what new wave song to cover for a doom band?

[everdrone]

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

[spookstrickland]

Shout by Tears fo Fears

Or

Do you really want to hurt me by Culture Club

[mortlock]

good call on culture club.

duran duran - hungry like the wolf.

[everdrone]

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

[jibberish]

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.

[Dangling Fury]

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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[dogfood]

[bbottom]

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

[everdrone]

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

[dogfood]

Please God, erase Depeche (com)Mode from the memory of mankind.  Thank you.

[spookstrickland]

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?

[RacerX]

something by Sisters of Mercy might work.

[zachoff]

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

[bitter]

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.

[Dangling Fury]

something by Sisters of Mercy might work.

hell yeah


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[zachoff]

Love & Rockets - So Alive.

[zachoff]

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead - In true doom fashion, it's over 9 minutes long.

[Submarine]

Depeche Mode - Clean (it's nearly doom already)

[Pissy]

Safety Dance

[Submarine]

Love and Rockets - Motorcycle.  Great song as is, but would work at a slower tempo.

[bbottom]

[/quote]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?
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That is a much better take on it

[Danny G]

"How Soon Is Now" by The Smiths

I can't fucking stand Morrissey but that song is pretty awesome.


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[neighbor664]

A super slowed down version of The Cars - Shake It Up

[eyeprod]

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.

[justJon]

I was thinking "I might like you better if we slept together" by RomeoVoid.