Obeliskos
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People can and do make fantastic covers, some of which sound even better than the original. Sometimes it doesn't sound better than the original. Sometimes it sounds worse. Don't be such a music snob and say that the original can never be matched, because it can.
You're missing my point. I didn't say all covers sucked; in fact I wasn't even making a general statement about covers at all. I was saying that covers of classics bother me. Certain songs have achieved the status of "timeless" in my head, and no cover can possibly match the original recording. Maybe they're better quality, or better played, or better sung, but they don't evoke the same feeling of "timeless classic" and nostalgia that the original does. Which is as obvious as saying two completely different songs from two completely different groups don't produce the same emotions... they're different. Thus the comment about brass and gold. No matter how good the cover is, it won't be the original... which is the definition of "cover." If you like brass more than gold, that's up to you; I don't care.
Anyway, the only thing that bothers me about this one is the fact that it's just a cheap knockoff of the original. It's not as well-played, nor as well-sung, and it's clear that whoever did it was just trying to make a quick buck by riding on the laurels of something better.
Also, I don't see how liking the original more than a cover makes me a music snob. I don't even listen to the Beatles that often.
In other news, I really hate nullreference exceptions. GGGUUUUHHHHHH.
1) use when you're ACTUALLY INVOLVED in the argument at hand
2) use after the argument has been drawn out for at least 6 - 7 posts, at least 3 by both posters involved in the argument
3) don't just link it like a lazy fuck, add some build up and hyperlink it! [optional - bonus points] also throw in an image macro
4) ????
5) PROFIT!!!
I fucking hate Bethesda at the moment. The arse holes have only gone and not released Mothership Zeta for Fallout 3 as a CD for those of us who can't/won't DL it from Window's Live/Steam and are instead releasing it only with the GoTY edition of FO3.
Now, I know what you're thinking 'But Oni, if you don't want to DL it from there then you don't have the right to complain if they don't release it on CD.' You know what I have to say? Fuck you, I have a shit internet connection and it would most likely take several hundred attempts at DL'ing it before my rage takes over and I kill everyone in a two hundred mile radius. Now I have to go out and buy the GoTY edition if I want to play the Mothership Zeta expansion. And thats after buying the original FO3 along with the other four expansions.
Amen brother
Yeah, steams pissing me off too, everytime I try to preload borderlands, all of steam shuts down, and logs me out.