Song challenge day 15:

A song that is a cover version

Maaaan, this took me all day. Johnny Cash? Brilliant but too easy? Ryan Adams' "Wonderwall"? Brilliant but too cheesy.

Any cover version of Joy Division's "Ceremony"? I'd have accidentally written an essay about that song.

So, I settled on Tocotronic covering Turbonegro.

And I don't want to shit on Turbonegro too much but their fans used to be a right ol' nuisance in my youth. All this young adult dudes posturing, the "hardness", the manliness fetish.

So much, it probably escaped most of them that "Sailor Man" is quite a queer song.

And along come Tocotronic. A bunch of soft German indie boys, and they turn it into a Schlager song.

Now, me trying to explain Schlager would take ages but there IS an alteration of that style of music that used to be dark, progressive, with nuance and longing....a LOT of longing.

I present to you:

Tocotronic - Sailor Man

#30DaySongChallenge #CoverVersion #Music #Turbonegro #Tocotronic #SailorMan

https://youtu.be/-gTzJkEnDr0?si=couyslSrxk1fCVVG

A grandma tells to her granddaughter that in a woman's life there is only one big and true love ... and when the granddaughter asks "Who was your big and true love, grandma?" She looked through the window and into the distance with dreamy eyes, and said "The sailor men, my child, the sailor men!" .... And her name was .....JOHN CE... (sorry I couldn't help myself ) ... ANELIA
#anelia #burgas #bourgas #cookies #sailorman #turbonegro #johncena #truelove #story

A grandma tells to her granddaughter that in a woman's life there is only one big and true love ... and when the granddaughter asks "Who was your big and true love, grandma?" She looked through the window and into the distance with dreamy eyes, and said "The sailor men, my child, the sailor men!" .... And her name was .....JOHN CE... (sorry I couldn't help myself ) ... ANELIA
#anelia #burgas #bourgas #cookies #sailorman #turbonegro #johncena #truelove #story