Least appealing song on "Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin"

good lord

― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

I almost couldn't read past that first track. Jesus.

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

good luck shitty 90s bands!

― velko, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

wtf at this thing

― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

― Birth Control to Ginger Tom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Misty Mountain Hop" (Page/Plant/Jones), by 4 Non Blondes

like not even fucking close

― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

love how STP is one of the only remotely hard rock bands on here and they did an acoustic track w/ no drums.

― some dude, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

That STP cover of "Dancing Days" got quite a bit of radio airplay and wasn't half-bad, as I recall. Of course, at the time I'd never heard the original.

― xhuxk e. xheese (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

Rollins once told me in an interview that he changed the words to the bridge in "Four Sticks": "I couldn't sing 'When the owls cry in the night.'"

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

ha a friend of mine got this for christmas when it came out. it sucked every bit as hard as you would imagine, but i want to say the STP & Blind Melon takes were the least vomit-inducing.
xxposts

― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink

the Sheryl Crow track is by far the most unpleasant to listen to. as for best, i like the Rollins Band track alright the Hootie one is pretty decent by Hootie standards.

― some dude, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Custard Pie" (Page/Plant), by Helmet with David Yow (of the Jesus Lizard)

Wow. What's this track like? I suspect it will be awful, but there's a possibility it could be amazing.

― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

scratch the blind melon portion of my last post

― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

ha i forgot about this....i really wanna hear that helmet/yow joint though.

― ie: BANGING (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

This doesn't sound that bad. For the most part, these aren't bands likely to fuck up songs this good. It's completely unnecessary but if you were a huge Cracker fan or whatever I bet this was great. I voted for Big Head Todd b/c wtf but I've never heard of the Bride band so maybe that would appeal less.

― Euler, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

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.

― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 20:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

This doesn't sound that bad.

I'm sorry, did you miss track 1?

― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

these are (were? i don't come across them anymore now that i don't work in shitty cd store circa '97) always so incredibly dissapointing. teh exception: return of the grieous angel g. parsons tribute.

― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

the "Misty Mountain Hop" cover is really one of the more tolerable moments, decent heavy groove and lol dave navarro solo

― some dude, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

lol all I know by that band is that pretty horrible single "What's Up" or whatever, but I figure they don't sing like that on every song (do they?)

― Euler, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

Okay, so it wasn't about the whole album and it wasn't a poll, but I knew all of this sounded somewhat familiar:

Led Zep's "Dancing Days" Classic or Classicest Classic That Ever Classiced On A Planet Capable Of Classicness?

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

it's just so weird because this CD was released at the height of a time when a lot of very Zep-influenced grunge/metal bands were selling tons and tons of records, and instead they do this bizarre grab bag of adult alternative acts, and present it with a completely straight face, not even "a soft rock tribute to Led Zeppelin" or any kind of modifier.

― some dude, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:08 (4 years ago) Permalink

famed soft rock bands like The Jesus Lizard, Helmet and Rollins Band

― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

yeah, those bands make a little sense ... you get soundgarden, umm rage against the machine, errrr ... some other bands, you might have a cohesive comp there. it would still suck, but perhaps less so. Wild that David Yow is on the same CD as Sheryl Crow ...

― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

come to think of it, are there any actually good Zeppelin covers?

― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

come to think of it, are there any actually good tribute albums?

― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

seriously, are there?

― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:22 (4 years ago) Permalink

http://www.amazon.com/Return-Grievous-Angel-Tribute-Parsons/dp/B00000JMXD

but it really is like the only one

― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

seriously... even the whiskeytown/ryan adams song on that is great...

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

the Hootie cover is pretty solid!

― Euler, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

I actually prefer the older Parsons tribute, called Commemorativo or something like that.

― Euler, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

yeah, never hear the Parton cover -- is it bluegrassy?

― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

This is kind of half decent.

― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

kristoffersonn

― my fingers is a jellyfish (omar little), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:34 (4 years ago) Permalink

That Tom T. Hall tribute record was damn good.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:34 (4 years ago) Permalink

Still have a fondness for Elektra Records' Rubiyat.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

I love the Merle Haggard tribute called Tulare Dust, on Hightone from the mid 90s.

― Euler, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

i said HAY-yay-aay-aaay-ay boy, do you wanna SCORE

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:37 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

I like the Elvis C tribute "Almost You" fine.

