You know the story. Artist's career starts to flag, so artist either does reality TV or jumps on a hot musical bandwagon. The excellent new site PopDose has a funny exploration of this phenomenon over time, which is how I came upon the above video of Alice #$%^ing Cooper going 'New Wave' back in 1980. Absolutely hilarious. Other genre-busting experiments by Ethel Merman, the Scorpions, Ron Keel, and others can be found here.
By the way, PopDose offers up lots of mp3s and has a bunch of great content, especially for smirking pop-culture bastards. Bookmark it.
My God, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I remember Kiss doing 'World Without Heroes' on SNL and thinking that they had pretty much gone as far as they could go.
Ouch! You know AC's hoping that one will be forgotten. I was too embarrassed for him to watch the whole thing!
ReplyDeleteBut as Gary Numan songs go, it was pretty damned good.
ReplyDeleteMy God, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I remember Kiss doing 'World Without Heroes' on SNL and thinking that they had pretty much gone as far as they could go.
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