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#27 Mar 21 2013 at 10:20 AM Rating: Good
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe's cover of Four Non-Blondes' "What's Up?".
Well, if we're going in that direction ...
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#28 Mar 21 2013 at 10:25 AM Rating: Good
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The Gary Jules cover took everything that was good about the song and wrapped it in an awfully generic piano with whiny vocals. The original is dated and very 80's but the upbeat sound and high tempo with the depressing lyrics makes it work whereas the cover sounds like a teenager whining about his life on facebook.

I'm pretty sure that was exactly the intent.
They succeeded at that then.

Oh, and if we're talking bad covers linking glee is basically cheating.
#29 Mar 21 2013 at 10:28 AM Rating: Good
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Orgy's cover of New Order's "Blue Monday".
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#30 Mar 21 2013 at 10:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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Oh, and I forgot Cake's version of I Will Survive.

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#31 Mar 21 2013 at 10:42 AM Rating: Good
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Vanilla Ice's cover of "Under Pressure"
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My son is greatly enjoying listening to all of these, incidentally. Then I made the mistake of letting him listen to Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah, and he punched me in the ********* and said "the Cohen version is a treasure, don't let me ever see you do anything like that again"

Edited, Mar 21st 2013 12:46pm by Smasharoo
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#33 Mar 21 2013 at 10:46 AM Rating: Good
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I wonder how violent we can get him by posting some Sean Combs.
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#34 Mar 21 2013 at 10:48 AM Rating: Good
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I do enjoy Marilyn Manson's cover of Sweet Dreams. And This Is Halloween from the Nightmare Before Christmas.
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Then I made the mistake of letting him listen to Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah, and he punched me in the ********* and said "the Cohen version is a treasure, don't let me ever see you do anything like that again"

When Flea and I divorce, it'll be over this Smiley: laugh
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#36 Mar 21 2013 at 11:26 AM Rating: Decent
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Smasharoo wrote:
Vanilla Ice's cover of "Under Pressure"


Hah! Good one.
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#37 Mar 21 2013 at 11:28 AM Rating: Good
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Gary Jules - Mad World
One of the worst covers ever made.
Because the poppy, upbeat, fast paced original was so good?
Yes.
I feel like there was a lot of good lyric writing done in the 80's that was completely overshadowed by the awful, awful synth garbage that ran over the top of it.

The Gary Jules cover rescues the lyrics from that, and gives 'em a more fitting accompaniment. That's a good cover.
The Gary Jules cover took everything that was good about the song and wrapped it in an awfully generic piano with whiny vocals. The original is dated and very 80's but the upbeat sound and high tempo with the depressing lyrics makes it work whereas the cover sounds like a teenager whining about his life on facebook.


You're going to have to work a little harder to convince me. What's "whiny" about Jules' vocals? What's "generic" about the piano? Why does the upbeat sound and high tempo of the original "work" with the depressing lyrics?

The contrast between the music and the lyrics in the original never struck me as intentionally ironic; that was sort of just the convention of the time. You made songs with jouncy synth backing - the lyrics that went along with them just were whatever they were. Everyone did it, from Flock of Seagulls to Led Zeppelin and back. The end result was a pretty clear zeitgeist, but also a lot of songs whose lyrics are out of step with the sound.

If you think that Gary Jules sounds like a teenager on facebook, then you either haven't listened to the song lately, or you haven't heard the music that's actually the stuff of whiny teenagers.

Fix yo' perception, brah.

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Dave Chapelle's cover of Rick James.
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#39 Mar 21 2013 at 11:35 AM Rating: Good
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I wonder how violent we can get him by posting some Sean Combs.




This should do it.
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You're going to have to work a little harder to convince me. What's "whiny" about Jules' vocals? What's "generic" about the piano? Why does the upbeat sound and high tempo of the original "work" with the depressing lyrics?


