The Cover Band I want to Hear

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:51 pm

...unfortunately, they only exist in my head. But wouldn't it be awesome if...

sABBAth

The songs of Black Sabbath, in the style of Abba.

Bruce

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:03 pm

No. Granted, alot of Sabbath needed some improvement, but when they were good, THEY WERE VERY, VERY GOOD. As was Abba.

It's like industrial or techno remixes of things: take a good song, you're just going to fuck it up. Take a bad or mediocre song, and you could probably do something with that. I.e., the best remix I ever heard in my life. Sepultura's 'Chaos A.D.', or whatever it was called, compared to some no-name who got it somehow on the Mortal Combat soundtrack as 'Chaos B.C.' Tell me that dude didn't turn some crappy song into one of the best songs ever.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:36 pm

Vitriola wrote:No. Granted, alot of Sabbath needed some improvement, but when they were good, THEY WERE VERY, VERY GOOD. As was Abba.

It alarms me, given the divergence of our musical tastes, that I agree with these sentences, except for the "no" part.

I've gone searching for bizarre-ass covers. I've already found Gabba (Abba covers in a Ramones style), a bluegrass cover of Ace of Spades, and, of course, Beatallica.

Bruce

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:44 pm

Ok, now, go download the songs I just mentioned.

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:51 pm

There's an all-dude Go Gos cover band out there with the best name ever.

We Got The Meat

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:50 pm

Maybe this will help. I doubt it but worth a listen anyway.

THE
MULTILINGUAL
AARDVARK

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:44 pm

AArdvark wrote:Maybe this will help. I doubt it but worth a listen anyway.

That's got some promise.

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:59 pm

Bugs wrote:There's an all-dude Go Gos cover band out there with the best name ever.

We Got The Meat

Do you remember that guy named Farsase who used to call the dial-up version of JC? Dave Refici, if I remember right. At any rate, I was introduced to the concept of kareoke through Farsase. If I remember right, he said that a buddy of his got up and did a rendition of that Go-Gos song by singing, "We got the meat" as the chorus. For years I thought kareoke involved the singer spontaneously inventing new lyrics.