Bad Cover Version

Infobox Single
Name = Bad Cover Version


Artist = Pulp
from Album = We Love Life
Released = 15 April 2002
Format = 2 CDs and DVD
Recorded = 2000 - 2001
Genre = Britpop
Length = 4:10 / 3:58
Label = Island Records
Producer = Scott Walker, Chris Thomas
Last single = "Sunrise / The Trees"
(2001)
This single = "Bad Cover Version"
(2002)
Next single = "Bad Cover Version" is a song by British rock band Pulp, from their 2001 album "We Love Life". It was released 15 April 2002 as the second single from the album, charting at #27 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2002 in British music). It was the band's last single before their current hiatus. CD1's B-sides appear as bonus tracks on the US release of We Love Life. The B-sides to CD2 are cover versions of Pulp songs performed by other artists.

Lyrics

The song details the protagonist's belief that his former partner's current relationship is inferior to what she had with him. The latter part of the song is a list of things the narrator likens said relationship to, including The Rolling Stones since the 1980s, the TV series of "Planet of the Apes" and the second side of "'Til The Band Comes In". The latter is a reference to an album by Scott Walker, who produced the song, which contains several cover versions on its second half. Lyricist Jarvis Cocker has stated that the song was written before he knew that the band would be working with Walker.

ingle Cover

The cover for the single is similar to the cover of David Bowie's famous album "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust". The child on the cover is in fact Pulp's guitarist Mark Webber.

Video

The song's video features many celebrity lookalikes who gather in a West London studio to perform a "tribute" to Pulp, in a similar style to the video for Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?". All the lookalikes appear to perform their own lines in the style of the artists they are impersonating, with the exception of the Jarvis Cocker lookalike, who is miming to Cocker's vocal. Cocker himself appears in the video dressed as Brian May, playing the guitar solo that ends the song. It is worth noting that Kurt Cobain died in 1994, making him the only impersonated artist who is posthumously represented.

The list of impersonated artists:

Singers:
* Robbie Williams
* Liam Gallagher
* Kylie Minogue
* David Bowie
* George Michael
* Bono
* Sophie Ellis Bextor
* Jennifer Lopez
* Paul McCartney
* Craig David
* Tom Jones
* Björk
* Brett Anderson
* Kurt Cobain
* Rod Stewart
* Meatloaf
* Cher
* Jason Kay
* Jarvis Cocker
* Mick Jagger
* Gary Numan
* Elton John
* Missy Elliott
* Bob GeldofGuitarists:
* Noel Gallagher
* Keith Richards
* Brian MayPercussionists:
* Phil Collins
* Mike Oldfield

Track listings

CD1

# "Bad Cover Version" (album version) (4:10)
# "Yesterday" (3:51)
# "Forever in My Dreams" (4:23)

CD2

# "Bad Cover Version" (video version) (3:58)
# "Disco 2000" (Nick Cave version) (5:20)
# "Sorted" (Roisin Murphy version) (6:10)

DVD

# "Bad Cover Version" (album version - audio only)
# "Bad Cover Version" (video)
# Making the video

External links

* [http://www.pulpwiki.net/Pulp/BadCoverVersionSingle Bad Cover Version on PulpWiki]