Alex Palombo's blog

Hello from the land of Beatles, Brit Pop, Blur, and other wonderful things starting with B. In honor of my belated post from London, I decided to go with another Maroon 5 cover of a British band. This time, it's Oasis.

Christmas songs are pretty much always covers, unless they're originally written like GaGa's "Christmas Tree." So really, they can run the gamut from really good to cheesier than Velveeta. Anyone that knows me can tell you I'm a total scrooge for Christmas music and don't usually like hearing it unless it IS Christmas, and if it's good.

First she was afraid, she was petrified. Just thinking Cake would cover her song and do a better job.

This is a little bit different, because I've never talked about a musical before. And it's not a traditional cover, because it's a spoof on a bunch of different songs. But Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" is one of the most popular musicals on Broadway.

The riff is iconic, the voice is warbling and dirty, the title became a hit Julia Roberts movie, and the song is instantly recognizeable. Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" still holds up and has been used all over the place, from television to film to commercials to radio to any other medium employing sound that you can think of. So naturally, it had to be spoofed.