Immigrant Song

Cover of a song made popular by Dionne Warwick, I think.

This is the second in what I'm hoping will be an albums worth of shitty covers by my band, Los Muchachos Mexicanos. I'm trying to stick as close to the original as I can in terms of tempo and arrangement and on top of generally shitty playing, I'm trying to change one or two minor things that make the songs distinctly different. With this song I tried moving the main vocals down one octave.

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posted by mexican (8 comments total)

Well I lol'd.

(And you nailed the drum part)
posted by Jofus at 9:09 AM on November 3, 2008

Ha! That was fuckin' fun. I was half expecting you hear your version of Friends to play next.
posted by snsranch at 4:48 PM on November 3, 2008

Wow, that's awful. In a good way. Again. "Nice" work. (No, really.)
posted by uncleozzy at 5:49 PM on November 3, 2008

I was half expecting you hear your version of Friends to play next.

Awesome. This is what I'm trying to accomplish by sticking to the original tempo and arrangement as closely as possible.
posted by mexican at 6:36 PM on November 3, 2008

I can't the vocals at all?
posted by mary8nne at 6:25 AM on November 5, 2008

This is hilariously deadpan suckage.

Wait--

I think the vocals are actually a full two octaves lower!
posted by umbú at 6:00 PM on November 6, 2008

For those that can't the vocals, I made another mix where I twisted some knobs.
posted by mexican at 7:38 AM on November 10, 2008

This is brilliant.
posted by popechunk at 4:13 PM on December 8, 2008