Mr. Ben Folds, meet the right honourable Doctor Dre

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:42 pm

(I don't think he's a real doctor)

Anyway, this is just about the most awesome MP3 ever.

http://www.angelfire.com/ia/mikey/mp3.html

T-Rex - OMG!

- Warning: Very Spicy Language Alert

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:07 pm

This seems so wrong.... but at least it's Ben doing the cover of a Dre song, and not the other way around Laughing

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:10 pm

This is great! I'll say it again: out of genre cover songs are the BESTEST.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:34 pm

Not to be a party pooper, but doesn't this belong in the Music forum?

To make up for that piece of pendantry, http://www.ninagordon.com/audio/straightouttacompton.mp3

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:52 pm

RYAN THE SUBFORUMS SHOULD BE IN THIRD NORMAL FORM
THAT'S WHY YOU KEEP GETTING TOPICS THAT COULD BELONG IN MORE THAN ONE SUBFORUM

I CAN HELP YOU FIX THEM IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:01 pm

BOORISHLY ONE CANNOT APPLY DATABASE SCHEMA CONCEPTS TO REAL LIFE BECAUSE REAL LIFE IS MESSY AND IN THIRD NORMAL FORM LIKE HARDLY EVER

SELECT * FROM THINGS_IN_LIFE WHERE FORM='3RD NORMAL';
RESPONSE: ONLY LIKE 10 ROW(S) SELECTED

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:45 pm

Like five months ago, I was walking to my dorm and listening to Rockin' the Suburbs, and Losing Lisa came up. That was the first time I realized what a cop-out it was to rhyme "know" with "know"!

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:01 pm

Hey, does anyone know where I can find the country version of Jin and Juice? That thing's hilarious.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:05 pm

does anyone know who actually recorded that version? i've heard a bajillion people tell me a bajillion different things, but no satisfactory answer. someone even went so far once as to tell me it was Phish...

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:40 pm

levelhead wrote:

does anyone know who actually recorded that version? i've heard a bajillion people tell me a bajillion different things, but no satisfactory answer. someone even went so far once as to tell me it was Phish...

You misheard them, they meant fish did it. They put thier minds to it and developed musical talents.

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Rock/pop artists covering rap songs: ironic or not?

Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 974

The country version of Gin and Juice (although, it's really closer to bluegrass, I'd argue) was done by The Gourds.

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:20 pm

There was a Boys n tha Hood cover like that as well, only less twangy and more Donovan-y.

Also, might I suggest When Pigs Fly for the full out-of-genre experience?

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:22 pm

Ryan wrote:

This is great! I'll say it again: out of genre cover songs are the BESTEST.

MUCH AGREEANCE

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:43 pm

P.S. Dang is that song raunchy!

Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 419 Location: Perth, WA

Ben Folds is playing with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra this Saturday, that's going to kick so much ass. I mean, "Selfless, Cold and Composed" with pretty Hollywood strings? "Philosophy" with a brass rhythm section!! I don't know if either of those things will happen but they better!

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MackJ wrote:

(I don't think he's a real doctor)

That's only fair though cause I'm pretty sure that Ben Folds isn't a real man.

Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 600

AWWW CINNAMON!

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:10 am

Chris wrote:

The country version of Gin and Juice (although, it's really closer to bluegrass, I'd argue) was done by The Gourds.

ah! yes! while i agree it's awesome, i keep telling my brother it's totally not phish. he swears by it.

lately, i've been doing blues-folk covers of hard rock songs under the name "woody pop."

people say my version of gimme danger is pretty sexy!

T-Rex - OMG!

they-they do!

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 1:14 am

what was implied by that post, but not actually stated, was that i find the ben folds cover FRICKIN AWESOME and match (if not exceed) ryan's affection for out-of-genre cover songs.

Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 528 Location: California

Chris wrote:

The country version of Gin and Juice (although, it's really closer to bluegrass, I'd argue) was done by The Gourds.

I don't know about The Gourds, but Oar did a country version as well. I'll throw it into my /audio/ dir in a bit.

Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 93 Location: California

Awesome cover, I have to say!

