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Happily, these are a little over the top
by 20 years
but who wants to hear how 40-somethings would really re-write the songs? Nobody said pop was pretty.
Paul Simon "Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver" Carly Simon "You're So Varicose Vein" The Bee Gees "How Can You Mend a Broken Hip" Roberta Flack "The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face" Johnny Nash "I Can't See Clearly Now" The Temptations "Papa Got a Kidney Stone" Nancy Sinatra "These Boots Give Me Arthritis" ABBA "Denture Queen" Leo Sayer "You Make Me Feel Like Napping" Commodores "Once, Twice, Three Trips to the Bathroom" Procol Harem "A Whiter Shade of Hair" The Beatles "I Get By with a Little Help From Depends" Steely Dan "Rikki Don't Lose Your Car Keys" Herman's Hermits "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Walker" The Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Pee When You Want" Credence Clearwater Revival "Bad Prune Rising" Marvin Gaye "I Heard It Through the Grape Nuts" The Who "Talkin' 'Bout My Medication" The Troggs "Bald Thing"
Adair Rowland, quoted by the Car Talk guys.
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