Post Malone doing Betterman on Stern

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  • SHZA
    SHZA St. Louis, MO USA Posts: 4,314
    edited June 2022
    It's great that he did it but he sounded like a goat at times. I'm not offended
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,939
    edited June 2022
    mookeywrench said:
    BF25394 said:
    The word "relevant" should always take a qualifier.  Nothing is relevant in the abstract.  A thing must be relevant to something or to someone.  Pearl Jam is relevant to its audience.  Post Malone is relevant to his audience, which is larger than Pearl Jam's in 2022.  Will his audience be larger than Pearl Jam's when he's thirty years in?  Time will tell.  And some people are part of the audience of both Post Malone and Pearl Jam.  Their audiences are not mutually exclusive.
    To recap: you lectured through a philosophical wormhole about what it means to hold relevancy because Post Malone spent 3 minutes doing a free-wheeling Pearl Jam cover.
    Huh?  I wasn't criticizing Post Malone at all, nor was I commenting on the quality of his "Better Man" cover, which I haven't even listened to yet.  I was commenting on posters' use of the term "relevance" without anchoring it to anything.
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  • Apone
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    I thought the cover was a good effort, he did a good job.
    He's obviosuly a massive fan of my 2 favourite bands, Pearl Jam and Nirvana.  His Nirvana covers he did duiring the lockdown are exceptional IMO.
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  • Lifted
    Lifted Posts: 1,836
    I finally checked this out and thought it was a solid cover. It was raw, felt genuine, and was delivered with emotion. It stayed true to the original without feeling like a karaoke performance. What more is there to execute?

  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    edited June 2022
    Rarely is a cover better than the original. It wasn’t bad, not great either 

    off the top of my head DMB watchtower is probably the best cover. That’s because it’s a cover that they made their own. this one is basically the same song, just with a different singer 

    i like post malone a lot. Just think he can do much better with a PJ cover 
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  • Lost In Ohio
    Lost In Ohio Posts: 7,245
    edited June 2022
    Gern Blansten said:
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    igotid88 said:
    Cool. Now was it good? I think it's easier to cover Nirvana than it is a Pearl Jam song.


    I'm not any sort of musician, but I have heard a lot of comments that Nirvana had really easy tabs, riffs, etc.

    Either way, it's incredible to realize (not just know, but fully realize) those guys were all approximately mid-20s when those 90s songs were written. Hell, considering Better Man was written *before* Pearl Jam, Eddie was probably still a teen. 

    Post Malone's version was well done. He did it justice.
    False....great music can be made with easy riffs. Cobain was legit.


    I didn't say anything about the music though...just that a lot of the tabs are supposedly simple/beginner, compared to what else is out there.

    But yeah...the music is classic. I spun the crap out of Nirvana CDs in the early 90s.

    I wonder what PJ would do with Tourette's or maybe an Eddie solo version of Something In The Way...just imagine Tourette's straight out of Lukin.
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  • Lost In Ohio
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    NHiding said:
    sounded like he was choking on his grills


    So I guess I won't be hearing it on PJ Radio any time soon. Ha.
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  • igotid88
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    igotid88 said:
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    This is all I care about 
    Better Man by Pearl Jam is #97 on iTunes Alternative songs chart. https://t.co/3RO0AxzApi 
    Updated. Not on there anymore. Maybe that'll change later, hopefully 
    Up to #77 now
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  • BF25394
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    igotid88 said:
    igotid88 said:
    igotid88 said:
    igotid88 said:
    igotid88 said:
    This is all I care about 
    Better Man by Pearl Jam is #97 on iTunes Alternative songs chart. https://t.co/3RO0AxzApi 
    Updated. Not on there anymore. Maybe that'll change later, hopefully 
    Up to #77 now
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    I just realized that you're referencing the iTunes Alternative chart, not the overall chart.  To put this in perspective, the #1 song on the iTunes Alternative chart (Halsey's "So Good") doesn't even rank among the top 100 on the overall chart.  Being #16 on the iTunes Alternative chart does not reflect a significant amount of activity in the grand scheme of things.
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  • igotid88
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    edited June 2022
    BF25394 said:
    igotid88 said:
    igotid88 said:
    igotid88 said:
    igotid88 said:
    igotid88 said:
    This is all I care about 
    Better Man by Pearl Jam is #97 on iTunes Alternative songs chart. https://t.co/3RO0AxzApi 
    Updated. Not on there anymore. Maybe that'll change later, hopefully 
    Up to #77 now
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    #16
    I just realized that you're referencing the iTunes Alternative chart, not the overall chart.  To put this in perspective, the #1 song on the iTunes Alternative chart (Halsey's "So Good") doesn't even rank among the top 100 on the overall chart.  Being #16 on the iTunes Alternative chart does not reflect a significant amount of activity in the grand scheme of things.
    Yea I know. But they're rarely there and that high.  I wish it was the Hot 100
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  • igotid88
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    It's Better Man though. Figured someone would say something by now
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    https://youtu.be/nDK-wsdEhNE
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    That goat warble ruined a pretty respectable cover.
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,179
    I didn't hate it, didn't love it either. Heard far worse PJ covers than this.  His Nirvana "livestream" was fantastic I thought. Maybe if this wasn't acoustic? Some parts sounded autotuned or something weird like that.
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  • igotid88
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    Just going by Spotify. I'm sure there was a bump.  But nothing significant. 
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  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,669
    Reminds me of when Kurt covered Black 😄
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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    This guy lost me when Howard was asking him how he writes songs and he mentioned he just sings and “adds a little auto tune”. 

  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,116
    I like Post. I dig some of his pop rap.  The Nirvana covers were good.  Beer Bongs and Bentleys was a really good record.  That said, this cover was not good.  Stay in your lane Posty.
  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,214
    I struggled to get through it, and found no enjoyment whatsoever in that. Not a hater, I barely know who the dude is, and I couldnt care less really, but that was terrible for me
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    really dug his nirvana set. this....not so much. just sounded like he was struggling. 
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