Reply To: Code Monkey like Ukulele
I find that a lot of Bowie passes the acid test.
Oh, my goodness, I would pay a large amount of money to hear that arrangement of Christmas is Interesting. Did you/can you record it?
There’s a lot of JoCo mixed in with the 1970s singer-songwriters in my uke repertoire. I also do Better and the Presidents, I don’t do Betty and Me because it doesn’t make any sense when I sing it but I can see it being great. I’ve had a lot of fun with Future Soon, Re Your Brains, and Ikea, and You Ruined Everything is really rather sweet on the uke. I’ve tried a couple of times to do De-Evolving, but I don’t quite have the skillz to make that one work yet.
I usually play around with transposing songs into keys that I can sing and are easier to play (Since I’m too lazy to learn the circle of fifths or any of that business, chordie.com and autotransposer.com are my friends). JoCo’s voice is usually about 5 steps lower than mine, I find.
(Gasp!) Tom Cruise Crazy! You’re right, that would rock! I’m no really good ukulele player, but I’m going to take that as a challenge.