Will there ever be another "Louie Louie"?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Think about it.

Or nominate something.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Smells Like Teen Spirit"!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Famous for its inarticulateness, covered oddly thereabouts, inspired by another artist, treated as a standard, sorta goofy, from Washington State -- "Smells Like Teen Spirit" it is!

FUCKING FUCK XPOST MICCIO YOU BASTARD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

tee hee

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

the white stripes are working on it right now

― pete s, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Jack White's not going to be able to bargle nawdle zouss unless he puts marbles in his mouth.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"one more time"

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)

NOt a day passes by without someone recording a new Louie Louie. It's the binding cosmic force than John McLaughlin was always looking for, but missed in the middle of all his fancy chords and scales.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"get low"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually based on the various covers last year, "In Da Club"?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Not a day passes by without someone recording a new Louie Louie."
I just listened to "Shake Your Blood" by Probot. Lemmy Lemmy. Holy fuck.

― otto, Tuesday, 10 February 2004 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't that song investigated by the FBI for subversive content? I remember a kid played that song at my elementary school talent show. His dad was a famous record producer who did albums by Aerosmith, ACDC, Motley Crue, The Cranberries, and many others and he played the drums. But they still sucked. Actually, I thought it was the coolest fucking thing in the world when I was 9 years old. And I wanted to do something just like it. One day...

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Spin once called Firestarter "our Louie Louie". How wrong they were.

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The Darkness seems kind of in the same spirit. Don't you think Sym?

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't think I've ever heard Louie Louie. I expect it's rubbish,

― mei (mei), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

fremme neppa venette innit.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Louie Louie - song that every band did as it was easy and everyone knew it.

(other songs)

Teenage Kicks - song that every band did as it was easy and everyone knew it.

(others)
Smells like - song that every band did as it was easy and everyone knew it.

(others)
skater boi - nooooooo

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 February 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

Meaner stinks meat bake it cone. <-(?)

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:25 (seventeen years ago)

YAAAH TRICK YAAAH!

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 7 April 2008 06:36 (seventeen years ago)

"crank that (souljah boy)" -- god forbid.

― Eisbaer, Monday, 7 April 2008 06:45 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

RIP

― the late great, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 07:38 (ten years ago)

What was wrong with the old "Louie Louie?"

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 09:20 (ten years ago)

His girl was across the sea.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 10:01 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlIr0IXnQrE

― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 10:24 (ten years ago)

Wasn't that song investigated by the FBI for subversive content?

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:01 AM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

According to the Straight Dope, it was an FCC investigation for alleged obscenity.

Somewhere else I read about a radio station that for a publicity stunt had an all-"Louie Louie" weekend--supposedly there are are so many cover versions that the station never had to play the same track twice.

― Miss Anne Thrope (j.lu), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:43 (ten years ago)

However, the drummer did admit to yelling fuck after hitting his drumsticks together by accident. At about 0:55 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ

― how's life, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:50 (ten years ago)

hah wow never noticed that

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 19:03 (ten years ago)

young thug can't not cover it now

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 19:17 (ten years ago)

This is a good book: https://www.press.umich.edu/6722/louie_louie

― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 19:24 (ten years ago)

To sing and perform and make popular a song that was covered by The Kinks, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The VU, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, The Stooges, Motorhead, Toots & The Mayalls, Black Flag, The Fall... well done Jack Ely, RIP.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 19:31 (ten years ago)

Yeah, that Marsh book is essential.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 19:34 (ten years ago)

Never going to be another "Louie Louie", at least coming from inside the industry. A huge part of the charm is the ramshackle sound of the song and music is too over-produced these days to ever allow something like this to happen. Like if the original "Louie Louie" guys were recording today, they would be sitting in a studio waiting to get every instrument isolated and mic'd up properly, then run through take after take after take, oh wait a minute the drummer dropped his sticks and said "fuck", we have to retake. Then they would compress the hell out of everything until it sounded like Jet or some other corporate shit.

uh, no.

Not everyone etc.

― Mark G, Thursday, 30 April 2015 13:30 (ten years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.