Cover songs

[Whoopysnorp]

Oh yeah, I also really like The Futureheads' cover of Kate Bush's 'Hounds of Love'. The original is pretty rad too.

[smopo24]

Originally Posted by lukedavo

So your telling me you work really hard on a song for a long time, record it, press it, and sell it. It becomes popular and all your hard work comes full circle when a band covers this song. So it begins and continues to destroy all feeling, emotion, and musical integrity you took so much time to put into the song. A non faithful reproduction of what an artist is trying acomplish might even become more popular, that would piss me off. I guess I should be happy that someone liked my song enough to cover it, but for christ sake take the virtues of the song and hold them true, it really is the least you could do. Just saying is all.

i hope if someone ever covers a song i wrote that they take it in the spirit that i wrote it in; which is: i don't want to sound just like one of my influences. sometimes i enjoy a cover that is almost an exact copy (green day's version of so tired of waiting for you by the kinks was excellent because they didn't try to screw with it), and others i like to sound different or nothing like them (elvis' version of hound dog made rock and roll history, the origional was good; but didn't have the same intensity). besides, who just wants to clone or ape sounds and songs exactly? it's like the flaming lips said "if you don't like it, write your own song."