which song would you cover if you were in a downtuned doom band? Here is my new wave doom cover entry I just finished, its Sweet Dreams: https://youtu.be/hz-4U0nigFs
Shout by Tears fo Fears
Or
Do you really want to hurt me by Culture Club
good call on culture club.
duran duran - hungry like the wolf.
thats pretty killer, I like the Shout by Tears fo Fears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEWwZNUafKo
but the others are great too, I cant understand the culture club song tho even though I know its a well known song lol
fuckin a, what a great idea haha.
Me, being THEE True Clown Prince of the Dork, I would go with "oh mickey you're so fine"
if I really was going to take a serious shot at this I would go with Blondie's catalog. they did it all. rapture is amazing..that cool Caribbean cover "the tide is high.." wtf its name is
ALSO, check out bob Marley's exodus. exodus is a super powerful song..i mean super powerful. that needs to be covered too (not new wave, but it did show up right at the start/middle of all that)
I think a contemporary pop song like that Pink tune about i'm comin' up ..we're looking trashy in my Mercedes benz etc he would be funny. that song has attitude out the ass, so maybe it has potential.
I personally like the party/dance tunes. I have loved electronica since the dawn of electronica and anything rowdy-dancy, so I would take a shot at black eeyed peas "i got a feeling", no doubt's "hella good", even good old Mambo Number 5 rules. also black keys lonely boy..
ABBA...there's a shitload of proto-dance music all with a driving beat, should be easy to slow those way down
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i'm already doing a super doomed slowed down version of john mellonhead's "Rain on the plow" because of that cool rolling beat that I think he swiped from a springstein song.
heh, should sound cool like a big slow booming machine. I found the tractor idle recording I like..that took a couple days of listening to tractor idle videos. but I snagged it and cut out a perfect 4 measure loop.
in reaper you can actually adjust the temp without messing up the pitch like tape deck speed changes would do. so I can tweak that until it hits the groove I am looking for
then I have to figure out wtf to do next.
Always thought that scarecrow song would sound cool heavy. Good call I'd like to hear that. Id like to do songs where most of the heavy lifting is done for me (ie minor chord progressions) so I don't have to reimagine it too much.
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Disturbed....arguably one of the worst bands of the past 15 years covered Shout. And I wouldn't cover Sweet Dreams just because Manson did it already.
Just my 2 cents
thanks I dont think anyone is jumping on sweet dreams lol
I like manson alot and saw him last year and admit of wanting to do Personal Jesus like him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6fyhZ0G5E
Please God, erase Depeche (com)Mode from the memory of mankind. Thank you.
Quote from: Dangling Fury on February 27, 2016, 09:38:40 AM
Always thought that scarecrow song would sound cool heavy. Good call I'd like to hear that. Id like to do songs where most of the heavy lifting is done for me (ie minor chord progressions) so I don't have to reimagine it too much.
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For the longest time I thought the lryics were "Brain on the Scarecrow Blood on the Plow" which made me think it was a song about the Farmer killing himself on yhe Job.....might make a cool alternate take on the song?
something by Sisters of Mercy might work.
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way (this one could absolutely rule)
INXS - Don't Change
Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away
Dramarama - Anything, Anything
Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
Anything by the Vyllies would be great. They were so witchy and dark.
One of these girls performed on Celtic Frost's Tristesses De La Lune.
Quote from: RacerX on February 27, 2016, 08:01:45 PM
something by Sisters of Mercy might work.
hell yeah
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Love & Rockets - So Alive.
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead - In true doom fashion, it's over 9 minutes long.
Depeche Mode - Clean (it's nearly doom already)
Safety Dance
Love and Rockets - Motorcycle. Great song as is, but would work at a slower tempo.
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That is a much better take on it
"How Soon Is Now" by The Smiths
I can't fucking stand Morrissey but that song is pretty awesome.
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A super slowed down version of The Cars - Shake It Up
Quote from: Submarine on February 28, 2016, 07:30:42 AM
Love and Rockets - Motorcycle. Great song as is, but would work at a slower tempo.
one of my old bands used to do this one. great tune
I suggest something by Romeo Void, Adam Ant or Jim Carroll band.
I was thinking "I might like you better if we slept together" by RomeoVoid.
