What song would you like to see a band cover?

Dave · 08-10-2004 09:31AM #1

Just pick 1 song that you'd like to see covered. Just a bit of "market research"

Töpher · 08-10-2004 10:35AM

Dimmu Borgir - Progenies of the Great Apocolypse

Good luck!

the_obsolete · 08-10-2004 10:39AM

Beat It by MJ!

Shazbot · 08-10-2004 11:03AM

Apocalyptica - fade to black ( metallica cover )

would really like to see 4 cellists play that :P

M@lice · 08-10-2004 01:47PM

A Change of Seasons by Dream Theater! And i mean all 25 mins of it!

Kelter · 08-10-2004 03:46PM

I hate to give away my brilliant and excellent ideas, but on the off chance that I don't confince mmy band to do it I'd still like to see it done

The Bosco theme tune

Waltons · 08-10-2004 04:14PM

Funkadelic - Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock Music?!

*funks on down*

tj-music.com · 08-10-2004 09:27PM

Why in the world should any band cover anything? The times are over where bands covered songs out of heroism and respect. Most of the time people only cover because they dont seem to have any ideas what to write by themselves. Its a shame what has become of this "business".

Long live the songwriter who rather would starve to death than cover a song

Honestly, I am sick and tired of listening to tracks I already know and 99,9% of the time the new version doesn´t kick ass at all

Waltons · 08-10-2004 10:39PM

Why can't a band still cover something out of heroism and respect now? Or to try their own interpretation of the song. A cover doesn't have to be note for note reproduction and it's not as if the songwriter can't have any input at all.

Dave · 09-10-2004 11:00AM

Woah, relax there. First off, we write all our own music. Secondly, we want to start gigging around the college bars soon enough, and no college crowd wants to hear songs they've never heard of, and if the crowd don't like us we won't get to gig again. Obviously we'll throw in a few originals, but we're saving that stuff for when we do our own gigs and battle of the bands type things. Thirdly, covers are fun to play.

In fairness tj, your "holier than thou" attitude is just making you look like a pretentious fool.

"Long live the song writer who rather would [gic] starve to death than cover a song"

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

ferdi · 09-10-2004 11:38AM

Sexy Mother****er - Prince

Mr. CooL ICE · 09-10-2004 02:17PM

If you think that in this day and age, a band can start off playing without doing a single covers and actually get anywhere youre pretty dumb min my opinion. As bad as it sounds, you really have to do a little bit of crowd pleasing for students, cos if you don't, they can be a bunch of **** torwards you. Trust me, it happened to me.

For covering stuff, what type of music do ye play and how many in the band and how many guitars, etc? You really need to tell us something before I suggest trying Bodom Beach Terror or Lunatic Of Gods Creation before you tell us ye play bubblegum pop punk

the_obsolete · 09-10-2004 03:40PM

Jaysus Chessie, when'd that happen ya?

NeMiSiS · 09-10-2004 05:48PM

Two Tribes Go To War ! - Frankie goes to Holloywood.. Bass line rocks..

When you hear the air attack warning.. you and your family must take cover

Tom

WetDaddy · 09-10-2004 05:56PM

It's my idea, so don't nobody go stealin' it!

Puttin' On The Ritz - Irving Berlin

I have a penchant for (not sounding high and mighty here) real music. Actually, that does sound pretentious. But I'm leaving it in anyway. I don't mean to slate other music at all, but I just prefer to hear real raw, instruments like brass, pianos, effect-less guitars

and stuff...

Jesus, I love music. It's like a goddamn drug.

Right, enough rambling... Shut up, Seán...

Dave · 10-10-2004 08:46PM

Well we have your regular set up, lead, rhythm, bass and drums. But that shouldn't matter, I just wanted to see what people would like to see covered, obviously crazy 25 minute songs we won't do or songs that we've never heard of, but still, it's interesting to see what people would like to see a band cover.

It wasn't me! · 10-10-2004 09:02PM

Opeth-The Leper Affinity
Still long at ten minutes but it'll definitely keep people interested for the whole thing!

Or, if that wouldn't go down well:
Blur-Song2
Great song with a lot of energy.

NeMiSiS · 10-10-2004 11:01PM

18 and life - skidrow.
****ing rockin

Tom

Dave · 11-10-2004 09:45AM

It wasn't me! wrote:

Blur-Song2
Great song with a lot of energy.

Every cover band plays that though. The same with brewing up a storm. Good songs, but most of the college cover bands I've seen play those. We want to stay away from that.

Mr. CooL ICE · 11-10-2004 10:28AM

the_obsolete wrote:

Jaysus Chessie, when'd that happen ya?

Playing the Scholars in UL back in March. When you crank out Master Of Puppets, Fade To Black, Paranoid and Toxicity aswell as playing some originals when the damn singer forgot all lyrics leaving sludgy riff after sludgy riff repeat over and over, and the closest you come to pleasing the crowd is playing I Believe In A Thing Called Love where the vocals were completely off the wall, the students begin a drunken revolt of sorts involving them shouting something, but not quite being able to finish off their sentences. Oh well!

the_obsolete · 11-10-2004 11:34AM

Holy moly that sucks ballsies big time! Are any of the originals we have now played or just sommat else?

Sleepy · 11-10-2004 04:32PM

the_obsolete wrote:

Beat It by MJ!

Seconded, I've always thought that was a song just BEGGING to be rocked up...

paulmartin · 12-10-2004 08:01AM

Welcome Home Sanitarium.

tj-music.com wrote:

Why in the world should any band cover anything? The times are over where bands covered songs out of heroism and respect. Most of the time people only cover because they dont seem to have any ideas what to write by themselves. Its a shame what has become of this "business".

