cool covers or remixes

[fuzzyoctopus]

Yeah, I'll agree on that one.  I do like Love Song, but 311....   *shakes head*

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

you know what was a fun cover to listen to? The Lemonheads doing "Mrs. Robinson." Not the best, but fun.

and They Might Be Giants. Who DOESN'T know their "Istanbul (not Constantinople)"? Of course again, their covers of "Jessica" and "Whirlpool" are fun too, but not nearly as good as the originals, imo. THen again, their covers of Science Songs are hilarious.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I like a lot of the Schoolhouse Rock Rocks!  covers.  Especially "Interplanet Janet" by Man or Astro-man?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Similarly, the Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits cd had some really good tracks. The Reverend Horton Heat doing one track that covers both "Stop the Pigeon" and "Johnny Quest" was especially well done.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

yeah that was a fun CD
Sublime doing hong kong phooey was fun too

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Aerosmith just covered Baby Please dont go and its pretty good too...

[Mistress of Darkness]

I like Michael Andrews/Gary Jules's cover of "Mad World".

I also like the SNTR cover of "Don't Dream It's Over" (or whatever the song is called). And (already mentioned) ND's "It's my Life".

I hate SNTR's cover of "There She Goes". And all of the 60's covers of 50's songs--but that's mostly because I get all thrown off when I'm trying to sing along.

[Onion of Death]

Has anyone here heard of DJ Dangermouse's "The Grey Album"? I just got it today from my friend (it isn't exactly legal, but it isn't illegal yet), and it's insanely good. It mixes Jay-Z's "Black" album with the Beatles "White" album. I know it sounds like it would be crap, but it really isn't. Too bad it'll never be in stores.

[Spriggan]

actualy the grey album is illegal, if you paid for it.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I don't think anyone's selling it, just file sharing.

[Spriggan]

no, there was a website selling cd's of it for like $5.  Also from what I understand the file shared version is illegal because the DJ did not get permission to use any of the music he did.  He only made it for his use (which is legal) but when he started giveing out copys and haveing them be played at clubs it became illegal.  While the DJ never expected, or so he says, the CD to get around this much, all the different people going after him have the right too.  And I think the websites offering it for download should be charged with trafficing stolden goods.  Enough of this BS fineing people, no one is going to stop downloading illegal files until there's jail time involved.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

posh. There's scanty evidence that deterrance has a significant effect on actual crime rates.

[Spriggan]

humm, SE by that standard why is anything illegal then?  Why bother if it's not going to make a difference.  The reason so many people steal software, movies and music via the net is becasue they think they can get away with it.  They try and rationalize that they're stealing from some faceless corperation, that no one is getting hurt, and, my favorite, they deserve the item for free.  But that's not the reason they do it.  If the goverment did what it's suppose to, and arrest these people for theft, people would do it less often.  There's no difference between walking into a CD store and shoplifting a CD and illegaly downloading songs.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Well one can argue that we have come full circle, in fact, Wired has a nice article about it this month...http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/lessig.html

[fuzzyoctopus]

I'm sorry, but no- downloading music isn't the same as shoplifting, Sprig.
I own maybe 10 cds.  Before mp3's I just listened to the radio all the time.  If I were stopped from downloading, I would not start buying cd's - it is not a replacement for them, I would just go without it.  

If I shoplifted, I would be stealing from a store, not an artist.  I would be TAKING from the store, because they would have to spend money to replace the stolen inventory.  If I have no intention of buying a CD either way, then how is downloading it the same thing. You need to work on your analogies, bub.


By the way, this is why I was such a big fan of the Droplift project.
(droplifting being the opposite of shoplifting.)
http://www.droplift.org/