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January 12, 2006
Shere Khan and his (implied) monocle
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Trust In Me (Jungle Book cover)
Kaa's persuasive and sibilant con song (addressed to Mowgli) rendered perfectly by Siouxsie. Listen to how faithfully she and the band are able to replicate the kind of slick, creepy confidence of the original (keep an ear out for the tongue-rolls on the 'r's all throughout the song). "Jungle Book" is by far my favorite of the old animation school Disney films: the story's amazing (even though it kind of, hmm, lightens up Kipling's original), the voice actors were top-notch, and the songs are undeniably classic ("I Wanna Be Like You" has rarely been topped in Disney movies since then).
Now before you start thinking that I'm breaking ground on new, scary nerd territory, let me just disclaim here that my younger brothers, when they were pre-school to kindergarten-age, used to watch Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Sword in the Stone, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Mermaid in tight succession over the course of any week- there is in fact a year of my life (1991) when I think I saw Peter Pan a good 250 days out of the 365 possible (and that's a low estimate). It's like the perfect inverse of that scene in A Clockwork Orange when Alex's eyes are being force-apertured and he's bombarded with violence and carnage...
Anyway. 'Trust In Me' is from Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Through the Looking Glass" album (which is composed entirely of covers), and you can buy that right here (for cheap).
Posted by Kevin at January 12, 2006 12:13 AM