Well I WAS having a good day...

jhiggins

jhiggins

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Now I just have to share.

I just listened to a song that has turned my stomach.

I was having a really good day. Working here in the shop, and listing to a sweet sweet bluegrass station. I love bluegrass. In fact, its one of my favorite musical genres, but I have many. I also love heavy metal. I really love heavy metal. The musical ingenuity and creativity I find in metal never gets old and never ceases to put a grin on my face.

~but~

When I hear "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica, done by a bluegrass band named Iron Horse, that's where I draw the %$@# line.

:barf:

What was once a deep dark saga of James Hetfield's troubled past, has become a cheery banjo-pickin, fiddle-playin' bluegrass stinker. The blood of the two shall never mix! Dang it, why can't people stop blurring the lines?

fark :mad:
 
I've got a cd somewhere of a symphony doing Zep I could send you, if ya need to throw up, Jeff! :barf:

Sometimes ya gotta wonder where some artist's heads are at with the remakes. :jerkit:
 
fitzo said:
I've got a cd somewhere of a symphony doing Zep I could send you, if ya need to throw up, Jeff! :barf:

Sometimes ya gotta wonder where some artist's heads are at with the remakes. :jerkit:
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Agreed. Although I will have to say I like Van Halen's version of the Kinks classic, "You Really Got Me" equally as well as the original. Sometimes a remake is good. In my opinion, any band or individual that does a remake better really nail it or they open themselves up for ridicule.
 
Oh, I agree that there are many marvelous takes on remakes. "Black Magic Woman" by Santana blows away Fleetwood Mac's original. It'd be a tragedy not to have Stevie Ray's "Voodoo Chile". Hendrix did quite okay with Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower", not to mention "Hey Joe". ;)

It seldom works, though, when someone does like you point out and makes a cheery song out of a dark one.

That said, hearing Garth Brooks do Kiss is sort of a trip. :D
 
Garth Brooks started out in a rock band as a bass player, IIRC. A member of the Kiss Nation (Army??), they are a huge favorite of his. I *think* he did a song on the Kiss Tribute album. :eek:
 
Though I have a somewhat eclectic LP and cd collection numbering about 3000 selections, there's not one Kiss piece in there. Don't know why, just never got into them.
 
come on now
Ghost riders in the sky done by Johnny Cash is the best thing that happened to that song.. you got to have some Sh!t kicking songs now and again
to keep you on the ground. :D
 
Howie, I'd never heard of Hayseed Dixie so I went to Amazon and played some clips. I gotta admit, I found it sort of surreal or maybe, "Dada". They did a whole bunch of those kind of tributes, too, so it must be pretty popular.
I had no idea.... :)

Dan, the Man in Black did an excellent version of Ghostriders. My personal favorite is by the 70's Southern rock band The Outlaws. That's one of my favorite guitar riffs... :)
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt" from Nine Inch Nails is better than the original, IMO.
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I've only heard a few lines of that from the show "Shield" on FX. Good tune. Never heard the NiN version. Cash did have such a great voice for certain things. Just like Willy Nelson, sometimes there can be no compromise. I guess the real reason I began this thread is because although I like many styles of music, I just like to keep the genres pure.

I do think White Lion pulled of a good version of Radar Love from Golden Earring. :cool:

Btw, as I write this, I'm listening to Erik Essix (jazz). :D
 
Janis Joplin did a fair version of Kris Kristofferson's Bobbie McGee IMHO.

I heard a shitkicker version of some of Janis' stuff though a few years ago that really sucked.
 
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