oh my god a bossa nova version of "light my fire" is playing

Your thread title and your comment contradict each other.

my friend a bossa nova "light my fire" full of vocal histrionics is not a good thing.

1 - no bossa nova should have vocal histrionics
2 - no bossa nova should have vocal histrionics
3 - no bossa nova should have vocal histrionics
4 - oh my god a bossa nova version of "light my fire"

sounds amazing. listen to some astrud gilberto covers of (shitty) things like Chicago songs and lets talk after

that stuff was all the rage in the upscale bars in Peru, The Beatles and Pink Floyd were also especially popular bossa nova makeovers.

yeah, i don't see what's wrong with it.
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The Shirley Bassey version is great.

word to that

i've always wondered how people work in places where the music seems to be a 20 minute loop. I was in a store more than once where I know I heard the entirety of the loop just from loitering. It was something like Brown Eyed Girl, My Life, Let's Hear it for the Boy, Borderline and Freedy Johnston's Bad Reputation. And then it would repeat in the same order, so I don't think it was a poor shuffle issue.

I once worked in a bookstore where the only tape (and it was a cassette) was Paul Simon's Graceland. I suggested we be allowed to bring other things in, but the manager wouldn't hear of it. So it was either silence or "The Boy in the Bubble." I chose silence. (And in recent years when allowed to program "office music," I've always opted for anonymous instrumental anything (lite-jazz, muzak), just so I won't have to associate something I might potentially love with a place I may grow to hate.

i've always wondered how people work in places where the music seems to be a 20 minute loop

yes, especially this time of year. Imagine working in Argos or some such like during December, and being subjected to the already limited Christmas repertoire on a loop. How many times a day would you hear that bloody Slade song?

worked at a massive chain ice cream store this summer w/ a CD for the month sent in by corporate, every single one had "SOAK UP THE SUN" on it. really torturous shit. i also hated my job so it was like being taunted by sheryll crow and i honestly can't think of anything worse than that.

I used to sell children's photographs in Wal*Marts across the state of Minnesota. One week in Fergus Falls, I noticed that Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" would play every afternoon right around 1:45.

I didn't mind. By the end of the week, it was something I looked forward to.

Cibo Matto did a bossa-ish version of "light My Fire" and it is awesome.

well, it's pretty good. not awesome.

Chicago is not shitty.

xpost to Pleasant Plains: was that just in Fergus Falls, or were the Wal-Marts in different cities running the same tape loop at the same time?

I only noticed it in FF.

I have a vintage "the work of lennon&mccartney played by mariachi trumpets" (I don't remember the title exactly but you get the idea) on vinyl from my dad. it's pure pleasure...

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It's my fire you know you've got to light light liiiight it

The Ananda Shankar version is definitive...His 'Jumpin Jack Flaahs' isn't to be sniffed at, either.

I would argue that the Feliciano version is better then the Doors'.

LIGHT MY FIRE LIGHT MY FIRE LIGHT MY FIRE LIGHT MY FIRE

it could be worse. much worse

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The Free Design did a somewhat weird cover of "Light My Fire" that's probably my favorite thing they ever recorded. It (along w/several others mentioned above) is better than the Doors' version.

Balls, The Doors' version's fucking great

Oh, I like it too. But I like the Free Design's better. It has this very swirly jazz section that's kind of off in Talk Talk territory that always makes my jaw drop.