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Title: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Brought about by the Elliott Smith thread... we all know there are some things you just don't cover.  Ever.  For any reason.

The Smiths (also: note to shitty emo bands: stop naming yourselves after Smiths songs.  Morrissey hates you.)
REM
Sonic Youth
Bob Dylan
I was about to type "The Rolling Stones" but then I remembered that totally awesome Inspiral Carpets cover of "Gimme Shelter"
Stone Roses
Spiritualized
Nirvana
Slint
My Bloody Valentine
Radiohead
Front 242 ("Headhunter 1969" doesn't count as a cover)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Jane's Addiction
Dead Kennedys

Who else?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: SeanBateman on 21 Jan 2007, 04:33
What about Hendrix covering "All Along The Watchtower? Or Johnny Cash covering It Ain't Me Babe.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: est on 21 Jan 2007, 04:35
I disagree with every entry in that list.  It's just that shitty bands need to stop making shitty covers is all.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: NiMRoD420 on 21 Jan 2007, 04:43
Nothing is ever off limits.

I desire VERY MUCH to make a big long cool epic version of "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" by Dylan.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 21 Jan 2007, 04:46
Those Dylan covers are acceptable because of the Legend Rule: Legends Can Always Cover Legends.

This is why Siouxie and the Banshees are permitted to cover "The Passenger".

Add to list: Bob Marley.
The Clash.

Because the place I work had a white reggae band last night who covered both of those and it hurt.  It really hurt.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 04:55
I have great cover versions of every band on that list which isn't shit except Front 242, which to my knowledge no one has ever covered anyway.

Admittedly that is only three bands.

The Ukrainians did a whole EP of awesome Smiths covers in a semi gypsy-punk style, Placebo have a great version of Bigmouth Strikes Again (Molko is just about the only mainstream musician going still camp enough to pull such a thing off). Entombed's version of The Ballad of Hollis Brown, 16 Horspowers take on Nobody 'cept You, Fairport Conventions version of Percys Song and Ladysmith Black Mombazos cover of Knockin' on Heavens Door do for Dylan. Dead Kennedys comes up into the fairly large wall of Napalm Deaths cover of Nazi Punks Fuck Off,

I'll admit no one should ever cover Radiohead or Nirvana especially because they're shit.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 21 Jan 2007, 05:14
There is a Tribute To Front 242 album on (what else?) Cleopatra and it is FUCKING EPIC FAIL.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ernest on 21 Jan 2007, 05:51
Quote from: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 04:55
I'll admit no one should ever cover Radiohead or Nirvana especially because they're shit.

INFLAMMATORY

Anyway, in my mind, nothing is really off limits.  Oh, and the original post listed The Smiths, but At the Drive-In covered "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" and it was a lot better than The Smiths version.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Inlander on 21 Jan 2007, 05:53
I contend that Smiths covers are acceptable, because the Smiths wrote a few good songs and I'm all for getting to hear them without having to put up with listening to Morrissey.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 21 Jan 2007, 06:41
I would much rather see a list of individual songs which shouldn't be covered anymore. Topping the list for me is "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 06:55
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 05:14
There is a Tribute To Front 242 album on (what else?) Cleopatra and it is FUCKING EPIC FAIL.


If a band so much as puts on a pair of sunglasses, grimaces and sells over ten thousand records Cleopatra will put out a gut-wrenchingly bad tribute album to them. This is not a case against covers so much as a case against Cleopatra records.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: SeanBateman on 21 Jan 2007, 07:01
People should only cover 99 Red Balloons for all eternity, with occasional breaks for brown eyed girl.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Yakob on 21 Jan 2007, 07:20
I like a couple Dylan covers..........Guns N Roses version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and The White Stripes' version of "One More Cup Of Coffee"
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: David_Dovey on 21 Jan 2007, 08:36
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Radiohead
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Radiohead
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Radiohead

Also, Nick Cave.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: ekmesnz on 21 Jan 2007, 08:55
I would actually love for a post-rock band to do a thoughtful cover of something from Spiderland. Slint is the shit.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 21 Jan 2007, 10:03
A friend and I had an idea for a benefit concert that we feel is the best idea ever. A 24-hour cover of "Right Before My Eyes" by The Snitches would be performed, with two caveats.

1) It would only be the totally awesome chorus, ad nauseam.
2) The bands would perform in shifts by trading members one-by-one.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: MusicScribbles on 21 Jan 2007, 10:30
In reply to Johnny...Hahahahahahahah. Nice. As in cool. Or awesome. Yay.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: SilentJ on 21 Jan 2007, 10:41
Quote from: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 04:55
I'll admit no one should ever cover Radiohead or Nirvana especially because they're shit.

Hopefully you're saying the covers of these guys are shit, because Nirvana were fucking brilliant and I've no problem with Radiohead.

Covers of these guys are utter shite though.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Gridgm on 21 Jan 2007, 10:42
um no nirvana we're shit it's just they had a very good marketting department as kurt said himself "we're corporate rock sellouts"

whitlams have quite a good version of tangled up in blue on eternal nightcap

2ndly richard cheese proably outdid radiohead with his version of creep...of course i'm not a radiohead fan so maybe i'm biased
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Beautiful Maladies on 21 Jan 2007, 10:46
Nirvana can be covered exceptionally well, if done in the right way.

I bring before the court Exhibit A:

The Polyphonic Spree's cover of "Lithium"
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Storm Rider on 21 Jan 2007, 10:49
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Nirvana

I disagree! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_vS8CmXn4)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 21 Jan 2007, 11:01
There is an excellent cover of "Just" around somewhere by Mark Ronson. It appeared on some kind of tribute album. It's absurdly good.

So uh, I guess that makes all of y'all wrong.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Kai on 21 Jan 2007, 11:26
Quote from: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 04:55

I'll admit no one should ever cover Radiohead or Nirvana especially because they're shit.

Stormtroopers Of Death totally covered Nirvana's Territorial Pissings.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: SilentJ on 21 Jan 2007, 11:33
In my opinion, Nirvana never sold out too bad until Kurt Cobain died and Coutney Love sold them out like HELL.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Inlander on 21 Jan 2007, 12:37
From reading scores of (repetitive) comments about Nirvana in this forum, it's become increasingly apparent to me that Nirvana were one of those "generational" bands that don't mean half as much to people who weren't kids when the music was still being made.

As far as Nirvana covers goes, as far as I'm concerned it begins and ends with the Charlie Hunter Trio's cover of "Come As You Are". There's a (fuzzy and truncated) version on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I65WyzA1lf8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I65WyzA1lf8). (For those of you wondering, Charlie Hunter was also the guy who played guitar on the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's "Music and Politics".)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 12:58
Quote from: Storm Rider on 21 Jan 2007, 10:49
I disagree! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_vS8CmXn4)

Oh man I'd forgotten that. Yes, I agree, this makes the existence of Nirvana worthwhile. The Territorial Pissings cover was ok, but I've honestly never heard the original so hey. The cover of Ministry's 'Thieves' on that album is pretty fucking bitching though. I shudder to think what the moshpit for that song must have looked like.

As for Nirvana not 'meaning' much to me because I wasn't around when they were making music, I don't think that applies. I don't personally rate any of what could be called 'my generations' seminal mainstream bands either. Nirvana had a few OK songs, which have been overplayed for the last decade. They ushered in a wave of music I consider almost universally shit compared to what had come before: I'd take even the shittiest eighties cock-rock over Silverchair any day of the year, and even the very best of grunge, in my opinion, is easily eclipsed by any Dio song you could care to mention. I don't dislike Nirvana because I wasn't around to feel their magic, in fact, if I had been, I'd have probably hated them a lot more.

Anyway, back to the thread. There are some bands that, whilst they should not never be covered, shouldn't be covered so much, but should be covered a lot less becuase they're so done, or should at least have less obvious songs covered. Prime examples are Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. I must have about a hundred Iron Maiden covers on my computer, and about three that I consider interesting enough when compared to the originals to actually listen to (Sculptureds cover of 'Iron Maiden',  Graveworms cover of 'Fear of the Dark', Therions cover of 'Children of the Damned'). Cover a Running Wild or Accept track or something, for fucks sake! With Sabbath the problem is more the lack of inspiration as to choice (though that's also a problem with Maiden). Everyons done fucking Children of the Grave and Hand of Doom. Why not try something a little more interesting or unusual for a change? I'm yet to hear a decent cover of Heaven and Hell, Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener or The Wizard.

Also, there are indeed more definite songs that should not be covered, or should at least be covered very carefully. Bohemian Rhapsody and Comfortably Numb instantly leap to mind.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 21 Jan 2007, 13:26
Quote from: Johnny C on 21 Jan 2007, 06:41
I would much rather see a list of individual songs which shouldn't be covered anymore.

Mike should add an option to the stock responses that reads "I agree with the opinion previously expressed by Johnny C."

Inlander, that might not be the case. Unlike Khar, I definitely enjoy Nirvana, and I like their music beyond Steve Albini's production or Sonic Youth's championing of them or Cobain's fetish for Pixies. I think they were purveyors of some really fine, rule-breaking rock music, and that in breaking said rules they created some compellingly listenable music. I'm not the only one, either. On any given day in a North American high school somebody is listening to, wearing, reading or thinking about something Nirvana. Being a now-nonexistent band their presence is a little less overpowering but Nirvana's appeal has transcended generation, at least slightly.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 14:43
The only rules Nirvana ever broke were rules about t-shirt sales established by a mister Che Guevara.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Inlander on 21 Jan 2007, 14:52
Yeah yeah yeah, blah blah blah. Do you think some time soon you might express an opinion in the music section that you haven't voiced a hundred times before, Khar?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Rizzo on 21 Jan 2007, 14:56
Quote from: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 04:55
I have great cover versions of every band on that list which isn't shit except Front 242, which to my knowledge no one has ever covered anyway.
The Mercy Cage-Head Hunter (http://mercycage.mediatrix.co.nz/Media/Headhunter.mp3)
Fucking good cover I think. Not too similar to the original and much more grim and cyberpunky.

Gary Numan covers are almost always on par with the original but then again that's not too much to expect...

Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 15:11
Quote from: Inlander on 21 Jan 2007, 14:52
Yeah yeah yeah, blah blah blah. Do you think some time soon you might express an opinion in the music section that you haven't voiced a hundred times before, Khar?

And you are the doyenne of unbridled originality in the field of music criticism? Should I change my opinions every week in order to satisfy your desire for a fresh reading experience, oh worshipful grand vizier of all that is good and pure?

Everyone repeats their fucking opinions here, because there's a huge scarcity of genuinely interesting and original threads. You just remember my opinion because it doesn't agree with yours.

@Rizzo: Replace 'on par' with 'practically identical'. Though to be fair I can't really think of many ways to take most of Gary Numans material that wouldn't be excessively gimmicky (acoustic versions, extreme metal versions, etc.).
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Inlander on 21 Jan 2007, 15:36
Quote from: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 15:11
Everyone repeats their fucking opinions here, because there's a huge scarcity of genuinely interesting and original threads.

Sounds like putting the cart before the horse to me. Do you not think that the scarcity of interesting and original threads in the music section might be linked to the tendency of everyone who frequents this part of the forum to repeat the same old weary opinions, ad nauseum?

EDIT: As a first, hopeful step towards alleviating this problem, I beg everyone's indulgence in making the following announcement:

I really fucking hate Morrissey.

And now that I've made that perfectly clear, and hopefully everybody who frequents this part of the forum is aware of my opinion in this regard, I will never mention it here again.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 21 Jan 2007, 16:22
Quote from: Gridgm on 21 Jan 2007, 10:42
2ndly richard cheese proably outdid radiohead with his version of creep...of course i'm not a radiohead fan so maybe i'm biased

How about instead of a list of artists that shouldn't be covered, we make a list of artists who should never cover anything ever again.  I'll start it off:

Richard Cheese
Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: The extra letter on 21 Jan 2007, 17:44
I'll most definitely second/third/fourth/fifth Radiohead.

I expect everyone's looking forward to Korn's version of "Creep".

I'd also like to add The Sisters of Mercy to the list of bands that should never be covered. Ever. By anyone.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Thrillho on 21 Jan 2007, 18:42
Nick Cave is better at doing covers  - 'What A Wonderful World,' 'Rainy Night In Soho,' - than is at covering; although I prefer Shane MacGowan's vocal on 'Lucy' than Cave's.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: amok on 21 Jan 2007, 18:45
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24

REM

Stochastic Theory do a great synthpop version of Losing My Religion. It's the kind of thing that sounds like a terrible idea on paper but somehow works.

Quote
I'd also like to add The Sisters of Mercy to the list of bands that should never be covered. Ever. By anyone.

Especially not Cradle Of Filth  :-(
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Will on 21 Jan 2007, 23:29
For the record, Richard Cheese covers are entirely exempt from these rules.  Richard Cheese can cover whatever the fuck he wants.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ernest on 21 Jan 2007, 23:38
See, it's easy to make blanket statements like "Nobody should cover _____," but there will always be a way to make a good cover of anything.  End of story.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Thrillho on 22 Jan 2007, 02:11
Tommy did you write that, or copy it from somewhere?

Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: ScrambledGregs on 22 Jan 2007, 02:28
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.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 22 Jan 2007, 02:39
#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.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Caspian on 22 Jan 2007, 04:20
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.
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!
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 22 Jan 2007, 04:26
We Are Scientists did a cover of "Hoppipola" or whatever. It was awful.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 22 Jan 2007, 04:36
it was one of the worst covers of any song by any band i've ever heard.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Merkava on 22 Jan 2007, 04:40
I think it would be hilarious if someone tried to cover anything done by Microphones.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 22 Jan 2007, 04:40
Thursday also ripped off A Silver Mt. Zion.  ASMZ have a song that repeats the line "take these hands and throw them in the river" and a couple years later, Thursday did a song with the exact same line.  At first I assumed it must be from a Bible verse or something, because the sheer weirdness of a band as bad as Thursday both liking ASMZ and ripping them off was too much for me to parse.  Unfortunately I've never been able to find that line used in anything but both songs, so I have to conclude that really is what happened.

Last night one of my bandmates and I were discussing this and I said that no one should ever cover Mogwai, because if you're competent enough to cover a Mogwai song, you might as well just write a Mogwai rip-off of your own instead of covering them.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 22 Jan 2007, 04:46
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Radiohead

LOL. (http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur008.htm)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 22 Jan 2007, 04:51
Quote from: zerodrone on 22 Jan 2007, 04:40
Thursday also ripped off A Silver Mt. Zion.  ASMZ have a song that repeats the line "take these hands and throw them in the river" and a couple years later, Thursday did a song with the exact same line.  At first I assumed it must be from a Bible verse or something, because the sheer weirdness of a band as bad as Thursday both liking ASMZ and ripping them off was too much for me to parse.  Unfortunately I've never been able to find that line used in anything but both songs, so I have to conclude that really is what happened.

Alternatively it's a coincidence.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 22 Jan 2007, 04:54
yeh, i don't consider simply using the same line as another song to be the same as covering that song. if i did than many songs would be covers i think. were the two songs similar musically or was this the only similarity?

yeh, i don't consider simply using the same line as another song to be the same as covering that song. if i did than many songs would be covers i think. were the two songs similar musically or was this the only similarity?

Quote from: ImRonBurgundy? on 22 Jan 2007, 04:46
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Radiohead

LOL. (http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur008.htm)

wow, that is so incredibly awful. i honestly couldn't get through a whole song. granted i only tried a couple but i think that was more than enough. radiohead ska is bad bad stuff.

Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Will on 22 Jan 2007, 04:55
Ockham's Razor, Johnny...
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 22 Jan 2007, 04:57
I think that two bands using the exact same line "take these hands and throw them in the river" is a REALLY big coincidence.  It's not like the line is something simple, like "I used to love her" or "I'm sorry I ran over your cat".
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Rubby on 22 Jan 2007, 05:01
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Radiohead
A band called Obadiah Parker did a great cover of Idioteque. Not only that, but it was live with acoustic instruments.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 22 Jan 2007, 05:04
Quote from: zerodrone on 22 Jan 2007, 04:57
I think that two bands using the exact same line "take these hands and throw them in the river" is a REALLY big coincidence.  It's not like the line is something simple, like "I used to love her" or "I'm sorry I ran over your cat".


that's very true and most likely thursday did steal the line. damn thieves! but i wouldn't really consider that a cover, just a case of blatant rip-offery.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 22 Jan 2007, 05:05
I'm going to have to defeat my own point by just now remembering that Infradig does a fucking awesome instrumental medley of Radiohead songs.  It's not really a "cover" per se, though, more like a live sound collage.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Will on 22 Jan 2007, 05:09
@Wombat: Yeah, two songs really sound nothing at all alike, and the only thing that's the same is that one line, so calling the Thursday song a 'cover' is really not applicable here.  I wonder if it was something they did intentionally or not though; a lot of times in stuff I write, I'll find myself using snippets and phrases that when I go back and read it I realize I grabbed it from the lines to a song that was in my head, or a writer I'm really into.  It's not necessarily that I'm trying to pass off these words as being my own, more that I don't realize that I'm that heavily influenced by artists at times.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 22 Jan 2007, 05:19
Wait, at no point did I say Thursday was "covering" ASMZ, I was just mentioning that they ripped off a line from them.

Thursday also have an awful song called "Ian Curtis".  Basically I hate that damn band.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 22 Jan 2007, 05:21
you hate thursday or you hate joy division?

if it's the latter do you, by association, hate 'ian curtis wishlist' by xiu xiu?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 22 Jan 2007, 05:25
No no, I hate Thursday.  Joy Division is one of my three favorite bands of all time.

I also enjoy Xiu Xiu.  I am man enough to admit I would go gay for Jamie Stewart.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Jan 2007, 10:02
Quote from: tommydski on 22 Jan 2007, 01:32
The point stands that Nirvana were an important gateway band. If you don't like the music, you should at least appreciate that some of the people that did probably grew up to make interesting music of their own or just expanded their musical horizons to the extent that the music they listen to now is a lot better than it was before they knew who Nirvana were. Look at all the bands I named in this post we can connect with Nirvana. I'll bet almost all of these bands benefited from the connection in some way. Maybe that should be the legacy of Nirvana.

Tommy, I have spent UNCOUNTABLE art lessons, car journeys, outdoor drinking sessions, house parties and goodness knows what else being forced to listen to Bleach, In Utero, Incesticide and whatever (In fact, I had to point out to two of my close friends that the album was not called Insecticide). I went through at least one year of every single one of my closest friends being obsessed with Nirvana, Courtney-killed-Kurt conspiracies and all. Of these five guys and two girls who spent that year learning how to put on heavy eyeliner (I was already wearing lipstick) and wearing their obligatory Nirvana shirts, I can honestly say that maybe one of them actually had his musical taste improved by listening to Nirvana, and that's only because Nirvana probably got him into Placebo, which then got him into Bowie. Two of them are now cliche scene kids, and one is a pillhead. None of them, to my knowledge (And I'm still good friends with most of them, one even goes to art college with me), likes any of the bands mentioned in your post (which is interesting, at the end of the day, because I, the man who has disliked Nirvana since the first note, like at least some stuff by The Melvins and The Pixies).

It remains, that for all the rock-nerd wanking and rationalisation, the legacy of Nirvana was not turning hard rock music in to a beautiful liberal flower of loveliness and making everyone listen to your favourite eighties bands. Far from it. The legacy of Nirvana, in real world terms, was to popularise two aspects of underground music of the 80's: soft-loud singing dynamics and dischordant guitar fuzz. This set the stage for every awful mainsteam rock band till whenever it was everyone started ripping off Gang of Four and New Order again. You yourself admitted that they are entirely describable by their influences: they broke no rules, they made no advances, they merely proved commercial viability, which is always the worst measure of how good anything is.

