The Worst (Or Best) CCR Cover Of All Time: The Daily Nooner (EST)!
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Legion of Rock Stars - “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”
One time I got drunk at a bowling alley with some friends and pumped like $10 into a jukebox. We started off with some Limp Bizkit, then worked our way through Korn, Kid Rock and that one song where the guy’s all “OOOH WEH-EH-EH-EH! C’MON, GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS!” Then we tried to play some more Limp Bizkit, but by that point we were the only ones left in the place and the guy who worked there was so annoyed that he decided to close the bowling alley two hours early and kicked us out.
It’s easy to appreciate unbelievably shitty music in an ironic fashion, but these videos by Legion of Rock Stars are kind of challenging in a way: I can’t tell if I’m enjoying them ironically or not. I think they might totally kick ass, which is weird because I know in my heart that they totally suck.
This is all so confusing.
I guess I need to think of it like “If I played this at a bowling alley, would I be playing it ironically or not?” I think that I genuinely like it, but after years of claiming to like everything from “Chronic The Hemphog” t-shirts to Ernest Goes To Jail my irony detector is completely fried.
I’d also recommend checking out their covers of “Too Legit To Quit,” “Time Of The Season,” and “Anyway You Want It.” Or maybe I’d recommend that you DON’T check them out. I don’t even know anymore. Whatever - at least it’s not Korn.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Say what you will about these guys, but with 180 videos under their belts you can’t say they’re not dedicated.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
They remind me of that guy that was doing the Anchorman quotes in all the comments sections. They sucked something horrible but he never stopped. Same reason I suppose they have 180 cover songs that all suck so bad I almost jammed a pen in my ear so I didn’t have to hear it… then I realized I could just click stop.
That’s YouTube for you: “Broadcast Yourself.” It doesn’t say anything about doing so in a way that would make people want to punch you in the face.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I didn’t believe him when Dane Cook first said that there was a sound that would cause someone to go on a baby punching tangent, but that is it. I really hope no one hears that while in a day care center.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
It’s like one of those comedy bits that just keep going and going. First it’s absurdly funny… then it stops being funny… then it gets funny again because it just keeps going on… then it reaches the point that the audience becomes murderously enraged. Then the comedian dies of cancer and everyone says he was a genius.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Nope, this one sucks. Plain simply and obviously. It is only bad. If you’re enjoying it it isn’t ironic, it’s masochistic.
Yeah, playing and singing something badly can be funny. This ain’t it.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Ronsonic: I think you might be wrong. I’m leaning toward “best” at this point.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Yeah. Kauffman was a genious when he did lip syncing the Mighty Mouse theme, but only did the part Mighty Mouse. These guys go way passed to the point where if I ever hear CCR again I’m going to cringe because I think about this version.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Still sounds better than Fogarty’s new album “Revival”. [oh snap, ZING!]
An album called “Revival” from the CCR front man?! What’s next?
Morrissey’s new album: “Smithy”
Sting’s new album: “Police man”
Beyonce’s new album: “The Child of Destiny”
Justin Timberlake’s new album: “In Synced”
Phil Collins’ new album: “The First Book of the Bible”
January 29th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I consider myself an aficionado of bad music or music so bad it’s good. I own every Weird Al
album, every Dread Zepplin album, I have that Sickness song from Dawn of the Dead and hundreds of other songs the minute they come on people scream” God turn that off that ’s horrible”. For some reason I think these songs are cool, maybe I have a brain disorder or just really bad taste in music. So, I think I can say, with some authority, after listening to all of the songs you linked to from beginning to end, desperately hoping that the would become cool at some point ,they did not, So anyway I think I can say with some authority
that they suck. They suck so bad I don’t even think they would be funny high more than once.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
“OOOH WEH-EH-EH-EH! C’MON, GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS”
Disturbed, I love that track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzak8Gq3KO0&feature=related
January 29th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I actually like the Richard Cheese & Lounge against the Machine version better, though both are great.
January 29th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
They made Mc hammer sound like something off of pop tatari from Boredoms. Not every band can do that.
I like the zombies. But i think their “Time of the Season” cover is missing that certain something that made the Zombies special.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Best! They sound like a bunch of drunk dudes who stumbled upon some musical instruments in their parents’ basement.
In the Youtube comments section for “Time of the Season”, one user put it perfectly: “this rendition sounds more like what real zombies would sound like than the musical group, ‘zombies’ version does!”
January 30th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Their best cover was Danzig’s Mother. They actually sounded better than the original! ‘Course that’s not too hard; a juicy fart sounds better than some Danzig songs.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Slam Dunk Ernest is obviously the best Ernest film in the bunch. Only cheap dates like Ernest Goes to Jail.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:48 am
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January 30th, 2008 at 11:51 am
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January 30th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
the brilliance of LRS is in the video AND the audio together.
imagine your favorite band getting piss drunk… then playing for you….
imagine the song that you TOTALLY hated (as i hate danzig’s ‘mother’) and completely made fun of….
as if any member of this troupe takes what they do seriously….. so just have fun with it like they do.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
This makes me laugh so hard!! my chest hurts and that’s not good, but this cover is really REALLY good!
January 30th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
I think I need a nitrous balloon to enjoy this…
January 30th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Oh no, my precious CCR, how dare they sully your good name! Enguarde!
January 31st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Next time we need to get Noriega out of Panama, we could just blare the Legion of Rock Stars’ greatest hits at him. I doubt he’d make it through thirty seconds of a single one of these horrifying covers. Only problem is I’m sure this would be some sort of violation of the Geneva convention.
That said, it is entirely possible that Legion of Rock Stars is in fact the most amazing band to ever exist.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
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March 9th, 2008 at 1:08 am
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