Really Bad Reverb: Originals vs. Covers
Originals vs. Covers
Why do people create new versions of already made songs? Is it to piggyback off the success of the originals artist? Is it to pay homage to an artist that influenced you? Or is it a way to take something and make it your own? Let us find out!
The Minutemen, “It’s Expected I’m Gone”, Double Nickels on the Dime, 1984 (SST Records)
Tortoise & Bonnie “Prince” Billy, “It’s Expected I’m Gone”, The Brave and the Bold, 2006 (Thrill Jockey)
Black Sabbath, “Iron Man”, Paranoid, 1971 (Warner Brothers)
The Bad Plus, “Iron Man”, Give, 2004 (Sony Records)
The Who, “Sunrise”, The Who Sell Out, 1967 (MCA Records)
Petra Haden, “Sunrise”, Petra Haden Sings the Who Sell Out, 2005 (Bar/None)
Background Music: Color and Talea, “Closer (Nine Inch Nails)”, Live from the Audio Picnic 4/15/05, 2005 (WUML)
Melvins, “Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd)”, Electroretard, 2001 (Man’s Ruin)