Yeah, Devo’s “Satisfaction” is brilliant. It deconstructs the original and puts it back together as this nervous spasmodic timebomb of a song that somehow seems cleave a lot closer to the theme of the song.

Dude, I’m with you. That cover is a fucking crime. I can’t believe anyone is in her defending it unironically (and, by proxy, admitting to liking Disturbed in TYOOL 2023)

I love W.O.V.s version so damn much! Just amazing and blows the original out of the water, in my opinion.

The rare listicle that I don’t really have a quibble with except MAAAAYBE Joplin’s “Bobby McGee,” a song I wish had never been recorded, and that I would be thrilled to never hear again.

I’ll just add to the obligatory litany of “But what about”s by adding that Siouxsie & The Banshee’s “Dear Prudence” and pretty much…

I love R&B. Just not modern R&B. I have the same problem with modern Gospel. Sometime after the 70s, tasteful singing became vocal gymnastics. Technically impressive. Give me a singer like Aretha, Solomon Burke, or Mavis Staples over Whitney any day. She’s very talented, but that doesn’t mean I want to listen to her.

Google the story of how Devo was allowed to cover ‘Satisfaction’.  Back in the day, Devo had to get Mick Jagger’s permission to cover the song.  They managed to meet Mick and he really loved their version of the song.

I honestly can’t stand to hear Whitney’s overblown melismania on Dolly’s song. It’s like listening to somebody sing a Yngwie Malmsteen solo.

Glad to see Devo on this list. They took that song completely apart, shook it up and reassembled it. It’s one of the most inventive covers I’ve ever heard that both sounds a bit like the original and at the same time, nothing at all like it.

In the obscure category, Scars cover of Assimilate (Skinny Puppy) is amazing and provides a very different approach to the song. Love both versions.

While Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” is fantastic, it isn’t even the best cover of that song.

Same here

You think The AV Club is a newspaper?

At least this series has a good reason for them. The characters were making an actual haunted house circa 2009 and those were the cheesy cliché props they had for their haunted house. So the spirits kept just moving them around and making them do things the mannequins couldn’t do (like turn their heads) to fuck with…

Why are there no articles about people who wear prosthetic foreheads on their real heads?

What about Garth Brooks? He was hilarious and hosted twice iirc. I think the musical guest on one of them was Chris Gaines though. Old French Whore, the best Mango sketch, full Smurf body paint, The Devil Can’t Write No Love Song, Cowboy Campfire... he was great!

after hours is my ‘favorite’ and i watch goodfellas every new years day (perfect hangover movie)...but the more i revisit the irishman the more i think it’s his masterpiece.

It’s almost like they have more than one writer working for them! Maybe this one missed the weekly consensus meeting.

Yes, I can only think of those edits of old sitcoms with the laugh track edited out, and aside from the meter of the performance being insane, the jokes are so goddamn painful. It’s nothing without the framing of an audience who’s been heavily primed to have a good time.

For me, the bullies.  They could help what being what they are.