I actually prefer the older Parsons tribute, called Commemorativo or something like that.
― Euler, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
The Neil Young Bridge CD is pretty OK. Has some nice stuff on it anyway. Ummm. I was actually just listening to some of that Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert, which sort of works as a tribute. It is PRETTY OK.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Unnecessary, yes. But Stone Free wasn't necessary either and it was pretty bitchin in places. Cure Purple Haze and Body Count Hey Joe were all right. Mebbe that tribute needs a poll too.
^^^^^^^ this
are there any actually good Zeppelin covers?
Dolly Parton "Stairway to Heaven" FTW
― ^likes tilt-a-whirls (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, never hear the Parton cover -- is it bluegrassy?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
This is kind of half decent.
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
there was a kristoffersonn tribute album that was alright from a few years back
― my fingers is a jellyfish (omar little), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
kristoffersonn
― my fingers is a jellyfish (omar little), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
That Tom T. Hall tribute record was damn good.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Still have a fondness for Elektra Records' Rubiyat.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I love the Merle Haggard tribute called Tulare Dust, on Hightone from the mid 90s.
― Euler, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0nfoxq8gld6e
news to me. might need to check it out.
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
i said HAY-yay-aay-aaay-ay boy, do you wanna SCORE
― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah that's the one! The covers of "Sin City" and "Juanita", in particular, are pretty heartbreaking; I don't know anything about those two bands otherwise though.
― Euler, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the Elvis C tribute "Almost You" fine.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
bloodshot has a good bob wills tribute and they also released a wanda jackson tribute that i was interested in checking out but never did
― my fingers is a jellyfish (omar little), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Cure Purple Haze - I've totally gotta check this out. Those Parsons tributes sound pretty great, too. The best tribute I'm aware of is the Spacemen 3 one from the late 90s. Still, though, even with its awesome roster, it's only about half as good as it should be. That said, Low's version of "Lord, Can You Hear Me" is truly one of the best covers by anyone, ever.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
helmet/yow track is a monster, custard pie riff was practically custom-made for helmet. read somewhere that yow had never heard this track until he went into to record it w/ them and winged it off a lyric sheet. the tori amos/plant rendition of 'down by the seaside' is pretty decent too, if i remember right
answer to the question - FOUR NON BLONDES
― 6335, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I really want to hear the Helmet/Yow cover. Hootie version sounds worst to me at first glance.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i liked this! it was one of my first CDs, and the tori/plant song was the worst.
― 69, Thursday, 8 January 2009 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Heard (most of) this ONCE in a record store when it was newly released. Helmet and STP and even Rollins were surprisingly not bad. Big Head Todd & The Monsters were g-dawful, whoever the fuck they were. Just painful.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 8 January 2009 01:45 (fifteen years ago) link
That's gotta be wrong re Yow because there's video of him talking about when he saw Zeppelin live back in the day, I think it was his first concert.
― Mark, Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
The Ordinaires instrumental cover of "Kashmir" is pretty damn good. In the "tribute to yourself" category, I always loved the Middle Eastern rearrangement of "Four Sticks" on the Page & Plant No Quarter album.
Actual good tribute albums:- "Sing Hollies in Reverse"- "Lynne Me Your Ears" 2-CD ELO/Idle Race/Wilburys/Jeff Lynne tribute (but I'm an unapologetic Jeff Lynne freak, so take this recommendation as you will)- The all-Beatles "I Am Sam" soundtrack is a lot better than it has any right to be- "Lowe Profile" 2-CD Nick Lowe tribute- "The Sandinista! Project" 2-CD complete cover of the Clash album is pretty interesting and actually gave me a new appreciation of the original- The Willie Nelson tribute "Twisted Willie"- "Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village In The '60s"
Also, the 3 K-Tel tributes Pravda Records put out in the mid-'90s are a lot of fun:- "20 Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hit Explosions!"- "20 More Explosive Fantastic Rockin' Mega Smash Hit Explosions!"- "Star Power!" (I guess they ran out of adjectives)
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 8 January 2009 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
hey, maybe he loved Zep but just never heard Physical Graffiti.
xpost
― some dude, Thursday, 8 January 2009 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost etc. - also, the I'm Your Fan early-90s L. Cohen tribute.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Thursday, 8 January 2009 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Hideous L., I also like "Bleecker Street," particularly Marshall Crenshaw's contribution song and the John Cale/Suzanne Vega duet.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Thursday, 8 January 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i mixed up the details a bit on that yow story, i thought it was something like him not having an idea what the custard pie lyrics actually were until he went into the studio and they gave him a lyric sheet and then he just sorta ad-libbed it. i dunno
― 6335, Thursday, 8 January 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
hahah i used to own this record.
and 4 non blondes is probably the biggest atrocity of them all. a painfully annoying rendition of an already annoying song.
