The Weasel King ([info]theweaselking) wrote,
@ 2006-02-17 20:43:00
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Friday Tradition!
Yes, I got home okay. The roads are surprisingly clear and good for a day with as much semifrozen shit falling from the sky as this one.

For this week, I have something a bit different: The Gregorian chant version of Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms

And now, it's your turn. I get very little feedback on these, beyond seeing the occasional re-linking. What do you want to see? More serious covers of really-well-known songs, like Guns & Roses with Elton John covering Bohemian Rhapsody, or Black Sabbath doing Smoke On The Water, or Slayer covering Inna-gadda-davida? Or would you rather less serious covers, like Devo covering Nine Inch Nails' Head Like A Hole or Thou Shalt Not doing a killer swing version of Front 242's industrial anthem Headhunter?

Do you prefer version that mimic the original song in style and pacing, like Jag Panzer's The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, or that redo the song in a recognisable but truly distinct way, like Judas Priest doing Johnny B Goode?

(And you may have noticed I've got a LOT of hard rock and metal covers. This should not be a surprise. Still, how many people here would even know the original if I posted Cradle Of Filth covering Hallowed Be Thy Name or Kamelot doing The Flight Of Icarus?)


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[info]mrbankies
2006-02-18 02:07 am UTC (link)
I would likely notice, being a bit of an Iron Maiden fan from days gone by

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[info]graethorne
2006-02-18 03:19 am UTC (link)
I'm with you...

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[info]graethorne
2006-02-18 03:19 am UTC (link)
I kinda liked the Priest take on Johnny. Metal stylings departing from the original are always fun...

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[info]mckenzee
2006-02-18 03:41 am UTC (link)
I have this vague memory, which I fear may have been a dream, of NIN covering Ace of Spades. If you can find that for me, I'll worship you more than I do now.

A lounge version of Godmoney would be cool too.

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[info]jaffa_tamarin
2006-02-18 07:40 am UTC (link)
If you don't have it already you should track down a copy of Helloween's covers album .. umm .. Metal Jukebox.

Helloween does Abba. Rah!

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[info]theweaselking
2006-02-18 03:30 pm UTC (link)
I've got Atrocity's "Werk 80". That's awesome itself.

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[info]scixual
2006-02-18 02:48 pm UTC (link)
I like really bizarre covers that have no right to be good -but are.

Like Dolly Parton's "Stairway to Heaven," or and Richard Cheese...

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[info]jirel
2006-02-18 03:09 pm UTC (link)
Not usually being much use in the music area (the music area of my lj is almost always conspicuously blank) I've missed these. But I listened to this one and I want it. Can you tell me what album its on so I can buy it?

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[info]theweaselking
2006-02-18 03:28 pm UTC (link)
I'm afraid I don't have the slightest clue. If you find out, I'd lo0ve to know myself.

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I think I found it!
[info]jirel
2006-02-19 06:01 pm UTC (link)
The Masters of Chant
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004YZ1G/102-5662837-9780956?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=5174

What's more, I found a used CD for just over $16 on the secondary market. I've never had a problem with Amazon's secondary market for movie DVDs and books and since new the CD runs $42 I figured I'd go with the used CD. All I need is one good computer read so I can download it.

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[info]fatfred
2006-02-18 07:23 pm UTC (link)
I have the Monks of St Benzedrine who do a lot of stuff like that. I can't find it at the moment.
Austin Lounge Lizards do a country banjo flat-picking cover of Pink Floyd's Brain Damage.

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[info]jsbowden
2006-02-18 03:24 pm UTC (link)
The very idea that someone took Headhunter and did a swing version makes my head hurt.

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[info]theweaselking
2006-02-18 03:29 pm UTC (link)
It's not available on their website any more that I can find. I'll have to do it next week.

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[info]desdenova
2006-02-19 01:29 am UTC (link)
I like covers which show a different take on the original, like that "Baby got Back" one a while back, or alternatively which showcase the covering band doing something different from their usual.

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[info]jerril
2006-02-21 06:31 pm UTC (link)
Seconded.

As far as I'm concerned, if you're just trying to sound exactly like (frex) the Beatles, no thanks, I'll go listen to the original. Do something different with it.

And again, major exception being a band proving they aren't a one-style pony. Say, Rammstein covering the Beatles *in the style of the Beatles* would be just as good as Rammstein some how managing to pull off a cover of the Beatles in their own style.

I still need to find a recording of their Ramones tribute.

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