Someone took Jonathan Coulton’s cover of Baby Got Back and synced up the original video to the cover track. Here it is:

That’s actually really funny.

(via Boing Boing)

Just wanted to pass on that Heidi has exposed me to some really cool punk/hardcore covers of 80s/90s pop music. The current favorite in the CD changer and iPod is 7 Seconds’ cover of 99 Red Balloons (iTunes Link). 500 Miles by Down By Law is pretty good. Turning Japanese by Studio 99. I’ll update this later with more, but those are pretty good.

I’m a fan of Shirley Bassey. She provided the vocals on the awesome Propellerheads song, History Repeating (itms link), which is where I first heard her. This past year I found The Remix Album: Diamonds Are Forever, a collection of remixes of some of her bigger hits. On the album is an awesome recording of The Doors classic, Light My Fire (itms link) remixed by Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzales. It’s sultry, slow, and completely different than the Doors version. Give it a listen.

Being a bit uneducated when it comes to music, I was curious about who recorded the song first. I’ve always associated the song with the Doors. The Bassey version, however, just sounds so right that it’s hard to discount it. It was, of course, originally recorded by The Doors, but I was surprised to find out how many people had covered it. Even more surprising, the first cover by a recognizable name came in 1968.

Just your random trivia for the day.

Baby Got Back (MP3 link)