The YouTube sensation best known for their uber-creepy-but-still-awesome cover of “Royals” fronted by Puddles, the 6’8″ “sad clown with a golden voice,” Scott Bradlee and Postmodern Jukebox does it again (and again, and again). I’ve blogged about them before with my post All About That (Upright) Bass, but since they keep using different lead singers and switching up styles, I feel like it’s not cheating to write about them again.
This week’s musical inspiration/obsession is their cover of Hozier’s “Take Me to Church,” which I loved to begin with, but sung as a torch song by Morgan James, it’s seriously powerful.
And I cannot resist including this one. It’s a little bit of an inside joke. I spent 2003 with this stupid song running though my head on a damned loop. But every time I’d successfully purge it, my wife and our housemate would start singing it. It’s a miracle I didn’t commit murder. I’m cured now, mostly, so here’s a great cover of Fountains of Wayne’s hit, “Stacey’s Mom.”
February 4, 2015 at 9:29 am
such a good band!!
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February 4, 2015 at 9:35 am
Aren’t they great? So glad you liked them!
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February 4, 2015 at 9:40 am
In a totally different, but related, direction….have you seen Weird Al’s Aluminum Foil (Royals parody)?
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February 4, 2015 at 9:57 am
Thank you for that. It’s got Patton Oswalt! I love him!
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February 5, 2015 at 9:02 am
Loved this – and Emily West is such a talent
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February 18, 2015 at 7:36 pm
I love post modern jukebox’s cover of “all about that bass” so great
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February 18, 2015 at 8:11 pm
Me, too! It kind of ruined the original for me. Actually, I wasn’t in love with the original, so I guess no great loss!
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February 18, 2015 at 8:46 pm
Same! I had only heard the original a couple times. Pmjb version is so much better. Almost a more appropriate sound for the lyrics.
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