I gotta check this out tomorrow
That was when some of the most popular music was often the most fun to listen to. Even those who thought they couldn’t dance, involutarily moved their feet to the beat. Romantic songs without being sad songs or embittered odes to past monoliths of a schoolboys life. Prince the performer from Milwalkee. was writing songs for Chaka Khan.
There was some brilliance there. Their song “Word Up!” has been covered at least a dozen times by absolutely different artists, from Korn, Scottish rock band Gun, and even one of the Spice Girls did a (poor) cover.
Rather remarkably, it begins with a sample from Ennio Morricone’s opening theme of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
My favorite, southern swamp blues kind of cover for it is by Brit Hayley Willis, that was used in an episode of CSI (Las Vegas).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsMV8KFnsHc
Radically different in character from the campy original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZjAantupsA