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Damn song
« on: October 09, 2018, 08:38:36 PM »
Got stupid songs stuck in my head. There have been scurrilous rumours that I have crap taste in music. Be that as it may, I love good covers.

In this case, it was a terrible song the first time, my kid gets an intro into how weird 80s music was, and I love the band. Weezer covers Toto.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U And oh yeah, that's Weird Al in the video doing a cover of a Weezer video while pretending to be the Weezer guy singing Toto.

Even better, some ad on TV for who knows what is using Sympathy for the Devil. But screw you Mick Jagger, it's the Lemmy version!!!!

Both songs stuck on loop in my addlepated brain.
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2018, 08:50:19 PM »
I liked the Weezer cover.

This one disappoints me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2018, 09:33:36 PM »
Quote from: dm1333 on October 09, 2018, 08:50:19 PM
I liked the Weezer cover.

This one disappoints me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

Loved that one. People don't expect scream rocker to have an excellent voice.
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2018, 09:37:16 PM »
Africa redux was excellent.

Really like Disturbed's cover too.

Better still:

https://youtu.be/Sj_pinYgu2s

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Re: Damn song
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2018, 09:40:18 PM »
Addlepated Brain would be a good name for a band. =D
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2018, 10:08:56 PM »
Quote from: French G. on October 09, 2018, 09:33:36 PM
Loved that one. People don't expect scream rocker to have an excellent voice.

Meh. I kind of have the same problem with it that Hawkmoon has with a lot of renditions of the Star Spangled Banner: way too much embellishment.

Part of what makes the original timeless is the simplicity. Just two guys and a guitar track.

Disturbed's version is almost the complete opposite. The only way they could have taken it further away from the original would have been to do a Metal cover instead. (Although, sometimes switching genres can have surprisingly good results, so maybe they should have gone with a metal version...).

I'm not saying it's bad, but it's just not nearly as good as the original.
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2018, 10:36:36 PM »
I like Disturbed and want them to play it like Disturbed.
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2018, 10:54:04 PM »
Quote from: dm1333 on October 09, 2018, 10:36:36 PM
I like Disturbed and want them to play it like Disturbed.

Well in that case, skip Draiman and give it the Slipknot treatment. That'd be a fine mess.
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2018, 05:56:21 AM »
Quote from: Regolith on October 09, 2018, 10:08:56 PM
Meh. I kind of have the same problem with it that Hawkmoon has with a lot of renditions of the Star Spangled Banner: way too much embellishment.

Part of what makes the original timeless is the simplicity. Just two guys and a guitar track.

Disturbed's version is almost the complete opposite. The only way they could have taken it further away from the original would have been to do a Metal cover instead. (Although, sometimes switching genres can have surprisingly good results, so maybe they should have gone with a metal version...).

I'm not saying it's bad, but it's just not nearly as good as the original.

I liked the Disturbed version. Sounded pretty simple to me. Just him singing and a piano as the main part, with violins... giving a bit of backgroundness; and some light embeloshments with a drum cymbal, I think, and an acoustic guitar in the second half. But all that extra stuff is mostly for background.

I like the Weezer version, although I prefer the original. Interestingly, the music video is done like their Undone-The Sweater Song video. I bet it's simply because it's Weird Al doing it so it's kind of like a parody of that video.

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So Weird Al... replaced Weezer's singer... doing Toto's Africa... with the original lyrics.
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2018, 06:38:04 AM »
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2018, 12:26:56 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc

got this damned song stuck in my head for weeks, been living with a constant headache because of it. heard it played by a cover band awhile back. That voice is somewhere between nails on chalkboard and a dental drill.
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2018, 12:30:59 PM »
Quote from: French G. on October 09, 2018, 08:38:36 PM
Got stupid songs stuck in my head. There have been scurrilous rumours that I have crap taste in music. Be that as it may, I love good covers.

In this case, it was a terrible song the first time, my kid gets an intro into how weird 80s music was, and I love the band. Weezer covers Toto.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U And oh yeah, that's Weird Al in the video doing a cover of a Weezer video while pretending to be the Weezer guy singing Toto.


Crap, I was hoping for moar accordion- that could have made that song awesome.
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2018, 12:51:57 PM »
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2018, 05:58:12 PM »
Quote from: brimic on October 10, 2018, 12:30:59 PM
Crap, I was hoping for moar accordion- that could have made that song awesome.

Ahh, you need the live version then. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-4l8BpYyMDQ
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2018, 06:57:35 PM »
Sometimes you have to use displacement to get a song out of your head.
Try “the lion sleeps tonight” with that goofy
in the jungle the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight, oweemawap oweemawap
It’s always a good one
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2018, 07:50:28 PM »
Well, If you like good covers IMO these guys do dome of the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFOBID5OXaM

And this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q-2OijZpzE

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Re: Damn song
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2018, 09:06:10 AM »
Quote from: CypherNinja on October 10, 2018, 06:38:04 AM
My favorite youtube channel for covers  ;):

Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw

Anaconda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CipIdBn55n4

Hollaback Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZpStPFDaho

Hello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtQUJMBH8uE

Zombie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e4bAsQ4r30

Thanks.  They're fun to watch and listen to.  Sultans of Swing was good, and the female is pretty easy on the eyes.
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Re: Damn song
« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2018, 11:57:24 AM »
Quote from: Kingcreek on October 10, 2018, 06:57:35 PM
Sometimes you have to use displacement to get a song out of your head.
Try “the lion sleeps tonight” with that goofy
in the jungle the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight, oweemawap oweemawap
It’s always a good one

Thanks, got that covered. It was the sweater song stuck in my head, and then for no reason whatsoever it became the Robert Earle Keene Christmas song. Maybe because a co-worker talks all about AA.
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