{"id":10584,"date":"2012-05-05T15:04:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T23:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10584"},"modified":"2012-05-05T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T23:04:41","slug":"of-montreal-unplug-and-ask-what-have-they-done-to-my-song-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-05\/of-montreal-unplug-and-ask-what-have-they-done-to-my-song-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Montreal Unplug and Ask:  What Have They Done to My Song Ma?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The band <strong>Of Montreal<\/strong> recently appeared on <strong>Bandstand Busking<\/strong> in London&#8217;s <strong>Lincoln&#8217;s Inn Field Bandstand<\/strong>. \u00a0 <strong>Kevin Barnes<\/strong> and his band <strong>Of Montreal<\/strong> have done it all from early twee-pop to ultra-pop colossus.\u00a0 This band&#8217;s sound has varied sound-wise from &#8217;60s pop, to funk, to psychedelic, to electro-disco, and back again.\u00a0 Barnes and crew are a regular party of sounds.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s rarely without electric effects and affect (though with violin, horns, flute, etc.).\u00a0 It&#8217;s also rare when the words &#8220;Kevin Barnes&#8221; combined with the words &#8220;stripped-down&#8221; doesn&#8217;t have a lascivious connotation.\u00a0 So check out this rare acoustic performance by the band below, warts and beauty all.<\/p>\n<p>First up is a fun cover of <strong>Melanie&#8217;s<\/strong> 1971 chestnut, <em><strong>What Have They Done to My Song Ma<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Of Montreal - What Have You Done To My Song Ma (Melanie cover)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1fQg4-Fhnk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next is <em><strong>Like a Tourist<\/strong><\/em> from the band&#8217;s 2010&#8217;s <strong>False Priest<\/strong> album.\u00a0 This version of the song features &#8220;doo-da-doos&#8221; straight outta Lou Reed&#8217;s seminal (no connotation intended) <em><strong>Walk On the Wild Side<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Of Montreal - Like a Tourist\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHBiUC364Q8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, check out <em><strong>Forecast Fascist Future<\/strong><\/em> from their album <strong>Satanic Twins<\/strong>.\u00a0 Check out the doo-wop\/psychedelic vocals starting at 2:05:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Of Montreal - Forecast Fascist Future\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vDtsSbdCjvI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The band Of Montreal recently appeared on Bandstand Busking in London&#8217;s Lincoln&#8217;s Inn Field Bandstand. \u00a0 Kevin Barnes and his band Of Montreal have done it all from early twee-pop to ultra-pop colossus.\u00a0 This band&#8217;s sound has varied sound-wise from &#8217;60s pop, to funk, to psychedelic, to electro-disco, and back again.\u00a0 Barnes and crew are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}