WTF covers

[Rarebird]

Not really a cover, but a sped up version. Someone should be killed for this. (Just kidding. But still, this version is terrible. The commenters only seem to focus on the song and what it means to them, but not a word about how this is killing the whole song.)

[TheH]

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

^^^ Brilliant!

[Progbear]

Not really a cover, but a sped up version. Someone should be killed for this. (Just kidding. But still, this version is terrible. The commenters only seem to focus on the song and what it means to them, but not a word about how this is killing the whole song.)

I think it might be an outgrowth of that stupid "slowed+reverb" trend from a while back.

[Rarebird]

I think it might be an outgrowth of that stupid "slowed+reverb" trend from a while back.

I read an article about it and both seem to done at the same time.
I remember we used to play Pythagoras - Journey to the vast unknown at 45 instead of 33.

[Hal...]

... But still, this version is terrible. The commenters only seem to focus on the song and what it means to them, but not a word about how this is killing the whole song.

I had a similar experience when I commented on The Fugees' cover of Killing Me Softly. I said nothing about how good of a singer Lauren Hill was or wasn't, just how the cover was doing a disservice to the original by Roberta Flack.*

You'd have thought I was Pontius Pilate. People ripped into me like a pack of dogs tearing into a slab of beef.

*Actually, what I said was that it sucked and that it's one of the worst covers in the history of modern music. The hip-hop beat behind the vox are 100% out of place, imo. And I know Hill is a good singer but I loathe melisma in pop and R&B vox and she does a lot of it in that song.

[Hal...]

I mentioned this band about a year ago and no one commented so I thought I'd post a video of them doing their cover of "Summertime Blues".

Ladies and gents, from 1979, The Flying Lizards:



I'm sure most people will think this sucks but the band was ... I don't know, Dada? Avant garde? They actually have some songs from that album that sound perfectly normal.

But I like this song. Their cover of "Money", otoh, leaves something to be desired.

[Progbear]

I read an article about it and both seem to done at the same time.
I remember we used to play Pythagoras - Journey to the vast unknown at 45 instead of 33.

A few records released on Klaus Schulze's Innovative Communications label had a "Mit 33 oder 45 spielbar" blurb. I believe Baffo Banfi's Ma, dolce vita was one of them.

I had a similar experience when I commented on The Fugees' cover of Killing Me Softly. I said nothing about how good of a singer Lauren Hill was or wasn't, just how the cover was doing a disservice to the original by Roberta Flack.

Slight correction: it was actually Lori Lieberman who sang the original version of "Killing Me Softly...":

[Hal...]

Slight correction: it was actually Lori Lieberman who sang the original version of "Killing Me Softly...":

I stand corrected.

Yeah, Lieberman claims she was inspired while seeing Don McLean in 1971, altho she was also never credited with co-writing the song. But her version never charted. And I had never even heard of her before now.

[interbellum]

Trio Kjetil Jerve / Tim Thornton / Anders Thorén perform Allan Holdsworth 54 Duncan Terrace on their CD Circumstances:

[TheH]

^^^ Brilliant!

Tres hermanas de mexico playing an awesome remake of the song. The sisters are a great rock trio!

[Dave (in MA)]

Only "WTF" in the sense that it's not something you'd ever expect to hear somebody cover...

[Dave (in MA)]

[TheH]

^^ Awesome

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

^^Indeed!

[veteranof1000psychicwars]

Puddles does some fucking great covers. His version of War Pigs is phenomenal.

https://youtu.be/WT8t3i8CkMQ?si=3_8IkRCJRVAeD8Wb

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

I agree about Puddles in general, but his "War Pigs" doesn't come up to Dresden Dolls':

[Rarebird]

Can't say it sounds much different from the original.

[interbellum]

Jan Bang sang this duet, a cover of the song Delia, written in 1956 by Fred Brooks and Lester Judson and sung by Harry Belafonte, with Benedikte Kløw Askedalen on his new album Reading The Air:

[veteranof1000psychicwars]

I agree about Puddles in general, but his "War Pigs" doesn't come up to Dresden Dolls':

Hadn't heard that one, it is great also.

[Progbear]

Well, this might be the first time I've heard someone cover a song purely to spite its writer (well, it's probably 40% spite and 60% "we won the lawsuit, let's see how much more money we can milk out of this!"):

[Mister Triscuits]

Well, this might be the first time I've heard someone cover a song purely to spite its writer (well, it's probably 40% spite and 60% "we won the lawsuit, let's see how much more money we can milk out of this!")

It's even more WTF than that. This was released before the lawsuit was adjudicated. The Chiffons by this time were at most a semi-professional group, working day jobs and performing on weekends. They hadn't recorded in five years. They weren't the songwriters, so they wouldn't have had a financial stake in the case, but somehow just before it went to court they were back on their old label releasing their cover of the disputed song. I wouldn't be surprised if Allen Klein was behind it.

[Hal...]

Well, this might be the first time I've heard someone cover a song purely to spite its writer (well, it's probably 40% spite and 60% "we won the lawsuit, let's see how much more money we can milk out of this!")

That's actually kind of good.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

That's actually kind of good.

In fact, if I weren't familiar with the Harrison track I might say it bordered on great.

[Progbear]

I wouldn't be surprised if Allen Klein was behind it.

I'd say the chances are very good.