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Music Review Zombie Garden Club’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” Leaves Swedish Music
Reviewer The Grouch Speechless.
Hej America!
I am back with something a bit different this time around. A few weeks ago I reviewed the
latest album by the Zombie Garden Club. If you have not heard it, I highly recommend that
you give it a listen. The music on that album strikes me as a cross between David Bowie and
Lou Reed. As I said in that review, the album turned me into a full-fledged Zombie head.
Thus, I was excited to listen to the Zombie Garden Club’s newest single which is a cover of
Procol Harum’s 1967 single A Whiter Shade of Pale. I was unsure how Johnny Douglas, the
head Zombie in the club, would handle such an iconic song. (Johnny, before I listened to the
track I half expected something
similar to Marilyn Manson’s
cover of Come Together or
Siouxsie and The Banshees cover
of Dear Prudence.)
Simply put, this song is nothing
like either of those covers,
although a strong case can be
made that Siouxsie’s version of
Dear Prudence is quite
beautiful. Listen to this
song. You will be amazed. If I
were to sum up the Zombie
Garden Club’s cover of A Whiter
Shade of Pale in one word that
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