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« on: 17 Jan 2006, 13:49 »
So, me and my friends formed a terrible metal band a while ago, and so far, we've only been practicing some covers and all (mostly due to the fact that we're all wonderfully terrible), and we had this idea that we needed to make a weird cover album that will make most mainstream people go 'what the hell'?

After throwing around some ideas, we settled on three songs. We wanted to make an acoustic ballad out of Slipknot's Wait & Bleed (we don't really like the song, we just like the idea) and trash metal out of Back In The USSR by the Beatles and I Shot The Sherrif by Bob Marley. We also want to do something with EElS Dog Faced Boy but we're not sure what yet. Making it a lumbering doom metal song would fit, I guess.

So I was wondering, if you guys were out to make the weirdest cover album, which songs would you use, and what would you do to them?
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« Reply #1 on: 17 Jan 2006, 14:17 »
I'd try Let It Be, Mr Bungle way... Or a jam band version of the Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive.

Me and my friends had done a trash metal cover of Blink 182's Damnit once, and my friend's hardcore band once played an hardcore cover of a Green Day song. And I recorded a while ago an acoustic cover of Offspring's The Kids Aren't Alright, emo-whining style, with pathetics "wohoo" backvocals. It hurts my ears...
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« Reply #2 on: 17 Jan 2006, 15:25 »
What you do, is you take a fairly normal song (For this case I'm going to use Louie Louie) and you weird the hell out of it, Sun Ra/John Zorn/Zappa style. That's how I'd do my covers as soon as I get a band together.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #3 on: 17 Jan 2006, 15:37 »
Children of Bodom did a version of Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time.

I found it amusing.
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« Reply #4 on: 17 Jan 2006, 15:50 »
The Number 12 Looks Like You did quite a nice job covering My Sharona. You should listen to it (And by you, I mean the collective you).
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« Reply #5 on: 17 Jan 2006, 15:53 »
Damn, somebody beat me to the Children of Bodom one. Also, Exodus covered Low Rider. It's totally awesome.
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« Reply #6 on: 17 Jan 2006, 17:47 »
Oh, we're talking about actual weird covers now, eh? Zombie Apocalypse's cover of Welcome to the Jungle. Some metal band covered Europe's The Final Countdown, and CoB usually get the credit, although I know it's not them. The Residents' cover of Zappa's King Kong, not to mention Hank Williams and  John Phillips Sousa, and their cover of The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction is essential, as well as their twisted album of covers of pop music from the 60's, The Third Reich N' Roll. Not sure if they covered it on any official release, but Primus covers Rush's La Villa Strangiato Master of Puppets live alot. They covered Floyd's Have a Cigar, and The Residents' Sinister Exaggerator (And on numerous occasions have done Constantinople and Hello Skinny). Phish have covered Zappa's Peaches En Ren. Oysterhead does a shitload of covers live; the oddest one I have is House of the Rising Sun.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #7 on: 17 Jan 2006, 17:51 »
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and CoB usually get the credit, although I know it's not them.


Even if they said it in interview?


Oh and Zappa has done a real f-up cover of Hendrix's Purple Haze... weirdest shit I've ever heard... until Animal Collective last month.
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« Reply #8 on: 17 Jan 2006, 18:07 »
What you should do with covers is try putting the song to every musical style you can think of. The thing that came to mind when I read the title of this thread was a bossa-nova style cover of The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends". IT was brilliant. ^__^
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« Reply #9 on: 17 Jan 2006, 18:16 »
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trash metal out of Back In The USSR by the Beatles


It's been done, live by Type O Negative several times. They've also done Daytripper.

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If you want wierd, you've got to do something totally off the fucking wall, I mean, not even rock. An NWA cover, or Kylie Minogue, or something. That's why Overlords cover of Girls Aloud's 'Sound of the Underground' and Brujeria's warped cover of the Macarena (Marijuana) are so good: because they're SO wrong.
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« Reply #10 on: 17 Jan 2006, 19:43 »
No no no. Here's the way to REALLY whack people out. Do industrial covers of classic rock songs. Like Laibach did the entire Let It Be album by the Beatles. That threw me off something good.
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« Reply #11 on: 17 Jan 2006, 20:31 »
Richard Cheese anyone?

Or Paul Anka's Rock Swings album...
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« Reply #12 on: 17 Jan 2006, 20:36 »
One word: Pat fucking Boone.
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« Reply #13 on: 17 Jan 2006, 22:28 »
Ted Leo did a version of "Since U Been Gone" that was awsome. I think that was Ted Leo...
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« Reply #14 on: 18 Jan 2006, 00:52 »
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and CoB usually get the credit, although I know it's not them.


Even if they said it in interview?



