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Dinosaur Jr.'s cover of The Cure's 'Just Like Heaven' I love this cover song. I also have 3 other favorites: Nip Drivers doing a 10 second rendition of Duran Duran's 'Rio'and Minor Threat doing Wire's '12XU' and R.E.M.'s cover of Wire's 'Strange'. But then again ive been listening to my Pink Flag album for days on end now. This idea for a thread seems familiar but nonetheless what are your favorite cover songs? |
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'snowblind' by system of a down 'metro' by system of a down 'doctor wu' by the minutemen |
'fancy' by the geraldine fibbers 'gin and juice' by the gourds. when i first heard this, it was supposed to be ween but that turned out to be an urban legend. i should post it -- it's killer. 'old man thunder' fake bob seger cover. by ween. |
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why is this so hard to understand? Why do you think the rules of ethics do not apply to you? Why must the same question be answered over and over in so many different ways? Why are there so many people taking Anthropology who are completly clueless about what's going on? Why does that one guy in my research class insist on saying "Who are WE to be studying THEM?" every single week? Does he think it makes him look smart? or cool? "stones and bones!" "what's the difference between anthroplogy and archaeology?" "you can't learn culture from a book! You have to live it!" "anthropology? is that about languages?" oh my god. it's only been a few months and I feel like my brain is bursting. and people who aren't as fascinated as I am are really REALLY annoying me lately! too much studying. |
I have many favorite cover songs. I think (as I have said before) that the Afghan Whigs' cover of "If I Only Had a Brain" is my most favorite, because it so thoroughly screws with the vibe of the song. They turned it into, like, the complete opposite of what it originally was, while leaving the words and melody intact. That's a good cover ethic. |
i recognize carla's talent, but for some reason she doesnt jive with me. but then again, Patti Smith didnt jive with me for years. Its only been in recent years she started to click. another old school cover i thought of that i am fond of, The Avengers singing 'Paint it Black' don't go hijacking my thread gee! |
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snowblind - black sabbath metro - berlin dr. wu - steely dan aquarius - hair-the movie soundtrack fancy - bobbie gentry gin and juice - snoopy dogg dogg jolene - dolly parton the grand tour - george jones |
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i realize its totally from left field but i saw the words "loose", "surreal" and i read "making out some of the words" as "making out in the woods" and the thought popped into my head. |
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making out is the shit. I like it better than sex. except shower sex. Nothing beats that. ANYWAY i posted to this thread yesterday but it's gone! i always enjoyed Snoop Dogg's cover of 'we will rock you'. |
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gin and juice is a fabulous cover song. the gourds. lapis, where do you live? |
I'm surprised nobody's figured out my (not so) secret yet. |
Dave, that Nomeansno cover of Forward to Death is utterly fantastic. it's A cappella for those who haven't heard it, with the band singing all the instrumentation. ANother good cover is DK's Viva Las Vegas. I also really like Meg Lee Chin's version of Nazi Punks Fuck Off - it ROCKS. The clash with Armagideon Time. I love covers. I have a bootleg Iron Maiden live album that is them doing all covers, like Springsteen, ZZ Top and such. It's awesome, although the sound quality sucks. I picked it up in Venice. |
Lapis, I figgered you for the portland area. I tried to keep myself secret. It didn't work. |
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lupis is a skin ailment right? |
lapis (with an "a"): "a semiprecious stone that is usually rich azure blue and is essentially a complex silicate often with spangles of iron pyrites" lupus (with two "u"s) is "an inflammatory connective tissue disease of unknown cause that occurs chiefly in women"..not exactly a skin ailment--but skin lesions are characteristic cyst: "a closed sac having a distinct membrane and developing abnormally in a cavity or structure of the body"..not exactly a skin ailment |
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i kept my spelling mistake name, you can keep your names! |
she's not doing well...going through all the various treatments to see what works. |
But yeah. I'm pez of old. I've done a lot of growing up lately, including growing out of the name. I'm trying to come up with a story about why pez doesn't make appearances anymore, for instance saying that I'm her publisher and she's decided to stop writing. Lapis alone is stone. pez crumbles. |
