By the order of the Peaky Blinders, here's Snoop Dogg covering Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Aux Features Peaky Blinders
The BBC crime drama series Peaky Blinders, like Squidbillies, has been known to enlist the help of various musicians to record a cover of its theme song. Since the beginning, the show has opened with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand,” from the band’s 1994 album Let Love In, but in the past, BBC producers have commissioned artists like PJ Harvey, Laura Marling and Arctic Monkeys to record the Nick Cave track in their own styling, which has shown some interesting results so far. None of them, however, are as grand or polarizing as the most recent anti-snitching artist to take Cave’s song and put their own spin on it: Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Snoop presents his cover and video, which cuts footage from the show cut with Snoop in the studio loving his own song, by stating: “By the order of the Peaky Blinders, this is ‘Red Right Hand’ by Snoop Shelby,” and chucking a deuce. Admittedly, the “red royt” ad-libs are kind of over-the-top, but the fact that Snoop is rapping a cover of Nick Cave over trap-percussions on behalf of Peaky Blinders is still fucking awesome.
Here’s the original song for comparison.
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I think it’s justified to consider this proof humanity was a mistake
They should hire Amy Adams to sing it.
Admittedly, the “red royt” ad-libs are kind of over-the-top, but the fact that Snoop is rapping a cover of Nick Cave over trap-percussions on behalf of Peaky Blinders is still fucking awesome.You had me at the first part, lost at the second. This is awful.
Awful might be overstating things, but yeah, I’d say that “fucking awesome” is also a stretch.
The BBC crime drama series Peaky Blinders, like Squidbillies, has been known to enlist the help of various musicians to record a cover of its theme song.Nice reminder about Squidbillies. I actually really dig its theme song.The Wire did the same thing. Tom Waits’s original version of “Way Down in the Hole” was used in season 2, following the use of a cover by The Blind Boys of Alabama in season 1; then covers by The Neville Brothers, DoMaJe (a group of Baltimore area teenagers), and Steve Earle were used for seasons 3, 4, and 5, respectively.
I recall Weeds doing something sinilar, with a different artist covering the theme song every week.
Yep. Everyone did a cover of Melvina Reynolds Little Boxes. Some were genuinely enjoyable.
It was a neat concept with mixed results. But there were some genuine surprises in there. Always a bit of a head turner when a band you actually like starts out covering “Little Boxes” I remember the of Montreal one was probably my favorite/largest surprise.
Me too. It was always a fun guessing game as to what genre, band or singer it will be this time.
this is objectively horrible but I still kinda love it for some reason
I love this kind of thing. It’s always neat to see an artist put his or her own spin on a recognizable theme song. Psych used to to this, too. My favorite was when Curt Smith from Tear for Fears covered “I Know, You Know:”But the Boyz II Men acapella version of the same damn song added some east fling that wasn’t too hard, but not too soft, either:
I liked the idea of this quite a bit more than the execution.
Could have been amazing, feels like it never breaks out into whatever it’s really supposed to be. I think it should have been either a little sharper and faster or much weirder.
Yeah, I think he tied himself to the actual lyrics a little more than he needed to.
Hits me like
Nick Cave being popular is a weird concept for me- I’ve been listening to him for longer than I care to admit, 34 years or so. I don’t begrudge him or his bands the success. It’s just weird, he’s like a gothic Neil Diamond now.
Oh, and does anyone else remember when the X-Files used this song?
Snoop Dogg did the same thing with the “Monk” theme song so I’m a little bit less surprised. Then again, Randy Newman and Nick Cave are kind of disparate artists to say the least. So, good for Snoop stretching his boundaries in covering theme songs.
oversold. but it’s easy to get excited about such things.
Just For Men is not doing Nick any favors.
This song is vile