Also, the bands you mentioned in regards to eighties rock are, to be fair, shit. Some of them I would still take over Nirvana purely sonically, but they are not what I consider when I think of eighties rock. In this case, Nirvana might be categorised, I suppose, as a positive phenomenon, in that it pushed heavy metal back underground where it belongs, in the hands of people who genuinely love it and killed off Hair Metal, which admittedly did suck, though, in my opinion, a lot less than the nu metal which rode grunges coat-tails to fame. I suppose I was more thinking of the old-school metal my friends might have been listening to had I gone to school a decade earlier. S.O.D., Slayer, Anthrax, Venom, Iron Maiden, Kreator, Judas Priest, 80's Metallica and so forth. And Motley Crue and Twisted Sister. They were good.

On that subject, I once wrote this great song and realised that I'd stolen the singing melody in the verse from, of all people, Nine Inch Nails, so I had to ditch the whole thing (I keep songs scanning properly by developing the melody in my head as I write it and sticking to that).
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 22 Jan 2007, 10:19
Nirvana cause a LOT of kids to buy Sonic Youth albums.

'Nuff said.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Jan 2007, 10:24
My interest in alternative music started by never listening to contemporary pop music, ever. At the time all my friends were getting seriously obsessed with Nirvana (14/15), my favourite songs of all time were 'Puritania' by Dimmu Borgir, 'Queen of Winter, Throned' by Cradle of Filth, 'Countess Bathory' by Venom, 'Disciples of Black Sorcery' by Thou Art Lord and 'I Am The Black Wizards' by Emperor. My softer listening was all Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Pink Floyd. I thought Nirvana were lame, and, though I know far, far more about music now then I did then, my initial opinion held, and not for want of re-appraisal, I own two Nirvana albums. Never been able to sit through either of them.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: ekmesnz on 22 Jan 2007, 10:25
Quote from: Caspian on 22 Jan 2007, 04:20
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.
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!

Bah! Ny Batteri is one of their bests. Geoff sort of takes "artistic liberty" with the vocals in Thursday's version, however.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 22 Jan 2007, 12:08
Quote from: KharBevNor on 22 Jan 2007, 10:02
the legacy of Nirvana was not turning hard rock music in to a beautiful liberal flower of loveliness and making everyone listen to your favourite eighties bands

The point is that some people did who wouldn't have otherwise, and simply saying "oh but they didn't" runs in direct contradiction to my own personal experience and the experience of others who have expressed interest in Nirvana and I've responded to with, "Oh, then you might like..."
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: BrittanyMarie on 22 Jan 2007, 13:32
I got into The Vaselines through Nirvana. I got into the Pixies really early, then other people said "Then you may like this!". After a while I figured out that bands thank other bands in their liner notes, bands cover other bands who they like... if Band A really digs Band X, and I really like Band A, then maybe I should check out Band X.

Edit to answer the first post:
Neal Diamond. Please no one cover Sweet Caroline. Ever.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 22 Jan 2007, 14:04
I got into good music via covers as well, except my starting point was Cradle of Filth. Oh, Dani, thank you for your love of The Misfits and the Sisters of Mercy.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Patrick on 22 Jan 2007, 15:41
Led Zeppelin. If I hear one more goddamn horrible cover of "Stairway to Heaven" I'm going to punch a pregnant woman.

The only exception is the (alleged) traditional Mexican music cover of a lot of their more famous works. I can't think of anything that could possibly contain any more pure awesome.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Hat on 22 Jan 2007, 16:45
I actually prefer Tools cover of "No Quarter", but I wasn't a huge fan of the original to begin with anyway.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: debaser24/7 on 22 Jan 2007, 17:01
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24

My Bloody Valentine



actually...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NGnN7Yx69o
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: axerton on 22 Jan 2007, 17:34
I'm going to agree on the Nirvana idea because I've heard someone try to cover....wait for it.... Smells Like Teen Spirit. Oh God I nearly vomited, it was disgusting. The original song was good don't get me wrong, but they tried to slow it down and actually concentrate on the drug inspired lyrics. I have never attended that bar again for fear the band may play there again.   
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kokeyjoe on 22 Jan 2007, 17:59
I'd have to say covering Fergie or Avril Lavigne in a dramatic and/or film noir style is a terrible idea, and no one should ever do it.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: carrotosaurus on 22 Jan 2007, 18:50
Quote from: KimJongSick on 22 Jan 2007, 15:41
Led Zeppelin. If I hear one more goddamn horrible cover of "Stairway to Heaven" I'm going to punch a pregnant woman.

The only exception is the (alleged) traditional Mexican music cover of a lot of their more famous works. I can't think of anything that could possibly contain any more pure awesome.

My old jazz teacher had a fusion band that covered all of Zeppelin's music. As well as Hendrix. And it was absolutely the best thing ever. It was as if Miles Davis was having brunch with John Bonham and they decided to jam together in the afternoon.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: ScrambledGregs on 22 Jan 2007, 21:13
Quote from: debaser24/7 on 22 Jan 2007, 17:01
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24

My Bloody Valentine



actually...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NGnN7Yx69o

Wow, I had my doubts when all I saw was some dude with an acoustic guitar, but that was quite good.

For all the Radiohead cover bashing, I think that Brad Mehldau does some fucking great jazz covers of their stuff.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ernest on 22 Jan 2007, 21:58
Quote from: kokeyjoe on 22 Jan 2007, 17:59
I'd have to say covering Fergie or Avril Lavigne in a dramatic and/or film noir style is a terrible idea, and no one should ever do it.

Fergalicious
I will do it.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Will on 22 Jan 2007, 22:14
Someone (http://www.myspace.com/thisisnotslayer) may already have done so...
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kokeyjoe on 23 Jan 2007, 00:02
Yes, that's what I was oh-so-subtly referring to.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Will on 23 Jan 2007, 00:05
And my post was oh-so-subtly referring to our friend the firebird up thar...besides, I'm perfectly allowed to shamelessly plug my own efforts, right?  AMIRITE?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kokeyjoe on 23 Jan 2007, 00:33
I, too, was referring to the bird extinguishing its head in the sand.  I should have quoted, my bad.  And by the way, Will, what was that link again?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Thrillho on 23 Jan 2007, 02:39
Quote from: ImRonBurgundy? on 22 Jan 2007, 04:46
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Radiohead

LOL. (http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/qur008.htm)

Dude...that's terrible...and I fucking LOVE IT.

'We're not done yet...we're Radiohead though, so we'll play for as long as we want and you'll listen.'
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: godinpants on 23 Jan 2007, 06:16
Quote from: Beautiful Maladies on 21 Jan 2007, 10:46
Nirvana can be covered exceptionally well, if done in the right way.

I bring before the court Exhibit A:

The Polyphonic Spree's cover of "Lithium"

the polyphonic spree can do whatever they want.

this is a bit more specific, but there was an album released of female singers singing finn brothers stuff.
that should never have happened.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Thirgaofq on 23 Jan 2007, 06:31
Quote from: Johnny C on 21 Jan 2007, 06:41
I would much rather see a list of individual songs which shouldn't be covered anymore. Topping the list for me is "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
I counter with the best cover of it ever: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=DEB1B0035182C6F0
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Schmitt on 23 Jan 2007, 06:53
Quote from: KharBevNor on 22 Jan 2007, 14:04
I got into good music via covers as well, except my starting point was Cradle of Filth. Oh, Dani, thank you for your love of The Misfits and the Sisters of Mercy.


Because of Cradle of Filth covering No Time to Cry I went out and found as much Sisters of Mercy as possible, which in turn led me on an amazing chase for anything gothic rock or darkwave, and from there got into dark metal, and quite probably, if it weren't for Cradle of Filth covering No Time to Cry, it's entirely possible I would have never begun listening to Agalloch, and that would have been a great tragedy.

On the flipside, because Cradle of Filth covered Black Metal, I was in turn pointed in the direction of Venom and Bathory, and from there more black metal.


I don't listen to CoF all that much anymore, but because of their covers, I now listen to some amazing things.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Rubby on 23 Jan 2007, 07:04
Quote from: KharBevNor on 22 Jan 2007, 14:04
I got into good music via covers as well, except my starting point was Cradle of Filth. Oh, Dani, thank you for your love of The Misfits and the Sisters of Mercy.
You made me remember that an AFI cover of The Misfits what got me into them (Misfits).
So yeah, covers can be quite a useful tool in your musical education.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 23 Jan 2007, 08:22
Quote from: Schmitt on 23 Jan 2007, 06:53
Because of Cradle of Filth covering No Time to Cry I went out and found as much Sisters of Mercy as possible, which in turn led me on an amazing chase for anything gothic rock or darkwave, and from there got into dark metal, and quite probably, if it weren't for Cradle of Filth covering No Time to Cry, it's entirely possible I would have never begun listening to Agalloch, and that would have been a great tragedy.

On the flipside, because Cradle of Filth covered Black Metal, I was in turn pointed in the direction of Venom and Bathory, and from there more black metal.


I don't listen to CoF all that much anymore, but because of their covers, I now listen to some amazing things.

Pretty much what I did. Their cover of Hallowed Be Thy Name turned me on to Maiden as well. Similiarly, Dimmu Borgirs odd penchant for covering 80's metal got me in to Twisted Sister and Accept. The other main way I discovered new music back at the start of the whole business was random keyword searches on Kazaa. A vague query as to whether anyone had ever written a song about Countess Bathory led me to Venom, Bathory, Candlemass and Tormentor, all in one go.

