Worst and weirdest Beatles cover ever. A choir of ventriloquistic monstrosity, from Hungary. Nabbed from Robert Popper's newfangled webble-site.
Weirdest Beatles cover ever by creepy Hungarian ventrilo-choir
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that indeed was weird ...
Suddenly, clowns don't seem so bad.
Not sure what's more creepy: the people or the puppets.
No
What's with the Conan reference?
Thanks, I'll have nightmares. ;-]
Pretty clear they're not Hungarian - they're an American group who travelled to Hungary.
Puppets singing out of tune. Mmmmm.
So wonderfully deranged.
Yeah, this'll pop back up in a nightmare soon. Thanks, Xeni. Can't sleep, creepy puppets will sing to me.
HAVE YOU SEEN THESE PUPPETS IN YOUR DREAMS???
unicorn chaser, please!
This is more a bizarro video than a weird cover - Laibach pwns Beatles covers. Here is a link to Get Back on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9w6SEtkeug
But IMHO their crowning achievement in Beatles covers is their version of One After 909. Oh my. Never want it to end.
They do a great version of the Stones' Sympathy for the Devil (actually sounds like the devil narrating) and Queen's One Vision, too.
Seriously - Why was Conan O'Brien brought up? Anyone know a translation?
When those puppets get too old to perform they are murdered and left in an ally...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/infiniteworld/4054125545/
That Laibach cover is amazing. I've been meaning to listen to them and that just gave me more than enough reason to get on it.
:-D That's it!
Do not watch this while high.
It will freak you right the fuck out.
Uh, at least that's what I've heard.
Laibach is worthy of a few posts themselves.. haha.. they are one of the best conceptual and political bands (though not as ear-friendly as the Clash), and they, like the Clash, do a lot of covers for fun or for symbolic reasons. to quote Mute Records:
"By remolding The Beatles' least successful LP [Let It Be] in their own image, they were in essence paralleling the disintegration of pop's utopian dream contrasting it with the accelerating disintegration of Tito's dream of a single multi-cultural Yugoslavia."
They are pretty cool, and the only Slovenes you will probably hear of in the US.
Also, those puppets are not cool at all.
The Ventrilo-choir were Conan regulars. In fact, Conan had them document that trip to Budapest and their appearance on that show for his Late Night Show here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFqP4E3Cih0
Well, the sign simply says "The Conan O'Brien Show (NBC) Ventriloquist Choir" - as the name of the band. So basically what Bonnie said.
Is that a blonde Michael Jackson doll?
I should have said Laibach does MANY great versions of Sympathy for the Devil.
Covers aside, they have some great original music too.
Just a correction: while the show was recorded in Hungary (it was a Jay Leno-like late night TV show, called Friderikusz show, named after the host, Mr Friderikusz (bio in Hungarian here: http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friderikusz_S%C3%A1ndor), the choir is from NBC, from the Conan O'Brien show.
Looking at the comments, I understand why they do not perform too often on his show :-)