A good mash up takes two songs that have something similar and makes those similarities play off each other. When the similarity is that the third word of the song is "jungle" you might want to rethink your strategy. What I'm basically saying here is there's no way "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns and Roses and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by the Tokens* should not even be aloud in the same room.
But for some god forsaken reason, Big Daddy decided to do that. Credit while credit is due, I'll admit, they all but invented the mash up genre but taking lyrics to current songs and singing them to 50's and 60's music (Current being a relative term since this was recorded many many moons ago). Apparently they had some moderate success at one point in their career with a song called "Hamster Love." I was going to Google to see if that was some sort of Dr. Demento parody of Captain and Tenille's "Muskrat Love" but I quickly abandoned that search when every result on the first page had to do with Richard Gere.
Back to this particular track, It's like they said ... "Hey maybe if we suck bad enough, Adam Sandler (whose old lady voice sounds exactly like Axl Rose) will name a movie after us, and it'll suck too!" That, ladies and gentlemen, is why it's a "Crappy Cover."
*Yes, there's a whole legal mess about who "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" belongs to, I credit it here to the Tokens, because, right or wrong, the first time the song was copyrighted in the USA with that title, it was to the Tokens.
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