Just for kicks here's another Boys are Back cover. The Cardigans are a deeply under-appreciated cover band: in the 90s their Black Sabbath covers were taken as gimmicks, cheap grasps at a follow-up to their smash hit #Lovefool. But I think the irony of doing these super-masculine songs in their carefree, near-affectless style is more than thin reversal, it has some of the disarming power of camp, i.e. it makes the original seem corny and out-of-it while still getting some aesthetic millage by reveling in the band's obviously love of the material. To put it more plainly: don't you wish The Cardigan's version of Iron Man had been the one used in this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgzIM-9lfA
(via Grabb.it)
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