The Cheese Sings Alone
posted August 20, 2009 6:41 AM
If you've been following my little scribblings here for any length of time, you know, or at least I hope you do, that on most days I try to write something perceptive or funny about a film I've actually seen. And I think I can say, perhaps not immodestly, that on most days I succeed.
Today, however, is a different story altogether. Sorry.
That being the case, let me simply note at this juncture that even though I've never sat through FUBAR -- the mockumentary cult film from 2002 about a couple of dim bulb '80s Canadian metalheads -- I still think it's absolutely great.
Why? Because it gives me an excuse to post an utterly fabulous music video made for the film, that's why.
Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy The New Pornographers, featuring the divine (and I mean that literally) Neko Case singing lead, in a note perfect cover of an actual world famous in Canada 1982 hit, the fiendishly catchy (in a sort of Rick Springfield-ish way) "Your Daddy Don't Know."
In case you were wondering, the song was originally recorded by the actually world famous in Canada New Wave hair band Toronto.
And in case you're wondering just how note perfect Neko and the rest of NPs got it, here's the original in all its teased-out spandex glory.
Coming tomorrow: Despite the fact that I've never seen a single frame of the 1983 generic teen comedy One Crazy Summer, I declare it an imperishable masterpiece solely on the basis of co-star Demi Moore's totally bitchen vocal on "Don't Look Back"!
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Steve Simels has written about music and movies for Sound and Vision magazine (formerly Stereo Review) since the early 70s. He has also contributed to Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide and the Wall Street Journal. He’s the author of “Gender Chameleons: Androgyny in Rock n Roll” (Arbor House, 1985), and blogs at PowerPop.blogspot.com. His ambition in life is to play the Leslie Howard role in a remake of “Petrified Forest.”

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Cousin Kevin said:
Neko and the band look great, but they didn't really get the period clothes right. She looks like one of the Thompson Twins, which is later in the decade than that Toronto clip.
Sorry to be such a stickler...
August 20, 2009 5:09 AM
Otis Adelbert Kline said:
The hat she's wearing is particularly heinous.
August 20, 2009 7:43 AM
kurt b. said:
Has anyone out there seen "The Light Of Day" with Joan Jett and Mi chael J. Fox as brother/sister rockers? Doesn't seem to be available anywhere at the moment. I've never seen it but based on the music video it looks like it has potential...for something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTVCBU0zCCQ
August 20, 2009 10:04 AM
Steve Simels said:
I didn't realize "Light of Day" wasn't available at the moment. It's actually quite good, all the more so given that you wouldn't figure Paul Schrader to be a rock n roll kind of guy. But the blue collar stuff is very believable, and the music's surprisingly okay...
August 20, 2009 10:29 AM
Manny Mota said:
The guy with the beard doesn't look very 80s.
:-)
August 20, 2009 3:04 PM