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rfmcdonaldThe compilation album Q Covered Best of 86/06 has a few good tracks, like Nick Cave's cover of Pulp's "Disco 2000," Corinne Bailey Rae's version of Björk's "Venus As A Boy," the Editors' take on REM's "Orange Crush," and The Magic Numbers' take on The Smiths' "There Is a Light That Will Never Go Out" manages to overcome its Morrissey inheritance in becoming minimalist and sublime. (The Flaming Lips' cover of "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and Travis' "... Baby One More Time" work only as light comedy, as an in-joke of sorts by po-faced rockers.)
Me, my favourite track on the album is the first one, Franz Ferdinand's cover of Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For?". Franz Ferdinand and Gwen Stefani can, with only a bit of shoehorning, be qualified as prominent members of the New Wave revival. Stefani's strengths lie on the dance end of that spectrum, in forms ancestral to modern electronica, a poppish and danceable sort of Ladytron, and the original "What You Waiting For?" reflects this. Franz Ferdinand lies at the other end of the spectrum, a direct inheritor of New Wave and indie rock with two decades' worth of accumulated studio polish and electronic stylings, and their guitar-driven version reflects their style quite nicely. The interpolation of a couple of lines of Billy Idol's "White Wedding" (It's a nice day for a white wedding/it's a nice day to start again") doesn't hurt, either.
Me, my favourite track on the album is the first one, Franz Ferdinand's cover of Gwen Stefani's "What You Waiting For?". Franz Ferdinand and Gwen Stefani can, with only a bit of shoehorning, be qualified as prominent members of the New Wave revival. Stefani's strengths lie on the dance end of that spectrum, in forms ancestral to modern electronica, a poppish and danceable sort of Ladytron, and the original "What You Waiting For?" reflects this. Franz Ferdinand lies at the other end of the spectrum, a direct inheritor of New Wave and indie rock with two decades' worth of accumulated studio polish and electronic stylings, and their guitar-driven version reflects their style quite nicely. The interpolation of a couple of lines of Billy Idol's "White Wedding" (It's a nice day for a white wedding/it's a nice day to start again") doesn't hurt, either.