Ashes to Ashes
Turning Japanese
Cameo - Word Up
the valley girl soundtrack, take your pick:
A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls
Johnny, Are You Queer? - Josie Cotton
Eyes Of A Stranger - Payolas
Angst In My Pants - Sparks
Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work
Everywhere At Once - The Plimsouls
I La La La Love You - Pat Travers' Black Pearl
He Could Be The One - Josie Cotton
Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs
Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) - The Flirts
The Fanatic - Felony
She Talks In Stereo - Gary Myrick & The Figures
Oldest Story In The World - The Plimsouls
School Is In - Josie Cotton
I Melt With You - Modern English
Girls Like Me - Bonnie Hayes With The Wild Combo
Eaten By The Monster Of Love - Sparks
Mickey - Toni Basil
Zero Hour (Original Version) - The Plimsouls
He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - Bananarama
In The Name Of Love - Thompson Twins
The Earthquake Song - Little Girls
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me - Culture Club
Cool Places - Sparks & Jane Wiedlin
Town Called Malice - The Jam
I Eat Cannibals - Total Coelo
Time To Win - Gary Myrick & The Figures
Voo Doo - Rachel Sweet
Marina Men - Valley Girls
Pocket Pool - Killer Pussy
Shelly's Boyfriend - Bonnie Hayes With The Wild Combo
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio"
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Not exactly new wave, but Crowded House "Don't Dream It's Over" is a great song.
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Something off the first Psychedelic Furs album (Sister Europe maybe).
Whores. are covering "Jumping Someone Else's Train" by the Cure.
What about something by the Stranglers like "Tank", "Nice & Sleazy" or "In the Shadows"
"I wish I had Joshhomme's girl"
Sex Dwarf by Soft Cell
Did anybody say "Cities in Dust" by Siouxie and the Banshees yet?
Speaking of Siouxsie and the Banshees, a song I've always wanted to hear a doom band cover is "Night Shift":
Quote from: jibberish on March 01, 2016, 09:06:52 PM
"I wish I had Joshhomme's girl"
That's actually true. :(
The 2nd album by the Cure "17 Seconds" is already pretty doomy - probably some good picks there.
-a whole billy idol album at half speed..and an octave lower
I guess that would turn into a double album heh.
-blondie songs using a wicked witch voice
-quarter speed rockabilly. call it "glacialbilly"
haha..quarter speed polka. call it "fucked up"
.........zydeadco......
blackgrass
ok that's gone far enough off track...
Not New Wave, but pretty fucking Doom.
Bronski Beat - Small Town Boy
Jesus & Mary Chain would probably work pretty well. Not a big enough fan to say which song, but they're fairly droney as-is.
Country Death Song by the Violent Femmes, although I doubt it could be improved upon.
ok, I found a good way to sample some of these songs to see what they would sound like all sludged up down.
1) find the karaoke video and copy the audio (using newest audacity and the hawt WASABI audio driver in windows
2) put the track into reaper and use the straight slowdown that also drops the frequency and cut it to 50%
3) run that live take feature and generate a new 1/2 speed audio track to play with
it seems like it is all about the beat once it gets slowed beyond the original feel of the song.
auto-sub-octave bass is always a nice bonus heh. and damn do drums get godzilla sounding.. maybe this is a new heavy music trick:
record drums at 2x tempo, then slow that track down to re-match original tempo and the drums get huge
Quote from: black on March 28, 2016, 12:06:44 PM
Not New Wave, but pretty fucking Doom.
that's pretty crazy. there are some chunks in there that are extra crazy
... Ah may have to borry on some o them sounds , uhhh yup
I did the B-52's "Lava". Heavy, but not doom, but I could see it slowed down and done all doomy AF. In fact, when I have some time, I'll check out what my version sounds like all slowed down.
Our Lips Are Sealed.
Again not exactly new wave or from the new wave era, but "Fade To Dust" by Mazzy Star would be not only be absolutely crushingly heavy played in DooM style, but would probably also move the crowd to tears in a good way.
I want to marry Hope Sandoval and would not mind dying to that song at all.
Edit: Jesus Christ. I am covered in goose flesh just thinking about that song.
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Ehhh.
Always like the music but was never a fan of her.
Saw M.S. and she was an annoying and threw an unnecessary fit at sound-check, then refused to play with ANY lights on. Just two silly candles.
(http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/20130820-mazzy-x624-1377024520.jpg)
No thanks.
that major tom song (peter shilling not bowie's space oddity from the ?60's???)
I ran ...flock of seagulls
dead man's party oingo boingo