Redeeming the Unredeemable: Good Covers of Bad Songs

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Redeeming the Unredeemable: Good Covers of Bad Songs

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Not great covers of good songs (e.g., Devo doing "Satisfaction") but shitty songs that somehow become decent in the hands of someone more skilled.

I offer this:
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung

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God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung

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Urge Overkill covering a moldy Neil Diamond song counts for this exercise, I reckon:
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead

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Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 5:23pm
Problem: Sabbath's "Iron Man" is awesome.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 12:37pm
Not great covers of good songs (e.g., Devo doing "Satisfaction") but shitty songs that somehow become decent in the hands of someone more skilled.

I offer this:
watch?v=-kXbHf1SwGk&ab_channel=EngineRoomRecordings
The video really makes this one
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead

Pex Lives!

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 5:58pm
Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 5:23pm
Problem: Sabbath's "Iron Man" is awesome.
Perhaps I'm a bit biased. :mrgreen:
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Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 6:06pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 5:58pm
Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 5:23pm
Problem: Sabbath's "Iron Man" is awesome.
Perhaps I'm a bit biased. :mrgreen:
You weren't posting here during the great Paranoid War last year, were you? Lack of respect for early Sabbath will arch many eyebrows.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 6:16pm
Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 6:06pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 5:58pm
Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 5:23pm
Problem: Sabbath's "Iron Man" is awesome.
Perhaps I'm a bit biased. :mrgreen:
You weren't posting here during the great Paranoid War last year, were you? Lack of respect for early Sabbath will arch many eyebrows.
No, too new to have been involved in that one. No disrespect for Sabbath intended, I just prefer the way the Mats butcher, I mean improve, the covers they played.
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Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 6:25pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 6:16pm
Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 6:06pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 5:58pm
Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 5:23pm
Problem: Sabbath's "Iron Man" is awesome.
Perhaps I'm a bit biased. :mrgreen:
You weren't posting here during the great Paranoid War last year, were you? Lack of respect for early Sabbath will arch many eyebrows.
No, too new to have been involved in that one. No disrespect for Sabbath intended, I just prefer the way the Mats butcher, I mean improve, the covers they played.
Let's just say that people here had an opportunity to vote for "Paranoid" and instead picked "Another Girl, Another Planet." Jesus fucking wept.
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Hopefully this one will be less controversial. I think the Muffs just kick ass with this version, hands down a winner.


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Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 7:04pm
the Muffs just kick ass
:cool:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 7:07pm
Sparky wrote:
27 Sep 2021, 7:04pm
the Muffs just kick ass
:cool:
co-sign, and great cover (although I actually like the original too)
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead

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First person to post a cover of a Bruce song gets a one week ban. :naughty:
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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