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Old 12-04-2010, 02:53 PM   #4951 (permalink)
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Old 12-04-2010, 03:03 PM   #4952 (permalink)
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Coincidentally, I consider that This Mortal Coil cover of "Song to the Siren" to be the worst cover of all-time. Come at me, Liz.

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Really? That's quite surprising. I love the original too though. Why do you hate it so?
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Old 12-04-2010, 03:23 PM   #4953 (permalink)
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Really? That's quite surprising. I love the original too though. Why do you hate it so?
Tim's voice, while utterly AMAZING (I consider him to be one of the greatest vocalists of the 20th century), is not for the faint of heart, hence why Fraser's fade-in-to-the-background voice should never touch a song that is meant to emotionally destroy you. In "Song to the Siren", he stands alone on top of that lonely, detached guitar line, singing passionately. He sounds like he's right there, feeling emotions, excreting them... This Mortal Coil's version sounds as if the vocalist is lazily humming above the background, barely working its way above the instrumentation. Not to mention, the voice is completely wrong for the song, and she sings it with a sterile, emotionless tone. It irritates me to no end, that Tim's strong, passionate delivery could be slandered by such a thing.

I really like what i've heard of Cocteau Twins, so it's not so much that I hate Liz's voice... And I'm sure This Mortal Coil in general have done good things. But ****. Wait to take a great song and just **** all over it and ruin everything unique/intriguing about it.

My obvious Tim Buckley bias is a big part, but I just generally don't think that you can DO that to a song and get away with it.
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Old 12-04-2010, 03:34 PM   #4954 (permalink)
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Tim's voice, while utterly AMAZING (I consider him to be one of the greatest vocalists of the 20th century), is not for the faint of heart, hence why Fraser's fade-in-to-the-background voice should never touch a song that is meant to emotionally destroy you. In "Song to the Siren", he stands alone on top of that lonely, detached guitar line, singing passionately. He sounds like he's right there, feeling emotions, excreting them... This Mortal Coil's version sounds as if the vocalist is lazily humming above the background, barely working its way above the instrumentation. Not to mention, the voice is completely wrong for the song, and she sings it with a sterile, emotionless tone. It irritates me to no end, that Tim's strong, passionate delivery could be slandered by such a thing.

I really like what i've heard of Cocteau Twins, so it's not so much that I hate Liz's voice... And I'm sure This Mortal Coil in general have done good things. But ****. Wait to take a great song and just **** all over it and ruin everything unique/intriguing about it.

My obvious Tim Buckley bias is a big part, but I just generally don't think that you can DO that to a song and get away with it.
That was a really impressive and thought out response. I understand completely. I do prefer the original, but to me the cover is very good and i know how you feel about somebody covering a favourite song of yours I mean heck. Limp Bizkit covered my favourite song, one that can make me cry on cue, and I also was not happy.
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Old 12-04-2010, 10:40 PM   #4955 (permalink)
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Very unpopular indeed.

Derek & The Dominos - Layla and other assorted love songs is the greatest rock album ever made! For those keeping score it is post Cream.

Yes is rather dull and ordinary and Rush is cold and heartless...woof.
actually on this site YOU are the one with the unpopular opinion. the vast majority of regular posters agree. post-Cream Clapton is boring as hell.

as for Layla if it weren't for Duane Allman's iconic riff the majority of music listeners today wouldn't even recognize that song.
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Old 12-07-2010, 09:46 PM   #4956 (permalink)
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I don't know how unpopular this actually is, be it on here or in real life, but Led Zeppelin is one of the best bands in modern music, period.
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Old 12-07-2010, 09:52 PM   #4957 (permalink)
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I don't know how unpopular this actually is, be it on here or in real life, but Led Zeppelin is one of the best bands in modern music, period.
I would say that's an extremely popular opinion.
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Old 12-07-2010, 09:56 PM   #4958 (permalink)
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IRL, I assume so, but not so much here...
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Old 12-08-2010, 12:44 AM   #4959 (permalink)
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OK Go has made some of the best pop rock of the last ten years...
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Old 12-08-2010, 01:00 AM   #4960 (permalink)
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^ "Don't Ask Me" is a great angsty track, "Here It Goes Again" is catchy but overplayed, and "This Too Shall Pass" and "White Knuckles" are pretty good. That being said, I'd hardly call it best of its genre in the decade
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