That's a good way to put it. It's just Rivers Cuomo doing vocal for a Metallica song. The best covers are ones where a band makes the song their own. Convert it to their style of music and improve...
Wheezer's doing karaoke again?
That's a good way to put it. It's just Rivers Cuomo doing vocal for a Metallica song. The best covers are ones where a band makes the song their own. Convert it to their style of music and improve on it. This is just them doing karaoke like you said.
I'm a big fan of cover songs, I'm a big fan of Metallica, and I generally enjoy Weezer, but this is just terrible. It's played fine, but Rivers Cuomo just does not have the voice for this. It...
I'm a big fan of cover songs, I'm a big fan of Metallica, and I generally enjoy Weezer, but this is just terrible. It's played fine, but Rivers Cuomo just does not have the voice for this. It sounds like a high school band during a talent show.
Hoping the rest of Blacklist has better covers.
Edit: Found the playlist of what has been released so far. Thoughts follow, generally typing as I listen to each track, I've also never heard of most of these people so this will be my first listen to them.
Tomi Owó - Now that's a cover song! Prior to now I was unaware of this artist, but this song crosses genres, has their own spin on it, and sounds awesome. Shows Metallica's lyrics to be really versatile.
Weezer - We've already talked about this. It's like an amateur band playing the tabs off a website with a singer that doesn't fit the song. It makes me want to go find that crowdfunding joke from years ago that tried to bribe Weezer to break up.
Volbeat - Not as bad as Weezer, still just Volbeat playing Metallica's song with a little bit of different effects at certain parts. Boring.
SebastiAn - Nice an funky at the start. Hmm, uses Hetfield's vocals, works during the stanzas, doesn't work during the deeper "don't tread on me" growling. This half works, could be better. Correction, just got to the Nothing Else Matters half and it's taken from the S&M album and the horns just don't work, gets better once the bass line comes in. A lot of electronic music does that and I don't know why. They build up to a bass drop, but make you suffer through some shit portion first.
J Balvin - Uhh... Columbian hip-hop metal cover? Yes, please! Coming across random songs like this is why I'm glad I have surround sound and a subwoofer connected to my PC. Ugh. The copy/paste of the original song at 2 minutes in is lazy and unnecessary. Drops an 9/10 song to 6/10 because of those 30 seconds.
Jon Pardi - This is what I imagine I someone that is drunkenly faking a southern accent would sound like singing along as they're driven home by a designated driver.
Ha*Ash - The Unforgiven is probably the most covered Metallica song, they lyrics just work across a lot of different styles. The first 1:45 of this sounds like any other acoustic cover of the song, the rest has more character, but I can't say I enjoy it.
Diet Cig - This sounds like she sang an acoustic cover in her bedroom, uploaded it to youtube, and then someone else mixed it with another amateur cover of just the instruments.
Vishal Dadlani, DIVINE, Shor Police - Too may cooks in the kitchen. This has unimaginative portions, interesting portions, and just-okay portions, but overall it doesn't know what it wants to be.
OFF! - First I'd like to thank SponsorBlock because the first half of this video is all build up/story-line BS and SponsorBlock automatically skipped it. Musicians/Directors: No one has ever cared about the story line of a music video, just stop it. As for the cover: Meh, it's punk. Sounds like pretty much every other punk song.
Biffy Clyro - This sounds like an amateur messing with levels and effects in their first sound mixing computer program.
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Metallica has serious old country and blues influence already, so this works from the onset. The steel guitar is a great addition. If you bump the speed down to 0.75x it sounds like a legit old country and blues song that Metallica covered later. Great cover.
Sam Fender - This sounds like a man doing a cover of Adele doing a cover of Metallica. It's terrible.
St. Vincent - Hardcore channeling of NIN here. Almost works at 1.25x speed, so makes me think it could be sped up by 10-15% and still work just as well. Good cover.
