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« Reply #50 on: 21 Jan 2006, 14:38 »

I like the Frou Frou cover of Holding Out for a Hero that they did for the Shrek 2 soundtrack.  Not so much a crazy cover, but it is fun
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« Reply #51 on: 21 Jan 2006, 15:04 »

My personal updated 'strange covers' CD:

The Dresden Dolls - War Pigs [Black Sabbath]
Edge of Sanity - Invisible Sun [The Police]
Type O Negative - Back In The USSR [The Beatles]
Anti-Ben - Born In The U.S.A. [Bruce Springsteen]
KMFDM - These Boots Are Made For Walking [Nancy Sinatra]
Bauhaus - Spirit In The Sky [Norman Greenbaum]
Ewigkeit - Ea 2000: Out for the Count [Cover of Burzum's 'Ea, Lord of the Depths']
Nina Gordon - Straight Out Of Compton [NWA]
Entombed - Amazing Grace (Punk Version)
Inkubus Sukkubus - I Just Can't Get You Out Of My Head [Kylie Minogue]
Brujeria - Marijuana [Cover of Los del Río's 'Macarena']
Tori Amos - Raining Blood [Slayer]
Skyclad - Prime Evil [Venom]
Overlord - Super Rocking Secret Song [Cover of Girls Aloud's 'Sound of the Underground']
Discordance Axis - Gimme Gimme Gimme [Black Flag]
Libitina - Gothic People [Cover of Pulp's 'Common People']
Anal Cunt - Stayin Alive (Oi! version) [Bee Gees Cover]
The Misfits - Monster Mash (live) [Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt Kickers]
The Meads of Asphodel - Utopia [Hawkwind]
Therion - Summer Night City [Abba]
Children of Bodom - Oops! I Did it Again [Britney Spears Cover]
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« Reply #52 on: 21 Jan 2006, 15:24 »

You know what would be awesome? A Death Metal cover of Sound of Silence, by Simon and Garfunkle. I wonder what that'd be like. Picture a video for it. Some wild-haired buff tattooed dude screaming into a mike, "HELLOOOOOOOO, DARKNESSSSSSSSSSS!!!! <Crowd screams 'YEAH'> MY OOOOOOOOOOLLLD FRIEEEEEEEEEEEENDD!!!"
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« Reply #53 on: 21 Jan 2006, 16:52 »

Your mention of Nancy Sinatra covers (Khar) reminded me of the Residents. They covered These Boots Are Made for Walking (Shortened to just Boots, released on Meet The Residents) that is so warped that you can't tell that it's a cover unless you listen for it.
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« Reply #54 on: 21 Jan 2006, 17:32 »

Ugh, that bitch Jessica Simpson...
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« Reply #55 on: 21 Jan 2006, 18:19 »

Operation Ivy covered it too.
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« Reply #56 on: 21 Jan 2006, 22:45 »

I've been listening to Wolf Parade a lot lately... But..
I wonder what a Wolf Parade cover of The Beatles - While My Guitar Gentley Weeps.
They have a really nice sound, and I think it'd fit the song. Thoughts?
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« Reply #57 on: 21 Jan 2006, 23:08 »

The Pictures did a great cover of Milkshake, by Kelis on Like a Version.

Speaking of These Boots are Made for Walking covers that aren't appalling, Little Birdy did a cover of it that came out on the CD as well.
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« Reply #58 on: 21 Jan 2006, 23:22 »

I didn't like Jessica Simpson's cover of that. The video was tantalizing, though, to say the least.
The Pictures did a cover of Milkshake?  I should look into this.. Was it good?
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« Reply #59 on: 22 Jan 2006, 00:45 »

I thought it was awesome as hell, but you can decide for yourself. (The Pictures cover that is. I can't imagine anyone here enjoying the massacre of Nancy Sinatra that Jessica Simpson did)

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The whole Like a Version CD was awesome in my opinion. There are songs I didn't really like originally that were really well done, like The Cat Empires version of Hotel California, and Damien Rice doing When Doves Cry, and some bands I've never really liked doing covers of songs I like that were decent as well, like Jebediah doing "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head"

For some reason, that annoying as fuck nasally voice works really well with Raindrops, when I should just be appalled.

Also, Love Outside Andromeda doing Bowie's Andy Warhol was cream-tacular in general.
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« Reply #60 on: 22 Jan 2006, 08:14 »

I'm thinking my band needs to do a cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," but put the lead guitar through a wah pedal. Give it that "White Room" feel that it wants so badly.
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« Reply #61 on: 22 Jan 2006, 22:35 »

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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


The rest of the C.D. the guy was listening to was filled with songs about concentration camps and the like: he had the C.D. turned up so loudly that even though he was wearing earphones, it was possible for everyone else in the train carriage to hear every word.  Also, the guy in question was wearing clothes covered in Nazi insignia (the Nazi swastika, S.S. logo, etc.).  The cover of "Dancing Queen" sounded like it was done by the same band as the rest of the C.D.
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« Reply #62 on: 23 Jan 2006, 06:11 »

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I'm thinking my band needs to do a cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," but put the lead guitar through a wah pedal. Give it that "White Room" feel that it wants so badly.


Would that sound good? I mean, the whole thing of the guitar weeping was original, yes, but any other way than the Beatles did it would be like, wrong :o
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« Reply #63 on: 23 Jan 2006, 07:24 »

Well, I mean, it's worth a try. If it turns out it sounds like crap, we'll just scrap the project.
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« Reply #64 on: 23 Jan 2006, 07:29 »

man, you only live once - when it comes to music, try everything. use steel pans in yr songs, make an entire album of kazoo noise, have girls sing over whitenoise then write hour loing songs that are onyl the sound of water, have a violin player in the band, cover whitehouse and M.I.A and dress like nuns while you play, sample helicopters and eighties soap opera's, do glitch remixes of orbital records then yodel over them, use radiaotrs and tin whistles as instruments, reference every obscure nineteen forties finnish quintet you can think of. don't ever not do anything because it sounds wacky - it might turn out to the the best idea somebody else has ever heard.
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« Reply #65 on: 23 Jan 2006, 08:36 »

Hah, I'm gonna sample random human sounds (baby crying, farting, screams). Then my bassist and I will mix it on GarageBand and make a hella cool beat. Then we'll play a Pink Floyd-inspired depressing riff over it. :B
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« Reply #66 on: 23 Jan 2006, 12:32 »

Dude, if you mess up that song, I'll hunt you down :P
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« Reply #67 on: 23 Jan 2006, 14:29 »

I'll do my bset. I like to think I have an ear for music, so I doubt I'll screw it up too badly. :B
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