Can I feasibly dance to this? Got the idea from the movie Exotica and I know I could rock it, but I've never heard anything remotely like it played in a strip club before.
Thoughts, feelings on Leonard Cohen?
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Can I feasibly dance to this? Got the idea from the movie Exotica and I know I could rock it, but I've never heard anything remotely like it played in a strip club before.
Thoughts, feelings on Leonard Cohen?
I love love love Leonard Cohen. I danced once to hallelujah...hah, I wouldn't recommend that one, but Everybody Knows could definitely work. Be warned, his music sounds a little different on club speakers because of the booming voice. It'll certainly sound unique. But I think his music is sexy, so. And even hallelujah, despite getting me bitched at from the other girls (it sounds like a hymn, but the lyrics dammit! irony doesn't work at scs), one guy loved it (and it being a quiet sunday night, one guy wouldve been about 15% of the customers). Let me know if it works for you. I might try that one myself.
Yeah, I sort of have the feeling that the second it comes through the speakers, I'll be on stage like, "this is going to be the longest 5:11 minutes of my life." Fortunately, there's only one stage so no one else would be stuck dancing to it.
I was thinking about getting one of my regular-club dj buddies to mix it for me: adjust the treble, etc, cut it down to 4 minutes, maybe put another beat underneath it.
I know there are a few covers out there; I don't know anything about them, though.
This is almost always my last song of the night. Generally speaking it's too slow for my purposes otherwise. Perhaps on an early or really mellow shift I would play it. As for covers, the Concrete Blonde one (from the "Pump Up The Volume" ST) is a personal fave. Still about the same tempo, less synthy, and shorter. They leave out one or two of the very end verses of lyrics, as I recall. I have never heard a remix, with a beat, but it wouldn't even need that much to bring up the tempo a little bit....just a little bass/kick underneath, really.
Ahhhhh. *sighing eternally* Leonard. My man. Truly one of my all time faves. I've actually wondered if "The Future" would be dance-able - it's on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. Hmm, come to think of it, his "Waiting for the Miracle" on NBK that segues into L7's "Shitlist" would make a very, uh, cathartic set, if one were in the mood . . .
As for other covers of "Everybody Knows", the only other one I can think of is by Don Henley. Not my cup o'tea.