Max Raabe is my new best friend
Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freckles_and_doubtIt'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":
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).
And, finally, "Super Trooper". (This, for some reason, cracked me up completely).
I owe it all to the Whatever.
I present, for your delectation, the Max Raabe version of "Tainted Love":
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).
And, finally, "Super Trooper". (This, for some reason, cracked me up completely).
I owe it all to the Whatever.
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The Swinging 90s
Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 08:34 am (UTC)pK.
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Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 03:01 pm (UTC)scroob
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Date: Thursday, 30 April 2009 07:52 pm (UTC)"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.
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Date: Saturday, 2 May 2009 11:22 am (UTC)And as the Frog says, what a voice.