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Covers that make you angry.
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... Yeah you caught me. I do hate FFDP. I hate the name, I hate the fans, and I hate the music. Hearing the song makes me mad because I think about how much I hate the band and the name and the fans. The fact that I really enjoy the original is just an extra kick in the nuts.
I personally think if you're going to cover a song you should add a little something to it. Perfect example is Jason and the scorchers cover of "Nineteenth nervous breakdown". It's not too far off from the original, but has a little swing to it.
If one more person asks me to play the mutha******* Seinfeld theme song one more time......
I don't dislike it (Judas Priest's Diamonds and Rust); but the first time I heard it it got a belly laugh from me. It ain't Joan Baez.
311's cover of Lovesong by The Cure. They did nothing new with it and to my knowledge never gave the appropriate credit to The Cure.
Johnny B Goode can also be played as a 2/4 and sound right. But it looses its original feel as a straight 4/4.I'm not as bitter as I used to be (the song doesn't get played much anymore) but "Cocaine" was never a metal song. Also, Johnny B. Goode is a shuffle. Every drummer plows through with 8th notes. Old guy rant over!
Fat Steve
The poodle bites, the poodle chews it.
Except they did. It was from a soundtrack, and the sound track gave the credit to Robert Smith and company.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343660/soundtrack
Well, maybe not exactly on topic, but i was on holiday during new year's eve and the hotel booked an artist. Basically this women had some kind of tablet computer rigged to her mic stand and that's where all the music came from. Her singing was mediocre during the easy songs and hands down awful when she tried something a little more demanding. The crowd went along with it (Ok, it was an all inclusive hotel and the staff was busy handing out booze to the masses, so spirits were high). That got me angry for reasons any fellow musician should understand. I guess her fee was well below that of a four or five piece band and she did something that can, under the principle of charity, be described as live music. All i saw was a mediocre singer on stage while somewhere, a band went without a new years' gig.
Y'all got nothing here.
Hate. Eyebleed, ripsnort, hate?
Take a little trip back in time. Tape players are not standard in cars.
Mountains did, and still do, make it hard to get much in the way of radio stations.
On the biggest hunk of rock in new england sat the highly-endowed transmitter of the most evil, scum-sucking radio station known to man.
WHOM
All, day, everyday, 101 strings orchestra (and perhaps a few indistinguishable competitors) murdering anything. Beatles - murdered. Simon and Garfunkle - slain. You think elevator music is bad now - you have not lived through 1960's-70's elevator music. Mind you, it probably was the last straw for a few people on the edge, so they didn't. This was not classical music - it was whatever was popular, chewed up and spat out by a smarmy orchestra. That, my friends, is a cover leading to hate. And it was the only radio station you could get through large parts of maineiac, new hampster and vemonster, especially when driving.
I suspect the transmitter and call letters are still there, but I'm pretty sure the format finally changed. Lord knows they inspired me to put a tape deck in my first car...
Hate. Eyebleed, ripsnort, hate?
Take a little trip back in time. Tape players are not standard in cars.
Mountains did, and still do, make it hard to get much in the way of radio stations.
On the biggest hunk of rock in new england sat the highly-endowed transmitter of the most evil, scum-sucking radio station known to man.
WHOM
All, day, everyday, 101 strings orchestra (and perhaps a few indistinguishable competitors) murdering anything. Beatles - murdered. Simon and Garfunkle - slain. You think elevator music is bad now - you have not lived through 1960's-70's elevator music. Mind you, it probably was the last straw for a few people on the edge, so they didn't. This was not classical music - it was whatever was popular, chewed up and spat out by a smarmy orchestra. That, my friends, is a cover leading to hate. And it was the only radio station you could get through large parts of maineiac, new hampster and vemonster, especially when driving.
I suspect the transmitter and call letters are still there, but I'm pretty sure the format finally changed. Lord knows they inspired me to put a tape deck in my first car...
Are you sure you weren't in hell? That sounds like hell.
Can I add to this list:
EVERY XMAS SONG EVER
Really? Cuz this cover of the Seinfeld theme is the bizness.
There aren't really any covers that make me angry. There's songs I love that get bad renditions done of them but that doesn't affect how I feel about the original. I guess I could see it if there was an obscure song that you loved that got brought to mainstream attention via a bad cover but I'm struggling to think of a good example of that. Most of the time bad covers are bad enough that I just find them funny. Case in point, Hillary Duff's gawdawful cover of "My Generation" as Greg C mentioned:
almost as funny is Celine Dion doing AC/DC
Personally I find a lot more covers that I dig than ones I hate. Here's a cover of one of my favorite songs that I think is awesome.
Yeah i think so,too! I pretty much love the Finns,and CH to pieces....
