Severely dismantled covers of well known songs - Page 2

DJ Rick · 02.06.2007, 09:11 PM

Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink's "Kenneth" repeats only the titular line from "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" by REM.

On one of their early singles, the Registrators totally slaughtered "Hotel California" like no other band I've heard.

The Genbaku Onanies and Hijo Kaidan formed a merged band called Genbaku Kaidan and released an LP called "Acid Soul" which was essentially the unwieldly group slaughtering a buncha classic rock staples. Their version of "Communication Breakdown" is a bruiser, but "Mississippi Queen" is the biggest joke on the record.

Especially Likely Sloth's cover of Cannibal Corpse's "Hammer Smashed Face" sounds like it replaces that sick pitch-shifted riff in the refrain with a chorus of cheap plastic kazoos. The rhythm's disjointed, cut/pasted, and the vocals sound like a drowning little girl.

The version of "Beat It" by the Strangulated Beatoffs pokes a lot of fun at Jacko: "Show 'em your weenie/Show 'em it's white!" A long time earlier, there was a great 7" they did with a couple of Beatles songs including "Don't Let Me Down," which was proto-chopped 'n' screwed.

Perhaps no great pisstake of the Beatles exists than the 7" by an obscure Nebraska band in 1980 that dared to call themselves the Better Beatles. They were perhaps the only Midwestern synthpunk band from this era.

And, of course, Negativland's "U2" is the greatest example of this sorta thing ever!

krastian · 02.07.2007, 12:41 AM

How about Acid Mothers doing Willile the Pimp? It's not THAT dismantled, but it's still fun/awesome.

Пятхъдесят Шест · 02.07.2007, 04:43 PM

Thought of another one (a good one too!). Sudden Infants cover of Roxy Music classic In Every Dream Home a Heartache.

HaydenAsche · 02.07.2007, 04:56 PM

Most of Cat Power's covers are somewhat dismantled. What she did with 'No Satisfaction' is brilliant.

Xiu Xiu's Don't Cha is incredibly dismantled.

Iain · 02.07.2007, 05:22 PM

Satisfaction, as already mentioned, is a much dismantled one. Add Keiji Hainos covers band Aihiyo to that list. They take it apart, throw away the rubbish bits (most of it) and build it back up from the ground.

Also, Butthole Surfers did a pretty mangled cover of American Woman by The Guess Who. More mangled than their cover of Sweet Leaf I'd say. They also have a song called Mark Says Alright and there's a Grand Funk Railroad song of the same name but I have no idea if it's a cover or not.

Good topic by the way.

Tokolosh · 02.07.2007, 05:23 PM

Most of the La Musique De Paris Derniere cd's have interesting covers like:
Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out
Big Daddy - Like a Virgin, etc.

Iain · 02.07.2007, 05:30 PM

OK, Mark Says Alright isn't a cover of the Grand Funk track. At least the liner notes attribute the writing of the song to The Butthole Surfers.

Rob Instigator · 02.07.2007, 05:50 PM

I love the MASTER & SERVANT cover on an album by a band called ENIAC (sounds liek The red Scare or Drive Liek Jehu, NOT like the electronica duo called ENIAC)

I always like playing Dinosaur's version of JUST LIKE HEAVEN at parties because about the time the regulars understand it is THE Cure song they are thinking off, it kicks into the screams, and then it just stops on a 'YOUUUUU!!!"

I love covers.

Rob Instigator · 02.07.2007, 05:50 PM

Mark Farner (sp?) was the name of the butthole's dog, as well as the dude from grand funk railroad

Iain · 02.07.2007, 05:52 PM

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the nugget of info.

porkmarras · 02.07.2007, 06:11 PM

Schneider Tm did a good job on the Smiths's 'There is Light That Never Goes Out' and went as far as re-naming it 'The Light 3000'.From car-driving teen melancholia to car-driving and clubbing melancholia.

DJ Rick · 02.07.2007, 06:23 PM

Anyone here ever heard Culturcide's "We Aren't the World," a totally irreverent stab at "We Are the World" by USA for Africa?

Culturcide also turned Grand Funk's "We're an American Band" into "We're an Industrial Band."

They were like the American Cabaret Voltaire, but way more sarcastic and funny.

porkmarras · 02.07.2007, 07:06 PM

This entire album is full of ace covers sometimes much better than the originals:

Prisstina · 02.07.2007, 07:49 PM

Britney Spears's cover of "Satisfaction" was effed up, if that counts.

k-krack · 02.07.2007, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест

Thought of another one (a good one too!). Sudden Infants cover of Roxy Music classic In Every Dream Home a Heartache.

...is this the one that Buck 65 did? Or is that his own tune... I didn't know Roxy did a song ...by that name... Buck's version is EFFING...INCREDIBLE.

LittlePuppetBoy · 02.07.2007, 08:32 PM

Weezer do an excellently dismantled cover of I Bleed by the Pixies. Except they changed the lyrics and called it Undonne (the Sweater Song)

HaydenAsche · 02.07.2007, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by LittlePuppetBoy

Weezer do an excellently dismantled cover of I Bleed by the Pixies. Except they changed the lyrics and called it Undonne (the Sweater Song)

Idiot. Those songs aren't even close to being the same.

LittlePuppetBoy · 02.07.2007, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by HaydenAsche

Idiot. Those songs aren't even close to being the same.

Oh Please!

The melody and rythm in the main verses are virtually identical.

