puppini sisters suck balls

The Puppini Sisters
"Panic" (from "Betcha Bottom Dollar")
(Verve)

Fresh off the heels of the successful Nouvelle Vague, Verve is taking a stab at the ironic, hipster cover tunes market with London's Puppini Sisters, a trio doing cabaret versions of pop standards. On their album, they cover The Smith's "Panic" and slaughter it. Bad. I can't stress how awful the song is. I don't know if it's because they try to take all the dark elements out of the song or if it's because I'm generally a bastard, but their cover is really, really, really terrible. Fuck the Puppini Sisters.