Anything by Bob Dylan done by literally anyone else.
Dylan can write beautiful music. He just can’t sing for shit.
He can sing, he just has a unique voice.
Listen to Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding and tell me that dude can’t sing.
And in the live Bootleg Series albums (thinking of Vol 4 specifically), he really hits all the notes.
I’m talking early-ish Dylan, of course (up to and including, Desire). Nowadays his voice is pretty trashed
Excellent answer, hard to beat that. Man could write some songs but goddamn is he grating to listen to
Hard disagree on that one. I fucking love Dylan.
Nobody sings a Bob Dylan song worse than Bob Dylan.
He did pretty well on “stuck in the middle”
That was Steeler’s Wheel, who’s singer/guitarist was Gerry Rafferty of “Baker Street” (and others) fame.
I used to think it was Dylan too!
I know
This is how I feel about all Stones songs too.
Pink Pomy Club by Gwar
I saw them do this live, basically the spew was on nonstop throughout.
West End Girls by Gwar
Every cover GWAR did for AV Club kicks ass
Their She Bop is a great cover too.
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Girls Just Want to have Fun, by Cindi Lauper.
Walk Me Out in the Morning Dew by The Jeff Beck Band.
This is the original for those unaware.
Wow. I have no idea how it is that TIL and not before.
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
HEEEYYYAAAYYAYAY.
I just need it to be the He-Man variant. With the cook-break
Now it’s time for cake!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Most covers of Beatles songs. I couldn’t get into the hype for the boy band but I like when other people try to spruce up their music a bit. Crucify me.
That’s not a Beatles song, close though, It’s McCartney and the wings.
Oh! An interesting turn of events. Thanks for the correction. I knew he had solo projects but I hadn’t heard of that one
Why would we crucify you?
I just assumed speaking ill of the Beatles music would be bringing down fury on myself. Mayhaps it is not so controversial
Anyone telling you that your musical tastes are “wrong” would be being really immature
Although yes I would disagree
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Purple Rain covered by The White Birch (Norway)
Feelings — The Offspring
The original was played on the radio way too much in the 80s.
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
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.
Seether - Careless Whisper
I Prevail’s cover of Taylor swift’s Blank Space
Not that I dislike her music but just not my style of choice.