Pukka, that was.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Rizzo on 23 Jan 2007, 15:54
Quote from: Rubby on 23 Jan 2007, 07:04
You made me remember that an AFI cover of The Misfits what got me into them (Misfits).
So yeah, covers can be quite a useful tool in your musical education.
Interestingly it was the other way around for me. I heard a couple of Misfits tracks and then heard AFI were similar so I downloaded some. w00t. So I ended up buying every AFI album over a few years and only just brought a Misfits disc :D
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 24 Jan 2007, 02:59
Quote from: Thirgaofq on 23 Jan 2007, 06:31
best "lwtua" evar

Oh man, that is actually really good. I've heard it before - My Old Kentucky Blog had a big series where they went through songs that get covered over and over again, and that was one of them.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Corcarpemei on 24 Jan 2007, 03:28
Oh, and about Radiohead....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3400843574616846490&q=radiohead (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3400843574616846490&q=radiohead)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 24 Jan 2007, 03:46
Quote from: Corcarpemei on 24 Jan 2007, 03:28
Oh, and about Radiohead....
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3400843574616846490&q=radiohead (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3400843574616846490&q=radiohead)

That is seriously fucked up.  In a sort of great way.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Corcarpemei on 24 Jan 2007, 03:55
If you're interested, here's the whole show: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8341587055264511911&q=radiohead (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8341587055264511911&q=radiohead)

It's quite a bit more interesting...if you like that stuff.  This band has also done Led Zeppelin, the Talking Heads, RHCP (twice), The Who, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, and (the one many bands have done) The Beatles.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: magnanimusman on 24 Jan 2007, 05:52
I have actually heard a really good cover of the Beatles' Across the Universe.  I know that isn't the catagory but in general yeah covers do suck. 
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 24 Jan 2007, 06:03
Laibach's cover of Across the Universe is amazing. They have a choir of basically Hitler Youth singing it in the video. Probably the creepiest time they exposed a disturbing fascist undercurrent in a song was their cover of Queens 'One Vision' which they retitled 'Geburt Einer Nation' (Birth of a Nation) and sung in German.

"Ein Mensch, ein Ziel,
und eine Weisung.
Ein Herz, ein Geist,
nur eine Loesung.
Ein Brennen der Glut.
Ein Gott, Ein Leitbild.

Ein Fleisch, ein Blut,
ein wahrer Glaube.
Ein Ruf, ein Traum,
ein starker Wille
Gibt mir ein Leitbild"

I can never listen to that song in the same way now.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: elcapitan on 24 Jan 2007, 09:43
Anyone else heard Nouvelle Vague's cover of the Dead Kennedy's Too Drunk To Fuck?

It shouldn't work with acid jazz, BUT IT DOES!
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 24 Jan 2007, 10:40
It's bossa nova, not acid jazz.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ben yayayayayayayay on 24 Jan 2007, 12:17
I bet Elliott Smith could cover the Microp...shit nevermind.

I seriously think he could though if it weren't for that one obvious setback, cause their voices are very similar to me.

And I think it's possible to do a decent cover of Neutral Milk Hotel, as long as the song is Holland, 1945 and no other song. Sigur Ros should cover Holland, 1945 (?!).
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 24 Jan 2007, 12:27
I'm constantly toying with the idea of covering 'In The Aeroplane Over the Sea' for Ill Met By Moonlight. My only barrier is trying to replicate the brass. I've got something close on my harmonica, but I'm going to wait till I get a diatonic before I try anything resembling recording.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Shiney_Gothique on 24 Jan 2007, 12:33
Madonna. Unfortunately she has been covered?multiple times.
One of the more interesting covers was a cover of ?Like A Virgin? done by Marilyn Manson no less. Lol!

?Have you ever kissed a girl??
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: debaser24/7 on 24 Jan 2007, 14:06
Quote from: Ben yayayayayayayay on 24 Jan 2007, 12:17


And I think it's possible to do a decent cover of Neutral Milk Hotel, as long as the song is Holland, 1945 and no other song. Sigur Ros should cover Holland, 1945 (?!).

I think The Faint covered that once.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Schmitt on 24 Jan 2007, 15:55
Quote from: KharBevNor on 23 Jan 2007, 08:22
Quote from: Schmitt on 23 Jan 2007, 06:53
Because of Cradle of Filth covering No Time to Cry I went out and found as much Sisters of Mercy as possible, which in turn led me on an amazing chase for anything gothic rock or darkwave, and from there got into dark metal, and quite probably, if it weren't for Cradle of Filth covering No Time to Cry, it's entirely possible I would have never begun listening to Agalloch, and that would have been a great tragedy.

On the flipside, because Cradle of Filth covered Black Metal, I was in turn pointed in the direction of Venom and Bathory, and from there more black metal.


I don't listen to CoF all that much anymore, but because of their covers, I now listen to some amazing things.

Pretty much what I did. Their cover of Hallowed Be Thy Name turned me on to Maiden as well. Similiarly, Dimmu Borgirs odd penchant for covering 80's metal got me in to Twisted Sister and Accept. The other main way I discovered new music back at the start of the whole business was random keyword searches on Kazaa. A vague query as to whether anyone had ever written a song about Countess Bathory led me to Venom, Bathory, Candlemass and Tormentor, all in one go.

Pukka, that was.


For all of Dani's faults, he's one helluva gateway drug.

When I started searching for more stuff about Countess Bathory I started playing Diablo II again and got into Sunn O))). And if anybody could take the sound of a fluorescent lightbulb, add some guitars and Satanic moanings and make it sound good, it's them.


My story of being turned on to Iron Maiden is quite possibly the oddest way possible......I had been misinformed by a friend that Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag" was actually by Iron Maiden, and having been raised rather sheltered, I had no knowledge of the beast. So my buddy picked up a copy of "Brave New World" (now one of my three favorite albums ever) from the library, and I scanned the cd thoroughly looking for some semblance of "Teenage Dirtbag." I found none, but did discover Iron Maiden because of it.


On the subject of never cover, I don't know if I ever want to hear someone cover Porcupine Tree, it's not that I don't think somebody could do a good job, I just don't think that I ever want to hear it performed by anybody other than Steven Wilson and company, because he gets everything perfect the first time around.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 24 Jan 2007, 16:28
Quote from: Shiney_Gothique on 24 Jan 2007, 12:33
Madonna. Unfortunately she has been covered?multiple times.
One of the more interesting covers was a cover of ?Like A Virgin? done by Marilyn Manson no less. Lol!

With a name like "Shiney_Gothique" I'd think you'd be familiar with BiGod20's version of "Like a Prayer" which is awesome but has a tendency to be overplayed at every goth night ever since 1991.

But let's not forget Ciccone Youth's "Burnin' Up" and "Into the Groovey", the latter of which is absolutely fucking brilliant.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: elcapitan on 24 Jan 2007, 17:50
Quote from: Johnny C on 24 Jan 2007, 10:40
It's bossa nova, not acid jazz.

Absolutely. I don't know what I was thinking. I blame work-related stress.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 24 Jan 2007, 18:08
Quote from: Shiney_Gothique on 24 Jan 2007, 12:33
Madonna.

LIKE A SURGEON.
CUTTIN' FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ben yayayayayayayay on 25 Jan 2007, 01:42
Quote from: KharBevNor on 24 Jan 2007, 12:27
I'm constantly toying with the idea of covering 'In The Aeroplane Over the Sea' for Ill Met By Moonlight. My only barrier is trying to replicate the brass. I've got something close on my harmonica, but I'm going to wait till I get a diatonic before I try anything resembling recording.


Cover "Oh Comely". Just do it!
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 25 Jan 2007, 02:16
No. In The Aeroplane... is my favourite NMH song.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 25 Jan 2007, 02:29
THE ONLY GIRL I'VE EVER LOVED
WAS BORN WITH FLOWERS IN HER EYES
BUT THEN THEY BURIED HER ALIVE, ONE EVENING, 1945
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 25 Jan 2007, 02:55
I eagerly await the Cleopatra Records tribute to Neutral Milk Hotel album.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 25 Jan 2007, 03:14
i eagerly await no tributes or covers of NMH. i do, however, eagely await the next time either cd or the ep comes on in some random rotation or other. and that's it.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Shiney_Gothique on 25 Jan 2007, 03:22
Quote from: zerodrone on 24 Jan 2007, 16:28
Quote from: Shiney_Gothique on 24 Jan 2007, 12:33
Madonna. Unfortunately she has been covered?multiple times.
One of the more interesting covers was a cover of ?Like A Virgin? done by Marilyn Manson no less. Lol!

With a name like "Shiney_Gothique" I'd think you'd be familiar with BiGod20's version of "Like a Prayer" which is awesome but has a tendency to be overplayed at every goth night ever since 1991.

But let's not forget Ciccone Youth's "Burnin' Up" and "Into the Groovey", the latter of which is absolutely fucking brilliant.

But let's not forget Ciccone Youth's "Burnin' Up" and "Into the Groovey", the latter of which is absolutely fucking brilliant.

[/quote]

You?re insanely right. If I hear that cover of Like a Prayer again I will be forced to hurt whoever played it...bodily.

Quote from: ImRonBurgundy? on 24 Jan 2007, 18:08
Quote from: Shiney_Gothique on 24 Jan 2007, 12:33
Madonna.

LIKE A SURGEON.
CUTTIN' FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

Very funny song but more of a spoof or parody than a cover. Weird Al is all class.  :roll:


Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 25 Jan 2007, 03:41
Quote from: Johnny C on 25 Jan 2007, 02:29
THE ONLY GIRL I'VE EVER LOVED
WAS BORN WITH FLOWERS IN HER EYES
BUT THEN THEY BURIED HER ALIVE, ONE EVENING, 1945

It's roses. Jeez, I know more about NMH than indie people.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ben yayayayayayayay on 25 Jan 2007, 06:06
Quote from: KharBevNor on 25 Jan 2007, 03:41
Quote from: Johnny C on 25 Jan 2007, 02:29
THE ONLY GIRL I'VE EVER LOVED
WAS BORN WITH FLOWERS IN HER EYES
BUT THEN THEY BURIED HER ALIVE, ONE EVENING, 1945

It's roses. Jeez, I know more about NMH than indie people.

Wierd how you haven't figured out yet that Oh Comely is your favorite NMH tune.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 25 Jan 2007, 06:15
Oh Comely is pretty boring, in the context of that album.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ben yayayayayayayay on 25 Jan 2007, 06:30
New NMH album this year! I hear it's about Helen Keller.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 25 Jan 2007, 06:51
Lame reference.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ben yayayayayayayay on 25 Jan 2007, 11:41
Me? What was I referencing?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: debaser24/7 on 25 Jan 2007, 11:49
Quote from: KharBevNor on 25 Jan 2007, 06:15
Oh Comely is pretty boring, in the context of that album.

it is. all about ghost.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 25 Jan 2007, 11:53
Quote from: KharBevNor on 25 Jan 2007, 03:41
It's roses. Jeez, I know more about NMH than indie people.

