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

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

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

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.

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

I really want to hear the Helmet/Yow cover. Hootie version sounds worst to me at first glance.

i liked this! it was one of my first CDs, and the tori/plant song was the worst.

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.

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.

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)

hey, maybe he loved Zep but just never heard Physical Graffiti.

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xpost etc. - also, the I'm Your Fan early-90s L. Cohen tribute.

Hideous L., I also like "Bleecker Street," particularly Marshall Crenshaw's contribution song and the John Cale/Suzanne Vega duet.

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

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.

"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

that was bad, yes

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.

ok, you guys are right. i just relistened to the amos/plant thing and it is absolutely awful

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.

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

Voted 4 Non Blondes.

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Down by the Seaside is such a great song that I forgot about recently. Is that version any good?

That Tom T. Hall tribute record was damn good.

yeah. also sweet relief (victoria williams).

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who is Never The Bride?

"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!

he's probably just dissing 4 non blondes

Never The Bride was signed to Atlantic Records in 1995, which is the only unifying trait between almost every band on this album

bullshit results imo

duran duran did kinda get shafted, yeah

"Dancing Days" (Page/Plant), by Stone Temple Pilots

in a TS between this & dying of cholera it'd be cholera in a walk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

you should cover "plush" man. dece song.

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.

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

should cover what's up too imo

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

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.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw8YWW-spDs

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQRPM8Mm6RQ

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

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

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?).

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.

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)

good pick, i think; i think the _encomium_ version of it is probably better than the zep version.

Well, speaking of Linda Perry and covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_wtzVvstfA

Violent J has really shed some pounds!

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