HEAVY METAL

If you dig steel drums, you know how rare it is to hear anything with steel drums that isn't poorly recorded, lethargic or some shitty schlock, Tommy Bahama, old guys rule, ugly American, umbrella in your pinapple drink, parrot head cruise ship muzak. So this one, a cover of 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P,", kicks ass in comparison. This is one fucking cool song. I'm gonna have to buy the album.

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Listen:
Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band - P.I.M.P. mp3 at Soul Donuts

YOU SURE? I'M PRETTY MUCH A SLOB.

Here's a handful of covers. The first of which, is Little Roy's cover of Nirvana's "Come As You Are." If a reggae cover of a Nirvana song sounds like just a novelty, give it a listen. I dig it, even after reading that it's to be a part of an all-Nirvana album (which does sound like a cash-in). My cynicism went out the window when it hooked me with that bubbly organ. Oh yeahhh, the bubbly organ. Shades of classic era Studio One (where not so coincidentally Little Roy started out at). And the short trombone bit comes in effectively enough, just enough to add flavor. This is some good stuff. His cover of "Lithium"? Ehhh, we'll see.



The other two covers down there are just to round things out. There's another Nirvana cover, the Polyphonic Spree doing "Lithium," which I wouldn't post if it sucked. The other cover is an 80's era version of the steel drum band, the Katzenjammers, who had apparently been around in some form or another since 1957, doing the Gary Numan song, "Cars." That one is definitely a novelty, but what steel drum band cover of a pop song isn't? An interesting thing to throw in a mix nonetheless.

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Listen:
Little Roy - Come As You Are mp3 at The Cover Lovers
The Polyphonic Spree - Lithium mp3 at The Cover Lovers
The Katzenjammers - Cars mp3 at Soul Sides
Visit:
Little Roy at Wikipedia
Polyphonic Spree at Wikipedia