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tarkus1980
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Topic: Prog-rock covers you'd want to hear Posted: August 18 2010 at 19:47 |
What are some examples of prog-rock covers you feel should have happened at some point but never did or never will?
Two examples come to mind for me:
(1) "Sounds of the Sea," by Renaissance done as a Jon Anderson/Rick Wakeman duet
(2) "Larks Tongues in Aspic Pt 2" covered by Metallica
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Lark the Starless
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 19:54 |
Hmmm...I doubt Metallica can capture the essence of "LTIA Pt. 2"...
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VanVanVan
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 19:57 |
Kayo Dot does a Plague of Lighthouse Keepers.
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"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."-Arjen Lucassen
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moshkito
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 21:37 |
Hi,
I've thought about this before ... and I've heard a couple of versions of Turandot and Tosca and The Firebird Suite ... and it's hard not to want to see (and laugh) the German Conductor shape up them Italians (Fellini!) ... so ... yeah ...
1st. Trash American Symphonies and Orchestras for not having the guts to play Frank Zappa. And cut their funding until they learn that there is more music out there than John Williams!
2nd. Double kill these same Symphonies and Orchestras until the day they are courageous enough to give us a Vangelis piece, or a Mike Oldfield piece, and not skimp it to 4 minutes John Williams style!
3rd. I would love to see someone have the guts to get on stage and say ... we're going to play Tales of Topographic Oceans in its entirety. If you want to leave we will give you your money back. If not, we're going to live and die with one of the most beautiful things ever written in rock music!
4th. Put Nektar's Recycled on a stage with film and dancers. And they will all "die" on the last song since ... it's all over now!
5th. I want to find a band that is not afraid, and I want to stage them. We will blow out the audience and leaving people all going ... wow ... what was that? ... but I guarantee you they will come to see it again. If you are just into rock'n'roll get lost!
6th. I want to stage "Passion Play" and invite Ian to sit on the best seat in the house. And my version will incorporate the "cover" and create a Marat/Sade style concept with the reviewers and rock afficionados playing the part of the French Aristocracy! Not sure how I'm going to use the cabbages yet!
7th. I have a complete film "scenario" for all parts of "Wish You Were Here" ... only problem is ... I don't think a lot of people are going to like what they see, since they have never heard the original greatest gig in the sky ... which David Byrne and Eno did later (sort of) in that album about the bush of something or other. I even think that Roger would say ... I have nothing to do with it! ... but like it.
8th. I want to make a film about Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, Syd Barrett, Burroughs, Ginsberg ... and the veritable orgy that house was in both drugs and every thing else! It should make "Naked Lunch" come off as totally absurd and stupid! Not sure I want to end this with Robert leaving a party via the drain pipes, but it seems as good a reason to end it as anything else ... specially when him and Daevid are not bitter about those old days, and still talk about it some in their own work! I was thinking that Brad Pitt would make a really good Kevin Ayers!
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Epignosis
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 21:45 |
Lark the Starless wrote:
Hmmm...I doubt Metallica can capture the essence of "LTIA Pt. 2"... | LTiA has no essence.
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Epignosis
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 21:53 |
"Close to the Edge" - The Mars Volta
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UndercoverBoy
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 22:00 |
VanVanVan wrote:
Kayo Dot does a Plague of Lighthouse Keepers. |
*erection*
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A Person
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 22:24 |
Epignosis wrote:
"Close to the Edge" - The Mars Volta
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That would be interesting.
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VanVanVan
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 22:42 |
A Person wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
"Close to the Edge" - The Mars Volta
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That would be interesting.
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I have a feeling they'd play it at triple speed or something...
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Dellinger
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 23:05 |
Just a few days ago I had been thinking about some covers I would really have loved to hear done... but right now I can't remember them. However, one thing I do wish I had hear, is DT making all those covers they do their own, they almost always try the make those covers very faithful to the original, while I would find it more interesting if they made Metal songs more Proggish, and prog of classic rock songs more Metal. Oh well, perhaps one song I would love to hear is Kashmir played by Apocalyptica, with perhaps Tarja Turunen on Vocals.
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 23:07 |
Epignosis wrote:
"Close to the Edge" - The Mars Volta
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tmv has no substance.
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: August 18 2010 at 23:14 |
WalterDigsTunes wrote:
Epignosis wrote:
"Close to the Edge" - The Mars Volta
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tmv has no substance.
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Walter my man I have never been so glad to hear your (in this case) 100%-correct opinion
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Gandalff
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 01:21 |
King Crimson cover of "God Save The Queen" wouldn´t be bad...
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 02:50 |
Johnny Be Goode done by Gentle Giant or Gabrioel-era Genesis. (WTF, Peter Tosh did it in reggae)
I'm sure this would sound interesting
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let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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Aspiring hope
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 04:58 |
tarkus1980 wrote:
What are some examples of prog-rock covers you feel should have happened at some point but never did or never will?
Two examples come to mind for me:
(1) "Sounds of the Sea," by Renaissance done as a Jon Anderson/Rick Wakeman duet
(2) "Larks Tongues in Aspic Pt 2" covered by Metallica |
I think Larks Tongues in Aspic has already been rendered nicely by Anekdoten as it was, then once more by DT. On the topic at hand, though, I'd like to hear Mikael Akerfeldt and Per Wiberg pull a cover for Van der Graaf Generator's House With No Door.
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Vompatti
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 05:10 |
King Crimson's "Providence" covered by Einstürzende Neubauten, and "Sailor's Tale" covered by Merzbow.
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progkidjoel
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 05:28 |
Kayo Dot - Gates Of Delirium is my ultimate fantasy.
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kole
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 05:49 |
Birdland by King Crimson.
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retrorocker
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 06:11 |
I'd like to hear pretty much any decent metal band cover Genesis' "The Knife". Although I'm not a great judge of what is a "decent" metal band, so I'll leave that up to you :P
How about Muse covering Yes's "Parallels"? or Steve Hackett's "The Show" (from Defector). Actually, I'd like to hear "The Show" covered by some kitsy pop/indie band lol. The irony would be immense- "All dressed in black, I can't tell if they are girls or boys!" XD
(on a kinda unrelated note, I would kill X amount of people if I could cahnge history so that Metallica covered any other song, ANY other song, than "Whiskey in the Jar." as a huge Thin Lizzy fan it makes me want to break things every time I hear it. but that's just me lol)
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Posted: August 19 2010 at 07:29 |
Siberian Khatru, Heart of the Sunrise, And You and I and Yours is no Disgrace sung by David Byron.
Man-erg and Refugees sung by Joan Baez.
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