Honestly, I like both versions for different reasons. I'm sure part of it is association with an original we knew and liked at the time, but the cover is just slow. It's good that way, but it also kinda beats you over the head with "this is a sad song, and I'm going to make sure you don't miss it". I liked the original with its faster lyrics precisely because it didn't beat you over the head. I guess it was just a trend of the times musically, but they wrote songs for people to listen to the lyrics to get the meaning, sometimes surprisingly so. It was part of the appeal that you'd hear the music of a song on the radio and like it, then you'd pay attention to the lyrics and gain a whole different perspective. Kinda like a twofer or something.
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#41 Mar 21 2013 at 12:28 PM Rating: Good
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Eske Esquire wrote:
You're going to have to work a little harder to convince me. What's "whiny" about Jules' vocals? What's "generic" about the piano? Why does the upbeat sound and high tempo of the original "work" with the depressing lyrics?


Honestly, I like both versions for different reasons. I'm sure part of it is association with an original we knew and liked at the time, but the cover is just slow. It's good that way, but it also kinda beats you over the head with "this is a sad song, and I'm going to make sure you don't miss it". I liked the original with its faster lyrics precisely because it didn't beat you over the head. I guess it was just a trend of the times musically, but they wrote songs for people to listen to the lyrics to get the meaning, sometimes surprisingly so. It was part of the appeal that you'd hear the music of a song on the radio and like it, then you'd pay attention to the lyrics and gain a whole different perspective. Kinda like a twofer or something.


As an aside, it boggles my mind how few people listen to lyrics of the songs that they like.

A favorite hobby of mine is telling people that think "Possum Kingdom" is a love song that it's actually about the rape and murder of a bunch of girls in Texas, from the point of view of the killer. Smiley: schooled

♬ Don't be afraid
I didn't mean to scare you
So help me, Jesus ♬


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#42 Mar 21 2013 at 12:35 PM Rating: Good
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As an aside, it boggles my mind how few people listen to lyrics of the songs that they like.
Why? Lyrics are the least important part of a song.
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#43 Mar 21 2013 at 12:39 PM Rating: Good
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As an aside, it boggles my mind how few people listen to lyrics of the songs that they like.
Why? Lyrics are the least important part of a song.


Perhaps for a boorish philistine like yourself.
#44 Mar 21 2013 at 12:42 PM Rating: Good
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That's certainly a convincing answer.
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#45 Mar 21 2013 at 12:45 PM Rating: Good
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That's certainly a convincing answer.


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#46 Mar 21 2013 at 12:50 PM Rating: Good
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My feelings have been hurt. I'll be over here enjoying music without having to force myself to be pretentious about it. Crying.
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#47 Mar 21 2013 at 12:53 PM Rating: Good
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My feelings have been hurt. I'll be over here enjoying music without having to force myself to be pretentious about it. Crying.


S'all good. Myself, I'll be over here, living the examined life, carrying the intellectual burden of society.

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#48 Mar 21 2013 at 12:54 PM Rating: Good
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Tuesday it is. :D
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#49 Mar 21 2013 at 12:54 PM Rating: Good
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My son is greatly enjoying listening to all of these, incidentally. Then I made the mistake of letting him listen to Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah, and he punched me in the ********* and said "the Cohen version is a treasure, don't let me ever see you do anything like that again"
This song popped right into my head reading through this topic. While I can kind of get into a zone to the Cohen monotone, and he's pretty sexy and seems a really an interesting bloke, he doesn't really do singing. I like the Rufus Wainwright cover of Hallelujah.

My picks*

Stevie Ray Vaughan covers Mary Had a Little Lamb

Dave Matthews covers Long Black Veil

Indigo Girls cover Romeo & Juliet

*This isn't implying I like the cover version better than the original..in all cases.




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#50 Mar 21 2013 at 12:56 PM Rating: Good
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I actually really like the DMB cover of All Along the Watchtower. Very different take, and it builds real nicely.


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Dave Mason's cover of it is pretty solid, too.
#51 Mar 21 2013 at 1:21 PM Rating: Excellent
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