Ah but it's Norther. The band even more CoB like than the Children of Bodom themselves.
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« Reply #15 on: 18 Jan 2006, 01:46 »
I was hanging out at a friend's party, he had a karaoke machcine, a couple cds. there was a lot of new angsty chick rock (like "since u been gone", tho i didnt think thats the one I did), and so a friend of mine told me to go do it and w/ hardcore lyrics... So I sang it (No mics required) Hardcore/Screamo/Metal style. It converted perfectly... just add a distorted bass guitar and you're good to go. Its an easy one, not so wierd, but it does the job.

Something like Zero by the Smashing Pumpkins on whimsical instruments... a little hand drum, and a flute/xylophone, with little kid style sing-song vocals - gotta rearrange the rhythmics on the whole song to make it work, but it could easily be done...

uhm... i can totally hear it... it makes me giggle...
seriously. somebody do that. if nobody else does I will, except since I dont have a xylophone i'd have to use my piano, two octaves above what the song should be.

*gigglefit*
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« Reply #16 on: 18 Jan 2006, 03:02 »
The best cover of all time is Iron and Wine doing Such Great Heights by the Postal Service

It is not often I find a cover I like better than the original
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« Reply #17 on: 18 Jan 2006, 03:39 »
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trash metal out of Back In The USSR by the Beatles


It's been done, live by Type O Negative several times. They've also done Daytripper.

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2T220PZJIPH7J11MSB46PAU11D

If you want wierd, you've got to do something totally off the fucking wall, I mean, not even rock. An NWA cover, or Kylie Minogue, or something. That's why Overlords cover of Girls Aloud's 'Sound of the Underground' and Brujeria's warped cover of the Macarena (Marijuana) are so good: because they're SO wrong.


Yeah, we found a good one for really off the wall. Pussycat Dolls - Dont Cha. Personally, I despise the song, but meh. We're changing around the lyrics a bit to 'God I wish' instead of 'Don't you wish'. Trying to make it into speed metal but I don't know if that'll work. Might go grunge on that one.
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« Reply #18 on: 18 Jan 2006, 03:44 »
Anything the Residents covered/desecrated is pretty cool. DEVO had some great covers, particularly Satisfaction. The Toy Dolls covered the Final Countdown using Kazoos. There's a great band called the Ramonetures who have surf cover albums of the Ramones and X. Nothing else comes to mind right now although I'm sure there's more I think of later.
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« Reply #19 on: 18 Jan 2006, 05:14 »
I have a couple of songs by some band doing lounge covers of Nirvana which are pretty cool. I just can't remember what they're called.
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« Reply #20 on: 18 Jan 2006, 06:45 »
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Ted Leo did a version of "Since U Been Gone" that was awsome. I think that was Ted Leo...


...didn't the original of that song come out like. A year ago? That's kinda like somebody doing a cover of "Hey Ya".
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« Reply #21 on: 18 Jan 2006, 06:50 »
What does that matter?
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« Reply #22 on: 18 Jan 2006, 06:54 »
Eh, just kinda struck me as unusual.
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« Reply #23 on: 18 Jan 2006, 07:40 »
Under Byen's cover of Leonard Cohen - I am Your Man has banjo and sinister percussion. Their female singer Henriette Sennenvaldt only makes it more bizarre;)
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« Reply #24 on: 18 Jan 2006, 09:29 »
the gold standard for warping lyrics is Inkubus Sukkubus' cover of 'I Can't Get You Out of My Head':

Can't get you outta my head
Got a devil here inside me
I can't get you outta my head
The dead in Hell are calling me

Can't get you outta my head
As a razor tears into my flesh
I can't get you outta my head
As I'm drowning in this misery

Every night, Every day
Just to be there in your arms

La la la
La la la la la
La la la
La la la la la
La la la
La la la la la
La la la
La la la la la

Can't get you outta my head
When the soul is ripped right outta me
I can't get you outta my head
When the cloak of Death is over me

Every night, Every day
Just to be there in your arms

Can't get you outta my head
Can't get you outta my head
Can't get you outta my head
Can't get you outta my head

La la la
La la la la la
La la la
La la la la la
La la la
La la la la la
La la la
La la la la la

etc.
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« Reply #25 on: 18 Jan 2006, 12:03 »
Claps Your Hands Say Yeah - Heavy Metal

Except, as actual Heavy Metal.

Something by the prodigy will probably be power metalfied.
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« Reply #26 on: 18 Jan 2006, 13:07 »
In my book, taking a metal song and turning it into an acoustic ballad or taking a calm, relaxing song and doing a metal version of it is neither weird nor particularly clever. There are other genres too you know. Try to funk up some Tom Waits or do a blues rendition of some pop-punk track or something.
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« Reply #27 on: 18 Jan 2006, 13:19 »
Yeah, but: We're a metal band, and like I said, we're trying to make the 'mainstream' audience go 'wtf?'. I doubt they even heard of Tom Waits. Not any of the people I know, anyway. Besides, we're terrible, so we need some simple things to start with.
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« Reply #28 on: 18 Jan 2006, 13:23 »
I was going to think of an original reply to this thread but ever since I heard "dub will tear us apart" it's been my stock answer for every covers topic ever.

