Crispin Helion Glover's album is a celebration of W*E*I*R*D. Or just avant garde shit. On his cover of the Nancy Sinatra hit, he whines like no emo has ever whined since. It is gloriously awful. His boots are made for whining. It seems that Crispin wasn't even trying to be funny. He was making a statement, dammit! It's not all bad though: the instrumental arrangement is pretty cool, though I suspect you need to be high to fully appreciate it. The insistent fade-out is just fantastic.
Mrs Miller, gamely struggling to locate the song's beat, on the other hand winks at us as she performs her version of These Boots Are Made For Walking, especially when she musters all her seductive powers to instruct her boots to commence motion. And which true men's heart would not melt at Elva's sexy sigh of "yeah"?Was Mrs Miller serious or was she taking the piss? Well, her singing career started when she made recordings of songs as gifts for orphanages (the poor fucking things). Apparently she was in on the joke, but she did not sing poorly deliberately and for laughs. She was a horrible performer of pop music, she knew it, and she was game enough to have people laugh at her enthusiastic stabs at a musical medium quite foreign to her. Which is all endearing, yet totally disappointing.
Voice your preference for the crappier cover of a perfectly decent song. Who rocks harder: Crispin or Mrs Miller?
Crispin Helion Glover - These Boots Are Made For Walking.mp3
Mrs Miller - These Boots Are Made For Walking.mp3
In humble opinion, Mrs. Miller is a true rocker & Chrispin is a neer-do-well.
ReplyDelete(remembering his stunt on the David Letterman show which resulted in Dave pulling the plug on him, simply a psycho)
Mts Miller might've been a sweet old lady, but she was very old school. Insisted that everybody call her Mrs Miller, not Elva. A diva like Streisand. Except, unlike Babs, Elva probably was a totally right-wing nutjob.
ReplyDeleteGlover had Letterman pulling the plug on him? Well, someone please pull the plug on Letterman.
Yeah, as I remember it, he came on, looking quite hippyish, and proceeded to tell Letterman how strong he was. Then he started jumping around doing Karate moves, camera panning back and forth catching his moves as well as Dave's reaction. A quick commercial break restored order, Glover disappeared & Letterman seemed much more composed.
ReplyDeleteMy personal favorite was Drew Barrymore's flash, I'd loved to have seen what Dave saw!
MRs. Miller was exactly what she was - an old lady who sang pop songs in her overreaching church choir voice. I'm old enough to remember her showing up on TV variety shows on ocassion. Nobody took her seriously, including her.
ReplyDeleteCrispin is just a poser.
Regards, Dave