They are both very awesome in their own way.

That's true.

The Residents ?

Ooh! Dark horse contender!

There's also the live Bjork/PJ Harvey version.

Bonus cover: Cat Power and Karen Elson cover Serge Gainsbourg's "Je t'aime moi non plus".

Sessy.

Wait, are you talking about the Devo version on e-z listening disc or their other version. I'm somewhat partial to the e-z listening disc version myself.

The Residents ?

I need to crank that song in my car with all the windows open. It'll frighten the pedestrians anyway.

"Louie, Louie" also has a Latin feel (based on the clave, so a mix of 3 and 2) and so does the Bo Diddley beat.

"Louie, Louie" feels almost like speeded-up reggae.

"Louie, Louie" feels almost like speeded-up reggae.

Well, it's originally supposed to be a fake calypso song.

Here's the original by Richard Berry.

There's also the live Bjork/PJ Harvey version.

OK, that one ranks up there with the best.

Also, I need an mp3 of that.

Bonus cover: Cat Power and Karen Elson cover Serge Gainsbourg's "Je t'aime moi non plus".

Seeing that reminds me of one of my favorite "hidden" tracks - the cover of "Bonnie & Clyde" on Luna's 'Penthouse' with Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab (the original was Serge and Bridget Bardot).

So, best cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"?

The Residents? or Crispin Glover?

The Residents' version is rather short, so I give the nod to Glover's version.

eta: Glover's version has a much more "normal" production, with the exception of his vocals. Which are great.

best cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"?

Symarip !!!

Today's pop music really does all sound the same — and science can prove it

Music snobs, take heed. Detailed analysis of songs produced between 1955 and 2010 confirms what you've always known in your heart to be true: modern pop music really has gotten louder, and it all sounds exactly the same. All aboard the train to smug-town!

Your vindication comes in the form of a peer-reviewed study, published in the latest issue of Scientific Reports, that finds pop songs have become "intrinsically louder" and have come to rely more on more on the same chords, melodies, and sound palettes.

"We found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse," said artificial intelligence expert and musicologist Joan Serrà, who led the study, in an interview with Reuters. "In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations — roughly speaking, chords plus melodies — has consistently diminished in the last 50 years."

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To be fair, Serrà and his colleagues discovered these patterns in contemporary Western popular music; the researchers were relying on samples collected from the Million Song Dataset, which, while certainly impressive, is a bit limited in global/cultural scope; but at least the researchers recognize this:

We encourage the development of further historical databases to be able to quantify the major transitions in the history of music, and to start looking at more subtle evolving characteristics of particular genres or artists, without forgetting the whole wealth of cultures and music styles present in the world.

best cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"?

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