talk cock sing song lah

Talk cock: To speak rubbish or nonsense. Probably originates from the English phrase “cock and bull”. “Sing Song” is added for emphasis. “Talk Cock” by itself also has the more benign meaning of “casual banter” or “chatting”. Lah: The ubiquitous Singlish tag. Used like a fullstop in a sentence. Coxford Singlish Dictionary

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WTF covers episode 49 - Dancing Queen

Abba... covered... by Abba... in Spanish. Nuff said. Just in case you are wondering, yes the song is as awful as the album cover is hideous.

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WTF covers episode 48 - Lady Jane

Never in the field of elevator music was so much endured by so many because of so few! The Rolling Stones meet a Moog on prozac in this version of Lady Jane. Mike Melvoin proclaims "one man, one volt" on the cover of this single and he is right... that's about as much energy as there is in this song.

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WTF covers episode 47 - Hotel California

A pretty bad French cover of Hotel California by Israeli duo Shuky et Aviva. This one punches quite a few WTF tickets with insipid lyrics and uninspired music though the accents are cute... While the duo split in the late 70s, Shuky Levy went on to write a lot of the French theme songs for the Japanese animes aired during the 1980s and early 90s and thus traumatise a whole generation of kids...

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WTF covers episode 46 - The Headmaster Ritual

A perfect example of why bass guitar players should steer clear of being vocalists, this cover of The Smiths' The Headmaster Ritual by a Morrissey fan boy and wannabee scouser (the poor soul is a Liverpool FC supporter) warrants a place of choice amongst the WTF Covers collection.

Actually, Joseph Fisher is a friend (well, he was until he read this) so go and listen to his stuff and buy his EP, it's actually pretty good .

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WTF covers episode 45 - Dragostea Din Tei

O-Zone's Rumanian dance hit gets a new lease of life as it is turned into an ode to Rabbi Nachman, founder of the Breslover Hasidim, by Israel's answer to the Hare Krishna. Rather than a musical group, Na Nach is in fact the colloquial name of a Breslover subgroup who follow the teachings of Rabbi Yisroel Ber Odesser and who have made a mission of  spreading joy to passersby by dancing atop heavily decorated vans to techno-Hasidic musical compositions. Chances are you'll meet some if you ever spend enough time in a traffic jam in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem,

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WTF covers episode 44 - Born to Be Wild

Mike Melvoin: one man and his moog. Or how to single-handedly turn a rock anthem into elevator music and crappy elevator music at that. Steppenwolf's 1968 hit gets ground to a pulp in this synth cover worthy of an Easy Zimmer Frame Rider soundtrack. 

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WTF covers episode 43 - Sky Pilot

This Japanese cover of Sky Pilot is so replete with crappy sound effects that it will make your ears bleed. Or burn. Someone in the recording studio obviously thought it would be fun to try out all the gizmos on his brand new deck... Sadly, someone else thought it would be even more fun to release this for public consumption.

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WTF covers episode 42 - Black Is Black

The Han River Angels are back with another deliciously bad rendition of a classic, this time Los Bravos' Black is Black or rather Brack is Brack. As with their cover of San Francisco this certainly is music to get drunk to. Or, alternatively, music to be appreciated while pretty drunk...

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WTF covers episode 41 - Da Da Da

Philippino singer and comedian Yoyoy Villame lets it all hang out in this Tagalog cover of Trio's Da Da Da. One of a numerous list of spoofs and not-so-serious songs by Yoyoy.

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WTF covers episode 40 - House of the Rising Sun

Sin Sisamouth, Cambodia's answer to Frank Sinatra, turns House of the Rising Sun into a syrupy love song whose title translates as I Will Always Wait For You. Once again Khmer pop proves to be just as much of an acquired taste as Khmer beer...

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WTF covers episode 39 - La vie en rose

When Bollywood, that stalwart provider of WTF covers fails to deliver, Pascal of Bollywood rides to the rescue with his own covers of Bollywood standards or Hindi covers of European classics such as this version of Édith Piaf's La vie en rose. Did you say weird?

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WTF covers episode 38 - Mustapha

The Stylers have a lot of WTF covers to answer for and here they surpass themselves with yet another cover of Bob Azzam's Mustapha. Twelve years after The Quests released their Shadows-like version, The Stylers updated this ditty in brand new, trendy, cheesy disco style! Possibly a tribute to Mustafa Centre?

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WTF covers episode 37 - Lady Madonna

Sodsai Chaengkij (สดใส แจ้งกิจ) sadly at her worst! This Lady Madonna cover is something else altogether with off-key vocals, bare bones intrumentation and a hilariously bad solo by the vocalist. While her backing musicians sounded hurried on The Boat That I Row (see episode 20), here it sounds like they just can't take it anymore.

To be honest, language appears to have been a definite barrier as she does sound rather better in her Thai songs. Better being relative of course.

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WTF covers episode 36 - Waterloo Road

How not to cover a song in a language you know nothing about : Joe Dassin’s Japanese cover of Les Champs-Elysées. This is a pretty hilarious selfie cover of one of Joe Dassin's greatest successes: his own cover of Jason Crest's Waterloo Road. Interestingly, most of his French fans will tell you he was French when he was American (surely, the teeth are a dead giveaway) though he did live most of his life in France and absolutely all of them will try to convince you that Les Champs-Elysées is an original song of his rather than a cover.

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WTF covers episode 35 - I Walk The Line

How not to cover a song in a language you’re not comfortable with, practical case n.1 : Johnny Cash’s German cover of I Walk The Line. Once upon a time, record companies thought that having their artists covering their own songs in different languages would help with overseas sales. Sadly, Johnny Cash's cover of I Walk The Line in German is proof enough that even though he bought his first guitar while posted in Landsberg as a USAF radio operator (and formed his first band, the Landsberg Barbarians there) he wasn't quite bilingual. Oh, his Spanish covers are even funnier...

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WTF covers episode 34 - Venus

Back to 1970s South East-Asia, this time with Phnom Penh heart-throb Ros Sereysothea (រស់ សេរីសុទ្ធា) covering Venus by The Shocking Blue (shame on you if you were about to say Bananarama!). The Khmer pop scene is a hoard of WTF covers though Khmer songs are very much an acquired taste...

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WTF covers episode 33 - Another Brick In The Wall

It is doubtful that Pink Floyd fans will dig this 1980 funky cover of Another Brick In The Wall by Snatch but at least they have something to listen to on their more upbeat days.