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Juaguocio posted:Your name made me wonder about the worst Beatles covers. Tiffany's version of "I Saw Her Standing There". It once came on the radio and the DJ thought it was so bad he stopped playing it and apologised, which is the only time I've ever heard that happen. Anyway, are live covers fair game? If so, enjoy Katy Perry trying to sing "Don't Stop Me Now".
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Mar 29, 2015 18:05
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yscu2T5WIeQ original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kspfKqdxcXM Blaze Foley was a pretty obscure Texas country singer-songwriter who was shot to death more than 20 years ago who was also friend of my dad. Michael Cera of all people ending up covering him blows my mind.
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Mar 29, 2015 20:06
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Wheat Loaf posted:Tiffany's version of "I Saw Her Standing There". It once came on the radio and the DJ thought it was so bad he stopped playing it and apologised, which is the only time I've ever heard that happen. Jerry garcia's I Saw Her Standing There is pretty sucky too. It makes you realize how lovely the song is but the Beatles were still able to pull it off.
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Mar 29, 2015 23:55
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What made Bob Dylan think he could pull this off? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YanjY9CsPDQ Like loolllollololololololololololololololololololo
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Singing about the apocalypse is cooler than singing about your "I wanna bang this rich broad who comes to the gas station I work at" fantasies.
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A Winner is Jew posted:e: Oh, we want Metallica butchering?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHpnIQdLZQc
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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Hollis Brownsound posted:What made Bob Dylan think he could pull this off? I was expecting his version of "Big Yellow Taxi." Or maybe something off Christmas in the Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus Wheat Loaf posted:Tiffany's version of "I Saw Her Standing There". It once came on the radio and the DJ thought it was so bad he stopped playing it and apologised, which is the only time I've ever heard that happen. I just got around to listening to that Tiffany song, and you're right, it's one of the absolute worst Beatles covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVRfd0rhBv0 Juaguocio fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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Mar 31, 2015 06:45
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this just makes me so loving angry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtdxFLFjFVI
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Mar 31, 2015 12:49
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDl9ZMfj6aE terrible just terrible
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Mar 31, 2015 12:52
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Ready? smashing pumpkins cover of 'once in a lifetime.' snip
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low quality jpeg posted:this just makes me so loving angry We could basically just put everything like this Pomplamoose has ever done in this thread. They are a special kind of awful.
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Mar 31, 2015 19:08
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Michael Bolton's soul covers. Like, I have no antipathy toward Michael Bolton because I was only born when he was at the peak of his fame (1991), he's got a good voice and some of his originals are pleasant enough, but his soul covers are technically well-performed and that's all there is to it. And you need more than that when you're going to do a soul number. Because when you get down to it, soul music is really all about sex and if you're as inoffensive as Michael Bolton, you can't really pull it off. I'm pretty sure one of them - "Try A Little Tenderness" maybe? - even has Kenny G playing on it. You could get Michael Bolton touring with a horn section featuring Kenny G and Wynton Marsalis and you'd have... something. I'm not sure what, but you'd have something.
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low quality jpeg posted:this just makes me so loving angry "Is it funky, brother?" No. No it is not.
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Mar 31, 2015 22:13
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this hurts me. thought korn covering pink floyd was scraping the bottom
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low quality jpeg posted:this just makes me so loving angry This is so bad I think it's actually kinda racist.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62vRp12Bu5A Be sure to stay tuned until 1:40 for the best part.
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Benny and the Jets by The Beastie Boys and Biz Markie. It's also one of my favorite cover songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_l_runP4-Q
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Can it still be a "worst cover ever" if it's still somehow better than the original song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGtXlBbWeB4
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Two great artists, one great song, one poo poo cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtknX95emMQ
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Apr 1, 2015 17:29
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Why oh why do people try and cover The Prodigy's Firestarter? Oh you made a fast, aggressive song slow and moody, how clever! Oh you made a fast, aggressive song slow and moody, how clever! Oh you made a fast, aggressive song slow and moody, how clever! Gene Simmons, LOL. Someone called Soulquake System replaced the Breeders sample with some cats in a washing machine and Keith's cockney punk vocal with Cookie Monster. Supultra. Meh. Oh you have a Ukelele, how cute. Now go and make some music for a soap advert or something And there are plenty more. It's just weird that a song that lends itself so poorly to covers has so many covers.
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Apr 1, 2015 19:15
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Learning that there are so many cover versions of famous musicians doing "Firestarter" feels like an April Fool's Joke that somehow came true.
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Apr 1, 2015 20:17
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"(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" covered by Coldplay. I realise this was a tribute to Adam Yauch and everything, and I realise the song wasn't exactly one of the Beastie Boys' most accomplished in the first place, but this is still a bit naff.
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Apr 1, 2015 23:16
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^^^ in the UK one of the big national radio stations does a show, Live Lounge, where artists come in and cover something that's in the charts. It's invariably trendy Indy bands doing oh so ironic covers of pop songs, and sounds exactly like this. Almost always terrible.
