When people RUIN things
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parakitaMol. said:
Ahh yes, another strange dynamic. He who heard it first, or discovered it, posesses some divine right of 'ownership'...
Too true.I sometimes get annoyed when an obscure song I 'discovered' and enjoy, enters the mainstream due to some darned tv programme or advert. It's quite sad really.
Ah yes. I remember hearing an awful techno version of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights (I admit I like the original..) in a club one night.
It's one of those songs I thought just shouldn't be touched, kind of like American Pie (damn you Madonna)
I was idly wondering what spotty teenage pretender felt they could improve such a masterpiece by adding weak vocals and Techno Beat #1 from their Junior Casiotone. Some months later I discovered that the criminal responsible for this heinous act was Kate Bush herself!!
It's one of those songs I thought just shouldn't be touched, kind of like American Pie (damn you Madonna)
I was idly wondering what spotty teenage pretender felt they could improve such a masterpiece by adding weak vocals and Techno Beat #1 from their Junior Casiotone. Some months later I discovered that the criminal responsible for this heinous act was Kate Bush herself!!
I am in the same mindset....
From my years of club DJ'ing, I always used to get annoyed when classics got covered, and people assumed that the cover was a new song..... One clear memory was the "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" track that was covered by Blue came out, occasionally I would drop into sets a superb remix of the Stevie Wonder original..... and punters would come and ask me who had done "this great cover of Blue's song!"
On a seperate note, I was in London a few weeks ago, and listening to random radio stations (pirates et al) and came across a station playing what appeared to be a country and western version of SImon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer"
Female vocal, and a definate C&W flavour.
Truly appalling!
From my years of club DJ'ing, I always used to get annoyed when classics got covered, and people assumed that the cover was a new song..... One clear memory was the "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" track that was covered by Blue came out, occasionally I would drop into sets a superb remix of the Stevie Wonder original..... and punters would come and ask me who had done "this great cover of Blue's song!"
On a seperate note, I was in London a few weeks ago, and listening to random radio stations (pirates et al) and came across a station playing what appeared to be a country and western version of SImon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer"
Female vocal, and a definate C&W flavour.
Truly appalling!
parakitaMol. said:
It really gets my goat when people take a song you like and ruin it.
Makes me very angry.
Some vacuous t
tting girl band have turned one of the great tracks from A R Rahman Slumdog soundtrack into a wky alcopop teen disco thing.
Idiots.
And the dappy bint ever says Jay wrong FFS.Makes me very angry.
Some vacuous t
tting girl band have turned one of the great tracks from A R Rahman Slumdog soundtrack into a wky alcopop teen disco thing.Idiots.
And also the bint who covered Snow Patrol's Run pissed me right off, that went from an anthemic tune to an utter shit cringefest festooned with tripe.
parakitaMol. said:
I've just bought a cover version CD with some great covers on it. Think it's a Ministry one...
But the track I originally posted about I have to actually switch off when it comes on the radio. Dirge.
Is it called 'uncovered'?But the track I originally posted about I have to actually switch off when it comes on the radio. Dirge.
If so, it's brilliant with some excellent covers on it. There is even a slightly less depressing version of 'love will tear us apart' which somehow works.
el stovey said:
parakitaMol. said:
I've just bought a cover version CD with some great covers on it. Think it's a Ministry one...
But the track I originally posted about I have to actually switch off when it comes on the radio. Dirge.
Is it called 'uncovered'?But the track I originally posted about I have to actually switch off when it comes on the radio. Dirge.
If so, it's brilliant with some excellent covers on it. There is even a slightly less depressing version of 'love will tear us apart' which somehow works.
Luckily nothing on it has been RUINED by plastic spastics
Silent1 said:
And also the bint who covered Snow Patrol's Run pissed me right off, that went from an anthemic tune to an utter shit cringefest festooned with tripe.
Disagree with that, she made it much better.Anything that Snow Patrol touch has the lasting appeal of a turd, that is if you are not asleep after the first few bars. Truly one of the worst bands of the last few decades, utter toilet!
Generally some of the cheap 'dance' version of songs are pretty rubbish!
Digger said:
Who was that "bint" who did a cover of a Jeff Buckley song . . .was it last xmas?
That wasn't so much ruined as actively hilarious, though. Well, okay. Maybe it was ruined, but I think anything that made me laugh that much should be given some credit.I'm not actually that keen on Buckley's version, although I have a feeling that expressing a preference for the Leonard Cohen recording is now so dull, predictable and old hat that people are being taken outside and shot for it.
Bugger.
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