You won this round!
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: David_Dovey on 25 Jan 2007, 12:16
Quote from: JohnnyC
I'll get you next time Khar, next time

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a55/ddovey/clawbevnor.jpg)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Tyler on 25 Jan 2007, 12:20
I like my opinions and yours are stupid.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Shiney_Gothique on 25 Jan 2007, 14:41
Inspector Gadget was awesomeness.  :-D
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Evil_Lathander on 25 Jan 2007, 20:09
Meh, I don't think one should say certain bands shouldn't be covered, more like certain songs shouldn't be covered...
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: treefingers on 26 Jan 2007, 07:35
What if someone on that list just happened to cover someone else on that list. I'm pretty sure Bob Dylan covered Radiohead's "Creep". He seemed to think it was ok.

I seemed to think that cover was unsettling.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Patrick on 26 Jan 2007, 14:48
Nobody should cover the Ventures. In fact, the Ventures shouldn't even cover the Ventures. I bought an album of some of their best stuff thinking "OH YEAH here's some shit to gain inspiration from!" and it ended up being an original-artist re-recording. FUCK THAT SHIT. It was better when it was gritty and didn't sound forced and inhuman.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 26 Jan 2007, 16:42
I used to think that nobody could match Dick Dale in terms of surf guitar heroism until I found a couple videos of dudes completely shredding (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRUm7fLz5pQ) "Misirlou" to pieces (http://www.slacktone.com/video/slacktone_misirlou.mov).
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kallisti on 26 Jan 2007, 18:56
Quote from: zerodrone on 25 Jan 2007, 02:55
I eagerly await the Cleopatra Records tribute to Neutral Milk Hotel album.


Bite your tongue.

Cleopatra comps and tribute albums are the worst thing in the world and I was going to say this after reading the first page of this topic, so I'm glad that they were brought up again, saving me from being hideously irrelevant. 

Alien Sex Fiend covering "Two-Headed Boy."  Eva O or Gitane Demone doing "Oh Comely."

oh god. Nightmares. I think I'll go die now.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 26 Jan 2007, 19:12
Quote from: kallisti on 26 Jan 2007, 18:56
Alien Sex Fiend covering "Two-Headed Boy." 

That would only be a good thing.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 27 Jan 2007, 00:26
Yeah seriously.  Or like... Psychic TV covering "King of Carrot Flowers pt. 2".
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 27 Jan 2007, 00:34
The Legendary Pink Dots covering 'Communist Daughter'.

Bohren Und Der Club of Gore's 19 minute long version of 'The Fool'.

Nurse With Wounds cover of 'Holland, 1945' pasted together from the sound of steam locomotives and someone hitting a plastic drainpipe.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: fish across face on 27 Jan 2007, 00:36
19 minutes?  That'd only cover the first 4 bars, right?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: The extra letter on 27 Jan 2007, 04:03
Alien Sex Fiend did a pretty good cover of All the Madmen. I think so, anyway...
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kallisti on 27 Jan 2007, 04:12
Switchblade Symphony doing a spooky cute spooky cute spooky  cover of Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone.   
 
Quote from: KharBevNor on 26 Jan 2007, 19:12
Quote from: kallisti on 26 Jan 2007, 18:56
Alien Sex Fiend covering "Two-Headed Boy." 

That would only be a good thing.

They did terrible things to David Bowie, as I recall. It was either on The Dark Side of David Bowie or Goth Oddity.  Ok I just looked it up and it was on Goth Oddity, and now I am forced to remember that Corpus Delicti exist. Oh god. Ahahahahahah Corpus Delicti. Give me the powwwaaaaaaah.

Whoops someone just posted about their Bowie cover and I am way too lazy to rewrite my post.  I kind of really really hated their Bowie cover a whole lot.  Then again, I'm really picky about Bowie covers.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: The extra letter on 27 Jan 2007, 04:33
I've got a whole lot of Bowie covers on my computer. Some good, some not-so-good. But yeah, I quite liked the "All the Madmen" cover ASF did.

Alice In Chains shouldn't be allowed to cover a Bowie song ever again, though. Really... Or I'll get violent...
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kallisti on 27 Jan 2007, 04:42
wait wait I have not heard this. Which song did they cover?  eek.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: The extra letter on 27 Jan 2007, 04:43
"Suffragette City"

I believe it was them, but since I don't actually know anything else by them it may have just been credited as being by them. Kinda like Weird Al gets credited for every potentially amusing song on the internet.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 27 Jan 2007, 04:47
I'm sure I could sit down and create a pretty accurate chart of Nik Fiends drug consumption based on the quality of ASF's output. It is pretty variable, though I do fucking love them. As for covers, their version of 'Hurricane Fighter Plane' surpasses the original in every way. I've always had the suspicion that they phone in a good few of those Cleopatra ones though. Actually, I think a lot of them do. I'm not even convinced that there's not some gook at the label who works up the backing tracks from discarded My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult drum loops and midis off the internet, then just gets the bands to sing over the top. At least, that's the only way I can explain Nosferatus absolutely shocking cover of 'People Are Strange', which, really, should be an absolutely perfect song to transfer in to goth rock.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: The extra letter on 27 Jan 2007, 04:51
I think Nosferatu is another band that probably shouldn't be allowed to cover another artist's songs on pain of pain.

Their cover of Starman isn't too horrible, but it's still not anything to get excited about.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kallisti on 27 Jan 2007, 04:55
oh yeah ugh I hate when that happens. I always have to tell people "no, trust me, that's not a ______ song. Honest. I'm serious. TRUST ME. I don't care what it's labelled as, it's fucking not them." 

And now that you mention it I think I remember seeing that somewhere.  I don't remember if I ever heard it or not, though. 

I hate to say this, but I really don't think I like the Flaming Lips cover of "Life on Mars?"   I feel that I should like it. I feel that I shouldn't like it. I'm way torn. But I don't think I do like it. I should listen again.

EDIT: ARGH ARGH people keep posting and it won't let me post my post argh.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: The extra letter on 27 Jan 2007, 05:04
Yeah, I wasn't really a fan of the Flaming Lips version of that either.

Also, as far as songs that shouldn't be covered go, people should stop trying to cover "Jolene" already.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kallisti on 27 Jan 2007, 05:22
This is sort of the other side of the discussion so it might be way off topic, but I have this theory that Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is such a perfect song that it can't be ruined. I've never heard a cover of it that I hated. I mean... I've heard versions I like better than others, but none that I really actively disliked.   Even this boring Italian pop chick singer named Elisa didn't completely fuck it up.

back to strict adherence to topic: 

I don't think I've ever heard a good cover of a Smiths song that wasn't "How Soon is Now?"
As it is, I've only heard one good cover of that, on The Craft soundtrack, but I haven't heard it in years and my approval of it could have been a result of having been a lame ass "I Wear Lots of Black and Scowl At People" type in high school.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: The extra letter on 27 Jan 2007, 05:32
I'm not really fond of *any* cover of Cohen's stuff. I've heard people say that his songs are better covered because they didn't like his voice, but I love the venerable Mr Cohen to bits. My one claim to fame is being in the front row at a Leonard Cohen concert while I was still a fetus. That must've worn off or something, but every time I hear a cover of any of his stuff it makes me want to kill. Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah is heresy.

I love the Love Spit Love cover of "How Soon is Now?" to bits. The Snake River Conspiracy cover is alright, but anything else isn't so good (I'm looking at you, Paradise Lost and TATU...)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Toeofdoom on 27 Jan 2007, 05:39
JT bruce should never be covered. Mainly due to the fact that its not made for live performances at all, but also because people would screw it up i guess.

www.subjectruin.net <for those who have never heard of JT bruce (which is all of you ... just click the fucking link. its good music and i'll go mad if i dont get atleast one response eventually.)  :evil:
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 27 Jan 2007, 05:46
Quote from: The extra letter on 27 Jan 2007, 05:32
I love the Love Spit Love cover of "How Soon is Now?" to bits. The Snake River Conspiracy cover is alright, but anything else isn't so good (I'm looking at you, Paradise Lost and TATU...)

Aww. come on, the Tatu version is cute.

AWW LITTLE RUSSIAN FAUX-LESBIAN MORRISEY GIRL.

You want to pet it!
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Patrick on 29 Jan 2007, 06:46
Cream. The Allman Brothers. Pink Floyd. Alan Jackson. Ted Leo & Pharmacists. The Beach Boys. I could scroll through my iTunes artist list and keep going for a good 30 minutes.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: TrueNeutral on 29 Jan 2007, 10:31
Quote from: KharBevNor on 21 Jan 2007, 04:55
I'll admit no one should ever cover Radiohead or Nirvana especially because they're shit.

One day, I'm going to attempt to take a Nirvana song and change it to the point that it's a great song, but still recognizable.

Ah, who am I kidding. Even [insert your favored musical genius here] would fail at that.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Storm Rider on 29 Jan 2007, 16:34
Quote from: KimJongSick on 29 Jan 2007, 06:46
Pink Floyd.

DISPROVE'D (http://senduit.com/1accf4)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: SilentJ on 29 Jan 2007, 17:22
I am way too lazy to see if Daft Punk is on this list already.

I can see a Daft Punk cover working on some really fucked up level... not as good as the original, but still decent...

However, fucking A CAPELLA is NOT that fucked up level.

behold. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQVEPFzkhaM)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Yakob on 29 Jan 2007, 18:36
Quote from: Storm Rider on 29 Jan 2007, 16:34
Quote from: KimJongSick on 29 Jan 2007, 06:46
Pink Floyd.

DISPROVE'D (http://senduit.com/1accf4)

Oh dear god, I just came in my pants and its only 5 minutes into it.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Storm Rider on 29 Jan 2007, 19:40
You're welcome.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Valrus on 29 Jan 2007, 20:35
Quote from: kallisti on 27 Jan 2007, 05:22
This is sort of the other side of the discussion so it might be way off topic, but I have this theory that Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is such a perfect song that it can't be ruined. I've never heard a cover of it that I hated. I mean... I've heard versions I like better than others, but none that I really actively disliked.   Even this boring Italian pop chick singer named Elisa didn't completely fuck it up.

