parody rock Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/parody-rock/ Fri, 12 Nov 2021 23:09:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 El Vez “A Lad From Spain? (…No From Mexico!)” https://vinylfromthevault.com/el-vez-a-lad-from-spain-no-from-mexico/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=el-vez-a-lad-from-spain-no-from-mexico Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:05:41 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/el-vez-a-lad-from-spain-no-from-mexico/ El Vez “A Lad From Spain? (…No From Mexico!)” 1998. Sympathy for the Record Industry. Six-song (plus one hidden track) 10″ EP of covers, reworked in El Vez’s kitschy, political, classic rock/rockabilly (a bit punk’d up), and hilarious style. It leads off with a brief hard-driving instrumental rendition of T. Rex’s “Twentieth Century Boy” and seamlessly flows into [...]

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]]> El Vez “A Lad From Spain? (…No From Mexico!)” 1998. Sympathy for the Record Industry. Six-song (plus one hidden track) 10″ EP of covers, reworked in El Vez’s kitschy, political, classic rock/rockabilly (a bit punk’d up), and hilarious style. It leads off with a brief hard-driving instrumental rendition of T. Rex’s “Twentieth Century Boy” and seamlessly flows into a musically faithful cover of Bachman Turner Overdrive’s “Taking Care of Business” but El Vez changes the lyrics into a biting (but funny) commentary on Mexican immigrant labor (i.e. “You wouldn’t want to be a field worker and be sprayed with pesticide” and “Taking care of business: Working fields! Taking care of business and cooking all your meals”). The last listed song on Side A is “Chihuahua,” a cover of Elvis’ “Hound Dog” (which, of course, was written by power duo Lieber and Stoller and then first – and best – recorded by Big Mama Thorton in 1952) but concluding after a minute or two of run-out groove hiss is the hidden track, the rework of David Bowie’s “Aladdin Sane” to “A Lad From Spain” performed live.  Side B begins with a less-than-towering version of the opening theme from 2001: A Space Oddessey and then segues into  “Si, I’m a Lowrider (Low & Slow Mix),” a bluesy number and then he launches back into more Bowie medley’d with Earl Brown: “Rock and Roll Suicide – If I Can Dream” (Brown wrote “If I Can Dream” to close the “Comeback Special for NBC” by Elvis Presley). The 10″ concludes with a reprise of “Taking Care of Business.” Much of the 10″ is live, recorded partially at Emo’s in Austin.

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