Juanes - First off, while none of these music videos have been good, this one is truly awful as they took the title and lyrics literally in the most shallow way possible. As for the song it would work if they stuck to genre. They have guitar that cuts the note short by killing the strings, but let the bass carry on forever. Do yourself a favor, stop listening at 3:25, it just gets worse from there.
Miley Cyrus feat. WATT, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, Chad Smith - This is Miley Cyrus warbling over incredibly talented instrumentalists. A karaoke version of this would probably be amazing.
I dunno, I quite liked it. The way they dropped that Buddy Holly riff made me laugh, and I am a sucker for a comedy musical reference. Weezer are the best covers band working today imo. Their...
I dunno, I quite liked it. The way they dropped that Buddy Holly riff made me laugh, and I am a sucker for a comedy musical reference. Weezer are the best covers band working today imo. Their Africa is great and they somehow pull off a passable version of No Scrubs as well. They don't take themselves too seriously and Rivers is an interesting guy so they get quite a lot of latitude from me, personally.
On other covers - Miley Cyrus's version of Nothing Else Matters is superb. Better, dare I say it, than the original. St Vincent's Sad But True is like Nine Inch Nails meets Curve and is wonderful. (last link goes to a playlist of Blacklist tracks, which I haven't yet had time to listen through)
Weezer does some good covers, I think Frog Leap has them beat though; by miles. One callback riff does not make it better in my opinion. Just did an edit to review of the rest of the available...
Weezer does some good covers, I think Frog Leap has them beat though; by miles. One callback riff does not make it better in my opinion.
Just did an edit to review of the rest of the available songs so far. Agreed on St Vincent, vehemently disagree on Cyrus and feel personally insulted at the statement.
Eh, Leo does some great stuff but it is very samey. I guess you could probably say that for Weezer's Teal album too though. In an Africa-off it would be a very close call...
Eh, Leo does some great stuff but it is very samey. I guess you could probably say that for Weezer's Teal album too though. In an Africa-off it would be a very close call...
Yeah, a lot of it is metal, but he has a few others peppered in from time to time. Like you said that's typical of just about anyone doing covers, Weezer included. The only genre-less cover artist...
Yeah, a lot of it is metal, but he has a few others peppered in from time to time. Like you said that's typical of just about anyone doing covers, Weezer included. The only genre-less cover artist I'm aware of is the great one himself, Weird Al, and he's technically a parody cover artist.
Wheezer's doing karaoke again?
Though the Blacklist appears to be a bunch of bands covering different Metallica songs for a cause, and that's nice.
That's a good way to put it. It's just Rivers Cuomo doing vocal for a Metallica song. The best covers are ones where a band makes the song their own. Convert it to their style of music and improve on it. This is just them doing karaoke like you said.
An example of amazing cover imo is Darlingside's cover of 1979
I'm a big fan of cover songs, I'm a big fan of Metallica, and I generally enjoy Weezer, but this is just terrible. It's played fine, but Rivers Cuomo just does not have the voice for this. It sounds like a high school band during a talent show.
Hoping the rest of Blacklist has better covers.
Edit: Found the playlist of what has been released so far. Thoughts follow, generally typing as I listen to each track, I've also never heard of most of these people so this will be my first listen to them.
Tomi Owó - Now that's a cover song! Prior to now I was unaware of this artist, but this song crosses genres, has their own spin on it, and sounds awesome. Shows Metallica's lyrics to be really versatile.
Weezer - We've already talked about this. It's like an amateur band playing the tabs off a website with a singer that doesn't fit the song. It makes me want to go find that crowdfunding joke from years ago that tried to bribe Weezer to break up.
Volbeat - Not as bad as Weezer, still just Volbeat playing Metallica's song with a little bit of different effects at certain parts. Boring.