My theory is that Leonard Cohen's original "Hallelujah" is a song which is pure potential. In my opinion, the original is really dog-shit terrible -- the crappy synth! the melodramatic choir! -- but I've never heard a bad cover of it. Well, ok, Bono did a cover which, well, the less said about it the better.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Shiney_Gothique on 30 Jan 2007, 02:06
I quite like the Rufus Wainwright version.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Thrillho on 30 Jan 2007, 13:35
I like my own personally.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Patrick on 30 Jan 2007, 13:45
Quote from: Storm Rider on 29 Jan 2007, 19:40
You're welcome.

Is this going to be worth over 30 minutes of my life downloading it?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Storm Rider on 30 Jan 2007, 15:56
Yes. Yes it will.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 30 Jan 2007, 19:32
Quote from: tommydski on 30 Jan 2007, 01:50
John Cale's version is still my favourite.

I might be biased!

You're biased towards good versions of "Hallelujah."
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Patrick on 31 Jan 2007, 09:00
Quote from: Storm Rider on 30 Jan 2007, 15:56
Yes. Yes it will.

Good, 'cause it just finished

(30 minutes later) OH MY GOD I CAME
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Storm Rider on 31 Jan 2007, 15:40
Told you.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: fish across face on 31 Jan 2007, 16:25
Robin Hitchcock does a great version of Gigolo Aunt, and Bowie's See Emily Play is OK.

(Edit: oops, just remembered Gigolo Aunt is solo Syd)

I really hate the big Floyd albums, so I find things like Scissor Sisters' Bee-Gees-ish version of Comfortably Numb preferable too, solely because they piss all over the spirit of the original.  Likewise the (more reverent, admittedly) Easy Star All Stars' 'Dub Side of the Moon' thing.  Like, if I have to listen to music I never liked and have still heard many many times, I'd at least prefer a different take on it.


Actually, how about Easy Star All Stars' 'Radiodread'?  From what I've read on here so far I can't imagine it getting much love... I don't think I've found a single post about any flavour of reggae beyond 3rd-wave ska... but I was pretty amazed that any of it worked.  I thought Toots & The Maytalls doing a super old school ska version of Let Down was genius.  Not sure how it makes any sense to sound so triumphant and joyful, given the subject matter, but fuck, I reckon it sounds great.

Plus the album is as packed with production / arrangement details as 'OK Computer', which I was never expecting.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 31 Jan 2007, 16:43
I like good reggae and dub but Radiodread was an abortion.  Let us never speak of it again.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Observer on 31 Jan 2007, 17:34
The Flaming lips.
DRAGONFORCE.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Kai on 31 Jan 2007, 19:45
man please tell me Dragonforce covers do not exist


please
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 31 Jan 2007, 22:38
Who would be bothered?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: MadassAlex on 31 Jan 2007, 23:32
I would cover a Dragonforce song for the same reason I'd cover a Malmsteen song - the accomplishment factor.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Shiney_Gothique on 01 Feb 2007, 01:31
I have a dislike for Bowie covers, steming from my friend who LOVES David Bowie but DETESTS covers of his songs.

A band we went to see once played a cover of changes so my friend beat up the lead singer. They were a shitty band anyway.

Violence isn't the answer but it sure is funny.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: IronOxide on 01 Feb 2007, 03:30
You know, on the scale of things that are never cool, ever, your friend just hit the top.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Scytale on 01 Feb 2007, 03:37
I've often wanted to beat up Dani Filth for murdering "Hallowed be Thy Name" so I can sympathize with your friends actions...
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Feb 2007, 10:29
Psh, Hallowed Be Thy Name's alright (It's the song that got me in to Iron Maiden). If you want to kill Dani Filth, do it for the brutal murder of Ozzy's 'Mr. Crowley'.

I don't know what the fuck they were thinking when they sat back from the mixing desk and said "Yup, that's a keeper!". I mean, even for CoF. I normally actually like their covers in a cheesy way but FUCK ME.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Luke C on 01 Feb 2007, 12:01
I would have said Led Zep but after hearing the Tool cover of No Quater t'other day I have changed my mind.

Not really sure but I definately think covering should be limited to bands who can. So when Kerrang did that Master of Puppets cover album I wasn't happy, none of those bands was good enough to cover Puppets.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Scytale on 01 Feb 2007, 19:22
Heh I wouldn't  of heard Anathema without COF covering them.

Ahh yes back in the high school days (late/mid 90's), I had a friend who was hugely into Marilyn Manson, Cradle of Filith etc, the dare I say it trendy metal of that time... He went and bought Serenades because he like the COF cover of "Sleepless". For some reason he didn't like Anathema so he gave me the cd, the rest as they say is history...
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: David_Dovey on 01 Feb 2007, 20:55
That MoP covers album was horrific. I actually like a great deal of most of the bands on there, but with the exception of the title track and Orion, all the rest are cringe-worthy.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 01 Feb 2007, 22:43
Quote from: Shiney_Gothique on 01 Feb 2007, 01:31
word things

Your friend needs to get a massage or massive psychotherapy or something.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: blackmage on 02 Feb 2007, 00:54
I'm a giant fan of covers, so I'm a little biased here, but I think that saying a band should never be covered is kinda being a little elitist.

Then again, I think the only worthwhile use for NOFX is their covers.

I haven't seen one yet, but maybe someone needs to do a 'Best Covers' thread...
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: spgphil on 02 Feb 2007, 01:35
Does anyone know if it's true Brand New covered Built To Spill?
This would be under bad covers:
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: blackmage on 02 Feb 2007, 01:41
If you'd like to see who has covered what, there's http://www.coversproject.com/ (http://www.coversproject.com/). It's quite a good database

And for a good list of interesting covers :http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2006/11/the_torontoist_2.php (http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2006/11/the_torontoist_2.php)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Thrillho on 02 Feb 2007, 07:13
Quote from: blackmage on 02 Feb 2007, 00:54
I'm a giant fan of covers, so I'm a little biased here, but I think that saying a band should never be covered is kinda being a little elitist.

Then again, I think the only worthwhile use for NOFX is their covers.

I haven't seen one yet, but maybe someone needs to do a 'Best Covers' thread...

That's been done at least five times since I signed up.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 02 Feb 2007, 13:21
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,10858.0.html

Ta-da!

Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ben yayayayayayayay on 02 Feb 2007, 18:25
That's probably my favorite Explosions album yet, I've listened to it about 20 times. It's so much more upbeat, and piano(e?)s!
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Shiney_Gothique on 02 Feb 2007, 19:40
Cheap, skanky hip-hop/R&B should not be covered by Emo/Hardcore Bands.

For proof of this listen to Goodnight Nurse's cover of Milkshake by Kelis. It's wierd the first time, cool the second time, funny the third time, pathetic the forth time but by the fifth it's just crap-shack.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 02 Feb 2007, 19:45
i think that's sort of implied by the fact that cheap, skanky hip-hop/R&B should not even exist to be covered in the first place.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Shiney_Gothique on 02 Feb 2007, 19:57
Still. If it's going to be made don't replicate it and TRY to make it sound somewhat decent. People who do things like this fail at life.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: David_Dovey on 02 Feb 2007, 20:14
I can't believe you listened to it 5 times
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Shiney_Gothique on 03 Feb 2007, 17:31
Over the course of about 3 weeks.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 03 Feb 2007, 17:44
I have an absolutely stonking cover of 'Sound of the Underground' by Girls Aloud done by an Isle of Wight sludge band sitting around somewhere. It's seriously fucking awesome.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: fish across face on 03 Feb 2007, 22:23

The Milkshake "issue" makes me think of how much I despise shit like Me First & The Gimme Gimmes.  Yes, yes, you're really clever, you took that big, bad 80s pop song and "fixed it."  Beyond not being funny and sounding shit, it's so downright ... parasitic.   :|
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: KharBevNor on 03 Feb 2007, 23:25
From the name, I suspect it was some sort of half-arsed satire on punk/the music industry that someone realised they could make a LOT of money out of.

The punk covers like the industrial or goth cover or whatever cover: there's got to be a point. Anti-Nowhere League covering Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves by Cher, now that has a point, because The Anti-Nowhere League were all scummy essex boys. Laibach coverin  Queens 'One Vision' or KMFDM doing 'Material Girl': there is a point to that, it's not just amusing, but the re-contextualisation actually says something (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwdOX19_ETI), puts a new spin on the song or whatever. But just covering pop songs for the sake of it says nothing, really.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Rizzo on 03 Feb 2007, 23:44
Nah dude, I don't think you understand... it's "ironic" and that makes it ok...  :roll:
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Patrick on 04 Feb 2007, 05:16
I personally think that Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' cover of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver is awesome, just because John Denver had probably never driven a country road in his life, he was an Air Force brat and lived overseas most of his childhood.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kallisti on 04 Feb 2007, 05:33
Quote from: KimJongSick on 04 Feb 2007, 05:16
I personally think that Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' cover of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver is awesome, just because John Denver had probably never driven a country road in his life, he was an Air Force brat and lived overseas most of his childhood.

I hate that fucking song with a flaming passion.  There is nothing even remotely heavenly about West Virginia. I vomit in my mouth a little every time I hear that pile of yuk.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Patrick on 04 Feb 2007, 07:51
Haha, like I said, he was an Air Force brat and NEVER SET FOOT in West Virginia.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: kallisti on 04 Feb 2007, 10:09
Fuck him right in his "country boy" ear.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: ampersandwitch on 04 Feb 2007, 18:23
Something happened.
When I was sitting in a diner.
It was so shocking that even I cannot believe it had happened.
It was indeed a Kenny G cover of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful."
I almost shat myself, it was so bad.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Catacombs on 04 Feb 2007, 18:55
i don't think korn should ever do a cover again.  ever.

another brick in the wall made me want to cry it was so bad
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: David_Dovey on 04 Feb 2007, 20:35
Quote from: Shiney_Gothique on 03 Feb 2007, 17:31
Over the course of about 3 weeks.

