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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Johnny C on 16 Apr 2006, 22:01
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Since apparently I just SUCK at making CRAP, I decided to post a topic for those tribute albums we'd kill three kittens to see. Yes, three is the mandatory number.
DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT US: A NEW-NEW WAVE TRIBUTE TO POST-PUNK AND NEW WAVE
1) "Girls On Film" - Bloc Party
2) "Atmosphere - The Killers
3) "Psycho Killer" - Franz Ferdinand
4) "Synchronicity II" - The Stills
5) "Rhapsody" - TV On The Radio
6) "Take On Me" - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
7) "Come On Eileen" - The Rapture
8) "Friday I'm In Love" - British Sea Power
9) "She Blinded Me With Science" - We Are Scientists
10) "Karma Chameleon" - The Walkmen
11) "Tainted Love" - Editors
12) "Don't You Forget About Me" - Interpol
The bar is set, bitches.
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I'd like to see the Sonic Youth tribute to the Ramones. Which reminds me that I want a copy of Hold On Tiger.
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Man, I'd totally do a kickass tribute to Iron Maiden but I'm really lazy.
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Man, I'd totally do a kickass tribute to Iron Maiden but I'm really lazy.
FROM ONE LEGEND TO ANOTHER: GOOD BANDS COVER IRON MAIDEN
1: King Diamond - 2 Minutes to Midnight
2: Running Wild - Ghost of the Navigator
3: Judas Priest - Aces High
4: Star One - To Tame a Land
5: Dan Swano - Murders in the Rue Morgue
6: Saxon - Killers
7: Dio - Powerslave
8: Wuthering Heights - Children of the Damned
9: Hawkwind - Transylvania
10: The Lord Wierd Slough Feg - The Trooper
11: Testament - The Number of the Beast
12: HammerFall - Phantom of the Opera
13: 3 Inches of Blood - 22 Acacia Avenue
14: Motorhead - Bring Your Daughter...To the Slaughter
15: Nevermore - Run to the Hills
16: Skyclad - Hallowed Be Thy Name
17: Ensiferum - Dance of Death
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Khar wins the thread.
I'm thinking of some modern, more mainstream rock bands to do a grunge tribute. Like Alter Bridge covering Pearl Jam's Alive, and Godsmack doing Alice In Chains' Rooster. Stuff like that. But, I wouldn't kill to hear it, so I won't go any further.
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WilcocoversRadioheadcoversWilco.
Disc one: Wilco cover Radiohead
1. The National Anthem
2. The Bends
3. Creep
4. Electioneering
5. Talk Show Host
6. Just
7. Paranoid Android
8. Pyramid Song
9. There, There
10. Climbing Up The Walls
11. Fake Plastic Trees
12. Everything In Its Right Place
Disc two: Radiohead cover Wilco
1. I Am Trying To Break Your Heard
2. At Least That's What You Said
3. A Shot In The Arm
4. Misunderstood
5. Kicking Television
6. I'm The Man Who Loves You
7. She's A Jar
8. Poor Places
9. Via Chicago
10. The Late Greats
11. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
I'd buy it.
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I think if i played Dio doing Powerslave the building would collapse from the sheer awesome.
A Zappa Tribute Album
1) They Might Be Giants- Wind Up Working In a Gas Station
2) Hamell On Trial- Dumb All Over
3) Oysterhead- The Gumbo Variations
4) Flaming Lips- The Idiot Bastard Son
5) Tom Waits- Trouble Every Day
6) The Fall- Billy The Mountain
7) Fantomas- Cosmik Debris
8) Super Furry Animals- Let's Make The Water Turn Black
9) Brian Wilson- America Drinks And Goes Home
10) Ween- Dirty Love
11) George Clinton- Willie The Pimp
12)John McLaughlin- Black Napkins
13) John Zorn- King Kong
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Ted Leo covers Belle and Sebastian's "If You're Feeling Sinister" in its entirety. "The Stars of Track and Field" would sound especially nice.
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A NO WAVE TRIBUTE TO NEW WAVE
01 DNA - Burning Down the House (by Talking Heads)
02 Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Cars (by Gary Numan)
03 James White - Goody Two Shoes (by Adam Ant)
04 Sonic Youth - China Girl (by David Bowie)
05 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks -
06 Mars - Drive (by the Cars)
07 Bush Tetras - The Gap (by Thompson Twins)
08 ESG - Making Plans for Nigel (by XTC)
09 Glenn Branca - Blue Monday (by New Order)
10 Theoretical Girls - Come on Eileen (by Dexy's Midnight Runners)
11 Arthur Russell - I Can't Stand Losing You (by the Police)
12 The Contortions - Quiet Life (by Japan)
13 Liquid Liquid - Take On Me (by a-Ha)
14 Suicide - Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne (by Suicide)
I can't think of any more perfect synergy of noise and other noise.
