"teddy ruxpin buckskin"

wen i c u x 5, inspired by this which i pretty much like all the way [rap +/≈ poetry = duh] even if "This white fetishism of the crack-rap [and purple drank] movement is getting weird"

in order from best to worst (objectively speaking)...

1. Mike Jones / When I See U (Fantasia cover)
vocals by Mike Jones, from Running 4 President 2k8, 2007
note: R4P2k8 observes inaugurationary protocols, attends multiple balls

2. Mike Jones / When I See U (alt Fantasia cover)
vocals by ??, from Running 4 President 2k8, 2007
note: just the above version slowed to a craaaaawl?

3. Fantasia / When I See U (remix 1)
Polow Da Don Rmx ft Young Jeezy
note: xxxhottt club JAM!

4. Fantasia / When I See U (original)
s/t album version, 2006
note: "fully breaks... free of her American Idol persona" according to allmusic. FINALLY.

5. Fantasia / When I See U (remix 2)
Lil Wayne/Young Jeezy remix ft B.G./Remy Ma, 2007
note: lil wayne=very special rhymer, this remix = ok

Hoot Loove

The third girl I slept with used to call my penis my raison d'être.
--Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing, 76

MP3 Justus Kohncke / Hot Love
(remix of Wolfgang Voigt's T. Rex cover ft Meloboy, 2004)

MP3 Wolfgang Voigt / Hot Love (T. Rex instrumental cover, 2003)

MP3 Elf Power / Hot Love (T. Rex cover, 2002)

MP3 T. Rex / Hot Love (1972)

May the power of power compel you.

MP3 The Fugs / Exorcising the Evils Spirits out of the Pentagon
(1967-10-21)

MP3 The Fugs / Mutant Stomp
(cover of Charles Olson's "I Want to Know," 1966)

MP3 Dump / Morning Morning
(Fugs cover, 1995)

"At the beginning of Discourse Networks 1800/1900 stood the Fugs with their song 'Exorcizing the Evils Spirits out of the Pentagon.' At the end stand words that have brought other words onto a screen.

"There is no end to the writing of books, wrote the preacher. Even books written to bring about the end of books and of their ordering submit to this pronouncement."
--Friedrich Kittler, "Afterword," Discourse Networks 1800/1900

"For the first time in the history of the Pentagon, there will be a grope-in within a hundred feet of this place."
--Tuli Kupferberg, "Exorcising the Evils Spirits out of the Pentagon"

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Deep thought: what if "Louie Louie" was totally like written to prepare the universe for Lou Reed... man?

Great versions by the Kingsmen, the Kinks, etc et al of course but the guitar on these two just turs ut up. Plus Iggy's rhyme-'o-the-day: "Well a fine little girl, she's waiting for me / But I'm as bent as Dostoevsky."

MP3 The Sonics / Louie Louie (Richard Berry cover, 1965-ish)

MP3 Iggy Pop / Louie Louie (Richard Berry cover, 1993)

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More Lewis Allan Reed...

MP3 The Primitives (Lou Reed) / The Ostrich (single, 1964)
Reed's proto-Velvet Underground band included John Cale and released one boisterous single meant for airplay on the version of American Bandstand that plays in the third circle of hell. Not a cover but sounds that (that) way.

MP3 The Primitives (1980s) / I'll Be Your Mirror (Velvets cover, 1989)
The latter-day Primitives—named after the above dance-contest spoof troop and most famous for their 1988 single "Crash"—did a version of one of VU's most-covered tunes for their second LP.

MP3 Rainy Day / I'll Be Your Mirror (Velvets cover, 1984)
Different version by everyone's favorite Paisley Underground supergroup. Especially good if ... you... can't... stand... Nico.