Bad Cover Version
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| Single by Pulp from the album We Love Life |
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| Released | 15 April 2002 | ||||
| Format | 2 CDs and DVD | ||||
| Recorded | 2000 - 2001 | ||||
| Genre | Britpop | ||||
| Length | 4:10 / 3:58 | ||||
| Label | Island Records | ||||
| Producer | Scott Walker, Chris Thomas | ||||
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"Bad Cover Version" is a song by British rock band Pulp, from their 2001 album We Love Life. It was released 15 April 2002 as the second single from the album, charting at #27 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2002 in British music). It was the band's last single before their current hiatus. CD1's B-sides appear as bonus tracks on the US release of We Love Life. The B-sides to CD2 are cover versions of Pulp songs performed by other artists.
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[edit] Lyrics
The song details the protagonist's belief that his former partner's current relationship is inferior to what she had with him. The latter part of the song is a list of things the narrator likens said relationship to, including The Rolling Stones since the 1980s, the TV series of Planet of the Apes and the second side of 'Til The Band Comes In. The latter is a reference to an album by Scott Walker, who produced the song, which contains several cover versions on its second half. Lyricist Jarvis Cocker has stated that the song was written before he knew that the band would be working with Walker.
[edit] Single Cover
The cover for the single is similar to the cover of David Bowie's famous album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust. The child on the cover is in fact Pulp's guitarist Mark Webber.
The sign above the doorway is, in fact, not a reference to Kanye West. The rapper did not gain widespread recognition or fame until the years following the single's release. It is the trendy K. West hotel in London which has long been popular among celebrities and is the same hotel which featured on the David Bowie album cover.
[edit] Video
The song's video features many celebrity lookalikes who gather in a West London studio to perform a "tribute" to Pulp, in a similar style to the video for Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?". All the lookalikes appear to perform their own lines in the style of the artists they are impersonating, with the exception of the Jarvis Cocker lookalike, who is miming to Cocker's vocal. Cocker himself appears in the video dressed as Brian May, playing the guitar solo that ends the song.
The list of impersonated artist:
Singers:
- Robbie Williams
- Liam Gallagher
- Kylie Minogue
- David Bowie
- George Michael
- Bono
- Sophie Ellis Bextor
- Jennifer Lopez
- Paul McCartney
- Craig David
- Tom Jones
- Björk
- Kurt Cobain
- Rod Stewart
- Meatloaf
- Cher
- Jason Kay
- Jarvis Cocker
- Mick Jagger
- Gary Numan
- Elton John
- Missy Elliott
[edit] Track listings
[edit] CD1
- "Bad Cover Version" (album version) (4:10)
- "Yesterday" (3:51)
- "Forever in My Dreams" (4:23)
[edit] CD2
- "Bad Cover Version" (video version) (3:58)
- "Disco 2000" (Nick Cave version) (5:20)
- "Sorted" (Roisin Murphy version) (6:10)
[edit] DVD
- "Bad Cover Version" (album version - audio only)
- "Bad Cover Version" (video)
- Making the video
[edit] External links
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