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THE SINFUL ENSEMBLE: A TRIBUTE TO SKYCLAD
Ensiferum - The Disenchanted Forest
Korpiklaani - Spinning Jenny
Sol Invictus - Moongleam and Meadowsweet
Cruachan - Helium
Encrimson'd - Skyclad
Suidakra - The One Piece Puzzle
Waylander - Still Spinning Shrapnel
New Model Army - Penny Dreadful
Current 93 - Ring Stone Round
Agalloch - Postcard From Planet Earth
Ewigkeit - The Great Brain Robbery
Graveworm - Catherine at the Wheel
Wyrd - Our Dying Island
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Pink Floyd-A Saucerful Of Tributes
The Arcade Fire:Bike
Idina Menzel:Money
Mogwai:A Saucerful Of Secrets
Iron and Wine:Wish You Were Here
The White Stripes:Fearless/Seamus
The Dresden Dolls:Us and Them
Opeth:Echoes
Tool:One Of These Days I'm Going To Cut You Into Little Pieces/Shine On,You Crazy Diamond
Mushroomhead (With Jeff Nothing doing all of the vocals):Have A Cigar/Empty Spaces (Which they have already done..well!)
Porcupine Tree:Comfortably Numb (GOD YES)
Queens Of The Stoneage:Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
There would be more,of course..but these are all most important!
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The Dresden Dolls should definitely do Bike. The Arcade Fire can bugger off and be replaced with any of the following:
Ewigkeit - One Of These Days
Swans - High Hopes or Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Bauhaus - See Emily Play
Coil - Time
Placebo - Mother
British Sea Power - Echoes
Nightingale feat. Diamanda Galas - The Great Gig in the Sky
Alien Sex Fiend - Comfortably Numb
Throbbing Gristle - Another Brick in the Wall pts. 1, 2 and 3
Tan-Hauser Gate - Brain Damage-Eclipse
Hawkwind - Astronomy Domine
Nurse With Wound - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gavered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict
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Placebo - Mother
urgh, I hope not. I love Placebo very much but their covers are pretty much crap.
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I blame that on the fact that Bigmouth Strikes Again was the only half-decent original tune. Mother would mesh very well with their style.
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FROM ONE LEGEND TO ANOTHER: GOOD BANDS COVER IRON MAIDEN
1: King Diamond - 2 Minutes to Midnight
2: Running Wild - Ghost of the Navigator
3: Judas Priest - Aces High
4: Star One - To Tame a Land
5: Dan Swano - Murders in the Rue Morgue
6: Saxon - Killers
7: Dio - Powerslave
8: Wuthering Heights - Children of the Damned
9: Hawkwind - Transylvania
10: The Lord Wierd Slough Feg - The Trooper
11: Testament - The Number of the Beast
12: HammerFall - Phantom of the Opera
13: 3 Inches of Blood - 22 Acacia Avenue
14: Motorhead - Bring Your Daughter...To the Slaughter
15: Nevermore - Run to the Hills
16: Skyclad - Hallowed Be Thy Name
17: Ensiferum - Dance of Death
Oh god, I would buy this SO HARD. But I think Motorhead should do Be Quick or Be Dead, because Bring Your Daughter is such a bad song I'm not even sure Lemmy could make it right.
And 3 Inches of Blood should do Paschendale, just because that would be so fucking amazing I can hardly imagine it. Wait, actually, Nevermore should do Paschendale, and then 3 Inches of Blood could do Run to the Hills.
EDIT: We could also get some prog metal bands to do tracks off Somewhere In Time. Kamelot doing Wasted Years, Pain of Salvation doing Sea of Madness, etc.
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How in the world would you ever get that guitar solo in "I'm the Man Who Loves You" out of Radiohead? I don't think I've ever heard anything like it from them... I'd buy it just for that.
That and to hear Jeff Tweedy sing Creep.
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I blame that on the fact that Bigmouth Strikes Again was the only half-decent original tune. Mother would mesh very well with their style.
Are you kidding. Been smoking to long was the most badass song. Placebo killed though.
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Oh god, I would buy this SO HARD. But I think Motorhead should do Be Quick or Be Dead, because Bring Your Daughter is such a bad song I'm not even sure Lemmy could make it right.