(it's just an EP Of 4 dub reggae covers of Joy Division classics. Quite awesome.)
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« Reply #29 on: 18 Jan 2006, 13:56 »
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Yeah, but: We're a metal band, and like I said, we're trying to make the 'mainstream' audience go 'wtf?'


Well then metal covers it is. They can be quite awesome too, if done well. (And even if they're done badly it will still make people go "wtf?") Have you heard Fantomas' Directros Cut? They have some truly wicked hardcore/metal/avant-garde covers of film music.
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« Reply #30 on: 18 Jan 2006, 17:10 »
Pretty much everything Kai said. Primus and Residents ftw. Primus' rendition of The Devil Went Down To Georgia and the matching video brings a tear to my claymated eye.
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« Reply #31 on: 18 Jan 2006, 17:11 »
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Yeah, but: We're a metal band, and like I said, we're trying to make the 'mainstream' audience go 'wtf?'. I doubt they even heard of Tom Waits. Not any of the people I know, anyway. Besides, we're terrible, so we need some simple things to start with.



Do "Hit Me baby one more time", use the cover by Travis as a basis but replace wussy vocals and acoustic with some bitchin' guitars and a suitable vocal.
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« Reply #32 on: 18 Jan 2006, 17:52 »
Hah. Do the vocal melody on a heavily-distorted guitar. A Les Paul or a copy thereof, preferably, since it has that amazing "I am going to destroy you" tone to it.
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« Reply #33 on: 18 Jan 2006, 18:18 »
big red car by the wiggles or any other childrens songs!
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« Reply #34 on: 18 Jan 2006, 20:55 »
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Hah. Do the vocal melody on a heavily-distorted guitar. A Les Paul or a copy thereof, preferably, since it has that amazing "I am going to destroy you" tone to it.


Indeed, listen to Muse's coer of "I can't take my eyes off you" for inspiration.
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« Reply #35 on: 19 Jan 2006, 00:08 »
Wow - the Ted Leo cover is amazing.

Especially the Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover right in the middle. MAAAAPPS.

So fricken funny. I started laughing my fricken ass off when he started singing maps, esp with how smoothly he blended it.
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« Reply #36 on: 19 Jan 2006, 04:54 »
Don't do the Alphabet Song, my band and I already have plans for it. We're thinking either reggae, blues, or a 'Top Gun'-inspired guitar riff ballad.
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« Reply #37 on: 19 Jan 2006, 13:40 »
Bon Jovi Style Alphabet song? GO FOR IT
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #38 on: 19 Jan 2006, 15:37 »
I've always been a fan of Throwdown's cover of "Baby Got Back".
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« Reply #39 on: 19 Jan 2006, 15:53 »
Definitely the white-power metal version of ABBA's "Dancing Queen" that I heard blaring out of a neo-Nazi skinhead's earphones on a train in Finland.
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« Reply #40 on: 20 Jan 2006, 10:24 »
YOU ARE THE DANCING QUEEN
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ONLY 17 (GAS THE JEWS)
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« Reply #41 on: 20 Jan 2006, 11:23 »
if i was in a covers band it'd be speeddisco versions of hymns
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« Reply #42 on: 20 Jan 2006, 11:31 »
Nina Gordon's acoustic cover of Straight Outta Compton is a bit fucking great.

See also : Ben Folds' cover of Bitches Ain't Shit.
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« Reply #43 on: 20 Jan 2006, 15:46 »
I love that cover. BITCHES AIN'T SHIT BUT HOES AND TRICKS


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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #44 on: 20 Jan 2006, 15:57 »
That's probably on the 'A Metal Tribute to Abba' CD, which I don't think has any WP bandfs obn it, just normal sort of shit.

Therion - Summer Night City slays all on that. Also, it has, like, one of the most out there fucking videopsl,
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« Reply #45 on: 21 Jan 2006, 02:29 »
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« Reply #46 on: 21 Jan 2006, 04:05 »
Be My Baby with Scary Demon Vocals could be fun or maybe Help!

HELP!
I NEED SOME BLOOD
HELP!
NOT JUST ANY BLOOD
HELP!
YOU KNOW I NEED SOME BLOOD
HELP!

but that has probably been done...
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« Reply #47 on: 21 Jan 2006, 08:59 »
Trash metal version of "I shot the sheriff"? Are you -insane-?
Although, I'm rather curious to as to what it would sound like... Damn you, curiosity!
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« Reply #48 on: 21 Jan 2006, 13:27 »
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Wow - the Ted Leo cover is amazing.

Especially the Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover right in the middle. MAAAAPPS.

So fricken funny. I started laughing my fricken ass off when he started singing maps, esp with how smoothly he blended it.


I was listening to it on my ipod at work and just BURST out laughing, people thought I was totally insane.
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« Reply #49 on: 21 Jan 2006, 13:42 »
I want a Dragonforce cover of "Yesterday" by the Beatles.
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