Friday, February 15, 2008

Covers, B-Sides, and Rarities: The Kooks' "All That She Wants"

I apologize for the lack of posts that’s been hitting this blog lately, it’s partly because I was severely caught up in the massive slew of assignments and mid-term exams, and partly because the internet service provider was going through a maintenance process hence the down-time, and partly because I was so worn-out, that during in the middle of writing a post, I fell asleep, and later realized that it was already morning, and I was already late to class. Anyhoo, here are a week's worth of post, that was pre-written but never had the chance of posting up until now. So go spoil yourselves and of course, hope you’ll enjoy it.

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Is anyone looking forward to the Kooks’ new album that’s due this April? I don’t know about you, but I’m extra looking forward to it, and the reason to that, is a reason that I can’t quite string into coherent sentences. But if you really want to know, than the only reply I could give is that, ‘There’s just something about them….’. Though the music doesn’t quite, necessarily make me go ga-ga over them, I know better than to completely ignore the music of the Kooks. Lead singer, Luke Pritchard’s drawls and swerves are uniquely his own, giving the music a twang of originality that exudes a sharp confidence; thrust upon the listeners as if we weren’t given a choice, and immediately grabbing your attention.

This remake of the very auto-tuned song from Ace of Bace’s ‘All that She Wants’ is a fine one. The Kooks managed to do a major complete 180 degrees turnaround while at the same time, breathing into it a new life that it very much had needed. But, most of all, they managed to do what all great covers have in common; they managed to make it their own.


|mp3| The Kooks - All That She Wants (Ace of Base cover)