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Legend has it, the song was originally written for The Ramonessons...
Published Thursday, November 10, 2005 by Michael K. | E-mail this post
What with the colossal 30th anniversary Born to Run re-issue coming out next week, and my recent tendency to crib ruthlessly off swedesplease, it seemed like high time for a Bruce and Swedish-pop related question. One that goes something like...
"Have you spent endless hours wondering what a lo-fi, Swedish-language cover of Hungry Heart might sound like?"
Well, wonder no more - Hungrigt Hjarta.
After you've done that, please, please, please go and check out Norway's tracksuit-wearing, weird-bearded, appliance-smashing, Bonnie Tyler-covering, America-conquering Hurra Torpedo - their Myspace page has the second best cover of "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" I have ever heard.*
*(Pulverized rangetops or not, no one, but no one is ever topping my karaoke rendition of Total Eclipse at Adin's House Of Kurofen earlier this year. No one.)
Here is a video (click #6) of Hurra Torpedo "playing" a "show" at a frat party in Chapel Hill.
Believe me when I say this trio is taking Kitchen Appliance Rock to places it's never dreamed of going.
Like North Carolina.
If only these guys would get together with Gil Mantera's Party Dream and tour forever - I might quit life and follow them around like they were the Grateful F'n Dead.
"Have you spent endless hours wondering what a lo-fi, Swedish-language cover of Hungry Heart might sound like?"
Well, wonder no more - Hungrigt Hjarta.
After you've done that, please, please, please go and check out Norway's tracksuit-wearing, weird-bearded, appliance-smashing, Bonnie Tyler-covering, America-conquering Hurra Torpedo - their Myspace page has the second best cover of "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" I have ever heard.*
*(Pulverized rangetops or not, no one, but no one is ever topping my karaoke rendition of Total Eclipse at Adin's House Of Kurofen earlier this year. No one.)
Here is a video (click #6) of Hurra Torpedo "playing" a "show" at a frat party in Chapel Hill.
Believe me when I say this trio is taking Kitchen Appliance Rock to places it's never dreamed of going.
Like North Carolina.
If only these guys would get together with Gil Mantera's Party Dream and tour forever - I might quit life and follow them around like they were the Grateful F'n Dead.
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