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Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
edited August 2011 in Other Music
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  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,941
    edited August 2011
    All of them deserve to be up there except for Shatner and Alien Ant Farm.

    Shatner's is purposefully awful and AAF's cover is pretty straightforward, and forgetable, some may even call it ...fun, but definitely nothing to have negative feelings over.

    Now that I think of it, I think it was pretty cool for AAF to cover Jackson at a time when he was most shunned by pop culture.
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  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    mookeywrench wrote:
    All of them deserve to be up there except for Shatner and Alien Ant Farm.

    Shatner's is purposefully awful and AAF's cover is pretty straightforward, and forgetable, some may even call it ...fun, but definitely nothing to have negative feelings over.

    I agree.....
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  • PKTrekGirlPKTrekGirl Posts: 747
    edited August 2011
    thefixer9 wrote:
    mookeywrench wrote:
    All of them deserve to be up there except for Shatner and Alien Ant Farm.

    Shatner's is purposefully awful and AAF's cover is pretty straightforward, and forgetable, some may even call it ...fun, but definitely nothing to have negative feelings over.

    I agree.....

    I agree too. Shatner was just being his usual ham-ilocious self (come on, Rolling Stone readers - grow a sense of humor!)...and AAF wasn't bad, really. I actually heard the AAF version of Smooth Criminal over my supermarket's background music only yesterday, and while it's not as good as Michael Jackson's (this might be my favorite MJ song), it's not horrible or anything.

    Now Miley Cyrus covering Nirvana? Poor Kurt must be spinning in his grave over that one. I mean, LOOK at this girl! Clearly, she hasn't the dimmest clue what Nirvana or Kurt Cobain was all about.
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  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    Oh my God. I actually watched Britney Spears meowing, yodeling and hiccuping her way through "Satisfaction."

    Newch, you owe me 2 minutes of my life back.
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  • PKTrekGirlPKTrekGirl Posts: 747
    ^ Well, do yourself a favor and don't compound the problem by watching Miley Cyrus cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I certainly could use that 4 minutes back.

    How do you unwatch something?
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I'm gonna give Miley a pass on this one. How many 18 year olds cover this song live? Shittily? Give her a pass.
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  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    catefrances wrote:
    "Without them I wouldn't be here. They are the ones who gave me the strength and courage to do this. I hope I can be that person for you guys." - miley cyrus about nirvana.


    DAMN YOU NIRVANA!!!!
    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I'm gonna give Miley a pass on this one. How many 18 year olds cover this song live? Shittily? Give her a pass.

    nope sorry no pass.. even my 11 year old knows not to touch this song... though she was singing negative creep when she was 3... but it was in the loungeroom. :lol:
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  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    catefrances wrote:
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I'm gonna give Miley a pass on this one. How many 18 year olds cover this song live? Shittily? Give her a pass.

    nope sorry no pass.. even my 11 year old knows not to touch this song... though she was singing negative creep when she was 3... but it was in the loungeroom. :lol:

    Newch, apologies for Threadus Interruptus, but I have to stop this right here and ask: What the hell is a loungeroom? Catefrances, do you have a nightclub in your house?!?
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    unlost dogs wrote:
    Oh my God. I actually watched Britney Spears meowing, yodeling and hiccuping her way through "Satisfaction."

    Newch, you owe me 2 minutes of my life back.
    :x
    :lol: How do you think I feel? I have to get some hearing back in my ears after Avirl's version of "Imagine".
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  • marcosmarcos Posts: 2,112
    I give a pass to Jessica Simpson because the video is good, you press the mute button, she was ridiculously hot in that video plus it's a dumb goofy song to begin with, no harm in my opinion :D
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    unlost dogs wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I'm gonna give Miley a pass on this one. How many 18 year olds cover this song live? Shittily? Give her a pass.

    nope sorry no pass.. even my 11 year old knows not to touch this song... though she was singing negative creep when she was 3... but it was in the loungeroom. :lol:

    Newch, apologies for Threadus Interruptus, but I have to stop this right here and ask: What the hell is a loungeroom? Catefrances, do you have a nightclub in your house?!?

    yes i do unlost.. its where all the kool kats hang. 8-)


    loungeroom = living room... i forgot where i was for a second... oh and i have to correct myself and say the 11 year old is actually now 12. its friday here ... i dont have to think today... ITS THE WEEKEND!!!!!
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  • capthowdy1027capthowdy1027 Posts: 3,270
    I also liked Alien Ant Farm's Smooth Criminal cover, I thought they did a really good job with it.
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  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    catefrances wrote:
    unlost dogs wrote:
    catefrances wrote:

    nope sorry no pass.. even my 11 year old knows not to touch this song... though she was singing negative creep when she was 3... but it was in the loungeroom. :lol:

    Newch, apologies for Threadus Interruptus, but I have to stop this right here and ask: What the hell is a loungeroom? Catefrances, do you have a nightclub in your house?!?

    yes i do unlost.. its where all the kool kats hang. 8-)


    loungeroom = living room... i forgot where i was for a second... oh and i have to correct myself and say the 11 year old is actually now 12. its friday here ... i dont have to think today... ITS THE WEEKEND!!!!!