SebastiAn - Nice an funky at the start. Hmm, uses Hetfield's vocals, works during the stanzas, doesn't work during the deeper "don't tread on me" growling. This half works, could be better. Correction, just got to the Nothing Else Matters half and it's taken from the S&M album and the horns just don't work, gets better once the bass line comes in. A lot of electronic music does that and I don't know why. They build up to a bass drop, but make you suffer through some shit portion first.
J Balvin - Uhh... Columbian hip-hop metal cover? Yes, please! Coming across random songs like this is why I'm glad I have surround sound and a subwoofer connected to my PC. Ugh. The copy/paste of the original song at 2 minutes in is lazy and unnecessary. Drops an 9/10 song to 6/10 because of those 30 seconds.
Jon Pardi - This is what I imagine I someone that is drunkenly faking a southern accent would sound like singing along as they're driven home by a designated driver.
Ha*Ash - The Unforgiven is probably the most covered Metallica song, they lyrics just work across a lot of different styles. The first 1:45 of this sounds like any other acoustic cover of the song, the rest has more character, but I can't say I enjoy it.
Diet Cig - This sounds like she sang an acoustic cover in her bedroom, uploaded it to youtube, and then someone else mixed it with another amateur cover of just the instruments.
Vishal Dadlani, DIVINE, Shor Police - Too may cooks in the kitchen. This has unimaginative portions, interesting portions, and just-okay portions, but overall it doesn't know what it wants to be.
OFF! - First I'd like to thank SponsorBlock because the first half of this video is all build up/story-line BS and SponsorBlock automatically skipped it. Musicians/Directors: No one has ever cared about the story line of a music video, just stop it. As for the cover: Meh, it's punk. Sounds like pretty much every other punk song.
Biffy Clyro - This sounds like an amateur messing with levels and effects in their first sound mixing computer program.
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit - Metallica has serious old country and blues influence already, so this works from the onset. The steel guitar is a great addition. If you bump the speed down to 0.75x it sounds like a legit old country and blues song that Metallica covered later. Great cover.
Sam Fender - This sounds like a man doing a cover of Adele doing a cover of Metallica. It's terrible.
St. Vincent - Hardcore channeling of NIN here. Almost works at 1.25x speed, so makes me think it could be sped up by 10-15% and still work just as well. Good cover.
Juanes - First off, while none of these music videos have been good, this one is truly awful as they took the title and lyrics literally in the most shallow way possible. As for the song it would work if they stuck to genre. They have guitar that cuts the note short by killing the strings, but let the bass carry on forever. Do yourself a favor, stop listening at 3:25, it just gets worse from there.
Miley Cyrus feat. WATT, Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Trujillo, Chad Smith - This is Miley Cyrus warbling over incredibly talented instrumentalists. A karaoke version of this would probably be amazing.
I dunno, I quite liked it. The way they dropped that Buddy Holly riff made me laugh, and I am a sucker for a comedy musical reference. Weezer are the best covers band working today imo. Their Africa is great and they somehow pull off a passable version of No Scrubs as well. They don't take themselves too seriously and Rivers is an interesting guy so they get quite a lot of latitude from me, personally.
On other covers - Miley Cyrus's version of Nothing Else Matters is superb. Better, dare I say it, than the original. St Vincent's Sad But True is like Nine Inch Nails meets Curve and is wonderful. (last link goes to a playlist of Blacklist tracks, which I haven't yet had time to listen through)
Weezer does some good covers, I think Frog Leap has them beat though; by miles. One callback riff does not make it better in my opinion.
Just did an edit to review of the rest of the available songs so far. Agreed on St Vincent, vehemently disagree on Cyrus and feel personally insulted at the statement.
Eh, Leo does some great stuff but it is very samey. I guess you could probably say that for Weezer's Teal album too though. In an Africa-off it would be a very close call...
Yeah, a lot of it is metal, but he has a few others peppered in from time to time. Like you said that's typical of just about anyone doing covers, Weezer included. The only genre-less cover artist I'm aware of is the great one himself, Weird Al, and he's technically a parody cover artist.