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Worst covers thread
IDMG:
Limp Bizkit's version of Behind Blue Eyes
Chad K.:
Sheryl Crowe's cover of D'yer Mak'er is pretty god awful atrocious.
A_S00:
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--- Quote from: A_S00 on 13 May 2014, 22:25 ---Another category: covers that mess up the rhyme scheme for no fucking reason.
Worst offender: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's cover of Somewhere over the Rainbow. Listen to the first fucking couplet, then rage-close the tab.
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a few things:
1) the version of the song you linked to is not actually Bruddah Iz. it is ironically enough a cover being sung by the owner of the youtube channel, who really should have more clearly labeled it as such. Iz's (far superior) version is here
2) the song in question (by Iz) is really not a cover, it's a medley; a creative blending of several different songs into one.
3) please refer to above post regarding my opinions on artists adapting things in their adaptations
4) it's a fucking beautiful song.
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1. Well, that's embarrassing. The version I linked isn't where I originally heard it; I was remembering it when making the post, then did a quick google to find an appropriate link, listened for a few seconds, went "yep, that's got messed up lyrics like I remember," and linked it.
2. I just re-listened to the correct version. I don't hear portions of any song other than Somewhere Over the Rainbow...?
3. My problem is not that it's been adapted (that is, that it's different from the original), but that it has been changed in such a way that it no longer works as a song. The sentences are no longer sentences, the rhymes no longer rhyme. While there are plenty of non-rhyming, non-sentence lyrics that do work, these ones just sound painfully awkward and messed up, like an essay whose paragraphs have been haphazardly cut and pasted into a random order.
4. As (3), I disagree. I mean, dude can sing and play, no argument there. He's a great musician. But I think this cover totally fails as a song.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: J on 24 Jun 2014, 18:28 ---
--- Quote from: Gareth on 13 May 2014, 01:20 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 12 May 2014, 16:41 ---
--- Quote from: Gareth on 30 Apr 2014, 00:52 ---Any time someone covers a song and changes the gender of who they're addressing. Annoying in general, because fuck it, can't you just be gay this one song?
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What about Joplin's version of "Me and Bobby McGee"? She gender-swapped it, but hers is practically the definitive version.
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Well obviously my main issue is from a gender enlightenment perspective, and I can't be too sniffy about someone 45-odd years ago swapping the genders when even I was far from enlightened as recently as two years ago, admittedly.
It's more that you end up just destroying the lyrical integrity of the song a lot of the time, as in my example with 'Big Yellow Taxi.' I'd love to cover 'Video Games' by Lana Del Rey, and I absolutely wouldn't change the genders in that song, apart from anything else it references sun dresses and shit, not that it matters if cis-men want to wear dresses or anything, but the song is the song. It shouldn't need to matter in this day and age, particularly when changing it due to your own prejudices can ruin the lyrics.
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while i totally get where you're coming from one the social politics angel, i have to disagree on the artistic angel. when adapting an existing work, i think that an artist should never be afraid to adapt it; keeping what they want to keep & changing what they need to change in order to make it their own. if i wanted a version that was 'true' or 'authentic' to the original song, i would listen to the original song.
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I don't agree with that entirely. You can adapt a song to have a different meaning to make a point - say, The Cribs' cover of 'Back To Black' which seemingly turns it into a murder ballad just by tone - but arbitrary lyrical changes because 'oh shit! I'm not a girl' are completely different. That's not adapting it. That's laziness, that's stupidity, that's ignorance - and perhaps most damningly of an artist, it's not very artistically daring either.
Jimor:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 30 Apr 2014, 00:52 ---Any time someone covers a song and changes the gender of who they're addressing. Annoying in general, because fuck it, can't you just be gay this one song?
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This gives me an excuse to post the video where I took the ridiculous footage from one of the band's music videos and re-edited it (badly) to go with their ridiculous cover of Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl". Credit where credit is due, however, they didn't change the gender in any of the lyrics. Sadly, this will probably be the most popular video I ever upload, currently at 2.6 million views.
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH8CRBShZck
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