Yub Nub (Ewok Celebration) - ukulele Star Wars coverJordan D. White2015-12-11 | I just finished rewatching the full Star Wars saga in preperation for The Force Awakens...and I was inspired to celebrate.
For the orginal, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np6vA...
And you can get a free MP3 here: castinwax.bandcamp.com/album/quickie-ukulele-covers-vol-6We Threw Gasoline on the Fire... - Ukulele NOFX coverJordan D. White2020-08-07 | It's been too long, and I am super out of practice, but I missed playing music so I grabbed one of the many NOFX songs I have played before but never recorded and did a down tempo version of it. Hope you like.
The full title of the song is "We Threw Gasoline On The Fire And Now We Have Stumps for Legs and No Eyebrows". Here's the original: youtube.com/watch?v=3vY74F8GEE0
And here's a free MP3 of my cover: castinwax.bandcamp.com/album/quickie-ukulele-covers-vol-5With Illicit Help From Your Friends - ukulele Palette-Swap Ninja coverJordan D. White2020-05-05 | JUST under the wire for May the 4th 2020, here's a cover of a track from Palette-Swap Ninja's "Princess Leia's Stolen Death Star Plans" where they rewrite the lyrics to the full Sgt. Pepper album to tell the story of A New Hope.
For some reason, the audio is a little artefact-y, but the MP3 version is much cleaner.(A Monster Went and Ate My) Red Two - Elvis Costello / Sesame Street Ukulele CoverJordan D. White2020-04-15 | Here's a cover of a song that Elvis Costello and Elmo did on Sesame Street, based on one of his best songs.
For some reason, the audio on this is not the best. The MP3 sounds much better. I can only assume it was the video editor I used. I need to figure out a better one.
Want a free mp3 of my version? It's here: castinwax.bandcamp.com/album/quickie-ukulele-covers-vol-5Everybody Hurts - ukulele R.E.M. coverJordan D. White2020-04-07 | I've been listening to almost nothing but R.E.M. (@remhq) since I started working from home. I don't know why, but I have. It's been an awesome education about this band I only knew a bit of.
I know, I know--this is one of their hugest hits. But I tried to do it a little different, at least.
You can get a free download of my cover here: castinwax.bandcamp.com/album/quickie-ukulele-covers-vol-5Yeah Yeah Yeah Song - ukulele Flaming Lips coverJordan D. White2020-02-16 | It's been a year since my last video. I am a little rusty. But I've wanted to do this song for a long time. A long time.
#flaminglips #ukulele #cover #yeahyeahyeahEverybodys Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (ukulele Beatles cover)Jordan D. White2019-01-10 | Super quick, short cover of a lesser Beatles track. Dunno why, but here it is!
Lyrics: There’s a girl who is surrounded by a slippery force field There’s a guy who blew his face off and it never really healed There’s a dude who can find anyone who’s also very pale There’s a werewolf king-slash-EVP with sharp and scary nails There’s a kid they called a squid boy who was actually a fish There’s a girl with lots of ghosts who give her luck of the Irish There’s a guy whose looks could kill if he’s without his special specs And I know more about each of them than about Adam-X
There’s a guy who can just disappear—vanish without a trace And a green-haired lady who says that she’s half from outer space There’s a creepy dude with tentacles who really smells like death And a guy who can fly through the air propelled by his own breath There’s a lady who’s a dragon who has also passed the bar And a guy you couldn’t stop if he wanted to steal your car And this one kid speaks all languages and all the dialects And I know more about all of them than about Adam-X
I know he wears a backwards hat and that he’s very spikey And somebody on twitter told me his blood burns like fire I know that him returning isn’t really all that likely And he’s not a Summers brother, despite Fabian’s desire
There’s a bunch of folk who have these knives come poking out their fists And this one guy who can teleport through rotten-egg-smell mists There’s a scoundrel who throws playing cards who’s really quite a rogue There’s a skunk-haired girl who always “shugah”s up her dialogue There’s a blue guy with enormous feet who hangs out in a lab And a redhead who refuses to stay laid out on the slab There’s a guy with two slug creatures who nobody respects Yet I know way more about him than about Adam-X
I do not know much about Adam-X.Thunderbird - ukulele They Might Be Giants coverJordan D. White2018-08-16 | Here's a quick cover of the They Might Be Giants track "Thunderbird".
