Originally posted by xcadmusx
I was thinking about this subject while listening to the two songs on the SOIA tribute...
When it comes to bands doing cover songs, what do you prefer:
covering other bands of a similar genre (if so, is it better to play the song as close to the original as possible or put a different spin on it?)
or
covering a band of a different genre and doing it in their own style?
When the Misfits tribute came out years ago, I had several friends bitching about it because the songs didn't sound like the way the Misfits did them
at first. Personaly, I would rather hear a band take a song and make it their own by playing it in their own style. It just seems pointless to me to
try to make the song sound exactly the same.
Overall, however, I tend to enjoy hearing songs covered that are really from out of left field and not what you'd expect. I almost get dissappointed
when a new sXe band plays a YOT/Judge/Minor Threat song because it seems so obvious... same goes for similar examples of bands covering bands from
their own genre. I don't mind it all the time, but it seems like you're expecting it when you hear the cover. I loved that H2O covered Madonna and
Stretch Armstrong covered Pink, it was just very clever and made those songs fun. We cover the Cranberries because a)they are my favorite band next
to SOIA and b) nobody would expect it from us if they heard the rest of the shit we play.
So, what about the rest of you? (at least this is one less subject complaining about the same old shit, lol) |