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 9 January 2009 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant"Down by the Seaside" (Page/Plant), by Tori Amos with Robert Plant
― FUTURE HOOS: stronger better faster hooser (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 9 January 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
that was bad, yes
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 9 January 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Though I will say that before I saw that one I was tempted to vote Big Head Todd & The Monsters just because I hate that fucking band name.
― FUTURE HOOS: stronger better faster hooser (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 9 January 2009 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, you guys are right. i just relistened to the amos/plant thing and it is absolutely awful
― 6335, Friday, 9 January 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought that I'd bought this in high school, and I was correct- just found a copy of the CD in a box down in my parents basement. No case anymore, but the CD still plays. The songs are all pretty "eh" - I seem to recall that I bought it for the stone temple pilots and rollins band covers. Just played it, and that sheryl crow song is BAD.
― lyra, Sunday, 11 January 2009 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck you for not including an 'All Of Them' option.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 January 2009 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Voted 4 Non Blondes.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 January 2009 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 12 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Down by the Seaside is such a great song that I forgot about recently. Is that version any good?
― ❤ⓛⓞⓥⓔ❤ (CaptainLorax), Monday, 12 January 2009 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah. also sweet relief (victoria williams).
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 12 January 2009 05:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
who is Never The Bride?
― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
"Misty Mountain Hop" (Page/Plant/Jones), by 4 Non Blondes
like not even fucking close
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday,
didn't know sarge liked Zep!
― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
he's probably just dissing 4 non blondes
― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
Never The Bride was signed to Atlantic Records in 1995, which is the only unifying trait between almost every band on this album
― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
bullshit results imo
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
duran duran did kinda get shafted, yeah
― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
"Dancing Days" (Page/Plant), by Stone Temple Pilots
in a TS between this & dying of cholera it'd be cholera in a walk
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki9WtdZPsRY
a man who makes it through the first verse of this has a stronger stomach than a motherfucker who swallows bleach for breakfast
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
dude have you heard the whole album? there's much much worse, trust me
― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
you are a man of taste and I refuse to hear it said of you that you listened to this whole thing
looking at the tracklisting is punishment enough, no matter what it was you did
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
i have a taste for shit and i will wade through a lot of it and be able to tell you what each and every person had for lunch that day
― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:18 (twelve years ago) link
tbh i think it's funny when olds are so hung up on long forgotten culture wars that they're still too mad at Stone Temple Pilots or whatever to even notice how much worse bands have reached their level of success since then
― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
Was going to post exactly the same thing--looked at the results, was surprised that Rollins got zero ("Does he sing?"), gave it a listen. Twelve bulls in a china shop; he's so unsuited to something requiring subtlety, mystery, swing, and a million other things Led Zeppelin had going for them.
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 March 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link
(Which doesn't mean the zero's not reasonable--I'm sure there are other horrors on there.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 March 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
All of these pale in the face of knowledge that a couple of years ago Train inexplicably covered Zep II in its entirety:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8MykYXoq0
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 March 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
i like rollins' cover of franklin's tower, but on the other hand nobody in the dead could sing!
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 March 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
yeah see... like if 4 non blondes had not been on here, but Train had formed a little earlier and made it in, i feel pretty confident they would have taken this in a walk. i just learned they STARTED AS A LED ZEPPELIN COVER BAND so my god did we dodge a bullet there. i think most on ILM would agree they are a worse band than 4 Non Blondes and they kept...making...songs. but there are tons of mainstream 90s dude bands of this period that ime do NOT get a free pass or license to suck on ILM. Live, The Offspring, Collective Soul, Counting Crows, 311, Silverchair, Bush. all of those have folks here repping for this or that song, but all of them had more than one hit song. and yet generally they do not have cred on this board afaik. even considerably better bands like Smashing Pumpkins have more detractors here than fans. if Soul Coughing, a band i like a lot, were on here i am confident they would have attracted whole new voters to come out and slam them. i think people who hate soul coughing and the pumpkins hate them in a lot of the same ways/reasons people hate 4 Non Blondes - inescapably attention-grabbing and unconventional vocalist front and center, with painstakingly enunciated lyrics that come off as pretentious bullshit if you feel superior to the particular brand of 90s-ness being peddled.
