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tragabigzanda wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
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I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

theplatypus wrote:What I find even more tiresome than note-for-note covers is the whole "let's take an upbeat song and make it all slow and melancholy"; it's worked a few times (the Johnny Cash version of "Hurt" is obviously great because it's charged with genuine emotion;

Kevin Davis wrote:I think the original version of "Hurt" was pretty slow and melancholy too -- Cash simplifies the harmony (NIN's version has some dissonant chords that Cash doesn't replicate), but otherwise I feel like it's a pretty faithful cover.

tragabigzanda wrote:did i guess right?

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Ms Harmless wrote:"Music Box" by Mariah Carey is a great album and doesn't get enough respect

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theplatypus wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:I think the original version of "Hurt" was pretty slow and melancholy too -- Cash simplifies the harmony (NIN's version has some dissonant chords that Cash doesn't replicate), but otherwise I feel like it's a pretty faithful cover.

Makes sense, I barely remember the original, but felt like Cash's cover warranted a mention as an example of a morose cover that was good

tragabigzanda wrote:did i guess right?

It was Taking Back Sunday -- considerably less impressive! But I met the guy at that conference I went to in Colombia last year and we hit it off

Kevin Davis wrote:

theplatypus wrote:What I find even more tiresome than note-for-note covers is the whole "let's take an upbeat song and make it all slow and melancholy"; it's worked a few times (the Johnny Cash version of "Hurt" is obviously great because it's charged with genuine emotion;

I think the original version of "Hurt" was pretty slow and melancholy too -- Cash simplifies the harmony (NIN's version has some dissonant chords that Cash doesn't replicate), but otherwise I feel like it's a pretty faithful cover.

I think the worst example of this is Ben Gibbard doing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)."

Kevin Davis wrote:

theplatypus wrote:What I find even more tiresome than note-for-note covers is the whole "let's take an upbeat song and make it all slow and melancholy"; it's worked a few times (the Johnny Cash version of "Hurt" is obviously great because it's charged with genuine emotion;

I think the original version of "Hurt" was pretty slow and melancholy too -- Cash simplifies the harmony (NIN's version has some dissonant chords that Cash doesn't replicate), but otherwise I feel like it's a pretty faithful cover.

I think the worst example of this is Ben Gibbard doing "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)."

tragabigzanda wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Thank god Johnny Cash did his version of “Hurt”. I hate the original so, so much.

whoa this is surprising. There's some real great Eno/Moulder influence in Reznor's production of this.

tragabigzanda wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
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I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

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