mmm...mmm...mmm...mmm (Crash test dummies ukulele cover)

Didn't you just hate it when Michael Jackson grabbed his crotch and squeezed
so hard that he hit those excruciatingly high notes "eeeh-hee Shamona" and
when you did the same three things happened... it didn't work, it looked stupid
and most importantly it felt stupid.

Didn't you cringe at Crimbo when the angelic choirboy once again flew in the air
with a snowman... and every other week on TOTP, boy bands would shoehorn themselves
into tight jeans to sing a BeeGees song like Barry Gibb.

Oh the blessed relief to hear Mr Cohen sing at subsonic levels, his voice rumbling
like a steam roller over gravel... hitting those impossibly low notes that would
frustrate anyone who tried to emulate him. To hear that wino whine from Tom Waits
who before every performace gargles with razor blades and small sharp stones.

Don't think high. Go low.

MMM mmm mmm mmm was recorded by the Canadian folk/rock band called Crashtest dummies. In their native Canada, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" was a comparative disappointment on the charts, only peaking at #14. Two other songs from the album went top 10 in Canada: "Swimming In Your Ocean" and "Afternoons & Coffeespoons".

This latter song was also a top 40 hit in Australia and the United Kingdom and hit the lower portion of the US Hot 100. The result was that by mid-1994 the album had passed the platinum sales mark (one million) in the United States and had also earned the band three Grammy nominations and three more Juno nominations. To date, God Shuffled His Feet has sold more than five and a half million copies worldwide.

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Music

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• Crash test dummies
• mmm
• Winnipeg Canada
• acoustic
• live
• folk rock
• Brad Roberts
• Ukulele

[UnluckyMum]

Brilliant. Totally with you on the 'go low' thing. Well for a bloke anyway !

One of my most favourite songs sung is ' I was born under a wandering star' . I have no clue why !! :)

[weegingayin]

@UnluckyMum  It's the hormones.

[DouglasFrink]

Very sweet! I was expecting one of your archive footage numbers, but that was great. And as Homer Simpson might say, "Mmmmm, reverb!"

[weegingayin]

@DouglasFrink I did it in one take... that was why there was that awkward pause in the middle as I scrolled down the computer screen to get the rest of the words. I also transposed the song down a full semitone to make it even deeper.

It is a good song about being different and perhaps not fitting in with society because of the way you look or the way you worship.

MMM reverb... it hides the DUFF notes.

[MusicMonsterW]

Thanks for entering!  Nice soulful delivery!

[weegingayin]

@MusicMonsterW Brad Roberts had an exceptional bass/baritone voice, and it made a change to hear music from the lower end of the scale.

Mr Cohen himself seems to have dropped an octave. It is a joy to hear those low notes rumble out, and a delight to think that for a change, all the tight-jeaned singers in all those boy bands, can't hit the low notes.

Ah the consolations of getting old :-)

[slayerhellawaits32]

dude, fuckin metal

[Rutle]

One of my fav songs, love your cover, so many good canadian song writers.

[worschd21]

great job!