On the subject of covers of Gin & Juice, does anyone who did the ska-punk cover of that song? I got it from a friend labeled as NOFX, but not only does it not sound like NOFX, but I own every one of their full lengths and (I believe) every EP that has been released on CD, and there is no trace of the song on any of the albums or EPs. I'm pretty anal when it comes to music organization, and leaving it labeled as NOFX when there is seemingly no evidence that they are responsible for the song burns me up inside.

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:27 am

Eccentric wrote:

Awesome cover, I have to say!

On the subject of covers of Gin & Juice, does anyone who did the ska-punk cover of that song? I got it from a friend labeled as NOFX, but not only does it not sound like NOFX, but I own every one of their full lengths and (I believe) every EP that has been released on CD, and there is no trace of the song on any of the albums or EPs. I'm pretty anal when it comes to music organization, and leaving it labeled as NOFX when there is seemingly no evidence that they are responsible for the song burns me up inside.

Searching on CDDB.com, Sublime supposedly has done a cover of it, so I guess it could be them?

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:42 pm

Is it ok to post in this pretty old thread just because I'd like to talk about how awesome out-of-genre covers are? Because I am doing so. I made a whole mix of them a while ago which is pretty awesome. Alt-country Stooges covers! French lounge Dead Kennedys covers! Billy Idol trying to turn "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground into early 90's club music and failing miserably! I can make copies for people who want them, or maybe just rip it and put it up on yousendit or something. If there's just one or two tracks that you'd want to check out, I still have some of the more hard to track down songs on my computer.

Courtesy of the 365 Days Project, here is a link to the seriously awesome high school marching band rendition of "Roundabout" by Yes I start things off with.

Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 974

quetzalcoatlus wrote:

Is it ok to post in this pretty old thread just because I'd like to talk about how awesome out-of-genre covers are? Because I am doing so. I made a whole mix of them a while ago which is pretty awesome. Alt-country Stooges covers! French lounge Dead Kennedys covers! Billy Idol trying to turn "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground into early 90's club music and failing miserably! I can make copies for people who want them, or maybe just rip it and put it up on yousendit or something. If there's just one or two tracks that you'd want to check out, I still have some of the more hard to track down songs on my computer.

Courtesy of the 365 Days Project, here is a link to the seriously awesome high school marching band rendition of "Roundabout" by Yes I start things off with.

SY's cover of "Superstar" is one of my favorite things in the world.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:03 pm

quetzalcoatlus wrote:

Is it ok to post in this pretty old thread just because I'd like to talk about how awesome out-of-genre covers are? Because I am doing so. I made a whole mix of them a while ago which is pretty awesome. Alt-country Stooges covers! French lounge Dead Kennedys covers! Billy Idol trying to turn "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground into early 90's club music and failing miserably! I can make copies for people who want them, or maybe just rip it and put it up on yousendit or something. If there's just one or two tracks that you'd want to check out, I still have some of the more hard to track down songs on my computer.

Courtesy of the 365 Days Project, here is a link to the seriously awesome high school marching band rendition of "Roundabout" by Yes I start things off with.

Oh man, sweet! I can't get the mixes to play though on account of server-side errors. Is it possible to get a copy?

Also, I loved the 365 Days Project. It was so great!

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out of genre covers are not the best ever. When they succeed they are lots of fun and maybe even envelope pushing occasionally, but when they fail they fail hard. Like Travis Morrison's "What's your fantasy." That song makes my eyes bleed.

My favorite out of genre covers are generally people doing bob dylan songs. Because if a folk singer does a bob dylan song you just think "yeah, so?" but if guns and roses, the beatles, the byrds or jimi hendrix do it, it's super great.

Also, johnny cash.

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

also speaking of marching band covers, here's a really amazing drum corps (I think it was U of Mass?) doing "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead
(direct to mp3 link)
http://people.umass.edu/tjkelly/umdl/audio/android.mp3

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:19 pm

I will try and rip the copy I made for my own personal enjoyment, make it into a zip file, and put it up on yousendit for you and everyone else here to enjoy over the weekend, if that sounds good for everyone. If not, I suppose I could send copies, but I warn you that while I love sharing music, I'm pretty lazy when it comes to actually going and sending it via snail mail.

And yeah, 365 Days was pretty awesome, although I didn't find out about it until after it was almost done, and even to this day have not heard everything they had to offer. Otis Fodder's new thing comfort stand records is a pretty great potpouri of free music too, including the entire tape made by The Cheese Eating Band!