Wednesday, July 27, 2005

NOT ANOTHER GERMAN COUNTRY BAND DOING ROCK COVERS?!?

They're growing like weeds, everywhere you go. Soon, they'll be on every corner. Records shops will divided into "Rock," "Jazz," "Classical," "Hip-Hop," and "German Country Bands Doing Rock Covers." Yep, just like Boss Hoss, here's another one: The Twang. They do a durned fine imitation of authentic hillbilly yodelin', guitar-pickin' country music as they remake songs originally done by fellers like The Ramones, Radiohead, Motorhead, (what, no Murray Head?), Brittany Spears, The Gorillaz ("Clint Eastwood," natch) and, just to really confuse you, the half-forgotten disco hit "Born To Be Alive," originally done by the almost-entirely forgotten Patrick Hernandez. Like Boss Hoss, their albums are not available on American Amazon.com, dag-nabbit, so until them city-slicker record-company types here in Amurrica sign 'em we'll have to make do with lengthy excerpts of tunes like

"Blitzkreig Bop"
and
"Creep"

Like they say in Texas: "
Jetzt reiten Sie wieder: The Twang, die Country-Desperados des besseren Geschmacks!"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just check out: www.thetexasmusicstore.com - their first album is available there and the second will come soon as i know !!!

Mr Fab said...

Thanks. And a SECOND album? Yee-haw!