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

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.

This seems like a record Dennis might own, actually.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.spinner.com/media/2008/07/4-non-blondes-200-073008.jpg

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

the Hootie one is pretty decent by Hootie standards.

this is otm

did she tie chorizos around her head

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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!!!"

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...

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.

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

Sheryl Crow's version made me wanna pull her aside and ask her to stop.

God the 90s were awful.

Meconium?

Never the Bride sounds like it should be a screamo band fronted by Jennifer Aniston.

Misty Mountain Hop video is hilarious

I'll duck some tomatoes and say that the STP song is good. I actually heard it before the original and my mom bought me Houses of the Holy in 8th grade as a result.

The Blind Melon track is actually pretty great.

yeah the STP version is fine

holy shiiiiiiit this video, thank you neanderthal

it just keeps going, too!

D'Yer Maker is probably LZ's worst song to begin with, that crappy pun on down.

I bear no malice at all towards Sheryl Crow but I doubt she can redeem it

quite enjoying this so far, when the 90s are rescued this is the lead camel thru the needles' eye

ugh i mean needle's

an album with three tracks by women people have heard of (Never The Bride doesn't count), and those three tracks get DOUBLE the votes of everyone else combined

somehow Hootie pains me the worst because I'm convinced 90% of people thought (and likely still think) that was a Hootie original, being as it was a Zep b-side.

I haven't heard this since it came out and I can't really recall anything about it, I vaguely recall the STP & Helmet/Yow covers, vaugely & this came out when I was peak Rollins Band fan and even I couldn't get it together for them.

But to me the weirdest thing about this is...these are 12 very weird selections for a Zeppelin tribute album, like if you asked me to name 12 Zep songs these wouldn't be the first 12 (except for "Good Times Bad Times") I would think of

Oh shit, I just realized I never posted this here: this comp was the first time I heard Hootie and, as noted, theirs was a pretty solid cover and I bought their album sight unseen on that basis. WHOOPS.

Nina Persson cover of "Whole Lotta Love" kicks ass but that was only performed live afaik

This tribute was a huge missed opportunity to get PJ Harvey to cover "The Lemon Song"

Still get worked up about this:

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, January 7, 2009 2:38 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WELL THEN MAYBE DON'T SING THE SONG ABOUT OWLS CRYING IN THE NIGHT, THEN, HENRY. FFS.

I had no idea that was what that song was about

Yeah, it's about owls crying because someone stole their sticks (four of them). Duh.

doves cry, owls hoot, rollins otm from a sub-editor's perspective

an album with three tracks by women people have heard of (Never The Bride doesn't count), and those three tracks get DOUBLE the votes of everyone else combined

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, March 9, 2017 12:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh come on. the musical reasons for disliking the Four Non Blondes version of this song (and them as a musical act) are well known over ILX. and the Sheryl Crow cover is just bad - fairly sure most of the people ITT have defended/liked many other songs of hers.

The Tori song only got 2.

and it isn't like the male tracks were lauded with praise. the whole album took a beating.

*well established on this thread and other threads of ILX, more what I meant to say.

would bet if Heart's version of "Battle of Evermore" was on this thing, nobody woulda given it a vote.

Vastly prefer the Amos cover of 'Thank U' to her number on this comp.

Frankly, LZ shouldn't have even done D'yer M'aker