Great song covers

[JackRudd]

Back to the Bob Dylan covers...

[Guynemer]

The local rock station is doing an all-cover weekend. Just heard Billy Idol cover "Don't You Forget About Me".



I think the word I'm looking for is... atrocity?

[Solomwi]

I would have gone with abortion, but I think atrocity is acceptable.

[Guynemer]

Ah, yes, that is more in line with what I was thinking.

And I like Billy Idol. But, holy ****, that was ****ing terrible.

[Solomwi]

I looked for it on Youtube when I saw your post, thinking "Come on, it's Billy Idol. How bad can it be?" I was wrong. Badly, badly wrong.

[Guynemer]

On the plus side, that same radio station played a more-than-acceptable live version of "Helter Skelter" by Oasis, of all bands.

[Drake Tungsten]

Who could have predicted that Oasis, of all bands, would be able to successfully copy the Beatles?

[Guynemer]

"Successfully" being the key word there, Drake. I'd normally expect an Oasis version of "Helter Skelter" to be execrable, but this was actually pretty good. Not Beatles, of course, but still damned good.

[Drake Tungsten]

You're being too hard on Oasis. They made a very successful career out of copying the Beatles. They're quite good at it.

[Guynemer]

They released some decent songs that sounded like the Beatles, but I'd never heard them do an actual Beatles song. The fact that their performance of Helter Skelter was 10x better than any of their other releases is telling.

[Drake Tungsten]

Better than "Don't Look Back in Anger"? I'm skeptical...

[Cort Haus]

They released some decent songs that sounded like the Beatles, but I'd never heard them do an actual Beatles song. The fact that their performance of Helter Skelter was 10x better than any of their other releases is telling.

Erm, I am the Walrus?

That was a bloody good version. I used to like Oasis until covering a couple of their own songs, which were a ****ing tedious dirge to play.

[-Jrabbit]

On the plus side, that same radio station played a more-than-acceptable live version of "Helter Skelter" by Oasis, of all bands.

Oasis has always had a very strong Beatles influence.

[Drake Tungsten]

I can't believe we haven't done all the Led Zeppelin covers yet. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Black Mountain Side, Bring It On Home, Communication Breakdown, Custard Pie, Dazed and Confused, Hats Off to (Roy) Harper, How Many More Times, In My Time of Dying, The Lemon Song, Moby Dick, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Since I've Been Loving You, Stairway to Heaven and Whole Lotta Love are all great covers/ripoffs.

[Asher]