Quote from: David_Dovey on 02 Feb 2007, 20:14
I can't believe you listened to it 5 times
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: fish across face on 04 Feb 2007, 21:52
Quote from: KimJongSick on 04 Feb 2007, 05:16
I personally think that Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' cover of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver is awesome, just because John Denver had probably never driven a country road in his life, he was an Air Force brat and lived overseas most of his childhood.
Yeah, I hate I Am The Walrus for similar reasons.  Turns out John Lennon's a human.  Fucking cunt!  Not to talk about Suzanne Vega's Luka... why the hell would a woman try to pass herself off as an abused boy?  That's sick!

But seriously, it's this kind of "yeah, fuck the original song" thing that I find really boring.  I guess I was praising Scissor Sisters for being similarly irreverent, but at least they made something less generic.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 05 Feb 2007, 13:22
Quote from: Catacombs on 04 Feb 2007, 18:55
i don't think korn should ever play "music" again.  ever.

Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: The extra letter on 05 Feb 2007, 22:04
Ok, Shannon Noll should be executed by firing squad for crimes against music before he can cover another song.

I just heard a terrible, terrible cover of "Don't Give Up" by him and that Natasha BastardlongnameIcan'tbotherspelling.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: David_Dovey on 05 Feb 2007, 22:28
I have absolutely no idea what inspired Shannon Noll to cover a Peter Gabriel song... Who the fuck does he think he is? That song is so painful.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Mobius_Logic on 13 Feb 2007, 20:01
I just want to point out that the Beatles got completly owned when the Breeders covered Happiness is a Warm Gun.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Catacombs on 19 Feb 2007, 15:16
The only covers album i've heard and sort of liked was "the Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show".  Alkaline Trio's "Over at the Frankenstein Place", Tsunami Bomb's "Planet, Schmanet, Janet", and Apocalypse Hoboken's "Sweet Transvestite" were by far the best.

Groovie Ghoulies "Time Warp" almost made me break the CD the first time I listened to it, though.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: SilentJ on 20 Feb 2007, 15:31
Quote from: Catacombs on 19 Feb 2007, 15:16
Groovie Ghoulies "Time Warp" almost made me break the CD the first time I listened to it, though.

Oh my gentle Jesus I've got one worse.

The Time Warp again, but covered by Alvin and the fucking chipmunks.  Someone set my brain on fire please.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Patrick on 21 Feb 2007, 11:01
My band should never be covered. Not because we're too good to be covered. Because covers usually suck and you can't suck up our music any more.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: SilentJ on 21 Feb 2007, 16:46
Quote from: SilentJ on 20 Feb 2007, 15:31
Quote from: Catacombs on 19 Feb 2007, 15:16
Groovie Ghoulies "Time Warp" almost made me break the CD the first time I listened to it, though.

Oh my gentle Jesus I've got one worse.

The Time Warp again, but covered by Alvin and the fucking chipmunks.  Someone set my brain on fire please.

Well, I've outdone myself yet again.

Purple Haze covered by Black Label Society.

I don't need someone to set my brain on fire this time; the song did it itself.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: SilentJ on 22 Feb 2007, 16:57
I've posted too much in this thread in recent days, so I promise this is my last one here for a little while.

I just found Crazy in Love by Beyonce covered by the goddamn Snow Patrol.

Words can't really describe this one.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Alphapenguin on 22 Feb 2007, 18:14
I've stumbled upon a few abominations in my time, but never anything on par with the Megadeth cover of "These Boots Were Made For Walkin'."

Unless we're talking about the punk version of "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy." If I ever find those bastards, so help me...

I'LL MAKE THEM WATCH UWE BOLL MOVIES UNTIL THEIR EYES EXPLODE!!!
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 22 Feb 2007, 19:30
On the Macha Loved Bedhead EP, they actually turned Cher's "Believe" into a touching and beautiful song.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Stayc on 23 Feb 2007, 00:56
That's possible...?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 23 Feb 2007, 09:08
Download it if you don't believe me.  Or just buy the whole EP, because it is the best thing Macha OR Bedhead ever did.  It's one of the best CDs I own, bar none.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Patrick on 23 Feb 2007, 09:47
Quote from: SilentJ on 22 Feb 2007, 16:57
I just found Crazy in Love by Beyonce covered by the goddamn Snow Patrol.

sauce pl0x
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Thrillho on 23 Feb 2007, 13:59
Quote from: SilentJ on 22 Feb 2007, 16:57
I've posted too much in this thread in recent days, so I promise this is my last one here for a little while.

I just found Crazy in Love by Beyonce covered by the goddamn Snow Patrol.

Words can't really describe this one.

Where've you been for the last three years? I think that's a half-decent cover. Although the guy's 'Jay Z impression' is a disgrace.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: SilentJ on 24 Feb 2007, 12:37
I just got turned on to the Snow Patrol by a friend like a week ago.

Quote from: KimJongSick on 23 Feb 2007, 09:47
Quote from: SilentJ on 22 Feb 2007, 16:57
I just found Crazy in Love by Beyonce covered by the goddamn Snow Patrol.

sauce pl0x

All I've got is an mp3 and I'm not computer-nerdy enough to know how to send it to you, sans email-attachment or through AIM or whatever.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: öde on 25 Feb 2007, 01:37
That crowd is fucking annoying. SHUT UP AND LISTEN.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: matt fatt on 09 Mar 2007, 03:07
i agree that no one should cover nirvana cause they suck and shouldnt have existed at all
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Thrillho on 09 Mar 2007, 10:53
Quote from: matt fatt on 09 Mar 2007, 03:07
i agree that no one should cover nirvana cause they suck and shouldnt have existed at all

Well played, buttmunch.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: matt fatt on 23 Mar 2007, 07:08
Quote from: DynamiteKid on 09 Mar 2007, 10:53
Quote from: matt fatt on 09 Mar 2007, 03:07
i agree that no one should cover nirvana cause they suck and shouldnt have existed at all

Well played, buttmunch.

ass taste good on tounge
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: smudgeface on 25 Mar 2007, 04:16
The obvious issue here is that too many people get more caught up in matching the original rendition -- poorly -- than they work on making a song their own.

Well, Snow Patrol made Crazy In Love "their own", but it was a shitty song to begin with.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: anditsdiscontents on 25 Mar 2007, 04:59
Something For Kate do a heaps good version of Bowie's Ashes To Ashes. seriously. Bowie liked it so much he got them to support him on his Australian tour.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Peter Harris on 25 Mar 2007, 07:47
I agree with most of the posters - shitty bands need to stop making covers.  If you make a good cover, one where you're innovative and respectful and just plain talented, man, you can cover whoever you goddamn please!
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: eatyrspleens on 25 Mar 2007, 11:19
Quote from: est on 21 Jan 2007, 04:35
I disagree with every entry in that list.  It's just that shitty bands need to stop making shitty covers is all.

i fully agree with this statement. i'll admit though, i'm a little hesitant of any modest mouse cover.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: el_Presidente on 25 Mar 2007, 18:13
I have heard some terrible Nirvana covers in my day.  So much so that a guy I know who works a local club wrote a cease and desist style letter to a band that played a particularly shitty cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Near Lurker on 26 Mar 2007, 14:19
Quote from: ampersandwitch on 04 Feb 2007, 18:23
Something happened.
When I was sitting in a diner.
It was so shocking that even I cannot believe it had happened.
It was indeed a Kenny G cover of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful."
I almost shat myself, it was so bad.

You know...am I the only one who thinks that a Dropkick Murphys version of that song might not be too bad?

In any case, I know it's well-liked, but the first time I heard the Cake cover of "I Will Survive," my head nearly exploded.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: lockedge on 27 Mar 2007, 04:50
I don't think any band is really off-limits, but artists need to stop putting out horrible covers. The My Chemical Romance and the Used's version of "Under pressure" is among the worst casualties of covers I've ever heard. I'd rather Tom Waits, radiohead, and most other artists/bands with unique voices not be touched because frankly their songs feel naked without them. Of course, if a really good band/singer does a cover and makes it awesome, then I'll be pleased, but usually it doesn't work out that way.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: McTaggart on 27 Mar 2007, 05:46
Cover everyone mercilessly, but know that people will hate you if you screw up.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Clara on 01 Apr 2007, 13:36
 1 (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=140732028) and  2  (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=157752248)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Dimmukane on 03 Apr 2007, 06:22
So, apparently, Alanis Morissette did a cover of the Black Eyed Peas amazing hit single, "My Humps".  Only this time, there's lots of sad piano, and a MUSIC VIDEO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: matt fatt on 04 Apr 2007, 01:34
Quote from: el_Presidente on 25 Mar 2007, 18:13
I have heard some terrible Nirvana covers in my day.  So much so that a guy I know who works a local club wrote a cease and desist style letter to a band that played a particularly shitty cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

that song is numero uno on my list of reasons i hate nirvana
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: books_out_loud on 10 Apr 2007, 12:10
Quote from: zerodrone on 21 Jan 2007, 04:24
Brought about by the Elliott Smith thread... we all know there are some things you just don't cover.  Ever.  For any reason.

The Smiths (also: note to shitty emo bands: stop naming yourselves after Smiths songs.  Morrissey hates you.)
i think i love you.
hahahahaha.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ismara on 01 Jan 2008, 21:22
'Pop Music' and that stupid 'I'll give you a ride' (If that even is the name. It's so F**king stupid I've forgoten.
'
They were awful to begin with, and owrse now. And who ever heard the 'time warp' by 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' I pity you.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: FUBAR on 01 Jan 2008, 22:02
bjork should never be covered
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Ismara on 02 Jan 2008, 16:09
I agree with you on that one. To cover a Bjork song, someone would alter it compleately.
Why do people even try covers? Some people can get away with it, but some songs just don't copy. They're to stupid to begin with.

Oh, and Zero by Evanescence was pretty bad. It wasn't even their style.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Spinless on 02 Jan 2008, 16:54
After a thread has died, it needs a good reason to come back, because if all you're doing is beating a dead horse in a year-gone thread, you'll be distracting from the current active threads for no good reason. Most of us don't read past the first half of the first page, so if you bump 5 dead threads, that's 5 active threads we'll overlook.

Basically, unless you are totally amazing and have something really great to say in a thread that's dead, don't post in it. Because people might start to dislike you!