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low quality jpeg posted:this just makes me so loving angry   lol what a pretentious clownshow of a band
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EvilGenius posted:^^^ in the UK one of the big national radio stations does a show, Live Lounge, where artists come in and cover something that's in the charts. It's invariably trendy Indy bands doing oh so ironic covers of pop songs, and sounds exactly like this. Almost always terrible. I don't really listen to Radio 1 (mostly just Radio 2 when I'm in the car or U105 when there's nothing good on Radio 2), but I'm familiar with it. I'm not sure that I've heard any that are especially awful; I remember one with fun. (remember them?) covering "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye (remember him?) but that's about it. I don't really understand how Coldplay got so popular. They're just so boring. Chris Martin doesn't have an interesting voice. I know it's a lazy and tired comparison but I honestly think they're the Nickelback of the UK's post-Britpop era. Are they even a rock band? You know it's pertinent that I mentioned Radio 2, because I remember a couple of years ago I was listening to Steve Wright when Train* were the guests, and he read out a text message from a listener who bragged that they'd been at the show last night "rocking out" to train ("HEY SOUL SISTER!  "). That's amusing, but I think Train might actually rock harder than Coldplay.* I recall Train having this really bad cover of "Ramble On" which they performed at Hard Rock Calling in 2011 (?), and got a really tepid response from the crowd... who went comparatively nuts when they got their ukeleles out to play "Hey Soul Sister".
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't really understand how Coldplay got so popular. They're just so boring.
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Fair enough; I wasn't really attuned to pop music at the time and I'm admittedly looking at this with the benefit of hindsight. Nu-metal isn't so much of an enigma to me; it was loud and aggressive but ultimately "safe" music by and for angry middle-class white guys who believed they were social outcasts and probably either outgrew it or became juggalos after it died down. Post-grunge is somewhat more perplexing; not the fact that the genre became popular, but more that the biggest bands were Nickelback and Creed, while the Foo Fighters were right there. Do you get what I mean?
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I'm surprised at all the Pomplemoose hate. They're fun and quirky and they're out there trying something new. I say give them a chance. I think it's pretty incredible that 2 people can make that much music, surprised they haven't been in commercials and stuff.
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BigFactory posted:I'm surprised at all the Pomplemoose hate. They're fun and quirky and they're out there trying something new. I say give them a chance. I think it's pretty incredible that 2 people can make that much music, surprised they haven't been in commercials and stuff. Counterpoint: They're boring, pretentious, and they're not actually doing anything new. I say don't give them a chance because they loving suck, and there's single people who make more, better music than this lovely two piece does.
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TheJoker138 posted:Counterpoint: They're boring, pretentious, and they're not actually doing anything new. I say don't give them a chance because they loving suck, and there's single people who make more, better music than this lovely two piece does. I dunno, I think they pretty much define "adorkable" for the the youtube generation. You should give them another try.
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BigFactory posted:I'm surprised at all the Pomplemoose hate. They're fun and quirky and they're out there trying something new. I say give them a chance. I think it's pretty incredible that 2 people can make that much music, surprised they haven't been in commercials and stuff. *stares at u with giant doe eyes* *spends all their money on tour on hotels and per diems, complains on social media about how hard touring is*
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Bruce Boxliker posted:*stares at u with giant doe eyes* I know you're joking around but it's really not helpful. Pamplemoose has become one of my favorite bands and I don't think they get the respect they deserve. I wish they'd do more James Brown covers.
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BigFactory posted:I'm surprised at all the Pomplemoose hate. They're fun and quirky and they're out there trying something new. I say give them a chance. I think it's pretty incredible that 2 people can make that much music, surprised they haven't been in commercials and stuff.
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FactsAreUseless posted:There are a thousand indie bands that do what they do better than they do. And ten thousand that don't do what they do at all because what they do is, to paraphrase Eno, "Music For Targets".
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FactsAreUseless posted:There are a thousand indie bands that do what they do better than they do. Yeah but could they do that James Brown cover? I rest my case. Pamplemoose has "it". precision posted:And ten thousand that don't do what they do at all because what they do is, to paraphrase Eno, "Music For Targets". I could definately get into shopping at Target with Pomplamouse on my headphones. Awesome idea for the weekend. BigFactory fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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please quit trolling and post more bad covers. speaking of eno- this is dog poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZo7TVlYqZk and the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw_sxh89Fos
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BigFactory posted:Yeah but could they do that James Brown cover? I rest my case. Pamplemoose has "it". I don't think it was a very good James Brown cover. I don't think it had the grit you need for a James Brown cover. I think if you're going to cover James Brown, you need to put more grit into your performance. It seemed bland to me. Of course, it's entirely possible that it's simply a song that doesn't lend itself well to reinterpretation. Maybe some songs only work in a particular style. I couldn't say.  FactsAreUseless posted:For 30- and 40-somethings in the 2000s, that was about as close as it got to the kind of rock they grew up with. In other words: they were familiar, and sometimes that's all it takes. I've been thinking, wouldn't the arena rock they'd have grown up on been stuff like Journey and Def Leppard? One would think they'd like something a little more dynamic than Coldplay if that was the case. Okay, actual content: Here's Duran Duran covering a Public Enemy song. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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BigFactory posted:Yeah but could they do that James Brown cover? I rest my case. Pamplemoose has "it". They should do "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud" next, that would go over really well.
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