TABB Covers

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:18 am

Since there's a number of you gents and maybe even some girls who do the music thing here on T&BB I was totally wondering/curious/hopeful that you guys might consider trying your hand at some song covers? I'd really like to live vicariously through your musical abilities, and maybe I'll post a really bad acapella version of something? Whatevers!

So! Maybe one of you could cover "I Am The Walrus"? Or "Hush" from Deep Purple?

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

I can't do either of those.

But, if you'd like, I can try and get a bongos-and-electric guitar cover of "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks to you in the next few days.

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:50 am

Ooh! The Kinks... I'm partial to "Most Exclusive Residence For Sale".

OBVIOUSLY DOING ANYTHING IS AWESOME.

Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 377 Location: Fort Plug

do bootleg remixes count? I once cut up Elvis Costello's "Allison" into a bossa nova D&B track...

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:57 pm

PLZ XPLANE.

Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 2500 Location: erie, pa

My band did an over-exaggerated cover of Ice, Ice, Baby before, it was reeeeal awesome. But who hasn't covered IIB?

Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 334

i did a horrible but pretty hilarious-if-i-do-say-so-my-sel-f cover of who could win a rabbit for the last covers topic, and i'm jonesin' to do another one. it will be of very poor technically quality but i will put so much love into recording it.

Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 3360

i made this for the last covers thread http://pub.kundor.org/bicyclerace2.wav

some people said it was pretty good.

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:52 pm

Frank Sinatra has not covered Ice Ice Baby, and will not in this life.

YOUR MOVE SIR

Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 2500 Location: erie, pa

Oh, uh... actually I was just asking a genuine question, and thus you answered it for me, so ha?

If that doesn't count I dunno man. Where is help button?

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:10 pm

My myspace page still has my rendition of The Stooges "I Wanna Be Your Dog", which I kind of turned into some kind of industrial-techno thing, and sadly now lost to the ages is my somewhat-Ween-inspired version of "Vertigo" by U2,. though I do still have a short kazoo/desktapping/vocal rendition of "War Pigs" around, if anyone would want to hear that.

I never did anything for that other cover thread, maybe I will now.

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

Here is a beat-boxed version of the first verse from "Straight Outta Compton":

http://www.thojit.kundor.org/comptondone1.mp3

Here is a cover of Moby's "God Moving over the face of the Water" using animal impressions:

http://www.thojit.kundor.org/dumbrella/godmovingoverthefaceofthewater.mp3

Both are old, but hopefully that will tide you over till I get back to you.

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:34 am

I've never even heard the original, but that Moby cover is amazing, inseut.

Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 2000 Location: Cleveland

it would be a real challenge, but I could try I am the walrus. d00d, it's going to be real hard.

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:27 am

guess the song!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whimsy Overcomes Him Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 8612

MovieReference2000 wrote:

i did a horrible but pretty hilarious-if-i-do-say-so-my-sel-f cover of who could win a rabbit for the last covers topic, and i'm jonesin' to do another one. it will be of very poor technically quality but i will put so much love into recording it.

oh man I missed this and now it is So Expired ):

pls repost

Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 334

http://media.putfile.com/Who-Could-Win-A-Rabbit

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:01 pm

Jhayes94 wrote:

it would be a real challenge, but I could try I am the walrus. d00d, it's going to be real hard.

I feel you should do this!

IT WOULD BE GOOD!

Yeah!

Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 2000 Location: Cleveland

I'll try but I'll probably give up!

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

Well I played "You Really Got Me" about 13 times, and every time the dynamics on the chords were utter shit. So I recorded a ridiculously sludgy version to compensate for not being able to press down on the strings hard enough, and then deleted that because I'd added a lengthy experimental noise passage in lieu of a solo. So I'll try again on the weekend.

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:02 am

So the other day I decided to just turn on the top 40 radio station and try to cover whatever happened to be on at that exact moment, so by that logic I guess I'm going to have to put together something approximating "Umbrella" by Rhianna.

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

A good song to cover would be "Watch you Disappear" by Tom Waits, since it's mostly spoken-word and you could basically through any crap in for the backing track as long as it was sad, slow lacked a beat.

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

Apparently Kundor and YouSendIt both hate me, so I've put my keyboard versions of both "You've been flirting again" and "Communist daughter" on my MySpace.

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:57 pm

nah you're all right in my book

also: as far as I know http://kundor.org/upload.php has been trouble-free since last Monday?

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:13 am

Sometimes people forget kundor is a person with feelings, and not just a hosting service.

So yeah, that Tom Waits song actually does have a melody in the form of that calliope thing in the background, but I could go and do "The Ocean Doesn't Want Me Today" instead.

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

Yeah but no-one cares about it!

Kundor I meant your system. You are a beautiful human being and I cherish the love we share.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:43 pm

because absolutely none of you demanded it:

two-thirds of rosabel believe covering a song by nobody's favorite band collective soul in the style of mr seu jorge

;D

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:55 pm

Pretty beautiful there.

Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:57 pm

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:43 am

haha awesome

seriously though pretty soon my polite demands for a rosabel believe album are going to start coming attached to flaming bricks