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Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.

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ScrambledGregs:
I love Nirvana and I was too young to like them back in the day. I think the box set they released awhile ago is pretty great, particularly for the noisy material. They're great in their own right, but they are definitely a gateway band like Tommy said. You know how I know who the Pixies are?? Because Kurt Cobain mentioned them in interviews. This was before they reunited and were on the front page of every indie rock magazine and internet site about three years ago.

There are no 'off limits' artists to me, though I think the cover your band has chosen better damn well match your style or be malleable enough to fit your style. I once saw a clip of Tom Waits singing 'Silent Night', which I would never have thought he would sing, and it worked marvelously, like a drunk with a bad voice trying to cheer himself up on Christmas. At a Shins show I saw Rogue Wave do a cover of Nirvana's 'On A Plain' which they had transformed into a strange, keyboard driven dirge, such that I didn't even know what song it was until they got to the chorus. It was pretty terrible, to be honest. I'm all for transforming songs and whatnot, but this just didn't work for me.

Johnny C:
#8

Seriously, Tommy, I have to thank you. I honestly assumed that most of that was implied within my pithy, short post, but apparently it wasn't, and it's good to see it articulated so well.

Caspian:

--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 21 Jan 2007, 21:58 ---no one should ever, ever cover sigur ros. in any way.
want proof why? listen to the mp3s here: http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/news/
just scroll down to the 'covers and remixes' section.


edit:
i'd like to add that no one should cover neutral milk hotel. mainly b/c i've heard several attempts and they just....hurt.

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Didn't Thursday do a cover of Sigur Ros's Ni Batteri? (I haven't heard it, I've just heard people complain about it.) I kind of want to hear it, just to see how bad the song would be. It was never a really good song to begin with, but with Thursday covering it, it should be especcially bad!

Johnny C:
We Are Scientists did a cover of "Hoppipola" or whatever. It was awful.

TheFuriousWombat:
it was one of the worst covers of any song by any band i've ever heard.

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