Topic: create the worst possible tribute album you can think of! (Read 30915 times)

ImRonBurgundy? · « **on:** 15 Mar 2006, 22:42 »

this goes out to all the shitty tribute albums that have come out over the years. from the largely bland and insufferable Oingo Boingo tribute album to the mostly damn near unlistenable Jawbreaker tribute album (not to mention the Tony Hawk Underground soundtrack), this is a salute to all the bands who have taken their time to butcher songs by artists that they claim to admire. here's a sampling of what we might be able to expect from the future if this disgraceful tide refuses to let up.

"Tribute" to Fugazi:
01. My Chemical Romance- "Waiting Room"
02. Taking Back Sunday- "Give Me the Cure"
03. Atreyu- "Bad Mouth"
04. Thrice- "Cashout"
05. As I Lay Dying- "Suggestion"
06. Chiodos- "Bulldog Front"
07. Crossfade- "Repeater"
08. Evergreen Terrace- "Epic Problem"
09. Take the Crown- "The Kill"
10. The Fall of Troy- "Styrofoam"
11. A Static Lullaby- "Burning"
12. Greeley Estates- "Margin Walker"
13. Scary Kids Scaring Kids- "Argument"

"Tribute" to Screeching Weasel:
01. Fall Out Boy- "Cool Kids"
02. The Starting Line- "Hey, Suburbia!"
03. Halifax- "My Right"
04. Amber Pacific- "Supermarket Fantasy"
05. Rufio- "Dingbat"
06. New Found Glory- "Veronica Hates Me"
07. Bowling for Soup- "Stupid Over You"
08. Boys Night Out- "The Science of Myth"
09. Hidden in Plain View- "My Brain Hurts"
10. The Matches- "What We Hate"
11. Never Heard of It- "Kamala's Too Nice"
12. Houston Calls- "Totally"
13. Motion City Soundtrack- "Fathead"
14. Bayside- "Cindy's on Methadone"
15. Aiden- "American Suicide"
16. Less Than Jake- "Every Night"
17. Something Corporate- "Guest List"
18. The Casualties- "Slogans"

scary, eh? and the scariest part? both of these tribute albums are entirely feasible. all it takes is a record label wanting to cash in on the name of an influential band or artist, and having the connections to snag a bunch of at least fairly well-known bands. so do your part. just say no to bad tribute albums.

endblink · « **Reply #1 on:** 15 Mar 2006, 22:59 »

Barry: Top 5 songs about death. A Laura's Dad tribute list, okay? Okay. Leader of the Pack. The guy fuckin' beefs it on his motorcycle and dies, right? Dead Man's Curve. Jan & Dean.
Dick: Do you know that right after they recorded that song Jan himself crashed his car...
Barry: It was Dean you fuckin' idiot...
Rob: It was Jan. It was a long time after the song.
Barry: Okay, whatever. Tell Laura I Love Her. That would bring the house down - Laura's Mom could sing it. You know what I'd want? One Step Beyond by Madness. And, uh, You Can't Always Get What You Want.
Dick: No. Immediate disqualification because of its involvement with The Big Chill.
Barry: Oh God. You're right!
Dick: Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.
Barry: You bastard! That's so good - that should have been mine... The night Laura's daddy died. Sha na na na na na na na na! Brother what a night it really was. Mother what a night it really... angina's tough! Glory be!

jcknbl · « **Reply #2 on:** 15 Mar 2006, 23:40 »

I was at tower records tonight and was freaking out at the tribute albums they had. Vitamin Records keeps putting out these String Quartet tributes... to a whole lot of artists including really good ones. The thing is, they basically just make a tribute album for any artist thats put out an album. Thus, I did indeed see tribute albums to: Yellowcard, Hubastank, Nickleback, Hawthorne Heights, Jessica Simpson (huh?), Limp Bizkit, and wait for it... wait for it... OH, YOU KNOW ITS COMING... Creed.

The most ridiculous part was that on the back of each cd they had a paragraph explaining that artist's greatness and contributions that artist made to music.

The entire catalogue is online here (Though the recent releases aren't up yet)

Some highlights:

Limp Bizkit-Leading the wave of rock/rap hybrids, Limp Bizkit has carved out a loyal following over the years. Relentless touring and the occasional call to ‘break stuff’ has pushed them to the top of the charts, firmly positioning Bizkit as rock royalty.

Creed-With their combination of hard-hitting rock and earthy spirituality, Creed captured the hearts, minds and souls of millions of fans across the world. Creed has made faith in a higher power cool again.

