Louie Louie – med ny energi
28. august 2015Er de muligt at tilføre en gammel, fortærsket rocksang ny energi? Ja, da. I en debat om coverversioner fremhæver medlemmer af Yo La Tengo bl.a. Black Flags udgave af den gamle rockstandard “Louie Louie” med ordene:
This is is just one of the greatest examples of a band showing you their sense of humor. It’s an extremely dark cover of a very light frat-rock party song. The guitar sounds like a wounded animal and anytime he picks up his hands between chords it’s howling feedback and it’s so relentless. But it doesn’t seem weird, it seems like they wrote “Louie Louie.
Til sammenligning får i lige Richard Berry version fra 1957, og The Kingsmens hitudgave fra 1963