As we head into the musical “silly season,” Bad Mary has plenty to keep us going before the year is out. They have more original music to come next month and promise something a bit special as we run up to Christmas, but first, they have dropped a cover of one of the most iconic, alternative dance tunes.
Not just to coincide with Halloween, but also to mark the song’s fiftieth anniversary, they give us “Time Warp,” the infectious sonic heart of The Rocky Horror Show. But of course, they do it in typical Bad Mary style. Without losing an ounce of its gyrating grooves and dance-floor moves, the song takes a step to the right and finds itself in full-on rock and roll territory.
It’s big, it’s infectious, it’s camp, it’s on fire. Everything the original was only more so, much, much more. They say that you can’t improve on perfection. But it turns out that you can crank up the guitars, turn a singalong into something that sounds like a rabble-rousing, sonic revolution, push infectiousness into the realms of total contagion, not to mention rock and roll damnation, and then lay waste to the musical landscape.
It also seems that in the right hands, you can do all of that in under four minutes!
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[…] Bad Mary has opted for Wham!‘s evergreen, “Last Christmas,” so they are good in my book. They proceed to punk up, rock out, and have fun with it. There is even room for a nice Mariachi trumpet blast halfway through, a neat twist. […]