Bands Need To Quit Doing Crappy Covers!
November 14th, 2007 by Baconstrip
OK sometimes covers or remakes are cool like when Disturbed did “Shout”, the Tears For Fears classic.
Why was this one cool?
Because they took a song and made it their own – they totally changed it – and revamped it – and to boot picked a song totally out of their genre you’d never expect from a hard rock/metal band and somehow made Tears for Fears totally rock in a new and unique way.
Even though Tears For Fears they already did rock in their own way. Yeah I’ll admit it – I dug Tears For Fears back in the day. They always made me sow the seeds of love.
Distrurbed also did a decent job covering Genesis’ “Land Of Confusion” – once again taking a song out of genre and roughing it up quite a bit again making it their own. The original video for that song always creeped me out!
But I digress.
Bands have used the formula of covering a classic song for years to attempt to get a quick & dirty easy hit.
Is it me or has it gotten out of hand lately?
Case and point – the latest TOTAL piece of crap – Hinder covering “Born To Be Wild”.
I cannot embed it here because Universal disables it on YouTube for all their videos.
Hinder? Born To Be Wild? Heavy metal thunder? Hardly.
This band killed the airwaves with their crappy ballad months ago and now this. Wow.
Someone make it stop.
But it gets better.
There is a version of the video for Nascar! No shit!
Check that out here
(just being consistent and linking instead of embedding this one!)
I know you saw that coming. Cha-ching! Instant money maker.
Here is why this remake totally sucks: It offers absolutely NOTHING new whatsoever. The song is not reworked, revamped, changed or modified in any way. The arrangement is the same, just sound newer since it is a new recording. It is trecherous ground to be covering classic songs as it is. Kinda like the unnecessary movie remakes over the last several years.
After you watch these horrific videos of Hinder killing “Born To Be Wild” go cleanse your soul and watch the original for some real heavy metal thunder:
Steppenwolf’s “Born To Be Wild”
I heard the new Godsmack tune on the radio the other day covering Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” - another one for the “DEAR GOD WHY?????” files. Yup. Another total piece of crap that offers absolutely nothing origial or new in their version other than to supply something to help sell their upcoming ‘Greatest Hits’ collection. Apparently it is working as radio stations are biting on this one hook, line, and sinker.
Listen To It Here – Yikes.
Hey I have an idea! Someone should remake ‘Psycho’ and ‘Halloween’!!!!!
and…
2) unless your led zeppelin…dont do their songs…
They all suck phallus. None of these bands, including Disturbed knows shit about real metal.
Ok I just saw someone say something about Disturbed and “Holy Diver”, correct me if I’m wrong but that was Killswitch Engage was’nt it??? Get your shit right if you’re gonna flame on a message board, I don’t like Dio, or KE but I know the facts…I think.
Haha. Okay, I’ll tell you what, This is so damn right on the mark, I simply have nothing to add?!
We were discussing this exact topic at work this week. Meanwhile, our shop radio was playin that Godsmack cover and we all HATED it!
JUST HAD TO SAY THIS ABOUT COMMENT #5…… WRONG!
IT WAS NOT DISTURBED THAT COVERED “HOLY DIVER”. IT WAS KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, AND YES, ITS FUCKIN SHITTY! THE ORIGINAL WAS SHIT BY ITS SELF. STOP THE GODDAMN 80′S COVERS ALREADY! AND JUST MAKE UR OWN FUCKIN NOISE!
i hated the 80s and all the covers but one all fuckin suck my asshole. the only good cover is god smacks remake of led zeppelins- good times bad times, the reason is because they tried to keep it origianal and not ruin it by giving it their own sound. i dont personaly think any other radio bands sound cover any zeppelin songs, but god smack did ok.
Hinder? SUCKS!!! Godsmack? Good band, not so good version of a classic. Disturbed? Both songs redone well. memo to new bands out there: If you do a cover tune, do it somewhat differently than the original, or don’t do it.
As far as covers are concerned, Isn’t everyone tired of the repetitive play lists that the radio has deluged us with? I am sick of hearing the same thing over and over! Even our conversations about it are somewhat redundant. The “rock” cats of the 70s were doing old blues, and on and on. Now some of us that grew up listening to the great 70s rockers want to see something new come. If I want to hear Led Zepplin tunes; I could turn to three station right now and guarantee that within a couple of songs one would be played. WHY DO I HAVE TO HEAR SOME HACK PLAY IT? OK, now your a talented band, you’ve made some money making something up. They gave you an advance to make more…. WTF is the problem now? I am a stage technician and I hear and see all the tours out. I have to have a straight face for my clients. But when I hear band’s like “Stained” (doing a HACKED rendition of a small part of the “Wall”) or any of the above mentioned bands, I always CRINDGE!!! Don’t get me wrong…some bands that do covers CAN do great with them. As far as I am concerned, lately the Exec’s have nothing better to offer than music they already own. Why do you think the new thing is not to get signed, but to do it yourself. The one that the suits can control are the ones that OWE. LACK OF CREATIVITY, to put it in THREE WORDS. I concur with the Author….STOP IT NOW!!!
panteras cover of ted nugents cat scratch fever. fuckin awesome
I fucking hate Hinder anyway I’m a little more intenst then that but yeah I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ON ALL OF THEM. Disturbeds songs were awesome. I don’t really like land of confusion but they did a good job covering it cause like you said they made it into there own music and style. But SHOUT on the other hand FUCKING AMAZING I love that song by Disturbed and of course Disturbed is my favorite band. So talk to all you awesome motherfuckers later PEACE
HAHA COMMENT #5 said Disturbed remade Holy Diver HAHA that’s fucking awesome they must really love rock/metal music
Son of Science covered Backstreet Boys hahahah!
i think the Godsmack remake was not Godsmacks greatest work BUT on the other hand if we didnt know it was Godsmack we would all be in an agreement that the cover is actually not bad! I like Godsmack, I dont like that they remade this song though…just like I love metallica but when they tried to remake some of the songs they remade on garage inc….i was a bit miffed! For example, TURN THE PAGE was a great cover but coming from metallica just seemed weird…check out my myspace page…i have updates of TOP 10 FAVORITE REMAKES posted every couple days….
http://www.myspace.com/jonmcclausereporting
Also…AVENGED SEVENFOLDS cover of Panteras WALK is pretty fuckin good too!
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Hell hath no fury when it comes to the Darkest of Metal. A great laugh is when you See a Band doing Paper-Doll Cut Outs or Let’s add Some Porn Girl onto our Covers. Oh and lets please show your Tats on some skin. Or a Cherry on Your cover like…Oh well. I will not say the Bands name of whom they are…Go figure!!! LOL!!! Say You Bands that Put Make-Up on your Faces with alittle Black Liner around the Eyes… I had rather Look like I have a Snake in my hands and eating the flesh with Blood pouring out of my mouth with a Mask on looking like Slipknot. Now that’s “THE DEADSEA’S” I was back from 1986 to 1994. Now that’s the end of my Comment and I am not meaning this as an insult to My Bro’s out there. All Bands from many Genre’s are accepted on my Profile Page at aeromant@MySpace. http://www.myspace.com/aeromant
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For one thing Led Zeppelin is very protective of their music so if its good enough for Page, Plant, & Jones its good enouph for me. Second off Avenged Sevenfold blows. The music is good but the lead singer sounds like a Backstreet boy.