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I've been trying to write, trying to clean, trying to figure out the boys (and girls) in my life. Both of my grandfathers have died in the past three months, the patriarchs of their respective families, with no surviving siblings or cousins in this country. So now they can't tell their stories anymore. Trying to put the pieces together. How to live in a way so that I can respect the values of my family and be true to myself at the same time. It's difficult, it really is. ... Isn't Lupus the disease that makes it so people can't be exposed to sunlight? |
God, do I know what that struggle's like. In my case, it's "how can I respect some of my family members." Welcome back, missy. :) |
You've just got to accept them for who they are. [and,best not to sever ties,in case you ever need a kidney] |
Hi Lapis! Good to see you. Anyway, Mel Torme does this cover of *Happy Together* by the Turtles. It's on one of those Lounge CDs and it makes me laugh. On another one of those CDs (or maybe the same one) Peggy Lee does a cover of *Hard Days Night* by the Beatles that is actually pretty good if you like that kind of thing. |
My current choices don't make any sense to them: * Veganism * Choosing bike over car * College Dropout * Working part-time My religious choice would severely scare my mom if I chose to reveal it at this time. When I read the books out in the open my mom told me I was going to hell and my dad thought I was looking for an easy way out. Bah. More cover music! I say "Killing Me Softly" covered by the Fugees. But everyone's heard that. |
"She turned around, took me by the hand, she said - *HUNH*" REM does a good cover of Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan." Jeff Buckley does a great cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." |
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom For trying to change the system from within I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I'm guided by a signal in the heavens I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I'd really like to live beside you, baby I love your body and your spirit and your clothes But you see that line there moving through the station? I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I don't like your fashion business mister And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin I don't like what happened to my sister First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I'd really like to live beside you, baby ... And I thank you for those items that you sent me The monkey and the plywood violin I practiced every night, now I'm ready First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin I am guided Ah remember me, I used to live for music Remember me, I brought your groceries in Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin |
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I luff him. |
I think that you would really get along with my bestfriend Shannon. I think you have very different but compatible personalities and a lot of similar interests...music and literature mostly. This has less to do with it, but she helped me deal with a lot of my people problems...not in a counseling kind of way...just hanging around with her. |
I've been trying to find covers in my music collection... there's some blues covers, "Sundown" by Elwood, "Iron Man" by the Cardigans and that's about it. Oh and a Me First and the Gimme Gimmes album. Do traditional songs count as covers? |
and blues songs by blues musicians don't either, as it is expected to do your version of other people's songs |
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those tunes get raped by every half-wit, washed-up sit-com star this time of year anyway. bing crosby was a homo. |
I've got my first choir rehersal tonight. Odes to Buddy Holly and Farah Fawcett. |
any cover by the melvins, especially -- with yo' heart, not yo' hands - malfunkshun love thing - kiss sacrifice - flipper venus in furs - velvet underground lexicon devil - the germs sweet young thing ain't sweet no more - mudhoney ballad of dwight fry - alice cooper just what i needed - the cars meat puppets covering 'tumblin tumbleweeds' by hank williams sr. nirvana covering 'oh, me' by the meat puppets uhhh. . . |
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i know his name. but i wont tell. i sucked hard. |
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I am now in a choir-- and a band as well. Finally! Since everyone else plays guitar and bass I don't need to. Keys, flute, vocals, whatever the song needs to be finished, I can do. Whoohoo! Now I need to find a keyboard case. If I'm carrying it around all winter--which I probably will--I don't want it to get wet. It would be fun to start all female cover bands of testosterone-fueled rock and hip-hop. |
I have always wanted to hear a woman sing Stone Temple Pilots' "Sex-Type Thing" as a torch song. |
