Because It’s Tuesday, You Need a Death Metal Version of “You’re the One That I Want”

April 5, 2016 Alan Cross 1 Comment 0 min read

I hate this song with a passion–and for good reason. When “You’re the One That I Want” first became a hit, I was working the grill at a fast food place/pool hall in my tiny Canadian prairie hometown. The women in the place insisted that the radio above the grill was tuned to one of Winnipeg’s three Top 40 stations, each of which was blaring this Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta song every 75 minutes at its peak (I timed it). That meant in a six-hour shift, I was guaranteed to be subjected to it at least four times. Ugh.

Ugh. Even today, the song conjures PTSD-like symptoms that involves the smell of onion rings bubbling in week-old grease.

Today, though, Tom (via Guitar World) has found a version of the song that I can almost tolerate. If only death metal had been around in the 70s…

Alan Cross

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