Mr Peabody
09-01-2005, 07:03 PM
I can't really blame this on Metallica because it seems like a pretty long period of time elapsed before this making albums of covers really caught on and theirs turned out not so bad. In my opinion "cover albums" is one, or maybe 2, steps below a Greatest Hits album. What does a band have left when they start covering other peoples stuff totally? You are a bar band again! But because of their old reputation they sucker people into buying. Now Ozzy joins bands like Rush and Styx on the covers wagon. But, WOW!, Ozzy's is a duel disc with a DVD of Ozzy doing an interview while he eats a meal. oooooo
Are covers albums the next evolution after the stupid tribute albums?
Sometimes if a band is really talented or inventive they can pull off doing a cover by making the song their own. I can't remember which song Arrested Development done on that "has been" show where they brought back all the old 80's bands but that is a good example of what I mean. They took the song and re-worked it, very well I must say. That was the first, and the last, time I watched that show by the way. I also thought Robert Plant done a good job on his cover of Darkness Darkness. That's from another album of covers, isn't it?
Just as Hollywood has run out of good ideas and has to make movies from old TV programs or redo a perfectly fine older movie, now the music biz has stooped to re-recording some one elses work. Are drugs finally taking their tole on America or are we just this damn lazy? And who is worse, the artists who do it or the ones who buy it?
When reading this back I sound like Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde but I was trying to make a point and all the time I was I kept thinking of cover songs I like, so did I make a point? Hmmmm
Are covers albums the next evolution after the stupid tribute albums?
Sometimes if a band is really talented or inventive they can pull off doing a cover by making the song their own. I can't remember which song Arrested Development done on that "has been" show where they brought back all the old 80's bands but that is a good example of what I mean. They took the song and re-worked it, very well I must say. That was the first, and the last, time I watched that show by the way. I also thought Robert Plant done a good job on his cover of Darkness Darkness. That's from another album of covers, isn't it?
Just as Hollywood has run out of good ideas and has to make movies from old TV programs or redo a perfectly fine older movie, now the music biz has stooped to re-recording some one elses work. Are drugs finally taking their tole on America or are we just this damn lazy? And who is worse, the artists who do it or the ones who buy it?
When reading this back I sound like Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde but I was trying to make a point and all the time I was I kept thinking of cover songs I like, so did I make a point? Hmmmm