Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Scavenger Hunt CD Post: 08 Double threats, or singing actors/acting singers

Sometimes it's a disaster. Sometimes it's just better this way. And sometimes, just sometimes, you find that an actor tor truly does carry enough talent around to be a respectable musician as well. We didn't limit our choices to this latter option in selecting our offerings for track 8 on the Scavenger Hunt cd, but that's ok. Listening to Don Johnson's career going down in a synthesized flame was amusing if not truly enjoyable.

Note to Jared Leto, I do not mean you, and James Franco please don't get any ideas. Jason Schwartzman, however, you may continue.

HEARTBEAT: Don Johnson
Misty
- she said it herself, as he should have said to the world when this song was released, "sorry."

NIGHT TIMIN': Coconut Records
Aly
WEST COAST: Coconut Records
Erin O (cd2)
- like I said, Schwartzman, however, you may continue.

MY BODY'S A ZOMBIE FOR YOU: Dead Man's Bones
Erin O (cd 1)
PA PA POWER: Dead Man's Bones
Stuart
- Mr. Gosling, you too, please.

COMMON PEOPLE: William Shatner with Joe Jackson (and Ben Folds)
Megan
Amanda
- i think at two particular points in my life you could have caught me and either of these respective roommates of mine clearing the common room floor to dance around frantically to this little gem

TRIBUTE: Tenacious D
Kyle
WONDERBOY: Tenacious D
Aunt Christy
- when Jack Black does movies like Tropic Thunder or The Holiday... ok I guess THEN he counts as an actor

COVERED: Uh Huh Her
Liz
- that chick from "The L Word"!

BREAKIN' UP: Rilo Kiley
Thomas
-little Jenny all grown up and transitioned beautifully into a Indie Rock Princess

JUMP INTO MY CAR: David Hasselhoff
- oh, the Hoff! oh, the cheese!

SHE'S LIKE THE WIND: Patrick Swayze
Katherine
- this list would not be complete without it.

...as for those who were singers first...

LIKE A PRAYER: Madonna
Blake
- i guess she's an actress. she has acted in movies, sometimes even convincingly

GOOD VIBRATIONS: Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch
Jenn O
-who'da thunk that guy would get an Oscar nomination so many years later?

LET LOVE RULE: Lenny Kravitz
Erica
-almost unidentifiable in Precious

...and from some bona fide soundtrack work...

FRANK MILLS: the cast of HAIR
Scot
-the epitome of a song sung by actors

THE ORIGIN OF LOVE: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Chuck
-if only all actors could sing like this

I'M ALIVE: the cast of Next to Normal
Joe
-someone please tell me why i haven't seen this show yet.

POP! GOES MY HEART: Hugh Grant
Rory
-from that one movie, i think, where he was in Take That or something?

HINDI SAD DIAMONDS: Nicole Kidman & the cast of Moulin Rouge
Nikki G
TANGO DE ROXANNE: Ewan McGregor, Jose Feliciano & the cast of Moulin Rouge
Sarah
- what can i say? MOULIN ROUGE!

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