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Scarab Sages

Maamme (Finnish National Anthem)

Johan Ludvig Runeberg and Fredrik Pacius


Rock n Roll Dreams'll Come Through

Ted Leo covering Barry Dworkin

...which I found linking around from Vattnisse and his Jim Steinman BadForGood song on the other page.


Lost in Your Eyes

Debbie Gibson

Speaking of quintessential '80s, was it Debbie Gibson or Tiffany who built her name with a cross-country tour of shopping malls?

Shadow Lodge

Die & Rise
Lacuna Coil

Scarab Sages

Let's Impeach the President

Neil Young

Grand Lodge

I think it was Tiffany who toured malls. It's not that unusual - Britney Spears did the same thing later, and one of the more embarassing jobs I've had was working security for Aaron Carter when he played in a mall in Oslo. Speaking of Tiffany - I had no idea that I Think We're Alone Now was a cover. Here is the far superior original. Staying on the covers theme...

Youf Juice

A Bad Brains original, covered here by Entombed

Scarab Sages

Bless Us All

Miles Goodman and Paul Williams

Note the distinctive early 1990s synthesizer beneath the lyrics and other instruments - I never really noticed it before.


You're right, Vatnisse, the original is better...

Green Acres Theme Song

Vic Mizzy


More Than One Way To Love A Woman

Raydio

Grand Lodge

One more cover. I think Jello kept most of the lyrics...

Rawhide

Dead Kennedys


Drive

The Cars

Still stuck in the '80s...


Call On My Brothers

IGNITE

Scarab Sages

In The Ghetto

Elvis Presley

Grand Lodge

The Perfect Kiss

New Order

Scarab Sages

Name That Reference!

Nice, Nice, Very Nice

Ambrosia


I found this cover a little while back; nothing transformative, and I personally don't like this type of vocal style, but it's OK.

All Through the Night

Sleeping at Last

Grand Lodge

Sheriff Fatman

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

Scarab Sages

Casino Night Zone

Masato Nakamura


Nautilus

Bob James


Just the Way You Are

Alexa Ray Joel

Grand Lodge

Johnny Panic And The Bible Of Dreams

Tears For Fears


Factory Girl

Rolling Stones

Scarab Sages

Rockin' In The Free World

Neil Young

Grand Lodge

You Keep Me Hangin' On

Kim Wilde

Look at all that hair. I mean, look at that. Wow.

I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:

Name That Reference!

Nice, Nice, Very Nice

Ambrosia

Before I forget - is it Kurt Vonnegut? One of his books (Cat's Cradle? Welcome To The Monkey House? I don't remember...) had some musical things in it, and the title rings a small bell...


Yeah, Vatnisse, I think if anyone wants to know where the hole in the ozone layer came from, you could show them that video (or anything from 80's Bonnie Tyler and footage of hair metal) and explain about Aqua Net.

We Belong

Pat Benatar

Kind of an anti-big hair 80s star; though in the video, it still seems as if she makes as much volume as she can with what she has.


Bang Go the Bells

Babylon A.D.

Grand Lodge

Black Star

Carcass

Bill Steer is the god-emperor of riffs. This song is directly responsible for my intermittent unsuccessful attempts to teach myself to play guitar.


Crazy Train

Skid Row (or possibly, after looking at the comments, Sebastian Bach solo)


Still Im Sad

Rainbow covering Yardbirds


Reflektor

Arcade Fire

Grand Lodge

Fire Fire

Motörhead

One of my favourite 'Head songs. Rock on!

Scarab Sages

Mississippi Goddam

Nina Simone


Neon Knights

Twisted Sister covering Dio's Sabbath


Think

Information Society

Scarab Sages

L'Internationale (Definitely A Revolution With Dancing Edition)

Tony Babino

Oh, yes - Vatnisse: The book was Cat's Cradle.

Grand Lodge

The Sun Always Shines On TV

A-Ha

After this one came out, several of the girls in my class stopped liking A-Ha, because "they weren't into heavy metal"...


Aie A Mwana

Bananarama


*Facepalms on Vattnisse's behalf*

Black Day

Depeche Mode

Grand Lodge

The same argument was deployed against Dire Straits' Money For Nothing. Yes, both songs have snazzy guitar parts, but come on... Now this is heavy metal:

Dissident Aggressor

Judas Priest


Jump

Bruce Springsteen

I'm not quite sure what to make of this...

