Covers, why?

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Thu May 09, 2002 9:05 am

There is a guy from Vegas named Richard Cheese (I am not making this up) who recorded an album called Lounge Against the Machine where he covered a bunch of loud, angry songs in the lounge-singer style. The covers are amusing, but horrible.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Thu May 09, 2002 9:15 am

Originally posted by VoodooDali
Not to mention the Leonard Nimoy albums.

*wipes tear from eye*
Thankyou VD, you just reminded me of the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Priceless viewing, the video is the most camp thing I have ever seen (apart from Graham Norton 5 nights a week

)

And I thought that Will Young's next single

() was going to be Light my Fire? Not that I'm at all interested - meaningless trivia just permeates me

Azmodan · Post by **Azmodan** » Thu May 09, 2002 9:34 am

who is Leonard Nimoy ?!

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Thu May 09, 2002 9:39 am

Originally posted by Azmodan
who is Leonard Nimoy ?!

Played Spock in Star Trek. Made really bad music. Had pointy ears in real life.(not really)

Azmodan · Post by **Azmodan** » Thu May 09, 2002 9:50 am

Originally posted by Kameleon

Played Spock in Star Trek. Made really bad music. Had pointy ears in real life.(not really)

*lol* i hate when actors, think they can sing! (like David Hasselhoff)

Ode to a Grasshopper · Thu May 09, 2002 10:03 am

And let's not forget singers who think they can act, a la Britney Spears.

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Thu May 09, 2002 10:06 am

Pulp lyric:

Aah, sing your song about all the sad imitations that got it so wrong
It's like a later "Tom & Jerry" when the two of them could talk
Like the Stones since the Eighties, like the last days of Southfork.
Like "Planet of the Apes" on TV, the second side of "'Til the Band Comes in"
Like an own-brand box of cornflakes: he's going to let you down my friend.

from 'Bad Cover Version'...

i hate when actors, think they can sing! (like David Hasselhoff)

I hate when semi-skilled Speedo models think they can act. (like David Hasselhoff)

anyway, ummm...the only really good cover I can think of right now is David Bowie's 'Wild is the Wind'...probably not better than the original (maybe though), but good nonetheless...

Azmodan · Post by **Azmodan** » Thu May 09, 2002 10:07 am

Originally posted by Ode to a Grasshopper
And let's not forget singers who think they can act, a la Britney Spears.

You have a point there!...
I just rememberd Don Johnson *shudders*

Ode to a Grasshopper · Thu May 09, 2002 10:18 am

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Covers, why?

Originally posted by Azmodan

Eeekk!...*turns away and run bravely away (fast)*

PS: i have birthday the same day, as Matthew Broderick, i would swop to Jimmi, any day!.. (then it is the 8 dec. isn't it?)..

Yep, 8th December, sweetie. I guess, seeing as you're new, and you knew the Lizard King and my own birthday, that we can forgive your treasonous slander of the Doors.

BTW, I'm going to start doing the AbFab thing of calling select people (known AbFab fans at least) sweetie, when I remember, that is.

Jace · Post by **Jace** » Thu May 09, 2002 10:20 am

There was an album released in Aus that was entirely made up of covers of "Stairway to Heven" - This is where the infamous Rolf Harris version came from.

Best version on the album was the pirate one.

"Argh me harties, she's a buy'n a stairway to hev'n,
"Pieces of Eight, Peices of Eight"

Sung in best Long John Silver voice to a sea shanty beat and tune. The Pieces of Eight bit in a parrot voice.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Thu May 09, 2002 10:22 am

Pulp reminds me of another cover in the more fun then good category. Gothic People by Libitina.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Thu May 09, 2002 11:49 am

Tori Amos recently released a whole album of covers. I was unimpressed, although she did make an effort to make them her own interpretations...

Did anyone else hear about Ryan Adams recording a cover of the whole Strokes album? (Which hasn't been released...) He played one track at his recent London gig, and then got stroppy and stormed offstage and refused to play an encore when it got more applause than all of his own songs.

Beldin · Post by **Beldin** » Thu May 09, 2002 12:13 pm

One for the good and one for the bad.....

One of my "All time Top 10" songs is "Hotel California" ( The Eagles ). I don't know WHO made the cover version but it's somewehere out there - sounding like Joe Walsh was (guitar-)soloing against Dr.Avalanche ("boom-tchak-aboomboom-tchak"). It's probably rap or hip-hop (or some other "dancefloor" crap..), but its by far the WORST cover of a rocksong I ever heard.

On the other hand - the best cover I heard was made by the Gipsy Kings - for the soundtrack to the movie "The Big Lebowski".
They covered "Hotel California" (again

) and made an entire new song of it, in their own style, and all the covered was the lyrics of the refrain -. the rest is sung in spanish (at least I think it's spanish...

) . I like creativity in covers. Not just the electronic oversampling of known riffs , adding a few electronig beats on the way...

But maybe I'm just an old fashioned guy, with old fashioned views...

No worries,

Beldin

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Thu May 09, 2002 12:30 pm

@Georgi, I happen to like some of Tori Amos' stuff - but I thought that cover album dire indeed

Robnark · Post by **Robnark** » Thu May 09, 2002 12:33 pm

Originally posted by Kameleon
*wipes tear from eye*
Thankyou VD, you just reminded me of the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Priceless viewing, the video is the most camp thing I have ever seen

ah, the swinging sixties eh...

that video was so appallingly poor and pointless and painful and...

suited the song perfectly, i thought.
[creeps off to download the video

]

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu May 09, 2002 12:47 pm

Originally posted by Kameleon
And I thought that Will Young's next single () was going to be Light my Fire? Not that I'm at all interested - meaningless trivia just permeates me

I never, ever managed to get their names right, but yes it is Will Young, not Gareth Gates.

The worst thing is he tries to emulate Morrison's style with the song....i swear if i ever met the guy i would smack him in the face....if your out their Will and reading GB mind out for a Welshman with a middle parting who looks slightly peeved!

@Ysh, i really like Little Earthquakes (although some goes a bit wayward) but i didn't like the sound of a cover album

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Thu May 09, 2002 1:49 pm

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
otherwise i might have to go on a mass killing spree of Pop Idol

Sorry I'm already busy killing anything remotly related to

Sclub 7

Steps

Vengaboys

Pop idole

Etc.
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.
Etc.

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Thu May 09, 2002 1:58 pm

I like Stevie Ray Vaugns cover of Voodoo Child, and Jeff healey's cover of Stuck in The Middle With You.

Other than that, the only thing I liked cover wise(off the top of my head) was Metallicas Garage Days EP.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:03 pm

Re: Re: Covers, why?

Originally posted by craig
Sorry I'm already busy killing anything remotly related to

Another member in the never ending army of Pop haters! Go craig!

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Thu May 09, 2002 2:04 pm

I absolutely hated the British girlband All Saints. And I hated them even more when they made a lousy and flat cover of the 70's disco classic "Lady marmalade". Yuck.

I usually dislike covers, and I seldom the a point in why musicians should make them. However, one of the best covers I've ever heard was David Bowie's version of "All the young dudes", but I think he actually wrote the song himself and then gave it to for Mott the Hoople.

A great "cover" that isn't really a cover is Russian composer Shostakovitch's version of the jazz standard "Tea for two". Shostakovitch had never heard "the new music" from the US, jazz, but at a party somebody had managed to get hold of a record. When Shostakovitch heard it, he said he like it, but thought it was improperly intrumented. So he made his own version, and included it in the famous ballet "The golden age"