The 8 Things You Can Do With a Cover Song [COMIC]
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Most people who aren't big music fans don't know that Aretha Franklin's Respect was a cover of an Otis Redding song.
ReplyThe Whole New Level, i.e Johhny Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt"
ReplyMy first thought!
If only I had a dollar foe every time somebody's mentioned the Hendrix cover of All Along the Watchtower...
Replyall along the watchtower is pretty great imo , also you'll probably hate me for this but stone temple pilots did a pretty damn good cover of led zeppelin's dancing days .
ReplyJimi Hendrix covered "All along the watchtower" by Bob Dylan.. I liked it so much more than original.
Replyalong with everyone
Jimi doing "Killing Floor". It was already an awesome song, but Jimi just humped new life into it and threw it into a different dimension.
ReplyI do like Type O Negative's version of "Back In The USSR" though. Sort of non-hipsterish irony in that version.
Any one Nine Inch Nails covers. Old Soft Cell songs, Gary Numan, Joy Division, all of his covers are superb.
ReplySpeaking of NIN, Johnny Cash covering Hurt. Whole new bloody level.
I'm not sure what exactly I want to call Disturbed's cover of "Land of Confusion" (Originally Genesis). One of the positives at least. Maybe a Genre Swap, not too sure I want to be such a douche as to claim Added Soul or Whole New Level, but I definitely prefer their cover to the original.
Replyhed PE's "Crosstown Traffic" (Cover of Jimi Hendrix's): The instruments themselves make it seem like a palette swap, but his aggressive voice makes it sort of its own thing. Probably a mix between Palette Swap and Equalizer.
Reply"Bad Company" by FFDP, the successful genre swap.
ReplyI keep coming back to this because the rock god on the top right is just so f*****g awesome looking.
Replyf**k yeah whole new level guy
ReplyI guess the "techno remix" consisting of adding a two-note drum backbeat counts as the palette swap?
ReplyAlso: "Any and every cover I like = whole new level". The internet can't handle non-binary opinions. This is why sites like YouTube have stopped using score gradients and gone for letting users grunt "LIKE!" or "BAD!"
I figure the techno remix is the robot (Pointlessly Different). If I hear that "Hall of the Mountain King" remix again...
"THIS IS THE POLICE SPEAKING. THIS CLUB IS CLOSED FOREVER."
"Haha, awesome!"
"But seriously, I'm takin' your white trash asses to jail."
A Whole New Level dude is how I imagine GOD.
ReplyNot bad. You could've had Fred Durst in place of Madonna. Come to think of it, he could have been all the bad ones. Well, maybe not the string quartet one...
ReplyBad comic is bad. This could have been funny with some commentary, examples, etc. As it stands, it doesn't really say anything. It is a colourful list.
ReplyWe Are The Fallen's cover of Madonna's 'Like A Prayer' was either a Successful Genre Swap or A Whole New Level
ReplyAnd it's f*****g Awesome
The Equalizer guy looks like Claudio Sanchez, from Coheed and Cambria.
ReplyAlso, string quartet tributes should be considered a genre swap, and there should have been a spot for both bad and good tributes because some of them are really good.
Mansons almost-every-cover: Whole new level/Soul added
ReplyNo that's genre swap. I wouldn't say he added soul to them, but I do like some of his covers more than the originals, like his versions of "You Spin Me Right Round" and "Personal Jesus"
@Mercy: Dope did "You Spin Me Right Round."
Crazy by Mushroomhead, Genre swap or whole new level ? Rob Zombie's cover of Blitzkreig Bop, totally Madonna.
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