Paging Pink Floyd fans

Scissor Sisters are doing That Cover on BBC3 now.

Enjoy

 

Would that be ebay amateurs ?

 

.......so avoid it, presumably?

As an OT sort of thing I have recently acquired a copy of the 28 demo tracks
PF did for The Wall in 1978. The difference between these and the finished
article is interesting and disturbing (because some of them are really not
good), though not as disturbing as the Scissor Sisters.

Si

 

I still don't get what's so _wrong_ with the Scissor Sisters version.

The whole concept of a Supertramp/Steely Dan disco group, that troubles
me. But the cover is actually quite good, and reinvents the song nicely.

 

Because its as wrong as...as...Busted singing Ace of Spades.

Peasant.

Si

 

That would be quite something.

 

Busted? Wrong comparison.

Try the Village People covering Ace of Spades. Or The Darkness covering
I Will Survive.

Now do you understand? It's not about copying, it's about reinventing.

 

Nah, mate. McFly.

 

If only Steps would reform for an 80s metal cover album

 

I think Steps have pushed the envelope quite far enough. It's only
right they should have split to pursue new artistic challenges.

 

I'm a confirmed PF fan, and I *like* the SS version


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Yes, I understand *mumble mumble...don' like it though...s'not right*

Si

 

That bit's wrong.

 

Don't give the fuckers ideas. I may have to commit multiple twaticide.

 

Darren Robinson says...

I think it's brilliant that some of these new bands are reinventing the
shite old songs and making them almost worth listening to

 

It's about fucking with something which is perfectly fine in its
original incarnation; it's not so much gilding the lily, as redesigning
it in a completely different style and saying it's superior, an attitude
inherent in any cover. It's about, well, iconoclasm if you will, which
in this case is not a good thing IMO. It neither needs, nor benefits
from, reinvention; if you want to record songs that's okay by me, but do
your own stuff, rather than damaging something others created. Let's
face it, they launched their mainstream career with their execrable
version of Comfortably Numb; had it not been for the publicity that it
bought them, they would never have been heard of.

 

Indeed. Avril Raccoon "Knockin on Heaven's Door"

 

I think if you're worthy of a recording contract, you should be writing
your own stuff, not relying on old material, irrespective of the
perceived worth of that material. The odd cover is okay for B-sides,
bonus tracks and fillers, but should never be released as an A-side
(okay, that's not quite how it's done on CDs these days, but I'm sure
you get my drift).

 

Darren Robinson wrote:

What about that Berlin Philharmonic?
Just a Beethoven cover band and look how popular they are?

 

Or Faith No More covering Easy