I Prevail’s cover of Taylor swift’s Blank Space
Not that I dislike her music but just not my style of choice.
HEEEYYYAAAYYAYAY.
I just need it to be the He-Man variant. With the cook-break
Collide’s cover of Kim Petras - Unholy
Way to not include Sam Smith who wrote and co-sung the original
Postmodern Jukebox’s version of We Can’t Stop.
Their version of Take Me to Church is pretty good, too. Not the the original was bad, but Morgan James just takes it to another level. If you find a live version where it’s just her and a pianist, it’s pretty impressive. Got to see it live awhile back and had chills.
Pretty much any cover of a tears for fears song. For some reason I don’t vibe with their sound, but their song writing is really good. Their songs get covered a lot and I like almost all of the covers way better than the original. Hell, even if they themselves play an acoustic version of their songs, I really enjoy it!
I recently discovered Shout by Disturbed, it’s pretty good.
Fuck that Nazionist piece of shit.
It’s not just that he’s a piece of shit, it’s that he’s a whiny bitch about being a piece of shit. “oh please don’t give me a hard time for my garbage ass opinions”. Fuck the drummer of System of a Down and his apologist guitarist too while we’re at it.
Hurt by Johnny Cash
My Chemical Romance did a cover of All I Want For Christmas Is You. Which is way better then the Mariah Carey one.
Seether - Careless Whisper
Im gonna be a bit tangental. I don’t like much original elvis stuff and I like the beatles but rock matured a lot after them. So often I like remakes of both better than the originals.
This is one where I quite like the original, I hate the Madness cover that made it famous, but I love this more recent version:
It Must Be Love (Crooked Man remix) - Lady Blackbird
99 red balloons by Goldfinger
Faith by Limp Bizkit
500 miles by Less Than Jake
I’m a big fan of the German cover of that song
You mean the original?
yes it’s great
Pet Shop Boys cover of “Where the Streets Have No Name (Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)” - it’s a two-fer; both songs are pretty insipid on their own but their cover / mash-up is fantastic.
wow. where the streets have no name is definately in my top echilon of songs.
I’m sorry. I just loathe U2. Not as much as I loathe Journey, but it’s pretty close.
yeah we just have different tastes. While not my favorite they are firmly in my second tier of muscicians for me.
Running Up That Hill covered by Placebo.
The original is bland eighties pop. The cover is deeply unsettling in all the ways Placebo are so fucking good at.
I’m learning Running Up That Hill right now to perform, and “bland” has to be as close to “objectively” incorrect as anything musical can be. The sound is so novel and unique.
The amount of time and effort and research and diving into deep synth menus to recreate that sound is kinda insane.
Start with a cello sample. Set the pitch envelope to start with a lower pitch, then quickly slide up to the actual note. Cut off the amp envelope fairly quickly. Make both of those happen slower when lower keys are played. Then delay in some super specific way I still don’t quite understand, and reverb too.
Not to mention the structure of the song is difficult as hell (for me at least) to memorize, it’s not quite typical verse chorus back and forth
I can understand not liking it, but calling it bland is pretty wild to me
They said the original is bland, not your cover.
I was talking about the original. Unless you’re somehow aware of some recording of me performing a song I have no memory of having ever covered, which would certainly be interesting
You’re talking about recreating the song
I’m talking about how the original song was made and how complicated the sound was, through a frame of recreating it, in a post about cover songs.
When discussing how bland a song sounds, the process of creating it is completely irrelevant. All that matters is how the end product sounds. It doesn’t matter if a lot of effort went into designing the sound. If it’s bland, it’s bland.
You can apply a lot of adjectives to Kate Bush, but I’ve never heard her described as bland before. That’s quite a take.
