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4:02PM Jess McGuire | Over the weekend I was hanging out with my friend Rachael and she decided that she desperately wanted to watch the video clip for John Farnham’s You’re The Voice. Fair enough, it is an epic song and Defamer Australia has happily taken time out in the past to appreciate the full on awesomeness of the song’s music video. Cameos by Derryn Hinch and Jackie Weaver? Farnham at his mulleted best? A guitarist who is both TOTALLY BANGABLE and also resembles Rambo? Check, check, and motherchecking check.
In case you’ve never seen it (and you call yourself Australian! I presume!), here it is in all its glory.
Wonderful. Now, as we were searching for the video, we came across a couple of unexpected covers of the song. When I expressed my disbelief at some of the people who had chosen to tackle the track, especially those from American rock bands, my friend Rach simply quipped “The Farnham arm reaches far and wide” and how could I argue with that?
First cab off the rank? Heart! Yes, those sperm stealing harlots covered You’re The Voice! If you don’t believe me, watch for yourself. More »
The Farnham Arm Reaches Far And Wide
4:02PM Jess McGuire | Over the weekend I was hanging out with my friend Rachael and she decided that she desperately wanted to watch the video clip for John Farnham’s You’re The Voice. Fair enough, it is an epic song and Defamer Australia has happily taken time out in the past to appreciate the full on awesomeness of the song’s music video. Cameos by Derryn Hinch and Jackie Weaver? Farnham at his mulleted best? A guitarist who is both TOTALLY BANGABLE and also resembles Rambo? Check, check, and motherchecking check.
In case you’ve never seen it (and you call yourself Australian! I presume!), here it is in all its glory.
Wonderful. Now, as we were searching for the video, we came across a couple of unexpected covers of the song. When I expressed my disbelief at some of the people who had chosen to tackle the track, especially those from American rock bands, my friend Rach simply quipped “The Farnham arm reaches far and wide” and how could I argue with that?
First cab off the rank? Heart! Yes, those sperm stealing harlots covered You’re The Voice! If you don’t believe me, watch for yourself. More » 
HATEFILES: Heart’s “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You”
3:50PM Jess McGuire | Oh my lord. I am absolutely riled up and given the big issues floating around at the moment, it seems appropriate that I focus my idiotic anger toward something pointless from yesteryear. I give you Heart’s “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You”.
As a child, I wasn’t a big fan of this song as I found Heart’s lead singer Ann Wilson to be kind of frightening and overly accessorised in the video clip for my nine year old taste. I hadn’t thought of the song for years but for some reason it came up in a conversation I was just having with the fabulous Namila from RRR’s Wax Lyrical and I ended up watching the clip on YouTube again for the first time in probably eighteen years.
I had completely forgotten that the tune was about getting some poor dude to knock her up and then running back to the man she loved! What a whore! I am totally outraged by this. And if I was the guy waking up to find a note saying:
I am the flower you are the seed
We walked in the garden we planted a tree
Don’t try to find me, please don’t you dare
Just live in my memory, you’ll always be there
I would be fuming that not only had my man-juice been stolen under false pretenses, but I’d also just impregnated a horrible, horrible writer.
At least Ann Wilson has the good sense to hate the song too, according to Wikipedia.
Ann Wilson commented on the band’s dislike for the song, stating, “Actually we had sworn off it because it kind of stood for everything we wanted to get away from. It was a song by “Mutt” Lange, who we liked, and it was originally written for Don Henley, but there was a lot of pressure on us to do the song at the time.”
Mutt Lange originally wrote that song for Don Henley? How on earth was that pregnancy angle going to work?
SONG FAIL.
MORE: All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You (Wikipedia) More » 
