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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 3, 2019 13:10:19 GMT
The Heartbreakers. The Replacements. The Black Lips.
These bands, for a time, were genuinely frightening as people - potential convicts - all bad attitudes, dead ends and chemically dependent in unmanageable ways - they were a danger to a larger audience, to the industry formulas, but mostly to their own well being. In the case of the Orwells, a current band who romanticized all those acts without being you know, as good - their approach signaled a far greater commercial upside than they could have ever imagined.
But in 2018 there was a far greater downside and given their name, an ironic one: A Rock band literally taken down by the Internet for allegedly doing stuff that Iggy Pop maybe would have done on I don't know, a Tuesday in the 70s - that resulted in multiple allegations (including rape), 0 criminal charges, 0 arrests, but the band now broken up and they get a new Reddit/Youtube/Twitter (!) tag as "The Rapists". It's hard to find a more loathed band in 2018, playing a more loathed genre than them.
This song - a cover of the Monkees by stealth punk Rocker Mickey Dolenz is (ironic again) a swipe against against the culture that they couldn't have known was coming for them next - why don't you do what I do see what I feel when I care?
Rock and roll.....
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 5, 2019 15:41:06 GMT
Our hero, starts with a slightly dirty joke about aging, fronting a band without Bob Stinson OR Chris Mars and yet he still manages his effortless GOAT level taste for a bunch of people named Lars and Emma in the f'ing Netherlands who likely will find the dirty joke, the band personnel and this cover version.........lost in translation.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 9, 2019 13:26:47 GMT
Santana's great cover of the Zombies and he plays the shit out of the solo - he exchanges their cool detached approached for something much more ferocious:
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Santana's great cover of the Zombies and he plays the shit out of the solo - he exchanges their cool detached approached for something much more ferocious: I will always believe that Santana is THE greatest guitarist.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 18:43:54 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 13, 2019 13:49:09 GMT
The (original) Stones in a way invented this manic style for a band - here playing a cover tightly and sloppily at the same time. They aren't playing it "right" which of course makes it thrilling.
Charlie Watts keeps this band from spinning out of control, just like he would every year and every lineup. It's actually too fast, the singer is pushing the band who in turn push the singer but judging by the photo on the cover they could not possibly care less.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 16, 2019 17:03:51 GMT
I post a lot of stuff I don't necessarily think is "great" just to change it up and turn people on to stuff. But Terry Reid's cover here is one of the greatest interpretations ever, period.
A veritable Rock history lesson - the original choice for Led Zeppelin's singer - Plant is imitating HIM (he recommended Plant to Page) - but Reid when he sings isn't just setting the stage for Zep and hard rock he's channeling Van Morrison too as some kind of howling demon. As a guitarist he's channeling some ghostly blues spirit.
The overall effect in some of his songs is spellbinding. This is one.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 19, 2019 15:31:10 GMT
Replacements idolizing Canadian band The Nils - a band with a cult following of their own - from the late 80s covering the Who in marvelous fashion:
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 20, 2019 22:49:39 GMT
Juliana Hatfield getting in on the Olivia Newton John revival wayyyyyyyyyyyyy early.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 22, 2019 15:32:37 GMT
FYC Best Albums of the 00s. What do you mean "too early".........oh wtf.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 23, 2019 14:49:10 GMT
Oasis re-claims this song as a distinctly British glam classic from Quiet Riot's Americanized version. Imagine Blur doing this song this well and all the time patting themselves on the back while denying the songs sexism and careerism (to them anyway) because they are sensitive and would consider such mere Rock and Roll as slumming.
Better yet........don't.
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 23, 2019 16:00:04 GMT
Santana's great cover of the Zombies and he plays the shit out of the solo - he exchanges their cool detached approached for something much more ferocious: Niiiice. Never heard this before.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 24, 2019 21:20:17 GMT
The Velvet Underground of the 80s .....or the first one anyway.....at least until Dream Syndicate, Galaxie 500 and Sonic Youth came along. Here they are from their 1980 debut covering the Beatles - who covers the Beatles?!? Well that was part of their aesthetic - the Beatles and this primitive noise are all linked. Later they'd cover The Stooges, Modern Lovers, Stones and The Velvets themselves.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 25, 2019 13:35:59 GMT
The Exploding Hearts genius was not just in Guitar Romantic - one of the 00s very best albums - it was also in their knowledge of what they liked and then transferred that to what they played. Here they are smartly covering the Small Faces to winning effect.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 26, 2019 14:54:42 GMT
The 1980-83 era is one of my favorites for how gloriously f'd up it was. In the middle of a 60s revival, you had classic rock, punk rock, post punk, new wave, goth - a lot of seemingly incompatible things co-existing. The Lords of The New Church were a pedigree band of punk royalty but that also sincerely loved the complexity of the Doors, the primitive quality of the Velvets, and the directness of the Stones.
They also liked bohemian poetry and acting like indulgent stars......but they also importantly hated indulgent stars too. Here covering 60s pop with The Grass Roots song, another curveball:
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 28, 2019 18:00:46 GMT
The Queers covering a song across genders - a lot of fun and catchy as all Hell too.
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Post by stephen on Feb 28, 2019 18:17:42 GMT
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Post by cheesecake on Mar 15, 2019 1:56:08 GMT
Really loved how this was used in the film. The pause and fade in of the music again gives me goosebumps.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 27, 2019 5:56:20 GMT
doubt I'm the first to post this, but I do love Frank Ocean's take on Moon River
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Post by Mattsby on Mar 29, 2019 3:34:14 GMT
Can't have enough 'Mats in this thread lol. Can I bump this song (music bumps - what are we getting into!).... or am I wading into uncharted waters? Don't forget lead vocals Chris Mars - his only lead (I think?) other than All He Wants to Do Is Fish (an original) - the man just wants a marina and some paints. Anyway let's sea if I can get other MAers hooked to this song. It's so catchy, and such low mercury too! As Frank Sinatra famously sung, I'll do it Mahi way. What?? Ah I wanted to mention that there were two Cool Water covers in 2018 movies - a new one in Buster Scruggs by Tim Blake Nelson and Nellie Lutcher's great version in The Mule. The 'Mats' one remains my fav. Who needs a drink?
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 7, 2019 19:41:40 GMT
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Post by bob-coppola on Apr 7, 2019 23:48:57 GMT
I don't know if you guys are into brazilian music. If you are, you should give a go to Marisa Monte's take on Pale Blue Eyes:
And there's this gem from Fiona Apple:
Aaaand... that one time Nirvana did Bowie better than Bowie:
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 13, 2019 23:42:54 GMT
Viced - 2 versions of Chilton covering Richman ........it's like it's sociopaths Christmas in April......
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Post by cheesecake on Apr 21, 2019 22:06:55 GMT
I swore I posted this before but maybe not. I find this to be such an improvement over the original.
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Post by pacinoyes on May 3, 2019 14:20:29 GMT
He's really not.......
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