Posted: 20-Oct-2002 13:51 Post subject: What the....Disturbed and Tears for Fears?
I just downloaded "Shout 2000" by Disturbed and when I was cycling though some of my bro's music, I came apon "Shout" by Tears for Fears. Why a brand new metal band decided to remake an 80's song I don't know, but now I'm worried
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Posted: 20-Oct-2002 14:14 Post subject: RE: What the....Disturbed and Tears for Fears?
Ah dude, they wouldn't be the first to do so.
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Posted: 20-Oct-2002 15:11 Post subject: RE: What the....Disturbed and Tears for Fears?
Cover tunes make money...folks know the original songs and thus they are more likely to check remakes...
Rappers have been having a field day with their so called sampling of older 70s and 80s tunes and adding in a couple lines like YEAH etc...while the original song is playing the back ground.
Some folks feel that doing cover tunes shows a band or groups lack of talent or the lack of creativetive to come up with new stuff...
But cover tunes have been for years by a lot bands and groups...nothing new really...
It all comes down to the money...
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Posted: 20-Oct-2002 17:03 Post subject: RE: What the....Disturbed and Tears for Fears?
It's not always money. Some bands do it as a sort of 'tribute' to the originating band. Duran Duran did an album in the mid-90's which was a cover album of other acts. The title 'Thank You' suggests that the acts may have been their inspirations. (All that I know is that I found it in a pawn shop one day and that some of the little nuances make me suspect that it was a fan club exclusive.)
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Posted: 20-Oct-2002 17:31 Post subject: RE: What the....Disturbed and Tears for Fears?
I bought my copy of THANK YOU from Sam Goody...so I don't think it was fan club only album...and I do recall a ton of flak that Duran Duran caught over HOW they redid some of the songs on that album...
I doubt that Limp Bizkit's remake of FAITH was a tribute to George Michiel...for an okay song from the 80s...one that you go yeah I remember it and that is that, they turned it into so rap-disco pop yelling into the microphone song that bombed.
I am willing to bet it always about the money...money makes the world go round.
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