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Cure Cover - 100 Years
- Thread starter Cloneboy Studio
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From now on I'm only posting my own personal work/music. There are too many limitations for recording and mixing other people's work.
Vocals and bass were a friend. Everything else was me.
Vocals and bass were a friend. Everything else was me.
Big surprise you'd give it the thumbs down. 
jake-owa said:
Granted you may not like the vocals (after all--who sounds like Robert Smith except Robert Smith?), but sonically this crushes the original. (Granted it was recorded in 1982 in a not-so-top-notch studio and probably deliberately left fairly raw.)
I think you just have sour grapes.
jake-owa
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Well, amazing, you almost nailed the quality level of their 82 crap recording...not quite but close. Big deal, you are not adding a thing to the song by covering it. So what's the point?
What would I have sour grapes over? I don't like people covering stuff half assed, especially when it's my favorite artist. All this shows is that you can listen to a recording and TRY to copy it.
Covers suck, go write something worth a damn.
What would I have sour grapes over? I don't like people covering stuff half assed, especially when it's my favorite artist. All this shows is that you can listen to a recording and TRY to copy it.
Covers suck, go write something worth a damn.
jake-owa said:
You are such an idiot. Anyone that has heard the original *KNOWS* that this is miles ahead production-wise.
Truth is you have nothing positive to say--EVER, and bring NOTHING to the table... just like all losers.
*ENGAGING IGNORE MODE*
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Cloneboy Studio said:
Well, if I may add.. I don't know the original too well, but I do recognize the vocals, at leas the attempt to sound simmilar. May I be the first co compliment your vocalist-friend for getting close to something that is basically unreachable..
I like it..
I know this posting is older - but I just came up on it.
Sonically - the quality is great. Although it appeared to lean to the left side a bit - but maybe those are my headphones. And it does blow the original version away in terms of fidelity. But I dig old post punk recordings for their lack of depth - they were pioneering - naive - dangerous - cool. Now days, bands are trying to cop that sound whilst using all the great studio advances and it feels insincere in a way. But I would take Franz Ferdinand over Switchfoot any day, dig?
Pornography is my favorite record by the Cure next to Disintegration - so I am very familiar with this track. First off - and this is a matter of perspective - it was too orthodox a cover to be really interesting. And in Cloneboy's defense - that doesn't mean its a bad cover...Infact - he could easily pass it off as a great "real" recording of the Cure live - it sounds very close to the version played on Trilogy DVD - or when I saw them last summer - just big and full. They have been playing Pornography cuts for the last few years - 100 Years in particular - they play it heavier than the 82 disc when out on the road.
I think Cloneboy's recording is good - even appropriately "muddy" in places - and Pornography is very murky at times. So - I am not knocking this effort. In fact - its hard to deviate from such a great signature sound and arrangement. I would cover Figurehead myself - and I probably wouldn't change much except for some instrument arrangement.
And non-Cure fans should just cut the track some slack. If you aren't familiar with their early material - then this effort may be lost on you.
Cloneboy - what guitar setup are you using for the Smith sound, yo?
Sonically - the quality is great. Although it appeared to lean to the left side a bit - but maybe those are my headphones. And it does blow the original version away in terms of fidelity. But I dig old post punk recordings for their lack of depth - they were pioneering - naive - dangerous - cool. Now days, bands are trying to cop that sound whilst using all the great studio advances and it feels insincere in a way. But I would take Franz Ferdinand over Switchfoot any day, dig?
Pornography is my favorite record by the Cure next to Disintegration - so I am very familiar with this track. First off - and this is a matter of perspective - it was too orthodox a cover to be really interesting. And in Cloneboy's defense - that doesn't mean its a bad cover...Infact - he could easily pass it off as a great "real" recording of the Cure live - it sounds very close to the version played on Trilogy DVD - or when I saw them last summer - just big and full. They have been playing Pornography cuts for the last few years - 100 Years in particular - they play it heavier than the 82 disc when out on the road.
I think Cloneboy's recording is good - even appropriately "muddy" in places - and Pornography is very murky at times. So - I am not knocking this effort. In fact - its hard to deviate from such a great signature sound and arrangement. I would cover Figurehead myself - and I probably wouldn't change much except for some instrument arrangement.
And non-Cure fans should just cut the track some slack. If you aren't familiar with their early material - then this effort may be lost on you.
Cloneboy - what guitar setup are you using for the Smith sound, yo?