Sunday
Feb262012
Fantasy vs. Fantasy
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 12:01AM
Steel Panther "Fantasy" vs. Aldo Nova "Fantasy." You decide. I pick Steel Panther's cover. The version is also used as the theme song to the MTV show Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory.
Reader Comments (17)
Aldo's tone was immaculate! Steel Panther's version pales in comparison. Even they'd think so.
I always had a love/hate thing for this song since it came out for one sole reason, Aldo Nova cannot sing his way out of a paper bag and never will. Steel Panther has done us all a favor -- they went back and pulled this classic song from it's Metal Purgatory, dipped it in 80's Chrome, Cleaning it up, fully Glam Metallizing it and buffing it to a high sheen polish, forever ridding this gem of the off key and weak vocals Nova ruins all of his material with.
I will say this about Nova: Great visionary, songwriter, producer and instruMETAList, as he wrote this classic song and plays every instrument and, for better or worse, sang every vocal track on it. If only he knew to get a "Canadian Delp" to do the vocals in the first place. Then we wouldn't have needed Panther to go back an get fix it.
"...we wouldn't have needed Panther to go back and fix it."!