Topic: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever. (Read 68553 times)

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #100 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.

Ben yayayayayayayay · « **Reply #101 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!

KharBevNor · « **Reply #102 on:** 25 Jan 2007, 02:16 »

No. In The Aeroplane... is my favourite NMH song.

Johnny C · « **Reply #103 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

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #104 on:** 25 Jan 2007, 02:55 »

I eagerly await the Cleopatra Records tribute to Neutral Milk Hotel album.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #105 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.

Shiney_Gothique · « **Reply #106 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.

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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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #107 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.

Ben yayayayayayayay · « **Reply #108 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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #109 on:** 25 Jan 2007, 06:15 »

Oh Comely is pretty boring, in the context of that album.

Ben yayayayayayayay · « **Reply #110 on:** 25 Jan 2007, 06:30 »

New NMH album this year! I hear it's about Helen Keller.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #111 on:** 25 Jan 2007, 06:51 »

Lame reference.

Ben yayayayayayayay · « **Reply #112 on:** 25 Jan 2007, 11:41 »

Me? What was I referencing?

debaser24/7 · « **Reply #113 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.

Johnny C · « **Reply #114 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!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #115 on:** 25 Jan 2007, 12:16 »

Quote from: JohnnyC

I'll get you next time Khar, next time

Tyler · « **Reply #116 on:** 25 Jan 2007, 12:20 »

I like my opinions and yours are stupid.

Shiney_Gothique · « **Reply #117 on:** 25 Jan 2007, 14:41 »

Inspector Gadget was awesomeness.

Evil_Lathander · « **Reply #118 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...

treefingers · « **Reply #119 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.

Patrick · « **Reply #120 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.

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #121 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 "Misirlou" to pieces.

kallisti · « **Reply #122 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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #123 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.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #124 on:** 27 Jan 2007, 00:26 »

Yeah seriously. Or like... Psychic TV covering "King of Carrot Flowers pt. 2".

KharBevNor · « **Reply #125 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.

fish across face · « **Reply #126 on:** 27 Jan 2007, 00:36 »

19 minutes? That'd only cover the first 4 bars, right?

The extra letter · « **Reply #127 on:** 27 Jan 2007, 04:03 »

Alien Sex Fiend did a pretty good cover of All the Madmen. I think so, anyway...

kallisti · « **Reply #128 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.

The extra letter · « **Reply #129 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...

kallisti · « **Reply #130 on:** 27 Jan 2007, 04:42 »

wait wait I have not heard this. Which song did they cover? eek.

The extra letter · « **Reply #131 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.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #132 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.

The extra letter · « **Reply #133 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.

kallisti · « **Reply #134 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.

The extra letter · « **Reply #135 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.

kallisti · « **Reply #136 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.

The extra letter · « **Reply #137 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...)

Toeofdoom · « **Reply #138 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.)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #139 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!

Patrick · « **Reply #140 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.

TrueNeutral · « **Reply #141 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.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #142 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 16:34 »

Quote from: KimJongSick on 29 Jan 2007, 06:46

Pink Floyd.

DISPROVE'D

SilentJ · « **Reply #143 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.

Yakob · « **Reply #144 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

Oh dear god, I just came in my pants and its only 5 minutes into it.

Storm Rider · « **Reply #145 on:** 29 Jan 2007, 19:40 »

You're welcome.

Valrus · « **Reply #146 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.

Shiney_Gothique · « **Reply #147 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 02:06 »

I quite like the Rufus Wainwright version.

Thrillho · « **Reply #148 on:** 30 Jan 2007, 13:35 »

I like my own personally.

Patrick · « **Reply #149 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?

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Author Topic: Artists That Should Never Ever Be Covered. Ever. (Read 68553 times)

Shiney_Gothique

debaser24/7

Shiney_Gothique

treefingers

Toeofdoom

TrueNeutral

Shiney_Gothique