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Oriphiel 11-05-2018 04:54 AM

Hey Bat


The Batlord 11-05-2018 11:45 PM

https://i.gifer.com/Jtli.gif

Oriphiel 11-06-2018 03:10 AM

Bring it on

https://i.imgur.com/DBCH9aQ.gif

Marie Monday 11-11-2018 01:20 PM


K Addict 11-12-2018 02:29 PM


windsock 11-12-2018 03:32 PM


BillySparks 11-14-2018 07:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oriphiel (Post 2012270)
Hey Bat


Love it, I saw them a couple of times growing up in Glasgow.

Zhanteimi 11-14-2018 07:50 PM


BillySparks 11-16-2018 06:36 AM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1uOi39rjf0

K Addict 11-21-2018 02:35 PM


Oriphiel 11-21-2018 02:49 PM


Oriphiel 11-21-2018 02:53 PM


khfreek 11-21-2018 10:24 PM

^ yeah doesn't touch Talking Heads really.

I would contribute this track:


Marie Monday 11-22-2018 09:26 AM

I mean at least this version has some bite to it

Plankton 11-27-2018 11:47 AM

Original (meh):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFP0EP-Oi2I

Elvis (bleh):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxOBOhRECoo

Dwight Yoakam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01fy0UtBTW4

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Black Francis 11-27-2018 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by khfreek (Post 2017542)
^ yeah doesn't touch Talking Heads really.

I would contribute this track:


https://media1.tenor.com/images/98a4...temid=12469724

Sounds like T-Rex butchering In Bloom.

BillySparks 12-01-2018 11:52 AM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pgog03z8YI

Neapolitan 12-01-2018 12:54 PM

Chula Vista will definitely choke me for saying this is better.
I'm sure right now all my enemies are petitioning the mods for he un-banning.
All I have to say to them is:
Release the Kraken!¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dinosaur Jr. - Show Me The Way (Cover)

Karengirl 12-06-2018 03:59 AM

Dear Prudence - Siouxsie & The Banshees better than Beatles
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies better than Lou Reed
New Kind Of Kick - Jesus & Mary Chain
Muse
both better than original

khfreek 12-06-2018 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Francis (Post 2018908)
Sounds like T-Rex butchering In Bloom.

Surely you're not saying T. Rex is bad? Yeah the cover's a little cheesy, but I think that is what they were going for.

Black Francis 12-14-2018 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by khfreek (Post 2022480)
Surely you're not saying T. Rex is bad? Yeah the cover's a little cheesy, but I think that is what they were going for.

Not at all, i like T-rex. And i do appreciate they tried a different direction with it but imo it didn't quite work, that's all. I heard another version of in bloom that was like ska punk and it didnt quite sound right to me either.

I do like this version of drain you tho


Unitron 01-01-2019 01:35 PM

As awesome as the original one is, John Bush's vocals on this cover are amazing:

Dude111 01-01-2019 04:18 PM

I would say CROSBY STILLS AND NASH - Woodstock (Although I heard it before Jonis so I prefer it)

Unitron 01-10-2019 12:28 PM


ziggywas 01-18-2019 11:41 AM

i got one!


MicShazam 01-18-2019 11:42 AM

I suppose Marilyn Manson's version of Tainted Love. Not because his version is good, but because the original is even ****tier.

The Batlord 01-18-2019 11:48 AM

What is Tainted Love?

MicShazam 01-18-2019 11:51 AM

One of those eternal questions humans have been asking since they first walked the Earth.

windsock 01-18-2019 12:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unitron (Post 2032441)

No way dude. Guy Speranza does not match up to John Kay.

And now that I listen to it, Born to Be Wild has more far more charm as a hard blues rock song calling itself "heavy metal thunder" than a self-referential metal song.

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MicShazam 01-18-2019 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by windsock (Post 2035212)

Better than the Joan Baez version? Are you ****ing serious?

That's like saying Disturbed did The Sound of Silence justice.

I am very offended and will have to go barf in a bucket now. Excuse me.

Lilja 01-18-2019 04:15 PM

Peter Gabriel's cover of the Magnetic Fields's "Book of Love". So much more passion than the original.


SmokeAndMirrors 01-18-2019 04:40 PM

I get that they did it as a joke, though I also get the joke...


MicShazam 01-18-2019 04:44 PM

Seems more like your usual awful metal cover of non-metal music than a joke, but what do I know.

What I do know is that every metal band that has ever covered a non-metal song and given it harsh vocals (or for that matter covered a metal song that originally did not have harsh vocals with harsh vocals added in the cover version) have committed unforgivable crimes against the art of music. It just basically never translates well.

The Batlord 01-18-2019 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 2035267)
Seems more like your usual awful metal cover of non-metal music than a joke, but what do I know.

What I do know is that every metal band that has ever covered a non-metal song and given it harsh vocals (or for that matter covered a metal song that originally did not have harsh vocals with harsh vocals added in the cover version) have committed unforgivable crimes against the art of music. It just basically never translates well.


MicShazam 01-18-2019 04:49 PM

Ok I legit forgot about Death. Their version of Painkiller worked well too. But I've seen countless metal bands ruin songs they were presumably trying to pay homage to.

SmokeAndMirrors 01-18-2019 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 2035270)
Ok I legit forgot about Death. Their version of Painkiller worked well too. But I've seen countless metal bands ruin songs they were presumably trying to pay homage to.

Rule #1 of metal should really be Nobody Gets To Cover Iron Maiden. It almost never works.

MicShazam 01-18-2019 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SmokeAndMirrors (Post 2035274)
Rule #1 of metal should really be Nobody Gets To Cover Iron Maiden. It almost never works.

I can't think of one good cover of a Maiden song. I've heard some mangled ones for sure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL2Hq4edGzU

Step 1: Ruin the point of the original vocal approach.
Step 2: Add nothing else to cover for the thing you subtracted from the appeal of the song.
Result: Pointless garbage.

OMG the chorus makes me sad.

Karengirl 01-18-2019 05:56 PM

New Order - original is classic winner
Orgy - cover is massive


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJZTfl3DmCU (tag wrap not working for me w/video; vid woth watching)


Atomica 01-19-2019 06:57 AM



Fire.

Frownland 01-19-2019 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 2035267)
Seems more like your usual awful metal cover of non-metal music than a joke, but what do I know.

What I do know is that every metal band that has ever covered a non-metal song and given it harsh vocals (or for that matter covered a metal song that originally did not have harsh vocals with harsh vocals added in the cover version) have committed unforgivable crimes against the art of music. It just basically never translates well.



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