    Hmmm. That may be true, CF, but in my mind... you have a smokey, sultry lounge with lots of dark red wallpaper and gold brocade, right in the middle of your house. And there is a little stage with a tiny spotlight, and of course, a disco ball.

    Yep. That's the image I'm hanging on to.

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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Way to highjack the thread unlost.
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  • pjl44pjl44 Posts: 9,908
    Eh...I have no beef with Limp Bizkit and Alien Ant Farm. However, if you want to talk about Scissor Sisters destroying the soul of Comfortably Numb...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N04FiOKp_o&ob=av2n
  • capthowdy1027capthowdy1027 Posts: 3,270
    pjl44 wrote:
    Eh...I have no beef with Limp Bizkit and Alien Ant Farm. However, if you want to talk about Scissor Sisters destroying the soul of Comfortably Numb...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N04FiOKp_o&ob=av2n

    :shock: That's just terrible.
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  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,379
    First song popped in my head was Limp Bizkit, Behind Blue Eyes

    I too liked the Alien Ant Farm song and Madonna's cover wasn't too bad, IMO
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  • drlovemonkeydrlovemonkey Posts: 394
    For an awful cover (with all due respect to the recently deceased Jani Lane), check out We Will Rock You by Warrant.
  • twisted thoughtstwisted thoughts Posts: 4,377
    Ive never seen/heard this Shatner LSD cover...pretty funny. But is it really a cover, or more of a parody?

    And after recently attending an A Perfect Circle show, I'd have to petition RS to add their cover of When the Levee Breaks. What a terrible thing to do to a classic Zepp song. I mean, they butcher it to the point where no one in the crowd even knew they were covering a classic tune... Wish I could get those precious moments of my life back...
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  • HeavyHandsHeavyHands Posts: 2,130
    "It was written by The Arrows and made famous by Joan Jett - or "Pat Benatar," as Spears famously called her when promoting the single. People are too hard on Britney. She was close enough."

    Fuck You, Rolling Stone. Pat Benatar is awesome. So is Joan Jett. Your willingness to dismiss these two women and their contributions to modern music while sucking up to Brittney Spears* does nothing but support the notion that you are a disrespectful mess of your former self.

    I will happily continue not supporting you for the rest of my life, you shambles.

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  • EquallyWorthlessEquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    twisted thoughts wrote:
    Ive never seen/heard this Shatner LSD cover...pretty funny. But is it really a cover, or more of a parody?

    And after recently attending an A Perfect Circle show, I'd have to petition RS to add their cover of When the Levee Breaks. What a terrible thing to do to a classic Zepp song. I mean, they butcher it to the point where no one in the crowd even knew they were covering a classic tune... Wish I could get those precious moments of my life back...


    Nonsense, that is a brilliant cover. The record version is beautiful and haunting. At least they try to re-interpert it in their own style and not just directly copy the song note for note....
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  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Wow, that list and the videos that came with it made my soul hurt. As others have said though, I didn't really mind the AAF cover back then. For being a "terrible" cover it certainly was popular, it was on the radio every 5 minutes.

    I wasn't even aware of Britney covering The Rolling Stones, and I have no idea what that was about. That was just uncalled for.

    As for Miley and her Nirvana cover... I don't even really know what to think. I'm not all that familiar with Miley, but that video was pretty goofy. At least she knows the song, unlike Avril Lavigne who once called it "Smells Like Team Spirits".
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  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    That Alien Art Farm cover is pretty good. Out of all the MJ songs to cover that one came out of left field and was a nice surprise.

    Limp Bizkit? Awful. Who decided that the Speak N Spell was necessary?

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  • Of The AggieOf The Aggie The ATX Posts: 1,541
    twisted thoughts wrote:
    And after recently attending an A Perfect Circle show, I'd have to petition RS to add their cover of When the Levee Breaks. What a terrible thing to do to a classic Zepp song. I mean, they butcher it to the point where no one in the crowd even knew they were covering a classic tune... Wish I could get those precious moments of my life back...

    I agree. Most of those covers on eMotive are terrible. What they did to People Are People was shameful.
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,162
    I Love Rock and Roll was a horrible song long before Spears tried to cover it.

    That's like trying to make a steak out of a pile of poop.
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    The most perplexing thing about that list to me is that in the blurb for Crow's Sweet Child it says "Big Daddy" isn't a Sandler classic like "Airheads" was? At what point in time did that piece of crap Airheads become anything close to a classic?
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