Max Raabe is my new best friend

[freckles_and_doubt]

It's been lining up for a horrible week, all three days of it notwithstanding (and may I add, the South African public holiday schedule is insane). However, it has been materially improved by the discovery of Max Raabe and his Palast Orchestra, who re-interpret contemporary pop songs in the style of Weimar Germany. He sounds like a slightly fuller-voiced Noel Coward. This makes me deliriously happy: I have giggled hysterically for the last thirty minutes, to the point where my stomach muscles are aching. (Memo to self, should go back to gym, really).

I present, for your delectation, the Max Raabe version of "Tainted Love":

Watch on YouTube

Also, "Oops, I did it again". (This is pleasingly cruel; to succeed in making a Britney song sound like Cole Porter is something of a coup).

Watch on YouTube

And, finally, "Super Trooper". (This, for some reason, cracked me up completely).

Watch on YouTube

I owe it all to the Whatever.

Comments

The Swinging 90s

[(Anonymous)]

The Britney track is great! :-)

pK.

Re: The Swinging 90s

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

It becomes a rather good song, in sharp contradistinction to the original, which is lame, syrupy and puts my teeth on edge.

Re: The Swinging 90s

[(Anonymous)]

These would be perfect for the 1920s Prohibition club night I went to once, complete with gin in tea cups and a jazz band for dancing the Charleston:

http://www.prohibition1920s.com/

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Love it, thanks! Will definitely point my husband in the direction of his Super Trooper - he's an Abba fan (but otherwise a really nice guy!)

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Hey! I'm something of an Abba fan, I occasionally break out the sheet music for piano renditions, and I loved Mama Mia. I do not necessarily feel the need to tar and feather Abba fans.

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Not sure about Abba, definitely a Max Raabe fan now.

[(Anonymous)]

Magnificent. I predict this CD will be my new audio aid of choice in entertaining Scroob Junior.

scroob

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Good lord. You'll raise her as postmodern practically from birth. I approve.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

I just got time to listen to this and ... gosh that's good, lovely voice.

"Tainted Love" has a long history before the well-known cover by Soft Cell, and other overs by the likes of Marilyn Manson and Coil.

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

Delightful!! Especially "Oops", which Iza and I have just literally LOLed to.

And as the Frog says, what a voice.