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Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
fish across face:
The Milkshake "issue" makes me think of how much I despise shit like Me First & The Gimme Gimmes. Yes, yes, you're really clever, you took that big, bad 80s pop song and "fixed it." Beyond not being funny and sounding shit, it's so downright ... parasitic. :|
KharBevNor:
From the name, I suspect it was some sort of half-arsed satire on punk/the music industry that someone realised they could make a LOT of money out of.
The punk covers like the industrial or goth cover or whatever cover: there's got to be a point. Anti-Nowhere League covering Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves by Cher, now that has a point, because The Anti-Nowhere League were all scummy essex boys. Laibach coverin Queens 'One Vision' or KMFDM doing 'Material Girl': there is a point to that, it's not just amusing, but the re-contextualisation actually says something, puts a new spin on the song or whatever. But just covering pop songs for the sake of it says nothing, really.
Rizzo:
Nah dude, I don't think you understand... it's "ironic" and that makes it ok... :roll:
Patrick:
I personally think that Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' cover of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver is awesome, just because John Denver had probably never driven a country road in his life, he was an Air Force brat and lived overseas most of his childhood.
kallisti:
--- Quote from: KimJongSick on 04 Feb 2007, 05:16 ---I personally think that Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' cover of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver is awesome, just because John Denver had probably never driven a country road in his life, he was an Air Force brat and lived overseas most of his childhood.
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I hate that fucking song with a flaming passion. There is nothing even remotely heavenly about West Virginia. I vomit in my mouth a little every time I hear that pile of yuk.
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