i'm belaboring all this not because i want to prove that women in rock don't face all the asymmetrical uphill bullshit that's being pointed out. they totally do. but because katherine indicated the equal "stature" of the bands was an important factor here.... and as nitpicky as it probably seems, i think it's weird to suggest that STP and 4 Non Blondes are bands of the same stature. STP have sold forty million records and among their sixteen or so high-charting singles, have at least a dozen songs that are still in regular rotation. hootie were coming off their sixteen times platinum debut (including three huuuuge singles) and hadn't yet sophomore-slumped. 4 non blondes had had one moderate-sized hit two years before, and then four singles that did not make the hot 100, and had already broken up by the time this album was released. if one aspect of the poll is "which of these acts seems the most pitifully out of their league trying to cover zeppelin" then some of that does enter the picture and i don't think ALL of it is gendered.
that doesn't mean that the questions of who gets cred, who gets stature, who's seen as appropriate to sit at the big-kids' rock table, aren't profoundly gendered. they totally are and even as i'm typing the above i'm struggling to write it in a way that doesn't fall into tropes that are typically masculine rockist dudebro tropes. i think this is super interesting and important and i'm glad katherine brought it up as it's giving me some things to think about and challenge in my own assumptions. i just, still, sincerely question whether a single-vote radio button poll, with so many other variables in play, can really be that revealing. or again if it's THAT noteworthy that a notoriously hated one-hit wonder band would take a particular beating on a label cash-in album thread, especially when their song is one of the two singles/videos that people are likely to have actually heard, and the other one of those two (STP) took third place.
the two tori amos votes could be people who don't like tori amos or people who think the idea of robert plant showing up to his own covers record is gross, who knows... but it got less votes than hootie and the same number as duran duran and big head todd. if a plant-free tori - surely the actual best artist here, by some distance - had won this by the margin 4NB did, then i would be a lot more "wtf ILM."
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 11 March 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Thing about STP too is 70s-flavored hard rock was a thing they dabbled in a lot. DeLeo loved his slide guitar (which he used much more later on) so I get the pick.
I think this is one of the few Zep songs they wouldn't fuck up because Weiland always seemed more suited to 70s glam than wailing bluesy hard rock, but this isn't a very demanding song vocally...no Plant wailing, few ad libs, straightforward as hell.
Imagine STP doing "Immigrant Song" on the other hand
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 19:15 (seven years ago) link
which would actually be GOOD casting for 4 Non Blondes!
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 11 March 2017 19:43 (seven years ago) link
they STARTED AS A LED ZEPPELIN COVER BAND so my god did we dodge a bullet there.
they released an album last year on which they covered the entirety of led zeppelin ii, so potentially we didn't dodge a bullet atall
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 March 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link
now she's back from the atmospherewith drops of lemon juice in her hair
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 11 March 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link
It's not actually horrible, but it's like paying to hear a tribute band
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 19:54 (seven years ago) link
How soft your fields so greenCan whisper tales of goreOf how we calmed the tides of warWe are your overlords
Tell meDid the wind sweep you off your feetDid you finally get the chance to dance along the light of dayAnd head back toward the Milky Way
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
this thread just prompted a "Zeparella" rabbit hole on YouTube - thank u thread
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 12 March 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link
Kinda nice that Plant sings with Tori as Zeppelin was her favourite band as a child and inspired her playing in the conservatory.
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 13 March 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
IIRC, she asked him to join her, going so far as to let him pick the song. He picked DBTS because it was a track he felt he'd contributed a lot to, writing-wise, that was at the same time reasonably obscure and underexposed (did they ever even do it live?).
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:34 (seven years ago) link
There's a Tori interview where she says she was asked to do the song via a phone call; don't think they've performed it live though.
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:43 (seven years ago) link
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain)
good pick, i think; i think the _encomium_ version of it is probably better than the zep version.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:53 (seven years ago) link
Well, speaking of Linda Perry and covers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_wtzVvstfA
― how's life, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:33 (seven years ago) link
Violent J has really shed some pounds!
― how's life, Monday, 13 March 2017 18:35 (seven years ago) link
wtf with the 4 non blondes revisionism in evidence here, they are terrible, what's going on is terrible, this cover is terrible.
still say the STP cover is p nice if not incendiary
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 May 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link