P.O.D.- With eclectic influences ranging from nu-metal to latin to hip-hop and their undeniably positive message, it’s no wonder Southern California’s P.O.D. has made fans across the globe. And they rock hard!

Jessica Simpson-She’s America’s sexy, blonde mistress of all media – Billboard chart-topper, reality TV star, magazine cover golden girl. But it’s her awesome voice that propelled Jessica Simpson to the peak of pop diva-dom. Those are gospel roots showing through that blonde mane, and they give Simpson’s vocals their power and a unique, sultry innocence. She can go good-girl sweet on a ballad, or bad-girl breathy on a dance track, turning tunes by the country’s top songwriters into “Irresistible” Jessica platinum. You’ve never experienced Jessica Simpson like this. The String Quartet Tribute kicks out the hype and cranks up the celebratory vibe of her music. When these violin and cello players launch into her party-rousing hits, grooving is no longer optional... and if they wrap their strings around a love song like “I Wanna Love You Forever”, hang on to your heart. Simpson plus Strings equals sweet, danceable pop perfection.

Ok, so this has nothing to do with the intended purpose of this thread but I thought it highly appropriate.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #3 on:** 15 Mar 2006, 23:42 »

I doubt the horrible emo bands you mentioned have even really listened to Fugazi, much less cared enough about them to make a tribute album.

What would really scare me is a tribute album by My Chemical Romance to Iron Maiden. Apparently, their singer counts them as an influence, so this is actually a remote, yet absolutely terrifying possibility.

And Coheed and Cambria covering any decent bands from the 4 or 5 genres that they manage to butcher.

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #4 on:** 15 Mar 2006, 23:49 »

<Jcknbl's post>

haha, i love those. they also have a lot of bluegrass tributes to rather non-bluegrass artists.

my absolute favorite, though, is this one: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp?cat=79405&path=0%3A4104%3A4118%3A5090

it's a tribute to Blink 182 done by a band called THE UNITED STATES OF PUNK! AMAZING!

Storm Rider: yeah, i doubt they have, too, i just went on myspace music and searched for the most popular bands that have "post-hardcore" listed as one of their genres.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #5 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 01:45 »

How about String Quartet tributes to horrible nu-metal bands like KoRn and Mudvayne?

OH WAIT THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE!

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #6 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 02:04 »

How about a tribute to System of a Down done entirely by Avril Lavigne?

Ow, my brain hurts from thinking about that.

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #7 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 02:25 »

Quote from: onewheelwizzard

How about a tribute to System of a Down done entirely by Avril Lavigne?

Ow, my brain hurts from thinking about that.

even worse, her doing a tribute to Dillinger Four.

she's apparently a huge fan of theirs. she even has a Dillinger Four tattoo.

Jenno · « **Reply #8 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 02:25 »

William Shatner sings Elliott Smith.

jcknbl · « **Reply #9 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 03:19 »

It might be worth it if Shatner followed suit and committed suicide after releasing the album.

Too soon?

Kai · « **Reply #10 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 05:56 »

Quote from: ImRonBurgundy?

"Tribute" to Fugazi:
01. My Chemical Romance- "Waiting Room"

This is a disturbing image.

Kirbo · « **Reply #11 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 06:27 »

Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne and "friends" sing Riding with the King by B.B King and Eric Clapton.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #12 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 07:19 »

Puff Daddy - Kashmir

That is all.

Kirbo · « **Reply #13 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 07:25 »

Quote from: E. Spaceman

Puff Daddy - Kashmir

That is all.

But he did cover Kas....oh....ohohoh, I get it. You saucy devil.

"I wanna fight you, I fucking bite you". Man...I forgot how great that one was.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #14 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 07:43 »

A 'tribute' to Edge of Sanity (release later this year):

1: The Black Dahlia Murder - Blood Coloured
2: Trivium - Elegy
3: In Flames - The Sinner and the Sadness
4: Bleeding Through - Hell Is Where the Heart Is
5: Children of Bodom - Disrupting the Inhabitants
6: Bullet For My Valentine - Sacrificed
7: Soilwork - Twilight

...no, actually, it's too painful to continue.

Misereatur · « **Reply #15 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 08:54 »

Khar, thats just sick man.

Now Bullet For My Valentine are raping Sacrificed in my head.
MAKE IT STOP!!

Thrillho · « **Reply #16 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 08:58 »

Celine Dion sings Johnny Cash.