― Ye Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

"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 (4 years ago) Permalink

that was bad, yes

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 9 January 2009 15:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

Fuck you for not including an 'All Of Them' option.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 January 2009 01:02 (4 years ago) Permalink

Voted 4 Non Blondes.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 January 2009 01:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 12 January 2009 00:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

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 (4 years ago) Permalink

That Tom T. Hall tribute record was damn good.

yeah. also sweet relief (victoria williams).

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 12 January 2009 05:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

who is Never The Bride?

― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

"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 (1 year ago) Permalink

he's probably just dissing 4 non blondes

― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

bullshit results imo

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

duran duran did kinda get shafted, yeah

― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

"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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

dude have you heard the whole album? there's much much worse, trust me

― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

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 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah there's just something about the stone temple pilots that really gets me & has always gotten me. like I'd go to a staind show and review it favorably before I'd piss on the stone temple pilots if they were on fire. dk about yr "culture wars" thing but it sounds like projection or something I just really vehemently hate the stone temple pilots

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

i mean like "range life" style real indie lifers vs. scott fucking weiland culture wars

― some dude, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

lol I think yr bringing some grand narrative to the relatively uncontroversial point that scott weiland is a no-talent

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

you should cover "plush" man. dece song.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

like I'd go to a staind show and review it favorably before I'd piss on the stone temple pilots if they were on fire.

Man Steven Tyler, I love you and all of your 1970s hard rockin' rock tunes but I think this is absolutely crazy talk. Both are stinky piles of shit, but STP is like that little piece of cat shit that gets stuck behind the litter box for a month and you don't even notice it right away and when you do its all hard and crusty and doesn't smell anymore. Staind, on the other hand, is like if a brontosaurus took a shit through the roof of your house directly on your head.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

but if you wanna go to bad for stp over 4 non blondes I got yr back man, go stp, fuck those assholes in 4 non blondes stp is way better

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

should cover what's up too imo

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Both are stinky piles of shit, but STP is like that little piece of cat shit that gets stuck behind the litter box for a month and you don't even notice it right away and when you do its all hard and crusty and doesn't smell anymore. Staind, on the other hand, is like if a brontosaurus took a shit through the roof of your house directly on your head.

actually this is exactly right. if a brontosaurus shits on your house and it lands on your head at least it's funny and you have a story to tell you can get laffs w/ for years, or, worst case scenario, you get to die. occult cat shit just stinks for fucking ever and doesn't even have an "at least there's this" upside

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 25 August 2011 03:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

of all the people i've ever interviewed, weiland is the most self-pitying and self-destructive and pathetic. but i will say that 'vasoline' is one hell of a riff.

― sbgorf (stevie), Thursday, 25 August 2011 07:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

didn't know sarge liked Zep!

― a 'catch-all', almost humorous, 'Jeez' quality (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

c'mon j0rdan, accuse soto of being an 'unhealthy" sock-obsessed paranoid

― buzza, Thursday, 25 August 2011 07:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah okay I love you aero but I've chosen STP

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

Almost completely OT, but I just realized how much Scott Weiland looks like Dennis Duffy.

― O Aquaman (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

This seems like a record Dennis might own, actually.

― fishermen are coveted by whores & stoners (Pillbox), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Rollins' vocals are the worst thing about the "Four Sticks" cover. The riff just sounds like half the riffs on Weight.

― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 30 April 2012 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

Man, that 4 Non Blondes cover is nowhere near as shitty as I was hoping it would be. I mean, it's basically a generic bar band cover of Misty Mountain Hop with some occasionally execrable improvisations from the lead vocalist.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

Linda Perry has made a career out of being not as shitty as you'd hope

― some dude, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

except, of course, for "What's Up?"

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

well i mean, based on the expectations created by that song

― some dude, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

haha I know what you mean, I just marvel that her biggest as-a-performing-artist accomplishment is just the worst fucking thing

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

she is beautiful
no matter what you say
your words can't bring her down

― some dude, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

the Hootie one is pretty decent by Hootie standards.

this is otm

― pizza pizza and cult jam (crüt), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

did she tie chorizos around her head

xpost

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

except, of course, for "What's Up?"

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 13:23 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That song had the biggest drop for people in general.

First time was "OK, that's an interesting one"
Second time was "That's quite good"
third time was "Noooo!!!! Make It Stopppp!!!"

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh man, Blind Melon is how I first got into "Out on the Tiles" and I can't even make it through their version anymore...

― the endless white snow has never felt more textile (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

as a teenager I remember thinking that "dancing days" was SO much better than any other song STP had ever written...and it was for a reason.

― skip, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp: I had never heard that before, but it's a real letdown from all perspectives.

― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink