I meant the generic “you”, sorry if that didn’t come across.
One Tin Soldier-Killdozer
Sounds like the son of Meatloaf and Rod Stewart after gargling with Drano.
Good lord, that is…something.
I kinda liked it. Solid backing track, maybe a tiny bit too hysterical singer, and a disfunction of the mixing desk on fade-out. I’ve heard worse in this thread.
The covers that bug me are the ones that there’s nothing wrong with, other than that they add almost nothing new to the song. Phil Collins’ cover of “You Can’t Hurry Love” is a good for-instance. Why bother doing a cover like that? (Besides money, of course.) It’s one thing for a bar band to do covers that are as close to the original as they can manage. But it’s a whole 'nother thing when it’s being done by a well-known artist whose songs automatically get airplay.
well at one time when the artist/group were new or just had a hit single they didn’t get to pick their songs until it was proven they’d stick around for a while or did really great sales
So as shown in "that thing you’d do " the company would give them a book and say "heres what we own the rights to you can pick you want for the next album? "
mike Nesmith of the monkees said when they talked to him about a new record that’s exactly what they did except sometimes you got one or two of your own songs on it
that’s why certain record companies acts sounded like cover bands …
I didn’t read the article, because the link locked up my computer, but in any case, here’s my contribution.
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Pat Boone’s album of heavy metal covers, performed in Pat Boone style. Not even good for the novelty value.
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That dreadful “Free Bird/Baby I Love Your Way” mishmash that was a massive hit in the late 1980s.
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I came in to reply. Yeah, I love Mike Ness/Social Distortion’s cover of Ring of Fire - played it in a band for years!! Also love Ness’s cover of Dylan’s Don’t Think Twice off his solo album Cheating at Solitaire.
Now, Sid Vicious doing My Way? Not so much.
Oh, another one that really scallops my potatoes is Motley Crue making Anarchy in the U.S.A. a staple on their touring set list. Fuck you. I hate the “What’s really Punk?” debates, but damn, Vince fuckin’ Neil, bloated pig sellout that he is, selling a punk song? Fuck that.
One cover that I loathe is Dylan and Johnny Cash croaking out Girl From the North Country on the Nashville Skyline album.
There are tons of jazz covers of pop songs, both instrumental and vocal, and a lot of them just plain suck. No specific songs come to mind, but in general it’s when someone decides to uptempo a ballad and turn it into a lounge song.
Dar Williams does a dreadful version of Comfortably Numb.
I won’t link it here, because I like most of you people.
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One Tin Soldier-Killdozer
Sounds like the son of Meatloaf and Rod Stewart after gargling with Drano.
[/QUOTE]Obviously you don’t have much of a musical ear with those damning words about Killdozer that I thought lacked aplomb and that I take umbrage to.
I take it you’re unfamiliar with their scintillating For Ladies Only 7" boxed set, with a wonderfully-sung cover of “American Pie”, and, to set matters straight, there’s photos of these respectable-looking lads (scroll down to second pic), totally lending credence to how presentable-looking they are, what with those fine shirts and well-done hair.
Also from the oft-treasured For Ladies Only - the drummer Dan’s Kiss Quiz should provide you insight into their much-fawned-over charisma, along with the answers to Dan’s Kiss Quiz.
For the cherry on top, here’s their improvement on Niel Diamond, from their *Little Baby Buntin’ *album.
Oh, I still love it. It’s because when you’re fourteen and hear a song that only your parents like pissed all over by a definitely crazy guy, you’ll love it instantly, and that love never faded.
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Apologies - I stand corrected - actually “I’m Not Lisa” (off the Burl album) is Killdozer’s most exemplary cover to date.
I can only hope some ignorance has been leavened, somewhat.
In my opinion, there is no cover of any Tom Waits song that tops the original.
Naah. They’re entitled to their own opinion (and in the case of Sweet Jane, they’d be right) but that doesn’t make them infallible.
Case in point: Trent Reznor thinks Johnny Cash’s Hurt is better than his own version. I strongly disagree. Johnny Cash’s version is shit. Yeah, yeah, I know, dying man, awareness of mortality, some sort of music legend, blaah, blaah,blaah. Don’t really care, I’ve heard more emotionally affecting singing from a pair of drunken tuberculotic winos destroying “Show Me The Way To Go Home”.
You should write for Hallmark! 
Johnny Hortron’s cover of Jimmy Driftwood’s “Battle of New Orleans”. Forget the list, nothing else in even in the same ballpark.
Wow, I thought for sure I was the only one who knew that existed. God bless him, he’s so successful when he doesn’t do covers or country…
You should have immediately followed with this version…by the Brady Bunch!
I now believe in hell.