I had an idea for a song for this week but it wasn’t quite coming together, so I decided to go with a cover. This is a song I’ve been thinking about covering since before I started the song a week challenge, so it was fun to finally do it. If you’re not a Ramones super fan, you probably haven’t heard this song before. It appeared on their second album, and served as a sort of sequel to “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue.” After the initial pressings went out the song was pulled because Carbona was a trademarked name, and future pressings replaced it with “Sheena is a Punk Rocker.” Wikipedia has a different explanation for why the song was removed, but this is the version of the story I’ve read many times, so I think Wikipedia is wrong.
When working on a cover, it’s always good to get some distance from the original and really make the song your own. My rock songs are so heavily influenced by the Ramones that I was afraid my version would be too similar to the original. Solution: no guitars, fully electronic. I even decided to use vocoder effects on the vocals to make them sound electronic. I think the vocals will make the listener feel like you’ve been huffing Carbona, glue, and/ or roach spray. But not paint, that would sound very different.

The Hitmaker Algorithm – Carbona Not Glue by thenemesis

Posted: Friday, May 21st, 2010 @ 9:46 am
Categories: covers, music, the hitmaker algorithm.
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