Good cover versions of new order songs
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U gotta love this BLT : somebody sample those pans!
Del Boy wrote: U gotta love this BLT : somebody sample those pans!
that was beyond horrible..
are you sure this wasn't supposed to be one of the worst covers? maybe we need a separate thread.
i don't think people get the idea.
later -1
negative1 wrote:
that was beyond horrible..
are you sure this wasn't supposed to be one of the worst covers? maybe we need a separate thread.
i don't think people get the idea.
later -1
To be honest with you, I think this thread is incorrectly titled. It would be more accurate to call it: "Reproductions of NO songs in Fruity Loops that try to sound as similar to the original as possible". But that doesn't necessarily constitute a good cover version. I would suggest that most of these are only of interest to fellow amateur 'producers'; not so much to others. Call me biased but I would also suggest that the only good cover version on this thread is the one I posted on page 1 - The Afgan Whigs cover of Regret. And it's good precisely because it doesn't just try to ape the original. (EDIT: actually the State Shirt and Radiohead covers are decent too) Del Boy's vid above may be a little rough around the edges but it does at least have a sense of fun & originality about it, unlike most of these FL covers. Time to rename the thread perhaps?
(Maybe even split the thread up: Non FL covers in a proper cover versions thread, all the FL recreations in one place that most of us can ignore.)
Debaser wrote:
negative1 wrote:
that was beyond horrible..
are you sure this wasn't supposed to be one of the worst covers? maybe we need a separate thread.
i don't think people get the idea.
later -1
To be honest with you, I think this thread is incorrectly titled. It would be more accurate to call it: "Reproductions of NO songs in Fruity Loops that try to sound as similar to the original as possible". But that doesn't necessarily constitute a good cover version. I would suggest that most of these are only of interest to fellow amateur 'producers'; not so much to others. Call me biased but I would also suggest that the only good cover version on this thread is the one I posted on page 1 - The Afgan Whigs cover of Regret. And it's good precisely because it doesn't just try to ape the original. (EDIT: actually the State Shirt and Radiohead covers are decent too) Del Boy's vid above may be a little rough around the edges but it does at least have a sense of fun & originality about it, unlike most of these FL covers. Time to rename the thread perhaps?
(Maybe even split the thread up: Non FL covers in a proper cover versions thread, all the FL recreations in one place that most of us can ignore.)
at least these sound like new order.
none of those other ones even come close.
later -1
A good cover version isn't meant to sound like a cheap software facsimile of the original; it's meant to bring something new to the party. It's not Del Boy who doesn't understand what a good cover version is, it's you!
If you honestly think that Radiohead don't do a better cover version than some bedroom producer using FL, then you really are getting the difference between a software facsimile and a proper cover version mixed up.
regardless of what is consider a 'cover', at least you're bringing some discussion to the matter.
i do like string versions if done properly, and i know many other bands have attempted to do cover songs, although i don't like any with female lead vocalists though..
i guess, i like the fact, these are like instrumentals of songs that new order could have done, and some of them could actually pass for the real things maybe.... anyways..
these actually take a lot of work, and effort to get the sound and notes right.
most covers sound like poor drunken karaoke, that have no thought or effort put into them, and thats the vast majority of them.
here's regret:
regret:
later -1
Alongside the strings, the piano does it for me. Here's a Ceremony not long uploaded.
Quite majestic really - reminds me of 80's/90's US TV theme tunes in a way - Hill Street Blues anyone?!
Relates to a thread I raised re MIF set list. If they did the likes of Ceremony on piano/synths that that would be reworking worthy of the description!
Enjoy...
Two covers from me:
Now here's something: 1963 - enjoy, love the dude on the right.
Not quite the same as the version for MIF coming up (just guessing/hoping):
Since nobody mentioned them - Chemical Brothers do a nice temptation cover / sample / intro to star guitar. I like it a lot.
Lots of vids on youtube from live bros shows where they incorporate more or less of the song. ![[rolling]](/emoticons/rolling.gif){kind=small}
jlaw wrote: Since nobody mentioned them - Chemical Brothers do a nice temptation cover / sample / intro to star guitar. I like it a lot.
Lots of vids on youtube from live bros shows where they incorporate more or less of the song.
Ah yes, I mentioned this on a different thread a looong time ago. You can buy that Brixton live version on The American EP they released back in 2002. Here's a Japanese version that appeared as a bonus on the Chem's '93-'03 DVD:
It was as recently as 2016 when they started incorporating some of Bernards vocals too - and running them through a vocoder, which is a bit too cheesy for me. Like THIS & THIS . I have to say that even if you think this is too much, it's worth catching the Chems live at least once in your life. They put on a great audio-visual spectacular. It's like doing drugs without the drugs!
Wait a minute, why didn't they trawl through YouTube for a Fruity Loops recreation? Perhaps they wanted to hear an original sounding cover version (?). Send them yours!
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Michael Monkhouse wrote: WTF?
You mised this the first time round? (post #86) You missed it the 1 and a halfth time round?
Your fandom ain't what it used to be MM.
I haven't been a superfan since the mud-90s. It was a combination of four factors... Living outside the UK pre-Internet made it hard to track down new releases. Moving from one shitty bedshit to another I found vinyl too bulky. I was sick of London's policy of accompanying every newbie with 460976875564564 rip-offs. My personal favourite was two years to track down Lionrock's third 1963 remix when it had fuck all New Order in it - my fault cos the two official mixes should've warned me. Duh. Obsessing over a band is a tad adolescent. When you get to my age you develop more mature interests like philosophy, psychology and Melanie C. (This is a joke. Philosopy is boring. So is psychology.)
errors' cover of "the village" is sublime.
edit: omg, that's my shirt in the pic, but not me in it. i looked at it and thought i had a mastectomy! maybe i'll change it.
There was a band that did a cover of All The Way at Reading 1993 and absolutely butchered it.
Think they were called New Order or something.
Since someone mentions the Errors cover I was reminded of this whole album which is remarkably strong https://www.discogs.com/Various-Power-Corruption-Lies-Covered/release/3322279
Edit: there are 30 second previews of every track on that album here: https://soundcloud.com/mojomagazine/sets/power-corruption-lies-covered
I'm contemplating dumping it onto archive.org's music collection since it's not available to buy any more (although it's cheap 2nd hand on discogs)
