Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] Cover songs

Randy Van Vliet bigdaddyrv@yahoo.com
Fri, 23 May 2003 08:49:11 -0700 (PDT)


Don't sugarcoat it Heidi, tell us what you really
think :)


--- Heidi Shenk <nedkellytheking@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >3 - Anything by any of the "boy bands" from the
> last
> >few years.  What a waste of whatever CD's are made
> out
> >of.
> 
> What a waste of sound waves and air waves too...not
> to mention everything 
> else that was used in the process of making such
> shitty music!!!  UGH!!!!!  
> That shit just needs to be abolished!!
> 
> Heidi
> 
> 
> 
> 'Put down that weapon or we'll all be gone,
> I must know something to know it's so wrong'
>                     -Midnight Oil
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Randy Van Vliet <bigdaddyrv@yahoo.com>
> To: Beth Curran <bcurran@columbus.rr.com>,
> powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
> Subject: Re: [Powderworks] Cover songs
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 15:38:56 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> 1 - Anything by AC/DC:  I'd love to have seen PG
> growl
> through those.
> 2 - War by U2.  Nice little ditty with some
> political
> punch and the vocals suit Rob or Bones better than
> PG.
> 3 - Anything by any of the "boy bands" from the last
> few years.  What a waste of whatever CD's are made
> out
> of.
> 
> Randy
> 
> --- Beth Curran <bcurran@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>  > I've enjoyed the recent "who else are you
> listening
>  > to" thread.  I tell
>  > you what, it's reminded me of a whole lot of good
>  > music I've somehow
>  > forgotten about.hi ho, hi ho, it's off to the
> used
>  > CD store I go.
>  > So how about this.  Propose 3 songs:  One the
> Oils
>  > should have covered,
>  > one you'd like to see the Remainders cover (the
>  > name's sticking, isn't
>  > it?) and one none of them should ever, ever cover
>  > under any
>  > circumstances whatsoever (limited to popular
> music,
>  > of course, no opera
>  > or anything flaky like that).
>  >
>  > Here's mine:
>  > For the first, "Every Generation Got its Own
>  > Disease," from Fury in the
>  > Slaughterhouse.  I just adore painful music, but
>  > their lead singer is
>  > too detached, he doesn't do this great song
> justice
>  > - imagine what
>  > emotional excesses Pete could have wrung out of
> this
>  > one!  Complete and
>  > utter misery!  Grab the Kleenex!
>  > For the second, I'm going out on a limb here and
>  > guessing that JM is of
>  > Irish heritage, so I'd propose the great
> Waterboys'
>  > classic "Fisherman's
>  > Blues."  The vocal range is perfect for Bones and
>  > Rob & the bouncy beat
>  > irresistible.  Strictly speaking, they'd need a
>  > fiddle player, but what
>  > the hell, maybe Jim could just use a synth
> instead.
>  >
>  > And for the last, let's go with a recent
>  > anti-classic:  "Who Will Save
>  > Your Soul" by Jewel.  If I hear that sappy song
> one
>  > more time I'm gonna
>  > puke.  They played it about every 10 minutes on
> the
>  > local alt station
>  > YAAAAAH!
>  > Excuse me - Beth
>  >
> 
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