Grand Lodge

This is a nice song by an insufferably twee band. However, the video is an all-time classic. BTW, did they ever make it to the US? When I lived in England you couldn't take two steps without bumping into these twerps.

Sing

Travis

As for The Boss covering Van Halen... I've never gotten into VH. Leaving aside the facts of Eddie and Dave's horribly deformed personalities, I just don't like the music much. Some nice riffs, but Eddie's solos suck and are needlessly showy, the choruses are usually just so-so and the lyrics are insultingly stupid (and I'm a WASP fan, sorta). I actually thought they got much better once they got Sammy Hagar on vocals. How about that for some flame-war trolling?


Travis was 'something' in the Midwest for about 120 Minutes...heh. Might have been bigger on the coasts.

[ooc]There is only one VH for me and it died after 1984. I agree they are all babies and yes some of their stuff was needlessly noodling, but the stuff after 1984 was so full of 'righteousness' and not even a little silly. I like some silliness in that kind of rock. (That was what I missed most with the Bush-led Anthrax, too. Though I like pretty much all of Anthraxs output better than VH.) I do like a couple tracks off each of the VanHagar records, but I dont any except 5150. I liked Hagar for those Montrose up thru VOA era songs. I watched some of the reunion stuff on YouTube and its ok. I dont even remember the Cherrone stuff. Ive always wondered about the Mitch Malloy tapes and if those will ever surface.

And Im saying NO to that VH cover. And with that, heres another questionable subject. Non Makeup KISS.

Trial By Fire

KISS

Grand Lodge

I don't mind a bit of noodling - I like these guys quite a bit, for example, and I'm the biggest Opeth fan you're likely to encounter. Having said that, Eddie's solos are just spiky noise that have no connections to the rest of the songs, and, once you cue in on it, their tempo-change-during-the-solo trick gets tiresome real fast.

I didn't grow up with VH, which obviously makes a huge difference. I think the first album I heard with them was 5150. To me the Dave/Hagar acrimony (still in full force at my local rock radio station) is like the weird Motorhead purists who still pine for Fast Eddie Clarke's return, nevermind that Phil Campbell has been the 'Head axeman for 31 years now.

The Kingdom Of Rain

The The, with Sinead O'Connor on guest vox

KISS without makeup... Hmmmmm.... I had a buddy at university who described himself as a "huge KISS fan", and his favourite album was Crazy Nights. As my VH meanderings show, there's apparently no accounting for taste. One final funny/pathetic VH/KISS factoid - Alex van Halen apparently had a crippling need to have a bigger drumkit than Peter Criss. Of all things to be insecure about, being a less impressive drummer than the Catman has to rank pretty high up there...


The Needle Lies

Queensryche

I'm don't have nearly the metal cred you two do, Nomad and Vatnisse. My experience with hard rock/metal began with The Scorpions (no idea where they fall in the musicality spectrum) and eventually gravitated more toward bands like Dokken and Queensryche, with more operatic vocals. Mostly, my personal experience runs more toward electronica, with a nod to industrial (Depeche Mode, Mesh, Nine Inch Nails, et. al.).

Grand Lodge

Quick Fix

Ministry

Industrial it is! Not my fave Ministry track, but it does start with Q...

I got into the harder stuff waaaaay back at the age of 10 or so primarily because I liked to draw, and I loved tracing the logos of metal bands, especially Iron Maiden and Metallica. I was nuts enough about music that I spent the years between leaving the army and going to grad school working as a roadie and stage tech. I'm tired of the lifestyle, though - I like comfy beds and edible food. These days I enjoy music from a distance.


Mein Herz

Ooomph!

As Mtv brought out the grunge movement and killed new metal/rock vids, I ran to industrial and ska (though I liked Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains).

Scorps, Dokken, and Queensryche are all fantastic bands, Readerbreeder! Still listen to all of those tracks.

I tried to do a poster of all those logos too. Meh, but I thought it was badass at the time...and drummer envy is probably right, though Nikko's and Peart's sets have to leave those 2 guys in the dust.

Scarab Sages

Speaking of "monsters of rock"....How. F#!*ing. Long. Does it take. To read. 5. F~*$ING. WORDS?!?

Over At The Frankenstein Place

Richard O'Brien

Grand Lodge

Sweet FSM, I love that movie.

Over The Hills And Far Away

The original by Gary Moore is one of the defining musical touchstones of my childhood. This, however, is Nightwish's face-meltingly awful cover version.


Nobody's Fool

Cinderella


China Girl

Iggy Pop

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