Flyball's Lament (the cover one)

A version of my still-favorite all-time MeMu song by the inimitable Great Big Mulp, for the June challenge.

The original is here (rather, the second original).

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posted by ORthey (21 comments total)

ORthey, that was amazing!
And you've got such a lovely voice, there.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:03 PM on June 6, 2008

I'm going to kill you, ORthey. I was going to do this one! I had been wondering what I was going to do to replace the maaaaaaaaaaad drums in the original, and your version is great even without the drums (which I thought were essential for the song).

Damn, this is a great cover. I think now the Mefi Challenge should be to get you to cover songs by each one of us.

Congratulations, this is just too good. I'm sure the Great Big Mulp is blastin' it through giant speakers in the main square of his home town, playing it over and over.
posted by micayetoca at 3:07 PM on June 6, 2008

I always thought this was one of the best "MeMu" songs as well, you played it nice.

What kind of guitar do you play? Do you primarily fingerpick?
posted by ageispolis at 3:50 PM on June 6, 2008

Wow, this kicks ass! This is one of my favorite songs of all time and this cover really does it justice!! Right on and beautifully done.
posted by snsranch at 3:51 PM on June 6, 2008

Thanks folks! Upon listening again, I think the vocals are too high. Dang.

Sorry, micayetoca! But I'm sure The Mulp would be happy to have another cover as well, am I wrong?

ageispolis, in this case I'm using a classical guitar with a capo on the 5th fret. And yeah, I mostly do fingerpicking.
posted by ORthey at 4:01 PM on June 6, 2008

Hey, mica, you weren't the only one thinking about Flyball's Lament as a cover choice. It was on my list, too. Right up top of it, matter of fact...

But, hey, just cause ORthey's done one, should that be a reason we shouldn't as well? Hell, I reckon everybody's will be different, right? No law against it, anyway...

And ORthey, nice job, man, nice job!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:54 PM on June 6, 2008

BTW, in addition to the cover tag, what do y'all say we add the MeFiMuCover as a tag for covers of other MeFier's tunes, from now on, just to get that extra searchability? Wanna start it out and add it to this one, ORthey?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:57 PM on June 6, 2008

Heh. Add me to the list of people who was thinking of covering the Mulpster. Nice job, ORthey!
posted by danb at 7:15 AM on June 7, 2008

Add me to the list of people who was thinking of covering the Mulpster.

Hell, maybe we should just rewrite this month's Challenge to "Cover the Great Big Mulp"!

That wouldn't be fair to the one other cover that's come in so far though: BrnP84's excellent version of innoculatedcities' Til We're Dead.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:37 AM on June 7, 2008

I was gonna say that I wouldn't dare to do a second cover of this song. No way it would be as good as this one.

And flapjax, funny you should mention it, I was gonna propose for the next challenge that instead of doing "cover a Mefite" we could try "cover this Mefite", that would be pretty cool. Or perhaps we can choose one specific Memu song and have people cover that.

Anyways, I want to say again that this cover is fantastic. Congratulations again, ORthey.
posted by micayetoca at 7:59 AM on June 7, 2008

I somehow missed the original - that's great and your cover is rad.
posted by cashman at 8:32 AM on June 7, 2008

Great idea about the tag - added.
posted by ORthey at 8:48 AM on June 7, 2008

not to nitpick, but yours says MeFuMu and the other one says MefiMu, so it won't show up with the others.
posted by micayetoca at 12:40 PM on June 7, 2008

I'm sure the Great Big Mulp is blastin' it through giant speakers in the main square of his home town, playing it over and over.

I would but Providence's main square is a sketchy place.
So I just blast it at work, instead.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:40 PM on June 7, 2008

Ooh ooh, you know what would be cool? Cover a MeFite in the style of another MeFite.

Oh man. I might have to do that for this contest.
posted by danb at 8:57 PM on June 7, 2008 [1 favorite has favorites]

danb, you just blew my mind. You're talking some next-level shit right there.
posted by ORthey at 10:06 PM on June 7, 2008

Oh man. I might have to do that for this contest.

If you really want a challenge you should try covering ORthey in the style of the Great Big Mulp!

This is top notch stuff all round as usual!
posted by TwoWordReview at 10:41 AM on June 8, 2008

I like how the addition of the whistling and bg vox somehow manage to sound like this huge, monumental, transcendent opening-up, if you see what I'm saying.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 12:35 AM on June 10, 2008

I've really liked your voice since hearing you do Old Man, sounds good homey.
posted by BrnP84 at 2:28 PM on June 10, 2008

This is really fun; I've been listening to it in my car when I drive in the middle of the night.
posted by spaltavian at 11:04 AM on June 17, 2008

Love it.
posted by iamkimiam at 6:23 PM on June 19, 2008