In my opinion, if you're going to cover a song, make it your own. Some of my favourites in that respect. Therion - Summer Night City - Original by Abba The Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Shelter - Original by the Rolling Stones Showing my goth roots here, but The Sisters of Mercy really, really, really know how to cover a song and make it their own. * Laibach - Sympathy for the Devil - Original by the Rolling Stones bear with me it's not all Abba and Rolling Stones covers... Snake River Conspiracy - Love Song - Original by The Cure Melvins - In Every Dream Home a Heartache - Original by Roxy Music Melvins - Goin' Blind - Original by KISS Cake - i will survive - Original by Gloria Gaynor Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground - Original by Stevie Wonder Spiderbait - Black Betty - Original by Ram Jam Iron Horse - Enter Sandman Fuck the Original Children Of Bodom - Oops I Did It Again! - Original by Britney Spears Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas - Original by Elvis Presley ________________________________________________________________ * Jolene by Dolly Parton - the 33rpm version because it's awesome
Ram Jam is actually doing a cover of Black Betty themselves, as it's an old American folk song. If you ever get the chance, check out Lomax and the work he did. The man had a huge passion for preserving culture.
wow, that's a new one for me! No idea that was a cover. I wonder if the original is as angular as their cover is - indeed, if it is it might explain its weird bar lengths and mood shifts.
You can find versions of Lomax's recordings in Youtube as well as Leadbelly's version. They're slower paced, but very good. Since you're a music major, you might like this. There's a group that's digitizing Lomax's non-Library of Congress recordings and putting them online.
I didn't realise Ram Jam was a cover too! It's weird how many songs are actually covers. I only found out a few weeks ago that Hanging On The Telephone was a cover
That's awesome. I had no idea that was a cover either. It reminds me a bit back when thenewgreen posted the original for "I Think We're Alone Now." I had no idea Tiffany's version was a cover. Another one you might enjoy knowing is pretty old is House of the Rising Sun. Read the origins in that link, it's pretty interesting.
I turned against them when they went on their suing rampage against Napster, universities and their own fans. After watching Some Kind of Monster I think some people find them more human or relatable but it just made me hate them more. Also, in my petty mind they stole a lot of fans that Slayer really deserved but that's just me projecting my bad taste on others.
I used to be friends with Kirk Hammett (via his first wife, who was a friend of mine), and knew the rest of the guys in the Dave Mustaine era. We used to hang at Kirk's first house over in the East Bay. That was long before the whole Napster thing. Now, if I ran into him, and if he even remembered me, I don't even know what I would say to him. Those guys live so far away from any kind of reality... I think I'd just sadly shake my head and walk the other way. Napster was definitely the first big chasm that opened up between me and them.
The press or media always portray Dave Mustaine as the untamable party animal the others tolerate (for the most part) until he takes it too far ... Knowing how they like to mould the truth to make a story I wonder how much truth there is to that. Being famous must seriously suck. Some manage not to surround themselves with fawning, servile drudges and yes-machines but many also seem to fall foul of the celebrity machine. I'd fall apart if people recognised me wherever I went. the rest of the guys in the Dave Mustaine era
Those guys live so far away from any kind of reality
Dude. We proles have absolutely NO IDEA what the life of a famous person is like. The only place I would hang out with any of them was at Kirk's house. Anywhere else and it was impossible to even carry on a conversation. And this was BEFORE Ride The Lightning. They can't do anything they want to do because they are constantly getting interrupted. Constantly. I just wanted to punch people after about 20 minutes, but they just smiled a tired smile for yet another picture, or another dude yelling from across the street, or car honking, or whatever. I never wanna be famous.