's Away (The Who) - this would be great fun

thecolourbox

I'm sure others would say the same, but I'm always happy to provide vocals on other people's stuff if it's within my range - i'll be honest about what I can and can't do but happy to consider things. It's good practice for me

thecolourbox

Yes Q is looking a bit scant isn't it, though i reckon there's a couple I could go at in my Spotify liked songs list. Maybe for that round we need to include song titles which simply contain the letter Q?

flying_pie

@idiotwind - have you put spyware into my DAW? This will be the third coincidence as we also both recorded a RickRoll too!

thecolourbox

flying_pie said:

@idiotwind - have you put spyware into my DAW? This will be the third coincidence as we also both recorded a RickRoll too!

flying_spyware

flying_pie

thecolourbox said:

Yes Q is looking a bit scant isn't it, though i reckon there's a couple I could go at in my Spotify liked songs list. Maybe for that round we need to include song titles which simply contain the letter Q?

No. Absolutely not. It will be a difficult round but we just need to deal with it.

X will be worse. It'll simply be a question of whether people cover Rush or Olivia Newton John

flying_pie

stickyfiddle said:

For Q my immediate thought was just to do a QOTSA song and to hell with you all  

But actually, my music app throws up a couple of reasonable options that actually start with Q..
- Quiet Town (The Killers, from the excellent Pressure Machine)
- Queen of California (Mayer)
- Quiet Light (The National in a lovely baritone range )
- Queen of Lower Chelsea (Gaslight Anthem) 
- A Quick One While He's Away (The Who) - this would be great fun

An out there suggestion would be Queen of Mean by Sarah Jeffrey (from the Disney made for TV movie Descendants 3)

I only know about this because my daughters subject me to it. Thankfully I can tolerate it by thinking "that would be good fun to jam over" and then stream it into my practice amp and let rip. It's led to them giving me various songs to jam over as a challenge. I've since learned that Taylor Swift is actually great fun to improv over too especially as virtually everything is in A aeolian

IMC1980

flying_pie said:

thecolourbox said:

Yes Q is looking a bit scant isn't it, though i reckon there's a couple I could go at in my Spotify liked songs list. Maybe for that round we need to include song titles which simply contain the letter Q?

No. Absolutely not. It will be a difficult round but we just need to deal with it.

X will be worse. It'll simply be a question of whether people cover Rush or Olivia Newton John

I'm going to do this for X:

TTony

stickyfiddle said:

For Q my immediate thought was just to do a QOTSA song and to hell with you all  

But actually, my music app throws up a couple of reasonable options that actually start with Q..
- Quiet Town (The Killers, from the excellent Pressure Machine)
- Queen of California (Mayer)
- Quiet Light (The National in a lovely baritone range )
- Queen of Lower Chelsea (Gaslight Anthem) 
- A Quick One While He's Away (The Who) - this would be great fun

I just did a quick query on my mp3s database.

169 tracks with a title beginning with "Q".  There's some duplication in there (same track on different albums, etc), and a few that embarrassingly appear to be misnamed, but still more than enough options in there.

But I might give the "X" challenge a miss.

monquixote

TTony said:

stickyfiddle said:

For Q my immediate thought was just to do a QOTSA song and to hell with you all  

But actually, my music app throws up a couple of reasonable options that actually start with Q..
- Quiet Town (The Killers, from the excellent Pressure Machine)
- Queen of California (Mayer)
- Quiet Light (The National in a lovely baritone range )
- Queen of Lower Chelsea (Gaslight Anthem) 
- A Quick One While He's Away (The Who) - this would be great fun

I just did a quick query on my mp3s database.

169 tracks with a title beginning with "Q".  There's some duplication in there (same track on different albums, etc), and a few that embarrassingly appear to be misnamed, but still more than enough options in there.

But I might give the "X" challenge a miss.

https://www.songfacts.com/browse/songs/q

There are a few ideas here, but not all that much.

I wonder for X if "Songs that contain an X" might be a better bet or there will likely be very few entries. 

I've got an idea for this time, but I just keep not getting around to it.

idiotwind

stickyfiddle said:

- A Quick One While He's Away (The Who) - this would be great fun

It's the drums that's the problem with The Who

thecolourbox

Q is looking ok for me to be fair. For X I have only 6 songs in my Liked list on Spotify. Not many more for Z but they look like infinitely better options than X. 

Habanero

flying_pie said:

I'm kind of regretting deciding to cover Britney Spears in the style of Opeth as syncopated metal riffs in time signatures I'm not accustomed to paying in has turned out to be a challenge. And then there's the matter of coming up with some drums.... Yeah...

It seems mine might be similarish.

IMC1980

Habanero said:

flying_pie said:

I'm kind of regretting deciding to cover Britney Spears in the style of Opeth as syncopated metal riffs in time signatures I'm not accustomed to paying in has turned out to be a challenge. And then there's the matter of coming up with some drums.... Yeah...

It seems mine might be similarish.

Fucking hell, me too! 

thecolourbox

Ooops, you all did it again?

Habanero

I have to say that watching the video for Ooops as research could be a lot worse.

flying_pie

Habanero said:

I have to say that watching the video for Ooops as research could be a lot worse.

Indeed. There are worse ways to spend ones time than alternating between Ms Spiers' video and Opeth's back catalogue