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Mar 17, 2012#1

ElJuski

I'll kick it off with probably one of my absolute favorites, from last year's Undercover:

fucking ridiculously good.

Now your turn and go

Mar 17, 2012#2

General Specific

So good, people forget it's a cover of a Bob Dylan song

Mar 17, 2012#3

Covar

Obligatory.

Mar 17, 2012#4

ThatNickGuy

Mar 17, 2012#5

HCGLNS

Mar 17, 2012#6

Hailey Knight

Mar 17, 2012#7

LittleKagsin

Mar 17, 2012#8

checkeredhat

HCGLNS said:

I have nothing more to add to this thread cause you beat me to it.

Mar 17, 2012#9

bhamv3

Steps are a guilty pleasure of mine, so...

Mar 17, 2012#10

figmentPez

Mar 17, 2012#11

LittleSin

Mar 17, 2012#12

drifter

Mar 17, 2012#13

General Specific

Mar 17, 2012#14

General Specific

Mar 17, 2012#15

SeraRelm

Mar 17, 2012#16

North_Ranger

I won't pretend and say I have any kind of taste in music, but back when Tarja Turunen was still in the band, this song rocked my socks off...

Mar 17, 2012#17

Frankie Williamson

checkeredhat said:
I have nothing more to add to this thread cause you beat me to it.

You know, you listen to the original NIN version of the song and you feel like maybe that Reznor guy knows what pain really feels like. Then you listen to Johnny Cash's version and you can't help but think, "The fuck you know about pain Trent?"

Mar 17, 2012#18

HCGLNS

Mar 17, 2012#19

Hailey Knight

North_Ranger said:
I won't pretend and say I have any kind of taste in music, but back when Tarja Turunen was still in the band, this song rocked my socks off...

Nightwish is still awesome. Or was in 2008. I haven't listened to the one they released this year.

Mar 17, 2012#20

Gryfter

Mar 17, 2012#21

CynicismKills

Great cover, and the video's amazing.

Mar 17, 2012#22

BErt

Mar 17, 2012#23

ElJuski

CynicismKills said:
Great cover, and the video's amazing.

So many disagrees. The original beats the shit out of this version. Sorry

Mar 17, 2012#24

Vagabond

Mar 18, 2012#25

ElJuski

I'm also torn with the Gnarls Barkley cover. Good, fun, but still no Violent Femmes (<3)

Mar 18, 2012#26

SeraRelm

also

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lastly

Mar 18, 2012#27

Frankie Williamson

ElJuski said:
So many disagrees. The original beats the shit out of this version. Sorry

I don't think a cover has to be better than the original to still be good. Otherwise no one would be cover Hallelujah.

Mar 18, 2012#28

ElJuski

Frankie Williamson said:
I don't think a cover has to be better than the original to still be good. Otherwise no one would be cover Hallelujah.

Well, duh. I'm saying that that version, in my opinion, is bad. A good cover, like any good adaptation, should both pay respects while creating a unique spin on that source. Sometimes covers happen that are just inessential or bad.

Mar 19, 2012#29

HCGLNS

Total guilty pleasure :problemo:

Mar 19, 2012#30

evilmike

Does this count?

Mar 19, 2012#31

SeraRelm

Mar 19, 2012#32

sixpackshaker

Mar 19, 2012#33

SeraRelm

Mar 20, 2012#34

ElJuski

shit I forgot this thread and now I have to go to work

fffffuuuck

Mar 20, 2012#35

BananaHands

Mar 20, 2012#36

SeraRelm

Tinwhistler said:
amidoinitrite?

Did that joke.

Mar 20, 2012#37

ElJuski

it's Halforums. Ten more people will do it by the end of the thread.

anyway, here's another Undercover cover I thought was pretty fly:

fucking epic.

Mar 20, 2012#38

SeraRelm

It's like every other night asy ou drive down the strip, out looking for love in all the wrong places. Headlight glancing off rain puddles in a pockmarked street as underfed women of the night try to peddle their world weary wares to an indifferent whistler.

It's a cold world, Tin, m'boy, and it won't get any warmer if you keep playing these games.

Mar 20, 2012#39

ElJuski

unless you have a bedsheet cover, of course.

Mar 20, 2012#40

General Specific

BananaHands said:

Mar 22, 2012#41

Chippy

Mar 22, 2012#42

North_Ranger

Quotemander Prime said:
Nightwish is still awesome. Or was in 2008. I haven't listened to the one they released this year.

I stopped listening when they kicked Tarja out. I know she probably had it coming; something about her boyfriend trying to cash in on the band's rep or something. But goddammit, that mewling Swede they have as their lead singer now does not hold a candle to the hauntingly beautiful, nigh-operatic voice of Tarja.

Mar 22, 2012#43

North_Ranger

Also...

Mar 22, 2012#44

Hailey Knight

North_Ranger said:
I stopped listening when they kicked Tarja out. I know she probably had it coming; something about her boyfriend trying to cash in on the band's rep or something. But goddammit, that mewling Swede they have as their lead singer now does not hold a candle to the hauntingly beautiful, nigh-operatic voice of Tarja.

Disagree. The new girl may not have the vocal depth, but she still sounds great and Dark Passion Play was probably the best music Tuomo has written for the band.

Haven't heard the new album though and for all I know it's gone downhill since 2008.

Mar 22, 2012#45

Vagabond

Mar 24, 2012#46

Bowielee

GYAH, stupid work, can't see anything in this thread.

Two of my favorite new wave songs

Puttin' on the Ritz- Taco
Money, That's what I want- The Flying Lizards.

Mar 24, 2012#47

Krisken

Andrew Fletcher, it is reported, actually prefers this cover to the original.

Apr 10, 2012#48

SeraRelm

Apr 10, 2012#49

Adammon

I never liked the Beatles version.

Apr 11, 2012#50

checkeredhat

Personally, I like Big D and the Kids Table's cover of The Specials' "Little Bitch"

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