Also, if you have the last post in more than three consecutive threads, people will hate you for that too!
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Near Lurker on 02 Jan 2008, 19:23
I have absolutely got to disagree with Dylan.  Dylan isn't a tenth the singer he is a songwriter; his songs are almost tailor-made to be covered.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 02 Jan 2008, 22:59
Quote from: Spinless on 02 Jan 2008, 16:54
Also, if you have the last post in more than three consecutive threads, people will hate you for that too!

Hey dude.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: dalconnsuch on 03 Jan 2008, 20:06
bob dylan should never be covered? bob dylan songs that have been covered rock look at fugazi's "masters of war" and jimi hendrix's "all along the watch tower" bro please
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Statik on 10 Jan 2008, 12:08
Quote from: KharBevNor on 22 Jan 2007, 10:24
My interest in alternative music started by never listening to contemporary pop music, ever. At the time all my friends were getting seriously obsessed with Nirvana (14/15), my favourite songs of all time were 'Puritania' by Dimmu Borgir, 'Queen of Winter, Throned' by Cradle of Filth, 'Countess Bathory' by Venom, 'Disciples of Black Sorcery' by Thou Art Lord and 'I Am The Black Wizards' by Emperor. My softer listening was all Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Pink Floyd. I thought Nirvana were lame, and, though I know far, far more about music now then I did then, my initial opinion held, and not for want of re-appraisal, I own two Nirvana albums. Never been able to sit through either of them.

Your friends were getting into Nirvana nearly a full decade after his death?

Aside from that, on topic, Sentenced did a good, if rather bland cover of Radiohead's "Creep"
I personally think that bands shouldnt cover anything released within the past decade. (Exceptions can be made as always, but in GENERAL)  Also, if the cover is a note for note copy, just with different musicians, it shouldn't be done.  This is called a "tribute" and not a "cover."

Pop artists / groups should stop covering ANY metal songs.  I was going to go into a long tirade on cover songs that shouldnt exist (such as "Walk" by Avenged Sevenfold)  but then I realised that all the covers I hate are by bands I hate, so it wouldnt exactly be a very good argument, just kind of a "They suck and shouldnt cover good songs"

I also tend to hate on cover albums in general, but Between The Buried and Me's fantastic "The Anatomy Of" album hurts my argument.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: amok on 10 Jan 2008, 12:10
"bland cover of Radiohead's "Creep""

to be fair, it'd take a stroke of genius to make a version of that song that wasn't bland.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Valrus on 10 Jan 2008, 13:03
Yeah I think the only way to do that would be to add a couple really crunchy guitar stabs just before the chorus.

Or wait, has someone already tried that?
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: amok on 10 Jan 2008, 13:23
the only way to do that would be to remove every aspect of the original song and just make a new one

which frankly would not fit under even the loosest definition of 'cover' in my book

;)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 10 Jan 2008, 13:29
I hate Alanis Morrissette for co-opting JOY's style by doing "My Humps".

I heard "You Oughta Know" for the first time in a long time yesterday and wow, what a song.  What a horrible, horrible song.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: lilibet23 on 10 Jan 2008, 14:59
Quote from: Johnny C on 21 Jan 2007, 06:41
I would much rather see a list of individual songs which shouldn't be covered anymore. Topping the list for me is "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

Devil's advocate here, but two different covers of this song:

1. Hot girl, changing it up A LOT

 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7527873222288236969&q=love+will+tear+us+part&total=834&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2 (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7527873222288236969&q=love+will+tear+us+part&total=834&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2)

2.Umm, if you re easily offended, DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-845659753247439876&q=love+will+tear+us+part+fall+out+boy&total=39&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-845659753247439876&q=love+will+tear+us+part+fall+out+boy&total=39&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0)

Re: "Legends" covering stuff, good covers, in my opinion: Faith No More "Easy", Johnny Cash "Personal Jesus" & Nirvana (Seeing as they've been talked about a lot) "Molly's Lips" Soft Cell "Tainted Love" Sonic Youth "Touch Me I'm Sick" (If you've not heard it Kim Gordon does vocals, it's hot....)

Marilyn Mason should stop covering songs. (I just realised as I was typing he covered two in that list....ugh!)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Alex C on 10 Jan 2008, 19:37
I'm strongly in favor of making fun of Fergie, so I have a hard time hating the My Humps cover, but yeah, I hate "You Oughta Know". It's surreal going through old magazines and music articles; all these adjectives like "searing" and "blistering" get strewn about that song and for the life of me I have no idea what the fuck it is they're hearing that I don't.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: hannahrochelle on 10 Jan 2008, 20:20
Quote from: amok on 10 Jan 2008, 12:10
"bland cover of Radiohead's "Creep""

to be fair, it'd take a stroke of genius to make a version of that song that wasn't bland.

I dunno.. Amanda Palmer did a pretty awesome cover when she was at the Spiegeltent in Melbourne with Ali McGregor. And also if you look it up on YouTube, she also does a solo cover of it using a ukelele.

And for all you Aussies.... Have you heard Karnivools's cover of Gotye's The Only Way? OMG SO AWESOME.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: amok on 11 Jan 2008, 09:36
(few posts up) Swans do two awesome covers of Love Will Tear Us Apart. And I got some random dub EP called 'Dub Will Tear Us Apart' awhile ago with a sick instrumental reggae version.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: öde on 11 Jan 2008, 10:25
Quote from: amok on 10 Jan 2008, 12:10
"bland cover of Radiohead's "Creep""

to be fair, it'd take a stroke of genius to make a version of that song that wasn't bland.

The Arrogant Sons of Bitches covered a load of Radiohead songs, unfortunately(?) Creep wasn't among them. You can download the album from the Quote Unquote Records site.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Johnny C on 11 Jan 2008, 13:06
Fuck I love Nouvelle Vague.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 11 Jan 2008, 13:15
That "Killing Moon" cover does fucking rock.

I still prefer the Pavement version though.  "Cucumber, cu-cu-cu-cumber."
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Thrillho on 11 Jan 2008, 15:39
Quote from: öde on 11 Jan 2008, 10:25
Quote from: amok on 10 Jan 2008, 12:10
"bland cover of Radiohead's "Creep""

to be fair, it'd take a stroke of genius to make a version of that song that wasn't bland.

The Arrogant Sons of Bitches covered a load of Radiohead songs, unfortunately(?) Creep wasn't among them. You can download the album from the Quote Unquote Records site.

Good God, I love that album. 'Hi, we're going to play some boring shit and you'll sit and listen to it because we're Radiohead.'
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Statik on 11 Jan 2008, 17:21
Quote from: Valrus on 10 Jan 2008, 13:03
Yeah I think the only way to do that would be to add a couple really crunchy guitar stabs just before the chorus.

Or wait, has someone already tried that?

The sentenced cover is a bit heavier than Radioheads original (Plus I like Ville's vocals a lot better, but Im biased because I like Setenced and dislike Radiohead)

Also for someone mentioning the horrible CoF cover of Mr. Crowley, Moonspell did an amazing cover of that song (but Fernando is a SINGER)

Weird Covers i have:

Machine Head covering "Message in a bottle"
Children of Bodom covering "Rebel Yell"  (I love CoB, but Alexi shouldnt be singing)
Graveworm covering "Losing My Religion"
Umbra Et Imago covering "Rock Me Amadeus"
Angelzoom covering "Crawling" (Linkin fucking Park covered in an opera style singer, wtf)
Sinergy covering "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"  Power metal cover of ABBA, I honestly dont know wtf to think

Also, CoB covered "Oops I did it again" and its awsome. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIeY6KIMZRk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIeY6KIMZRk)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 12 Jan 2008, 12:05
There's a whole album of awesomely weird REM covers.

http://www.amazon.com/Surprise-Your-Pig-Tribute-R-E-M/dp/B00000AR4U

This pretty much sums it up:

"Phelg Camp's cover of "Feeling Gravitiy's Pull" is awesome. If you are one of those artsy-fartsy REM/GenXer's "woe-is-me-no-one-understands-me" fans typical to the late 80s and early 90s expecting to hear the urgent pathos of Michael Stipe's voice re-interpreted then you are an idiot. If the title does not give away what this record is about then you need to go back and review satire and parody in your high school literature text. If you are into punk rock then this is a great record for you. This isn't about mood, pathos, or art this is about having fun with the most overrated "mood" band of the 1990s."
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: el_loco_avs on 14 Jan 2008, 04:12
I just came across this:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_OI83uINQjM (http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_OI83uINQjM)


Noone gets to do that to a Jeff Buckley song and live.


NOONE.



(also.... lol@ the blatant video)
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: meticulous on 14 Jan 2008, 05:06
The Dillinger Escape Plan did a fantastic cover of Rebel Yell actually as part of a BBC radio 1 live session- christ, Greg Puciato, what a voice! anyway the copy i have of that is of horrible quality so if anyone has a better version or even the whole session feel free to pm me.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Spluff on 14 Jan 2008, 05:21
Quote from: Statik on 11 Jan 2008, 17:21
Also, CoB covered "Oops I did it again" and its awsome. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIeY6KIMZRk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIeY6KIMZRk)

Yeah, the CoB one is just plain funny. Also funny is 'These Boots are Made for Walking' by Megadeth, though at least that one is musically credible.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Jackie Blue on 14 Jan 2008, 18:41
Quote from: tommydski on 14 Jan 2008, 04:31
Jawbreaker were on this too, non?

Yup, and Steel Pole Bathtub, Gumball, King Missile, many good bands.  Also the heavy metal cover of \"Losing My Religion\" is wundertisch.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: bbqrocks on 15 Jan 2008, 13:20
I'm gonna have to go with rush. The couple of covers I have heard have been horrendous.
Title: Re: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever.
Post by: Beastmouth on 15 Jan 2008, 16:13
I'm not sure if this is the right thread to post it, but have any of y'all heard Howard Tate's version of 'How Do You Think It Feels'? 
It came on the college station last week as I was driving home from somebody's guitar lesson and it nearly ran me off the road.    Easily the second most powerful song off Berlin (bawling children really unsettle me, for *some* reason), and this old crooner is back from the grave and giving it hell.