In a brand new interview with What’s Below The Mattress?, POWERMAN 5000 frontman Spider One was requested how he and his bandmates go about selecting which songs to cowl, having beforehand launched a covers album in 2011 referred to as “Copies, Clones & Replicants”, that includes electrified variations of DEVO‘s “Whip It”, VAN HALEN‘s “Soar”, David Bowie‘s “House Oddity”, T. Rex‘s “twentieth Century Boy” and INXS‘s “Satan Inside”, amongst others. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It is humorous how we have finished a bunch of canopy tunes, and there is no actual purpose for it. I hear songs every single day that I might be, like, ‘Wow, that’d be nice to cowl that.’ I believe I typically go for stuff that had some impact on me as a baby or younger individual, though there are trendy stuff I would love to provide a go at. However generally the thought is simply, ‘Can I fairly do that?’ There are just a few songs that may simply be a catastrophe. Like, I am not gonna try to [cover] Curtis Mayfield or one thing; that may be horrible. So I attempt to discover one thing that I, with my restricted vocal capability, can hopefully do some justice to.
“I believe it is all the time most fun when somebody takes a track and type of turns it on its head, takes a seemingly comfortable track and makes it unhappy or one thing that is actually heavy and turns it right into a ballad,” he defined. “And folks have finished it. However I all the time thought that ‘Women Simply Need To Have Enjoyable’, in case you did not hear the observe, is a really unhappy track. And in case you take heed to the lyrics, and even VAN HALEN‘s ‘Soar’ appears to me to be a tragic track. I do not know. So I believe there’s an fascinating strategy to simply perhaps deal with the lyrics after which change the music into a completely totally different temper.”
POWERMAN 5000‘s newest studio album, “Abandon Ship”, arrived in Might through Cleopatra Data. The follow-up to 2020’s “The Noble Rot” boasts 10 all-new authentic tracks produced by Matt McJunkins of A PERFECT CIRCLE and EAGLES OF DEATH METAL fame. The album’s CD version features a bonus observe — a revamped model of POWERMAN 5000‘s 2001 hit “Bombshell”.
In Might 2020, POWERMAN 5000 launched its reimagining of the traditional ’80s new wave smash “We Bought The Beat”. “We Bought The Beat” was initially made accessible in 1981 as a part of THE GO-GO’S‘ multi-platinum debut album “Magnificence And The Beat”.
“Tonight The Stars Revolt!”, POWERMAN 5000‘s second album, was launched on July 20, 1999 by DreamWorks Data. It has bought over a million copies and achieved platinum standing on the again of such hits as “No one’s Actual” and “When Worlds Collide”. With cyberpunk imagery, catchy riffs, funky beats and rap rock vocals, POWERMAN 5000 bridged the hole between nu steel and industrial steel and packaged it up in a retro-science fiction B-movie aesthetic that separated them visually and musically from their friends.