Yeah, Bring Your Daughter is basically unlistenable.
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Then again, good bands can make bad songs decent. I point to Testament's cover of Holier than Thou. But Motorhead could totally pull off Be Quick Or Be Dead as well, and that song is better.
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I blame that on the fact that Bigmouth Strikes Again was the only half-decent original tune. Mother would mesh very well with their style.
IS this the moment where I am offended that you dissed the Pixies? NAh, I'll take offence at the diss of Kate Bush.
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@ Stormrider: Yeah, but think for a moment about what Motorheads version of Bring Your Daughter... would sound like. Faster, gravelier, and redolent of the concept that Lemmy wants your daughter. Which he does, the old rogue. Okay, if not Bring Your Daughter... then Women in Uniform. It's gotta fit the band.
What Kate Bush song did they cover? I could care less about the Pixies.
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A Jawbreaker Tribute That Doesn't Totally Suck (Like The Other One Did)
01. The Soviettes- "The Boat Dreams From the Hill"
02. The Honor System- "Shield Your Eyes"
03. The Methadones- "Save Your Generation"
04. Leatherface- "Want"
05. Mike Park- "Big"
06. Against Me!- "Boxcar"
07. The Lawrence Arms- "Chesterfield King"
08. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists- "Fireman"
09. Streetlight Manifesto- "Do You Still Hate Me?"
10. The Weakerthans- "Accident Prone"
11. A Radio With Guts- "Kiss the Bottle"*
12. The Smoking Popes- "Oyster"
13. Teenage Bottlerocket- "Jinx Removing"
14. Dillinger Four- "Ashtray Monument"
15. MU330- "West Bay Invitational"
*they already did an acoustic cover, but i'd like to hear a full-band version.
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What Kate Bush song did they cover? I could care less about the Pixies.
Running Up That Hill. It's actually my favourite cover of the lot.
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Ooh, haven't got that one.
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But...But guys, "Been Smokin' too Long" (http://www.robinfrederick.com/SmokingBF3.m3u)?
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Pink Floyd-A Saucerful Of Tributes
The Arcade Fire:Bike
Idina Menzel:Money
Mogwai:A Saucerful Of Secrets
Iron and Wine:Wish You Were Here
The White Stripes:Fearless/Seamus
The Dresden Dolls:Us and Them
Opeth:Echoes
Tool:One Of These Days I'm Going To Cut You Into Little Pieces/Shine On,You Crazy Diamond
Mushroomhead (With Jeff Nothing doing all of the vocals):Have A Cigar/Empty Spaces (Which they have already done..well!)
Porcupine Tree:Comfortably Numb (GOD YES)
Queens Of The Stoneage:Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
There would be more,of course..but these are all most important!
Good idea, but horrific choices from where I'm standing.
Did they put 'What Do We Do Now?' on the end of Empty Spaces?
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The Dresden Dolls should definitely do Bike. The Arcade Fire can bugger off and be replaced with any of the following:
Ewigkeit - One Of These Days
Swans - High Hopes or Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Bauhaus - See Emily Play
Coil - Time
Placebo - Mother
British Sea Power - Echoes
Nightingale feat. Diamanda Galas - The Great Gig in the Sky
Alien Sex Fiend - Comfortably Numb
Throbbing Gristle - Another Brick in the Wall pts. 1, 2 and 3
Tan-Hauser Gate - Brain Damage-Eclipse
Hawkwind - Astronomy Domine
Nurse With Wound - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gavered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict
Hmm..you might be on to something. But The Arcade Fire MUST be involved to me..perhaps I will have them do Run Like Hell. No..Mushroomhead kept it as it was on the album..however,it would have been brilliant if they had added "What Do We Do Now?"
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Good idea, but horrific choices from where I'm standing.
I still agree with this one. I don't think any of those have a style that wouldn't take everything that made Pink Floyd good out of it. Not to say those bands are bad, they just don't have what Pink Floyd had, nor are they anywhere close. They do completely different stuff!
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I'm sorry, I don't care what KoRn did, there's loads and loads of songs between the three parts of Another Brick. You can't just staple them together like that, you can hardly get away with just Another Brick Part II on its own.
