Sam The Smuggler 1 Posted December 20, 2003 Some Are Really Good & Some Are Horribly Bad. What's Your Overall Opinion On Them? I Do Like Many Of Them...But I Would Like People To Be More Original. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
edmcgon 0 Posted December 20, 2003 The key to doing covers is to do something different with them. Some of the best covers I have ever heard usually take the original and play it with a different style of music. I still remember the punk band I once heard do a cover of "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood". Let's just say I will never hear that song the same way again. The funniest cover I ever heard was the Austin Lounge Lizards doing Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage" as a bluegrass tune. Sometimes, a cover can be better than the original. I remember once hearing a jazz band cover Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love". Frank Sinatra made a career of doing covers better than the originals: "New York, New York" and "My Way" come to mind. Who can forget David Lee Roth's cover of "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody"? (I know they were originally separate songs, but he brought them together quite well) Sinead O'Conner's cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" is so much more heart-wrenching than Prince's version, even though he wrote it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
removed 0 Posted December 20, 2003 I like covers, but I hate remixes. And I only really like punk covers. There is this great band called 'Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' which is entirely a punk cover band. They've done stuff like "Ms. Robinson", "I Believe I Can Fly", "Rocketman" and made them into punk covers. They are good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr.Picard 12 Posted December 21, 2003 That depends on how good the cover is made I'm not much into covers, I want to hear "new music", but if a cover is nicely done, why not. :o And I don't like remixes either.... Mrs. Captain Picard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Takara_Soong 4 Posted December 22, 2003 It depends on the cover. I agree that there are some that are better than the original but there are also some songs that people shouldn't even attempt to cover. I can't think of anyone who has covered a Beatles's song better than the original. I love the Beatles' cover of Buddy Holly's Words of Love. It ranks up there with the original. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
