Music - '80s covers

From the blog angels twenty, a shiny new 2006 cover of Kim Wilde's classic "Kids In America." By? Kim Wilde herself, along with someone named Charlotte Hatherly. You'd have every right to think this is a shit retread by a faded popstar trying to reclaim some relevance.

You'd be wrong. It sparkles. It'll totally make your life look like a Clearasil commercial.

Kim Wilde & Charlotte Hatherly - Kids In America

Even the name of this band has an '80s connection.



Their cover of Dexy's Midnight Runners' (They Who Can Do No Wrong)"Come On Eileen" loses all the Irish charm & smutty romance of the original, but it gains a faster pace and a horn section. And God knows I'm not one to complain about a horn section. Or a faster pace.

Save Ferris - Come On Eileen