Some covers work. Some don’t. It’s worse when changing genres and styles of instruments, as the arrangement needs to be redone with an ear to what made the original work in it’s genre, the soul of the song itself, and how that works in the genre being moved to. Some do it better than others. Some songs just don’t work across genres, or need some major revisions to “work” in the new genre. One group that to my ear has more hits than misses in this translation is Postmodern Jukebox in selection o…
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Something a bit lighter for today – Leo Moracchioli does some excellent metal covers of various popular songs. He has a better ear for what works in his chosen genre than Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (who have some fun punk covers but really overdo it), as well as a better feel for what makes the song tick, and how to adapt them to metal. So, not quite #throwbackthursday – Take on me.…
Didact’s comment on my last post [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/01/alternative-facts-more-fakenews.html] freed up a little bit of memory, and reminded me of this bit of industrial from Ministry’s “A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste”: You talking heads in most of the MSM, even most of the “conservative” media? This is how we view you. As Tom Kratman noted in his article on Rosie’s “lets declare martial law” comment – we hate you. You are dishonest, poisonous, Wormtongue hacks.Enjoy.…
Powerslave is still one of my favorite albums by these guys.…
OK, Vox showed this vid, a metal cover of an Adele song. OK. That was… awesome. Sure – there’s *harder* metal out there, but as much as, say, Amon Amarth has awesome *music*, death metal vocals aren’t my thing. The symphonic end with Nightwish and Within Temptation, a little Five Finger Death Punch, a little Drowning Pool…And these guys rock. And they’re willing to go out on a limb, and to look silly doing so. Take a look at the vid for Gangnam Style. Or Shakira’s *Waka Waka – *I haven’t list…