C/D: Ladytron's Oops Oh My cover

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It's, for me, the highlight on Softcore Jukebox, and very possibly my favorite rock song of the year.

Classic, for sure.

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's just what a rock band covering an R&B song should sound like.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

the only good part of the ladytron show i saw - and this was the final night of their tour ending in their label hometown - was the encore. which was "oops oh my" followed by "seventeen". so, one of THEIR highlights, for sure. tweet owns these clowns, though.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Agreed. I like the Tweet original a lot, and I'm glad Ladytron's version doesn't sound all condescendingly ironic, but instead perfectly natural and suprisingly rawking.

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Note--my "agreed" was in response to Sonny's comment, not vahid's.

― Josh Timmermann (Josh Timmermann), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pitchfork review said something about how this version was about date rape or something. I didn't want that to be true. Did they change the lyrics at all?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

that's what pitchfork wants to be true.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 6 December 2003 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the Tweet original for the Devo sample.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 6 December 2003 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it's almost as bad as the peaches remix of "get me off"!

― etc, Saturday, 6 December 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It is brilliant and perfect and squirmy and brilliant and brilliant

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Saturday, 6 December 2003 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Two things:

1. I've just received Softcore Jukebox in the post thanks so those nice Amazon people, and bugger me isn't it fantastic? MBV! Rare Ladytron! !!! (er)! New Fast Automatic bleedin' Daffodils! Go buy it, people.

2. I defy anyone to find a sexier cover photo than this:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000CA31S.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I don't know what it is about the one in the bikini, but...brrrr. Wow.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know what it is about the one in the bikini, but...brrrr. Wow.

I'm going to guess it's her attractive face, lithe body and the fact she's wearing almost no clothes, anyone else want to hazard a guess?

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"I defy anyone to find a sexier cover photo than this"

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000256K7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I guess that might have something to do with it! I'm just surprised it's gone unmentioned since the album came out three months or so ago, and also kinda wrongfooted at the understated...grace of it all.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Hang on a second...Ladytron...Roxy Music...I'm sure there's a conn...oh, wait.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i've never seen the reverse of that CD cover but i'm hoping it's not Danny and Rueben in thongs

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

NB I don't actually think that Roxt sleeve is in the slightest bit sexy, but perhaps I would've done if I'd been there when it first came out.

The reverse of the CD cover is their beautiful behinds. OK, that's a lie.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The one on the right of the Roxy cover is a bit of a man-beast. So Ladytron win this particular battle.

― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you know one of those girls on the Roxy Music cover is Michael Karoli from Can's sister (I think her name is Constanze) - don't know which one it is tho.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The hand the one on the left's hastily placed over her crotch is a bit of a "shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted" moment, isn't it.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ladytron's cover also wins extra points for the people in question actually being members of the band.

Which reminds me - anyone heard The Soho Dolls? Crikey. Julie Burchill would explode.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

'That sleeve was such an accident," explains Evaline Seelig, referring back to when she and her equally scantily-clad best friend, Constance Lantemann ("the very brutal~looking one to the right of the photo," the latter giggles) had adorned Roxy's fourth album. The pair had had a chance meeting with Roxy Music mainman Bryan Ferry and his creative director Anthony Price in Portugal. 'We were on holiday there at my parents' summer house," Evaline remembers, "where a friend ran a bar and disco. We'd taken him some Roxy Music albums to play there, and he started looking at them, and said, He's here, you know'. you have to meet him, and he introduced us to Bryan."

There was already common ground. Roxy PR Simon Puxley knew the girls as he was also working for Can guitarist Michael Karoli, Constance's brother and Evaline's boyfriend. "Brian liked our shoulders and German outlook," Constance picks up the story, "so they proposed, just for fun, to make this photo session. We didn't think it would actually be used!" The creative angle, she continues, "was meant to be an ironic version of the magazine Country Life, with two ladies being surprised in a delicate situation. We didn't talk much about it, we just had to look weird and surprised."

From These Vintage Years

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 15 January 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

If you've ever witnessed the site of the two Ladytron girls dancing as Reuben DJed at their club night in Liverpool, then you'd know the Softcore Jukebox cover does nothing but win.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 15 January 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

site = sight.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Thursday, 15 January 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Just a quickie about the lyrics: when Tweet talked about coming home, bout a quarter to 3, still "so high, hypnotised, in a trance"...then proceeds to touch herself...well, for me, this spoke of coming home after taking ecstasy, looking in the mirror, finding yourself sexy (side note: remember some old interview where someone asked Morrissey if he'd tried E, and he talked about how he looked in the mirror, and found himself attractive for the very first time?). ANyway, Tweet is a buddy of Missy's, and she had her E phase...not that I really care too much, but my i've always thought of this as an E track. Anyone else?

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh heh Paul, I think there are very few people who know about the existence of ecstasy who didn't think this was an E track.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

rib cages are not sexy.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

in the slightest.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.tgifridays.com/menu/ribs.gif

― ROWR (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

finger lickin good

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

dammit dan, now i'm hungry

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I WIN

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

no I WIN because i just ate a hamburger

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Drat.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

foiled again by gluttony

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

(the title of my autobiography)

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I think I want a version of Oops Oh My somewhere between the two. Is there a good Tweet remix?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a bootleg which i *think* combines Tweet & XTC. that might do for you?

http://gohomeproductions.co.uk i think

― don, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

theres also the stalker mix

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Thaks - will try both those.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a bootleg which i *think* combines Tweet & XTC. that might do for you?

it's called "making plans for vinyl" and it's excellent

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

There's another bootleg by guy I've never heard do anything else called John M (stevem?) mixing it with "Wonderwall", which is pretty cool.

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I just started downloading the XTC and didn't like it much! I'm now trying the Norty Cotton mix and it sounds good so far.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Cotto, not Cotton.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, on further inspection it's not so good. Still trying to get the stalker one.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 25 March 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Woo hoo - the Liquid 360 remix is definitely doing the trick.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 25 March 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Heh heh Paul, I think there are very few people who know about the existence of ecstasy who didn't think this was an E track.

Err, why?

― The Emancipation of Baaderonixx (KERERU 4 LIFE!) (Fabfunk), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

>I defy anyone to find a sexier cover photo than this:

http://www.theranchgirls.com/discography/hb4.html

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Since I've never seen the back of that record sleeve, I imagine the "Softcore Jukebox" cover to be a la Cheap Trick, the two sexier band members in the front, less-sexy ones in the back approach. So the two Ladytron guys would be in the back with swimming costumes on, looking blank. I would like that.

― Diego Valladolid (dvalladt), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

I actually like the original, but this cover farkin' rawks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

thanks to the handy YSI on the other Ladytron Oops Oh My thread, I feel empowered to insist that while it is indeed very good, the original and the Go Home Productions version both stand well above it in classictude.

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

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