Laffy · « **Reply #17 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 09:39 »

Kyuus being covered by 10 different nu-metal artists. Not feasible, but scary as fuck. The songs would be scarred for life.

Quote

Celine Dion sings Johnny Cash.

I dread the day.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #18 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 09:47 »

A Blink 182 tribute to My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. That would suck major donkey cock.

Or Belle and Sebastian covering Thin Lizzy.*

*This has actually happpened and it was very good.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #19 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 11:00 »

tom waits doing dragonforce. its making me sad just thinking about it

mberan42 · « **Reply #20 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 11:01 »

I'm Slim Shady. The real Slim Shady. All you other Slim Shadies. Are just imitating.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #21 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 11:53 »

Quote from: Spinless

Saddle Creek Does the Beatles.

I can tell you for a fact that a lot of people on this forum are going to get boners at this idea.

nescience · « **Reply #22 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 12:03 »

Avril Lavigne's tribute to Sonic Youth.

or even better...

Avril Lavigne's tribute to Glenn Branca!

Misereatur · « **Reply #23 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 12:25 »

Sum 41 and Blink 182 covering Faith No More.
I almost made myself vomit.

Thrillho · « **Reply #24 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 12:26 »

Quote from: mberan42

I'm Slim Shady. The real Slim Shady. All you other Slim Shadies. Are just imitating.

Except, that cover is genius.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #25 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 13:38 »

Quote from: Spinless

I'd rather Belle and Sebastian coverred the entire thin lizzy back catalog than here that awful metallica cover again...

Read the small text.

Kai · « **Reply #26 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 15:17 »

I'm pretty sure Oberst had a Christmas album and totally covered Silent Night.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #27 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 17:48 »

I hate to break it to you, but...

I've had the misfortune of hearing it, not to mention they made a video where the band had a TOTALLY RAD house partay with liquor and breaking stuff and GIRLS MAKING OUT WOO!1

KharBevNor · « **Reply #28 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 18:16 »

What's so bad about Metallicas cover of Whiskey in a Jar? It's not as good as the original, or a good cover in the sense of trying to do something new with the song, but it's not like it's grade-a rape or anything. It's better than pretty much everything metallica have written themselves for at least a decade. That video sounds pretty retarded though.

Also, Whiskey in the Jar is a folk song, so Metallica didn't really cover it from Thin Lizzy, except for using the same version of the words that they did.

nescience · « **Reply #29 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 18:18 »

Heh. I think I have another guilty pleasure: I actually kinda liked their "Whisky in the Jar" when it came out.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #30 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 18:19 »

It's not that bad, but somebody mentioned Metallica covering Thin Lizzy, which I remembered had been already done.

And tell me that the Edge of Sanity tribute isn't real. Please.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #31 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 18:24 »

The party in the video for "Whiskey in the Jar" is pretty rad, but I don't see how it has anything to do with the song. Of course, I'll kind of forgive it, because it didn't suck so hard as a number of songs on that album, plus it's not really a Thin Lizzy song. It's just that Thin Lizzy did that version of it.

Quote from: jcknbl

I was at tower records tonight and was freaking out at the tribute albums they had. Vitamin Records keeps putting out these String Quartet tributes... to a whole lot of artists including really good ones. The thing is, they basically just make a tribute album for any artist thats put out an album. Thus, I did indeed see tribute albums to: Yellowcard, Hubastank, Nickleback, Hawthorne Heights, Jessica Simpson (huh?), Limp Bizkit, and wait for it... wait for it... OH, YOU KNOW ITS COMING... Creed.

After reading this, I got up to go to the bathroom, then it just hit me. The full import of how awful that idea is added to the fact that IT ACTUALLY EXISTS! I started wimpering, and praying for the souls of the musicians on those albums. Though, I'd do one of those albums in a second. I bet they made pretty good money.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #32 on:** 16 Mar 2006, 18:25 »

Quote from: Laffy

Kyuus being covered by 10 different nu-metal artists. Not feasible, but scary as fuck. The songs would be scarred for life.

There is a tribute album to Kyuss out, in fact. It's called "Listen Without Distraction" and it's all done by South American stoner-rock bands. I have the cover of "Asteroid," which is by a band called Poseidotica that I rather enjoy, and the cover's pretty well done.

amok · « **Reply #33 on:** 17 Mar 2006, 01:12 »

James Blunt: a tribute to Bob Dylan.

Thrillho · « **Reply #34 on:** 17 Mar 2006, 09:19 »

Quote from: Storm Rider

I hate to break it to you, but...

