All We Want To Do Is Play The Uke
Kristen, winner of the Code Monkey remix contest points me to this video of a guy doing a uke cover of Re: Your Brains. Swingin’! I think that all the world’s music needs to be redone with ukulele.
Kristen, winner of the Code Monkey remix contest points me to this video of a guy doing a uke cover of Re: Your Brains. Swingin’! I think that all the world’s music needs to be redone with ukulele.
January 16th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Bear in mind, this is coming from a guy who covered “Baby Got Back” with a banjo.
January 16th, 2007 at 10:08 am
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January 16th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Oh, that’s adorable. He’s completely uke-ified it, which is just charming in a song about, well, eating brains. When I play it on the uke I’ve been sticking to Jonathan’s more downbeat style, but now I think I’ll try playing it all sprightly. Also the hat helps.
January 16th, 2007 at 11:14 am
This made the rounds quite some time ago, so you probably know it already, but it bears linking again: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, the ukulele version.
January 16th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
My favorite Uke cover is While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Here:
WMGGW
And I got a Uke for Christmas. Unfortunately, I’m still having trouble with Row Row Row Your Boat.
January 17th, 2007 at 8:40 am
all the world’s music redone with ukulele is at
//www.ukuleledisco.com/clips
January 18th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
I’m still working on my ukulele cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train.”
–Dan
January 18th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Oh my god, I just found out about you being covered after checking out another podcast for ukulele music that ffeatures the code monkey cover, I always wanted to hear a joco song on the uke!
January 19th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Best…
Uke cover…
Ever.
I think the hat makes the video.
-glych
January 20th, 2007 at 10:51 am
One of the commenters over at YouTube thought it sounded like They Might Be Giants. TMBG/JC? Is this guy crazy, I thought? But then I did a little digging. It turns out that the Giants had a project called “The Venue Songs” during their 2004 tour where they wrote a new song every day for each venue they played. If you don’t find that ironic, consider that the “Deranged Millionaire” involved in the project was none other than John Hodgman.
Okay, so it’s a bit of a stretch. And that definitely wasn’t the connection that the commenter was thinking of. But that was one awesome uke cover.
January 22nd, 2007 at 12:54 am
Thanks about the hat. I redid the song with a more appropriate background.
Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjDJwI4KI6o
Had I known the great JC was going to look at it and blog about it, I would have tried harder the first time around…
These JC fans really are something with all of their computerized videos and special dances. Thanks for watching my goofy interpretation of JC. –John Rockwell
January 29th, 2007 at 8:36 am
[...] John the Uke-ist has outdone himself. You remember John of course, who wore a hat and played Re: Your Brains on Ukulele on YouTube. I should first mention that he sent me a second version of this video, this time with zombie footage. And now I find out he’s also done a video for Tom Cruise Crazy a la Uke, plus backing vocals. Nice work John the Uke-ist. [...]