Let’s carry on with Stereogum’s Week Of A Thousand (Or Less) Covers™, shall we? French soul-pop band Tahiti 80 are on tour this month to support the American release of their third album Fosbury (out this week), and what better way to appeal to this nostalgia-loving nation than by covering that perennial soundtrack to memory-lane montages, “Happy Together”? The band released it on their US-only bonus EP, but you can get your listen on right here:
Reverent! Too reverent? Is a cover worth its salt if it doesn’t add some spice to the mix? Discuss among yourselves.
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Am I the only person in the world who truly hates this song; not just the cover, but the original?
Grrrr!!
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I think so, yeah
but their version sounds like they couldn’t get clearance to put the original on their record. like it’s off one of the 70′s albums that came out in the UK of near-enough identical covers that sold for peanuts
where’s the good in that? (i meant to say before…)
yay! tahiti 80!
i like the Rouge cover of this from ’02 — sultry female vocals, an off-kilter beat… nice.
Unfortunately, this is disappointing as was the Fosbury flop of an album! C’mon t80! No more lame dance albums and oh-too-faithful covers!
I’ve seen t80 live and they are amazing! I just wish they weren’t in the musical doldrums.