I've had the misfortune of hearing it, not to mention they made a video where the band had a TOTALLY RAD house partay with liquor and breaking stuff and GIRLS MAKING OUT WOO!1

Urgh, their version of Loverman is complete sacrilege.

Oddly enough, Nick Cave's is heavier, somehow.

sjbrot · « **Reply #35 on:** 17 Mar 2006, 11:24 »

Quote from: Kai

I'm pretty sure Oberst had a Christmas album and totally covered Silent Night.

And all your other Christmas favorites. "Away in a Manger", "Blue Christmas", you name it.

Now, imagine Canadian pop-punk acts Simple Plan, Sum 41 et al paying tribute to Eazy-E. There's a winning combination.

Kid Modernist · « **Reply #36 on:** 17 Mar 2006, 11:48 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

Quote from: Spinless
Saddle Creek Does the Beatles.

I can tell you for a fact that a lot of people on this forum are going to get boners at this idea.

*PING*

Thrillho · « **Reply #37 on:** 18 Mar 2006, 09:55 »

Coldplay - A Rush Of Punk To The Head
1. God Save The Queen
2. White Riot
etc...

Kai · « **Reply #38 on:** 18 Mar 2006, 10:02 »

That's pretty horrible. It also spawned the idea of bvarious punk bands doing a tribute to Rush.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #39 on:** 18 Mar 2006, 11:11 »

Oh god. The thought of Green Day trying to play 2112 makes me shiver on the inside.

Hell, even if it were legitimate punk, they couldn't pull it off.

Kai · « **Reply #40 on:** 18 Mar 2006, 11:18 »

The Buzzcocks playing YYZ? Minor Threat doing a nice rendition of La Villa Strangiato? Black Flag's Tom Sawyer? Or the best of them all, Screeching Weasel playing Fly By Night.

thedevilissix · « **Reply #41 on:** 18 Mar 2006, 12:05 »

James Blunt plays Serge Gainsbourg.

(gags)

Sleazy bad+sleazy bad = musical equivalent of Ebola. No, Syphilis. Ewgh.

sjbrot · « **Reply #42 on:** 18 Mar 2006, 23:46 »

Quote from: Storm Rider

Oh god. The thought of Green Day trying to play 2112 makes me shiver on the inside.

The scary thing is that you can't really rule that out nowadays.

Speeing · « **Reply #43 on:** 19 Mar 2006, 00:03 »

Coldplay - "Megalomaniac"(KMFDM, not Incubus)
Streetlight Manifesto - "Figure Number Five"
Devil Driver - "My December"(this may actually be better...)
Eminem - "ice Ice baby" (for white-boy ridiculousness)
Soul Coughing - "Bring Tha Pain"
Cake - "Tanzt Mit Mir"
System of a Down - "The 1812 Overture"
Marilyn Manson - "Drunken Lullabies"(again, might actually be good. All signs point to "no," however)

And finally...

Mogwai - Back to Mad

Zaarin · « **Reply #44 on:** 19 Mar 2006, 00:08 »

Quote from: thedevilissix

Serge Gainsbourg.

Everything you need to know about Serge Gainsbourg is revealed about half way through this video.

thedevilissix · « **Reply #45 on:** 19 Mar 2006, 07:10 »

*shudders* Yeah, I've seen that.

I rest my case, messieurs-dames.

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #46 on:** 19 Mar 2006, 08:44 »

a rap/hip hop tribute to Mario, Luigi, and the Mushroom Kingdom called "Super Mario Brothers Gonna Work It Out".

OH WAIT THIS IS NOT THE BEST TRIBUTE IDEA EVER THREAD.

RoboticSithDrone · « **Reply #47 on:** 19 Mar 2006, 19:28 »

Eminem remixing Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon as a tribute.

I think a little bit of me just died for mentioning even the thought.

Bayley · « **Reply #48 on:** 21 Mar 2006, 23:16 »

Drive-Thru Records doing a tribute to Bob Dylan.

....oh wait. FUCK.

Every time I see that cd at my work I want to break it.

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #49 on:** 23 Mar 2006, 10:30 »

oh, jeez, yeah. that thing is awful.

of course, the only song i heard was the RxBandits one. and it was terrible. and keeping in mind that they're the only Drive-Thru Records band that i like, the rest of the CD must only be good for inducing vomiting.

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jcknbl

TrueNeutral

jcknbl

Laffy

nescience

nescience

sjbrot

Kid Modernist

thedevilissix

sjbrot

Speeing

Zaarin

thedevilissix

RoboticSithDrone