Lyrics: I’m nobody’s favorite In fact most would laugh at the suggestion That if the day was in peril I’d save it With the slugs that do all my digestion If you’re wondering why I’m blue I have got quite a tale for you
They call me Maggott But it’s not right— Two Ts
I was dying of starvation Could keep nothing down no matter how I’d try Mom didn’t pray for salvation She prayed that god would finally let me die I couldn’t make her live that way So I stole a truck and ran away
I wanted to end it And the desert seemed the place for suicide What I hadn’t intended Was my brother coming with me on that ride Now I had to stay alive To make sure Daniel would survive
Then the devil came You know him by the name Magneto, he came to our… Rescue, He showed me what I’d Been keeping inside And he told me it brought me power Then he whispered in my ear just How the humans hate and fear us Because we are their betters But when I said I wouldn’t join Him he left After he slaughtered our oppressors
Now so many years later I have been a hero and I’ve been forgot You’d think things would be so much greater But I’m sad to tell you they are not My people are victims again We’re rounded up and put in pens
Met a boy named Billy Let him keep one of the slugs I use to feed Now he’ll never forget me, will he? As I’m rounded up with the ones that they don’t need I may not be remembered well But believe me I know how to spell
When you speak of Maggott Please spell it right— Don’t teaseOh You Pretty Things - ukulele David Bowie coverJordan D. White2018-04-25 | Did you hear, I am now in charge of the X-Men editorial office? It's true, and I recorded this song to celebrate. Yeah, this one is a literal quickie cover, as I went short and fast.
Here's my ukulele cover of David Bowie's "Moonage Daydream". The uke and vocals were recorded live with the video, the bass, percussion, and melodica were overdubbed after the fact.
Here's a free MP3 of my cover: castinwax.bandcamp.com/track/california-drought-nofx-coverDer Fuerhrers Face - ukulele Disney / Spike Jones coverJordan D. White2016-11-24 | Here's my cover of the song "Der Feuhrer's Face". It was written for a Donald Duck short parodying Nazi Germany, but it was popularized by Spike Jones, first. The Donald cartoon won an Oscar for best animated short.
Here's a free MP3 of my cover: castinwax.bandcamp.com/album/quickie-ukulele-covers-vol-5Breaking Out - ukulele Shock Treatment coverJordan D. White2016-10-16 | Here's my cover of the song "Breaking Out" from the movie"Shock Treatment". It's by the fictional band "Oscar Drill & the Bits".
Here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RySHD...
Want to download a free MP3 of it? Here you go: castinwax.bandcamp.com/album/quickie-ukulele-covers-vol-1As the World Falls Down - ukulele David Bowie coverJordan D. White2016-01-14 | Here's a cover of the song "As the World Falls Down", one of the songs David Bowie did for the Labyrinth soundtrack.
Here's the original, with a weird video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLnP...
I'd actually never heard the original version of this song before recording. I only knew covers, and had sung the karaoke versions. I watched it after this video posted, though, when I looked up the original video.
Here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-TE_...
Here's a free MP3 of my cover of the song: castinwax.bandcamp.com/album/quickie-ukulele-covers-vol-4Red Dragon Tattoo - ukulele Fountains of Wayne coverJordan D. White2015-09-15 | Here's a cover of Fountains of Wayne's ditty "Red Dragon Tattoo" in honor of my recent obsession with Thomas Harris's "Red Dragon".
Here's the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDayw...
Aaaaaand, I just noticed I got a couple of lyrics wrong in the chorus. BUT WHO CARES? YOU ARE AN ANT IN THE AFTERBIRTH.
Here are the lyrics: I live in a bleak and white world With very few shades left of gray And as I look upon the future ahead There just isn’t too much I can say When all of my dreams have unfurled And appear not to lead the right way Than follow these dreams I would rather be dead So I guess I’ve overwelcomed my stay
And so I’m Cast out into the night By people who say I don’t try But I’m not yet ready to cope with what’s real So inside I just break down and cry I’m lost in a world bleak and white Where my life is a mote in my eye My hope has left me and I cannot deal So I think that instead I shall die
I live in a dream within a dream Where all that you see is a sham And when I go wondering who everyone else is All I do is forget who I am When nothing appears as it seems I can’t tell the lion from the lamb I find that I always am forced to be selfish Cause nobody else gives a damn
And I say Life is harsh, it burns my skin Life is deep, I drown in its sea Life is a weapon life’s hurting me with Life’s either so bright or so dark I can’t see and Life is a prison that life keeps me in Life is cruel, I feel it’s cruelty Life is torturous for making me live Life is so bleak that it's killing meThings That Tie Me Down - Ukulele Get Set Go / I Give Up coverJordan D. White2015-06-18 | Here's a cover of the song "Things That Tie Me Down" from the Get Set Go side project, I Give Up.
To hear the original, go here: https://getsetgola.bandcamp.com/track...