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Hootie on their Smiths cover - 'one of two Smiths songs the band liked'
posted by davidt on Tuesday January 02 2001, @10:00AM

 TrblLuvsMe sends:

The Dayton Daily News, December 29, 2000
SEEN & OVERHEARD

THE OTHER TIME HOOTIE SHOCKED ANYONE WAS WHEN THE BAND ACTUALLY SOLD RECORDS.

Can Hootie be hip? Let's not get silly. Still, the new album by the habitually safe band Hootie and the Blowfish dares to include a remake of the Smiths song Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want . For many who know it, the original can belong to no one except the Smiths' mopey singer Morrissey, whose every pen stroke seemed to touch many a hipster who ever wore black in the 1980s. Still, before concluding that the Hootie unit has wide-ranging tastes, know that the group (in the CD's liner notes) calls Please, Please, Please . . . 'one of two Smiths songs that the band liked.' Only two? C'mon, Hootie. This is the closest the modest band's liner notes come to a put-down. The Smiths had an amazing and prolific run in the mid-'80s. Luckily (or maybe not, depending on your point of view), the Blowfish's version turned out all right. It is 20 times better than Wilson Phillips' attempt of Hotel California.

- Bob Underwood

 
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    Hootie on their Smiths cover - 'one of two Smiths songs the band liked' | Log in/Create an Account | Top | 13 comments | Search Discussion
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    Please, please, please, say it isn't so! (Score:1)
    Oh no! What is it lately? Jump on the "cover a Smiths' song" bandwagon?
    ShielaTakingABow <pole@samband.net> -- Wednesday January 03 2001, @05:18AM (#6201)
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     "We´re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" OW
      It only gets worse (Score:1)
      In an effort to make music from the late 80s once again fashionable, Dave Mathews will be covering The Stone Roses, "I Wanna be Adored" and Mariah Carey will be remaking The Charlatans, "Wierdo" as well as The Happy Mondays, "Bob's Yer Uncle". Baggy Madchester is on the way back. You have been warned!!
      Johnny Marr -- Wednesday January 03 2001, @10:02AM (#6210)
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       There is no such thing in life as normal.
        dreadful (Score:0)
        This is the abyss of all Smiths covers and it is totally dreadful....save yourself the pain, don't listen to it. Hootie blows.
        Anonymous -- Wednesday January 03 2001, @05:22PM (#6229)
        Oh, how funny. (Score:1)
        HA HA!! What a joke. How does this band get taken seriously in the US? How can they only like '2' Smiths songs? It just seems ridiculous. Obviously it all boils down to personal preference, but I just couldn't resist having a pop at them. They are thankfully not that succesful over here in Britain, but the music I've heard by them seems so lame. Oh, and they played a cameo on Friends once. Now, what's that all about?
        swallow_on_my_neck <United Kingdom.> -- Thursday January 04 2001, @11:54AM (#6243)
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        Please, Please, Please (Score:1)
        Someone at work actually has this Hootie CD, and she asked me if I wanted to listen to it.

        I couldn't bring myself to do it...

        hand in glove -- Friday January 05 2001, @11:25PM (#6278)
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         Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. - William Blake
        Hooties rip-off (Score:1)
        How dare those no talent idiots try to tamper with a morissey classic especially "please, please , let me get what I want" hootie and his tuna fish have no reason to sing that, they cant relate. HANG THE BLOWFISH, hootie to.
        lonely -- Friday January 12 2001, @06:33PM (#6519)
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