Okay, if we're doing Floyd tribute albums, here's how it'd go down for me:
1. The Mars Volta - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V and VII)
2. The Alamos - Astronomy Domine
3. Nick Cave - Mother (that would be SO AWESOME)
4. Rocky Votolato - Fearless
5. U2 - Take It Back (OH THE IRONY)
6. The Scorpions - In The Flesh?/In The Flesh (well, they've done it before...)
7. Explosions In The Sky - One Of These Days
8. Interpol - Two Suns in the Sunset
9. Graham Coxon - Bike
10. Wilco - Hey You
11. Radiohead - Welcome To The Machine
12. Sigur Ros - Sorrow
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I still agree with this one. I don't think any of those have a style that wouldn't take everything that made Pink Floyd good out of it. Not to say those bands are bad, they just don't have what Pink Floyd had, nor are they anywhere close. They do completely different stuff!
No.
Listen to Girl Anachronism. Dreden Dolls could do Bike FANTASTICALLY. Ewigkeit lists Pink Floyd as his primary musical inspiration, and the insane electro-rock he brings to tracks like 'How To Conquer the World', 'Esc' and 'Strange Volk' would rock the shit out of One of These Days. Hell, it's hardly a jump, he's already ripped off the bassline in About Time (though it IS just the Dr. Who bassline...) Swans: Mournful, depressing slowcore/industrial with neo-folk touches. Would rock out either of those tracks. See for reference their cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart, a song I could not previously have believed could have been done justice by anyone but the late Mr. Curtis. Bauhaus doing See Emily Play would be hilarious (I was thinking in the vein of their cover of 'Spirit in the Sky'), though now I think of it, it would be better if that one was done by the Bauhaus novelty side-project The Sinister Ducks (Featuring ALAN FUCKING MOORE). Coil are just geniuses, though there is the slight danger they'd take too much acid and get a choir of parrots in on the chorus or something. Placebo we've discussed. I've heard the Sisters of Mercy do Comfortably Numb, and basically, that means Alien Sex Fiend could pull it off better. British Sea Power are, what, oceanic-sounding shoegaze or something? Echoes is almost perfect for them, and they'd do wonderful things with it. Nightingale are one of the best not-quite-prog acts around, and Diamanda Galas would turn those vocals into something utterly mind-blowing. Throbbing Gristles effort would, I admit, be a crime against music and sanity, but it would be a glorious crime. It would be the Robin Hood of sonic atrocities. Tan-Hauser Gate are rather unknown, but, well, trust me. Those guys probably spent most of their teenage years smoking dope and listening to Floyd. They could do it and well. Anyone who thinks Hawkwind shouldn't be forced AT FUCKING GUNPOINT to do Astronomy Domine is mad, and, well, 'Several Species...' is one of the first songs I can think of outside Musique Concrete to be composed entirely of tape manipulation, which happens to be NWW's forte. Ok, ok, Nurse With Wound & Current 93. Dave Tibet could make the animal noises. It would be fucking SUBLIME.
I picked all those bands because they are all, (with the arguable exception of Placebo, who I just like, ok?) somewhat to extremely left-field, interesting acts, which is what Pink Floyd was. To get mainstream rock bands to create slavish clones or clumsy genre translations of the Floyd is an insult to the music itself. Covers come in two brands*: tributes and whacked out re-interpretations/deconstructions/fuck knows. I know which one I like.
Oh, and whilst we're at it, lets have an already existing cover on there:
Laibach - The Dogs of War
*Well, technically three, the other being the 'We couldn't write a good pop single of our own.'
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have you heard the band from montana (later seattle and chicago) called silkworm? they bore coincidental resemblance to '24hr revenge therapy' era jawbreaker. in particular, their albums 'libertine' and 'firewater' are stylistically similar. check them out.
sweet. i'll check 'em out. incidentally, have you heard of Leatherface? they're like Jawbreaker's UK cousin, but with the occassional piano ballad or Nick Cave cover. they're pretty awesome.
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A tribute to Death in June:
1. Of The Wand and the Moon - Lost In Emptiness
2. Of The Wand and the Moon - My Devotion Will Never Fade
3. Of The Wand and the Moon - In A Robe Of Fire
4. Of The Wand and the Moon - Algir Naudir Wunjo
5. Of The Wand and the Moon - Silver Rain
6. Of The Wand and the Moon - Gal Anda
7. Of The Wand and the Moon - Here's To Misery (A Toast)
8. Of The Wand and the Moon - Can I Erase The Demon
9. Of The Wand and the Moon - Reficul
GUYS ITS A JOKE BECAUSE IT IMPLIES OTWATM JUST RIP OFF DI6.
IS IT NOT FUNNY.
HARR.
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Covers come in two brands*: tributes and whacked out re-interpretations/deconstructions/fuck knows. I know which one I like.
I like both, provided the first one is done well. But I see your point.