Long live the songwriter who rather would starve to death than cover a song

Honestly, I am sick and tired of listening to tracks I already know and 99,9% of the time the new version doesn´t kick ass at all

Because its very hard to get a gig just playing your own songs. A lot of venue-owners only allow cover bands. Also what's wrong with listening to tracks you already know, particularly when you hear them live.

tj-music.com · 12-10-2004 12:25PM

Yeah, I know that some venues only allow cover bands. All I am saying is that the circumstance, that so many people do bloody cover versions all the time, is not helping artists who want to be recognized for their own music.

I just dont like the trend that you have to cover and I´ve been to more than one performance were the cover versions werent even half as good as the original and the "crowd pleasing" went badly.

For artists who are trying hard to establish themselves its even worth. You play a well known cover song and the crowd is singing along, you try your own stuff and people dont know what to make of it.

Therefore I think it is best to perform for less people but only give them what you created.

I am doing this for 25 years now and I had a good few shots at the independent charts - and research shows that cover bands will never ever make it big with their own material because its automatically less interesting when you perform it in conjunction with well known reportoire.

I might be a "pretentious fool" but I rather make a stand in smaller venues than compromise without getting anywhere.

Just my opinion

Dave · 12-10-2004 02:30PM

And just how big have you made it without "lowering" yourself to covers?

tj-music.com · 12-10-2004 07:09PM

Well, Dave, you´re not big either, are you?! Have you ever produced something that sold well? You don´t get it at all, do you? You used the term "lowering" to covers, how low can u go?

U keep on talking about how great it is to cover songs until you have to have the balls to approach something you can really be proud of

Dave · 13-10-2004 09:54AM

Woah, someone is getting a bit touchy. Where do I keep going on about how great doing covers is. Also, if you read my first reply to your comment I said we do all our own music, which we are very proud of. And you still haven't answered my question. How big have you made it. If you don't want to answer it, I understand.

Jim · 13-10-2004 09:58AM

I'd love to see Belle & Sebastian do a cover of either Soho (Needless To Say) or Roads To Moscow by Al Stewart.

Or even Al doing some B&S songs would be quality.

Mr. CooL ICE · 13-10-2004 10:19AM

Dave wrote:

Woah, someone is getting a bit touchy.

Dude, I think that myself and everyone else reading this felt the spit spraying from his mouth when he posted that.

But as for covering stuff, what you could do is everyone come up with three (or whatever) songs that ye would like to cover (taking into account everyone elses tastes and playing abilities) and present them. If any overlap, say 2 or 3, learn them and either play them live, or practise them and see which sounds the best.

Dave · 13-10-2004 10:51AM

We'll things are moving fairly fast now. We've 6 or 7 cover songs down, and 7 originals. We're thinking of doing a medley of postman pat, fraggle rock and ghostbusters which would keep any college crowd happy I'd say

tj-music.com · 13-10-2004 11:35AM

R u talking statistics, Dave:

1990 CD: "Digital Dreams - German Groove" # 16 @ DRMV* - charts
1991 Track "3002" from German Groove taken for a C64 computergame: "Teldor IV", "Goucho" from German Groove CD was released as part of a sampler in five countries.
1992 "3002" used for a short movie
1994 CD: "Digital Dreams - Hitech Systems" # 4 @ DRMV* - charts
1994 Band ranked among the Top Ten unsigned bands in Frankfurt
1994 (paid) gig at Star Trek Convention, Germany
1995 (paid) gig with The Temptations @ Festivals in Hessia
1996 (paid) gig High Security Prison, Ffm
1996 New Release "Digital Dreams - Vesicula" produced by Frank M., who wrote songs for Hot Chocolate, Johnny Logan and George McGrae
1997 CD: "TJ - Pure Love" # 1 @ DRMV charts
1999 CD: "Darker than Black": Paid promo week in UK, paid Videoproduction, 12minute TV Interview, 2-page Report @ "Subkutan"
2000 Special Guest on Tallaght Radio
2002 Civic Theatre Performance in Dublin
2003 because of latest release "TJ - Eternity" accepted for "Digital Media" course
2004 paid work as songwriter for a girl- and boyband. Both bands won 1st price in their categories at 2004s Stars in their eyes local Dub competition.

* - independent charts

I know that wont satisfy you because I dont have a platinum record, right?

For an independent artist I guess its more than many people might achieve on their own. I am not your enemy, I just have my personal point of view.

Dave · 13-10-2004 01:24PM

I apologise, you obviously have made it big. Lucky you didn't do any covers, or you could have ended up unknown to the boards populous and ended up using your site address as your username to give yourself some publicity.

GCOOKY83 · 13-10-2004 03:16PM

Hee-hee, good point Dave. In fairness we're not laughing at your achievements Tj, that's all well and good that you are happy and proud of all those things you've accomplished, but you can hardly blame the fact that some bands do covers for the reason you haven't exactly set the world alight. It's a fundamental fact, that when you pick up your first guitar, or mic or drumstick or whatever, you start to play covers as a way to learn your instrument. No one starts out playing all their own music from the very beginning, you hone your skills emulating other musicians until you start to experiment yourself, so if you think about it, without covers to start you on your way you're not going to get anywhere.

tj-music.com · 15-10-2004 01:35PM

Guess you´re right. Havent looked at it that way. In fact my very 1st Cd was dedicated to Prince and Paul Stanley and while I was playing in a heavy metal band we also covered live. Hhmm, I just think it got a bit out of hand with all the YOU HAVE TO COVER attitude. But, I have to give you that. You´re right indeed. Apologies.

It simply hurts my ears to come across another bad cover version on the radio on a daily basis. But maybe it is just me.

TJ :rolleyes:

][cEMAN** · 18-10-2004 03:37PM

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