HaydenAsche · 02.07.2007, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by LittlePuppetBoy

Oh Please!

The melody and rythm in the main verses are virtually identical.

Cunt off.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 02.07.2007, 10:27 PM

A little, but I'd say the similarities are just coincidence.

Listening to both back to back. Damn the Pixies are such a better band than Weezer.

02.06.2007, 09:11 PM	#21
DJ Rick 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sacto (CA) Institute for Record Collection Scrutiny Posts: 817	Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink's "Kenneth" repeats only the titular line from "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" by REM. On one of their early singles, the Registrators totally slaughtered "Hotel California" like no other band I've heard. The Genbaku Onanies and Hijo Kaidan formed a merged band called Genbaku Kaidan and released an LP called "Acid Soul" which was essentially the unwieldly group slaughtering a buncha classic rock staples. Their version of "Communication Breakdown" is a bruiser, but "Mississippi Queen" is the biggest joke on the record. Especially Likely Sloth's cover of Cannibal Corpse's "Hammer Smashed Face" sounds like it replaces that sick pitch-shifted riff in the refrain with a chorus of cheap plastic kazoos. The rhythm's disjointed, cut/pasted, and the vocals sound like a drowning little girl. The version of "Beat It" by the Strangulated Beatoffs pokes a lot of fun at Jacko: "Show 'em your weenie/Show 'em it's white!" A long time earlier, there was a great 7" they did with a couple of Beatles songs including "Don't Let Me Down," which was proto-chopped 'n' screwed. Perhaps no great pisstake of the Beatles exists than the 7" by an obscure Nebraska band in 1980 that dared to call themselves the Better Beatles. They were perhaps the only Midwestern synthpunk band from this era. And, of course, Negativland's "U2" is the greatest example of this sorta thing ever! __________________ http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/
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02.07.2007, 12:41 AM	#22
krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	How about Acid Mothers doing Willile the Pimp? It's not THAT dismantled, but it's still fun/awesome. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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02.07.2007, 04:43 PM	#23
Пятхъдесят Шест invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Omaha, Nebraska, USA Posts: 3,063	Thought of another one (a good one too!). Sudden Infants cover of Roxy Music classic In Every Dream Home a Heartache.
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HaydenAsche invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,755	Most of Cat Power's covers are somewhat dismantled. What she did with 'No Satisfaction' is brilliant. Xiu Xiu's Don't Cha is incredibly dismantled. __________________ rip
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02.07.2007, 05:22 PM	#25
Iain invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,544	Satisfaction, as already mentioned, is a much dismantled one. Add Keiji Hainos covers band Aihiyo to that list. They take it apart, throw away the rubbish bits (most of it) and build it back up from the ground. Also, Butthole Surfers did a pretty mangled cover of American Woman by The Guess Who. More mangled than their cover of Sweet Leaf I'd say. They also have a song called Mark Says Alright and there's a Grand Funk Railroad song of the same name but I have no idea if it's a cover or not. Good topic by the way.
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02.07.2007, 05:23 PM	#26
Tokolosh invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Plaza de Toros Posts: 6,731	Most of the La Musique De Paris Derniere cd's have interesting covers like: Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out Big Daddy - Like a Virgin, etc. __________________ Anything you can /imagine is real
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02.07.2007, 05:30 PM	#27
Iain invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,544	OK, Mark Says Alright isn't a cover of the Grand Funk track. At least the liner notes attribute the writing of the song to The Butthole Surfers.
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Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	I love the MASTER & SERVANT cover on an album by a band called ENIAC (sounds liek The red Scare or Drive Liek Jehu, NOT like the electronica duo called ENIAC) I always like playing Dinosaur's version of JUST LIKE HEAVEN at parties because about the time the regulars understand it is THE Cure song they are thinking off, it kicks into the screams, and then it just stops on a 'YOUUUUU!!!" I love covers. __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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02.07.2007, 05:52 PM	#30
Iain invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,544	Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the nugget of info.
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porkmarras invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London - UK Posts: 14,313	Schneider Tm did a good job on the Smiths's 'There is Light That Never Goes Out' and went as far as re-naming it 'The Light 3000'.From car-driving teen melancholia to car-driving and clubbing melancholia. __________________
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02.07.2007, 06:23 PM	#32
DJ Rick 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sacto (CA) Institute for Record Collection Scrutiny Posts: 817	Anyone here ever heard Culturcide's "We Aren't the World," a totally irreverent stab at "We Are the World" by USA for Africa? Culturcide also turned Grand Funk's "We're an American Band" into "We're an Industrial Band." They were like the American Cabaret Voltaire, but way more sarcastic and funny. __________________ http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/
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porkmarras invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: London - UK Posts: 14,313	This entire album is full of ace covers sometimes much better than the originals: __________________
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02.07.2007, 07:49 PM	#34
Prisstina the end of the ugly Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Killwaukee Posts: 996	Britney Spears's cover of "Satisfaction" was effed up, if that counts. __________________
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02.07.2007, 08:32 PM	#36
LittlePuppetBoy expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Aylmer(now Gatineau), Quebec Posts: 1,756	Weezer do an excellently dismantled cover of I Bleed by the Pixies. Except they changed the lyrics and called it Undonne (the Sweater Song) __________________
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02.07.2007, 10:27 PM	#40
SpectralJulianIsNotDead invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 7,409	A little, but I'd say the similarities are just coincidence. Listening to both back to back. Damn the Pixies are such a better band than Weezer.
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