I seriously think that covering songs within the genre of music you play is pretty pointless. What is the point of a punk band covering a punk song, a metal band covering a metal song, or a pop singer covering a pop song? There is no point. All your doing is using your voice, or different guitars, but youre not changing the song at all, youre not offering anything new. Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan (All along the watchtower); now that is a cover. Hendrix's style was completely different from Dylan's thus ending up in an excellent cover song (of course having to do with its execution). If you are going to cover a song, don't pick a song that is within your style. It isn't going to be impressive, it's not going to be groundbreaking, it's not going to be unique. I've noticed people covering Opeth songs on this forum. I don't have a problem with that, its just some fun thing to do, if you play guitar or whatever. But it generally annoys me at concerts really, to see people covering songs within their own genre. Who are they trying to impress? It's been done before, probably better. Please, just stop.
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Dreadful
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I do agree with this. But really...covering a song to where it sounds very similar if not exactly to the original whether it's the same genre of music or not, is pretty pointless. I think Decapitated did a great job of destroying Slayer with their "Mandatory Suicide" cover, because they added more to it. Death did a good cover of "God of thunder" from Kiss. Taking someone else's song and flipping it upside down is more of a purpose, but some people just like to play homage to their favorite bands.
mot-
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I agree to that. Nevermore's cover of "The Sound of Silence" or Eric Roche's cover of "Smells like teen spirit" (original song is shit, cover is awesome) are examples for well done covers.
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I've always felt that covers should be more an interpretation of the song than a direct cover of it. (See Dark Tranquillity's "My Friend in Misery").
Demonspell
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I agree, the idea when covering a song should be to reinterpret it rather than just sounding like a band practice.
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Exactly, I think a cover is worthwhile if it changed up enough. If a metal band does a cover of a metal song, it had better sound VERY different. If they try as hard as possible to make it sound the same, it's more like a waste of time.
The only time it worked is when Bauhaus covered "Ziggy stardust" to spite the critics that said they were just a David Bowie ripoff. Then it was appropriate for them to make it sound as close as possible.
The only time it worked is when Bauhaus covered "Ziggy stardust" to spite the critics that said they were just a David Bowie ripoff. Then it was appropriate for them to make it sound as close as possible.
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Well, I play some covers sometimes, and try to nail them perfectly, because it's a song that I like, whether it is my original or not. It's not that people play covers to be "groundbreaking", almost all bands play covers only to enjoy themselves and have fun playing the music that inspires them, so I dont mind at all, and I have heard some really bad covers, in instances where the band has tried to make it sound original, but made it sound like shit.
Miller High Death
Forest Metal
Is there something wrong with a band covering a song because they like it and it is fun to play? Covers are ussually bonus tracks anyway.
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Covers are very cool to do when jamming with your band, and a cover or two can be a nice gimmick on a gig. If you do a gig, metalheads will surely like a metalcover, so nothing wrong with that. Covers are not really done to impress, it's just a great feeling to play the music from your favourite bands.
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are you saying that cob's cover of propganda sucks? with all my cob hatred, that cover owns. and if its a metal songm, the more interesting to hear a metal cover.
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Gin_from_the_bottle said:
I disagree that its more interesting to hear a metal cover of a metal song. It is more interesting to me if you cover a song that is outside of your genre of music because youre putting your own spin on the song and changing the delivery of the song. And as far as people saying they love jamming covers with their friends or whatever, thats great, I do that too, playing TNATSW and some acoustic alchemy stuff, but Im more talking about officially covering a song, not just doing a tribute or whatever. Jamming is different. I don't have a problem when a band covers something with their genre, I just think its not as interesting or cool to hear.
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yea i agree with the whole just playing for fun idea. my band is a metal band and we cover metallica and slayer for the hell of it. the songs are already good, why would we wanna change them. and who the fuck are we to change them in the first place. we play it just cuz we like the songs and their fun to play, plus, you throw in some slayer at a show and the crowd goes wild 
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