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 Michaelawt85  Bexley 24 Nov 16 1.39pm |
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Any artist who adopts this very annoying habit which seems to be the fashion of taking a song and slowing it right down and covering it in a melancholic angsty way. Heard the cover of the Beatles song real love (think it was on the john Lewis ad a few years back) Lily Allen did the same with keanes some Where only we know. It's so irritating
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| Michaelawt85 Bexley 24 Nov 16 2.33pm |
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In with the same category as madness.. Grr
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 Part Time James 24 Nov 16 2.54pm |
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Originally posted by Michaelawt85
Any artist who adopts this very annoying habit which seems to be the fashion of taking a song and slowing it right down and covering it in a melancholic angsty way. Heard the cover of the Beatles song real love (think it was on the john Lewis ad a few years back) Lily Allen did the same with keanes some Where only we know. It's so irritating it is typically John Lewis adverts. I think there was a watered down version of Sweet Child of Mine at one point. Whilst I hate GnR, it totally missed the point. Somebody did a really watered down version of Where Is My Mind by the Pixies for a Christmas advert as well. Makes me fume. And then people like my mum and her friends dribble over it like it should always have sounded like that and make me buy her it for Christmas so that Amazon continually bombard me with dross that I might also like.
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| Michaelawt85 Bexley 24 Nov 16 2.58pm |
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Originally posted by Part Time James
it is typically John Lewis adverts. I think there was a watered down version of Sweet Child of Mine at one point. Whilst I hate GnR, it totally missed the point. Somebody did a really watered down version of Where Is My Mind by the Pixies for a Christmas advert as well. Makes me fume. And then people like my mum and her friends dribble over it like it should always have sounded like that and make me buy her it for Christmas so that Amazon continually bombard me with dross that I might also like. Christmas and parent induced dross.. oh yes. I got roped into buying the robson and Jerome album for my mum one year . Came on cassette tape from Woolworths.. aah the memories
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| Mr_Gristle In the land of Whelk Eaters 24 Nov 16 3.23pm |
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Wash your mouth out! Early Madness (Night Boat to Cairo early) were great..... Any comparisons of that to the steaming pile of turd that was UB40 are unfair in the extreme.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 24 Nov 16 4.10pm |
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Originally posted by Part Time James
it is typically John Lewis adverts. I think there was a watered down version of Sweet Child of Mine at one point. Whilst I hate GnR, it totally missed the point. Somebody did a really watered down version of Where Is My Mind by the Pixies for a Christmas advert as well. Makes me fume. And then people like my mum and her friends dribble over it like it should always have sounded like that and make me buy her it for Christmas so that Amazon continually bombard me with dross that I might also like. Maxence Cyne or something. I quite like the piano sound, as I first heard it in Mr Robot, and they play just the piano piece, which is excellent and gives a short and subtle nod to the influence of Fight Club (episode 9). On hearing the whole version with vocals though it just doesn't work. On the whole I do prefer a cover that does something new with the song, and makes it a different song - but it also has to make sense, which a melancholy version of Where is My Mind doesn't, if you listen to the lyrics.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 24 Nov 16 4.13pm |
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Originally posted by Mr_Gristle
Wash your mouth out! Early Madness (Night Boat to Cairo early) were great..... Any comparisons of that to the steaming pile of turd that was UB40 are unfair in the extreme. Great might be overstatng it, but its a excellent gateway into Ska and two tone (Bad Manners too). Thanks to them, like Bob Marley, I discovered a lot of very good music, that was far better than they were. But I doubt I would have done so without the pop styling's of Madness and Bad Manners.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 24 Nov 16 4.14pm |
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Originally posted by Michaelawt85
Any artist who adopts this very annoying habit which seems to be the fashion of taking a song and slowing it right down and covering it in a melancholic angsty way. Heard the cover of the Beatles song real love (think it was on the john Lewis ad a few years back) Lily Allen did the same with keanes some Where only we know. It's so irritating Even more astonishing, its worse than the Keane version, which really is a damning statement. It should not be possible to cover a Keane song and make it worse.
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| jamiemartin721 Reading 24 Nov 16 4.17pm |
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Originally posted by Cannonball
The Beatles, with their nasal voices and way out of tune harmonies. U2 - the kings of crap Ellie Goulding- sounds like a cat on heat,but my son thinks she is fantastic, Totally overated - a few good tracks here and there (and they're few and far between). Though I did like the Achtung Baby album. Sunday Bloody Sunday and New Years Day are pretty decent. Pride is alright, Until the End of the World, The Fly etc (in fact most of Achtung Baby is pretty good).
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| Superfly The sun always shines in Catford 24 Nov 16 4.20pm |
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I'd say UB40's early output (food for thought, one in ten) was pretty good myself. Got very M.O.R. after but I'll give the early stuff it's dues. Can't be too harsh on Madness as I loved them when I was 13 - which about sums them up really. Good fun stuff, but a bit kiddyfied and not something I'd ever really contemplate actually playing.
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| Part Time James 24 Nov 16 4.20pm |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
Maxence Cyne or something. I quite like the piano sound, as I first heard it in Mr Robot, and they play just the piano piece, which is excellent and gives a short and subtle nod to the influence of Fight Club (episode 9). On hearing the whole version with vocals though it just doesn't work. On the whole I do prefer a cover that does something new with the song, and makes it a different song - but it also has to make sense, which a melancholy version of Where is My Mind doesn't, if you listen to the lyrics. Someone was playing Where Is My Mind on a piano at Brighton station the other week and I actually quite enjoyed it. Partly because I recognised the tune in a context I wasn't expecting to. But otherwise, I thought it was cack. Next up they'll do Here Comes Your Man on a piano and a sulky/sultry female vocal over the top. At this point I'm moving to another planet.
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| Part Time James 24 Nov 16 4.21pm |
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Originally posted by Superfly
I'd say UB40's early output (food for thought, one in ten) was pretty good myself. Got very M.O.R. after but I'll give the early stuff it's dues. Can't be too harsh on Madness as I loved them when I was 13 - which about sums them up really. Good fun stuff, but a bit kiddyfied and not something I'd ever really contemplate actually playing. I like UB40 too. Pretty inoffensive and I don't take it very seriously.
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