xxxHunterxxx wrote:7 Seconds’ cover of “99 Red Balloons” is a lousy version of a great song. [Ducks].
FlexMyHead wrote:Here is an example of taking a bad song and making it sassy & sensual.
FlexMyHead wrote:Here is an example of taking a bad song and making it sassy & sensual.
I asked her to cover Too Drunk Too Fuck next, fingers crossed!
FormerLurker wrote:Wow she is gorgeous but that cover SUCKS.
SamDBL wrote:I hate the gimme-gimme thing that dumbs down any song to it’s power chord/90npm Ramones style equivalent. I guess it was kind of funny or clever the first hundred times. And the final result isn’t necessarily ‘bad’. Just generic and unimaginative as fuck. Every time I hear a punk band do a cover song, it’s some variation of this. I think the Dickies did it best. Everyone after can just fuck off.
pedro wrote:xxxHunterxxx wrote:7 Seconds’ cover of “99 Red Balloons” is a lousy version of a great song. [Ducks].
I have always thought it was a fun cover live, but the recorded version is a great big "meh". Especially after you have heard it two or three times.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
jaybird wrote:FormerLurker wrote:Wow she is gorgeous but that cover SUCKS.
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SamDBL wrote:Also, 500 Miles. Horrible. I was totally against the idea from the start. And I can’t believe people enjoy it.
jaybird wrote:SamDBL wrote:Also, 500 Miles. Horrible. I was totally against the idea from the start. And I can’t believe people enjoy it.
I've sung it "Dave-style" while doing drunk karaoke before to the tracks of the original version... seems to get a good response, haha
SamDBL wrote:Also, anyone ever notice how MxPx does our arrangement of the song? Weird.
Mark T. wrote:SamDBL wrote:Also, anyone ever notice how MxPx does our arrangement of the song? Weird.
It never crossed my mind until now. Definitely have to re-listen to that. I do recall liking that little interlude of Cheap Trick's Surrender.
SamDBL wrote:Also, 500 Miles. Horrible. I was totally against the idea from the start. And I can’t believe people enjoy it.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
JGJR wrote:SamDBL wrote:Also, 500 Miles. Horrible. I was totally against the idea from the start. And I can’t believe people enjoy it.
It gives me satisfaction that someone who played on it says that because I just flat out don't like that song and couldn't fathom why anyone would want to cover it; it was such an annoying earworm back then.
lewdd wrote:I remember Dave talking with some other band after a Don't Sleep show and mentioning have he didn't like doing cover songs unless they were changed up a bit to noticeably make it sound different than the original.
lewdd wrote:Sam, maybe you should have Cleopatra or Kung Fu reissue all DBL cover songs on one release.
JGJR wrote:pedro wrote:xxxHunterxxx wrote:7 Seconds’ cover of “99 Red Balloons” is a lousy version of a great song. [Ducks].
I have always thought it was a fun cover live, but the recorded version is a great big "meh". Especially after you have heard it two or three times.
I can't tell if you two are trolling here, honestly.
SamDBL wrote:JGJR wrote:SamDBL wrote:Also, 500 Miles. Horrible. I was totally against the idea from the start. And I can’t believe people enjoy it.
It gives me satisfaction that someone who played on it says that because I just flat out don't like that song and couldn't fathom why anyone would want to cover it; it was such an annoying earworm back then.
Drummers idea. And he was obviously much more in tune with our audience. I think it’s kinda silly. Turns out, fans of 90s punk *love* silly. These days we throw on a 3 or so minute outro extension on it so that I can do a long solo. Which at least makes it less boring to play.
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
lewdd wrote:I'm not a fan of the Minor Threat cover of "Good Guys".
xxxMidgexxx wrote:But perhaps I just love drone stuff in general.
SamDBL wrote:lewdd wrote:Sam, maybe you should have Cleopatra or Kung Fu reissue all DBL cover songs on one release.
That’d require them to pay a lot of various labels licensing fees. It would also be hard to track all that shit down. For about ten years straight we said ‘yes’ to any small label one-offs and comps. Many were covers. I don’t even remember half the stuff. And would have no idea of how to track down.
As for making covers sound different… that’s generally how we approach it. However, we were recently asked to be on a ‘punk does yacht rock’ themed Comp. We chose ‘precious and few’ by Climax. And we challenged ourselves to see how close to the original we could get. The fuckin thing is dead on. To the point that it almost sounds like karaoke. So much so that the label then rejected it because they, of course, expected us to do the MFATGG dipshit thing. One day we will release it, though.
Dave did bring up doing a new wave covers thing the other day. We’ll see.
captain2man wrote:SamDBL wrote:lewdd wrote:Sam, maybe you should have Cleopatra or Kung Fu reissue all DBL cover songs on one release.
That’d require them to pay a lot of various labels licensing fees. It would also be hard to track all that shit down. For about ten years straight we said ‘yes’ to any small label one-offs and comps. Many were covers. I don’t even remember half the stuff. And would have no idea of how to track down.
As for making covers sound different… that’s generally how we approach it. However, we were recently asked to be on a ‘punk does yacht rock’ themed Comp. We chose ‘precious and few’ by Climax. And we challenged ourselves to see how close to the original we could get. The fuckin thing is dead on. To the point that it almost sounds like karaoke. So much so that the label then rejected it because they, of course, expected us to do the MFATGG dipshit thing. One day we will release it, though.
Dave did bring up doing a new wave covers thing the other day. We’ll see.
You're hard on "500 Miles".....but I was less of a fan of the Frank Sinatra cover. Was that recorded pre-you?
captain2man wrote:In my quest to find the absolute worst cover song in history, I think I may have found it.
jaybird wrote:Can't decide if this is a good cover of a good song, a bad cover of a bad song, a good cover of a bad song, or a bad cover of a good song, so Imma post it in both threads.
xxxHunterxxx wrote:jaybird wrote:Can't decide if this is a good cover of a good song, a bad cover of a bad song, a good cover of a bad song, or a bad cover of a good song, so Imma post it in both threads.
I’ll go with bad cover of a bad song. It sounds like they spent All of 10 minutes on it.
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