get my drift? he's dealing with time signatures that fuck my head. I dont read music. I don't know anything about chords, notes. Tell me to play a G Minor, im going to look at you funny. I play by ear, i respond to what i hear...and at that im damn good. unfortunately my friend, amazingly talented, just made me feel horribly inadequet and stupid. he's used to playing with ********** who at the moment, plays with The Residents. Its kinda intimidating when he is used to such company. Once im moved into the new house, and have carpeted the garage.....i will play and play and play and get my chops back up to speed cause i feel better than I ever have. I just have to remember the lesson i learned LAST time i played with an avante garde, classically trained pianist, 6 1/2 years ago.....don't. |
"he grew up on a metronome, I grew up emmulating James Brown vibes on cardboard boxes." |
My knowledge of theory/composition/etc trips me up when it comes to playing things by ear, because I get hung up on trying to figure out time signatures and how the music would be transcribed. I'm also a strongly visually-oriented person, so I'm extra lost when I try to manuevre about in a purely sonically-oriented activity. Visually reading music is one of the few things I'm honestly good at. I'm really good, too -- I can play 4-part vocal scores at first sight, at tempo, with very few mistakes, for example. The only way I could ever memorize a piece was to visually study the score away from the piano and store it in my memory as an image. Seriously, I'm mentally handicapped when it comes to auditory memory. I even have a very hard time remembering tunes to songs I like, unless I know the song really well. I once heard Bjork on TV talking about how she only has to come up with a tune once and she can store it away in her head for years -- that just blew my mind. No way could I do that. |
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im just the opposite. i get tripped up trying to remember choruses breaks and what not. my friend did say i was a slave to other musicians and this is indeed true. ive been fortunate to play was some amazing bassists. once i hear a bass line a few times, it sticks, therefor im quite needy of strong bass. I have caught myself humming bass lines while not consciously thinking of the song. At lunch I read interesting quote in a Jerzy Kosinski book that is relevant to what you are saying..... Schumann-"A good musician understands the music without the score, and the score without the music. The ear should not need the eye, the eye should not need the ear." |
I took piano lessons for five years. When my mom went back to school, I stopped taking lessons and began flute lessons a year later. I've got a few pieces from then still memorized, Make Mine Jazz, Theme from Grieg's Concerto in A Minor and a gigue. I've figured out how to play chopsticks recently, and play around with different tunes. Scales and rhythms are no problem, but it take me a long time to learn a new piece from sheet music-- I can still read bass clef, but barely, when I can fly on treble. So that's a problem. Flute I love. I've been playing stedily for the last 10 years, don't have anything memorized but sightreading's a breeze. It's easier to carry around and I don't get nervous much on it anymore, I just play. For a year I was switching between tenor saxophone and flute, so I can transpose from bflat to c and back again no problem. I've tried learning clarinet some... I can play decently by ear but I can't associate sheet music with it at all. Instead I'll turn on the radio and play along. This training presents problems as well. I've learned to depend on sheet music so much, that when something specific is needed I feel it must be written. It's terrible. I've made my own drums out of tin cans, cardboard tubes and balloons and played them with chopsticks. I love them but get insanely jealous when someone who can actually play drums decently takes over. Grr. |
get a snare, a floor(low)tom and a ride cymbal and start there. play standing up. forget about hats and kicks. once you train your arms, which is a task of seperating your brain in two or three, the rest comes a lot easier. |
There is something to be said for a ~70-year-old man taking a ~30-year-old man's chock-full-of-angst song about drug addiction and making it into a piece of art. |
i bought the cd a few weeks ago. i posted about it. go buy the cd spider. listen to it. cry. you will. i think it i will be his last. |
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the album is mostly covers. trent reznor, sting, depeche mode, paul simon, beatles to name some. he song selection is practically a good bye letter. the letter in the linear notes reads liek a good bye. the images on the album. its an album full of god and love. go buy it, its worth it. |
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Cash+hurt that is |
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But then again, who would want blend in in that suburban hell hole. |
http://www.markromanek.com/video/14.html |