I'm a music fiend.
I think that might have already been established by my semi-drunken love posting of Imogen Heap's song.
Now! There is an up and comer, Andrew Paul Woodworth, who is working on his first album and he has a cover of "Fight for Your Right" that is interesting and rather haunting. Here is a link to download it for free for the next 24 hours.
Enjoy!
ETA: From one response, I feel I guess I should forewarn that the song is completely different and essentially a brand-new song, rather than a Beastie Boy's version. It's cool though.
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Dude...that's just too weird!
Yah. Bad weird.
It is more than a "different" version of a Beastie Boys song. It's a bad version of a Beastie Boys song. How did they allow that to be made and how can you suggest it?
I think it's a great version. They totally made it their own. Had I not known it was a Beastie Boys song before I would have thought it an original.
Not all covers should be cookie cutter versions that's why they're covers. That's the great thing about music, that it can be bended and tisted into something new.
That would be twisted not "tisted"
I agree that a cover doesn't have to be a "cookie cutter version" of the original. Still it should be GOOD. This version is a guy whining slowly into a microphone. I don't see how slowing the piece down and mumbling can be considered a step forward.
alright...here goes something.
music is art. good art forces the viewer (or in this case, the listener) to ask questions. it will never provide an answer to any questions. that is up the viewer.
good music is the same thing. it must make you ask questions. all that time i spent in college listening to the dead did just that. and in asking the questions and thinking about them, i discovered my own answers.
so, can you actually say that this song doesn't make you ask any questions? to me really, the guy sounds like he's in some sort of pain. it doesn't have the angsty sound of the Beastie Boys' original that fueled my teenage years. while the original comes from a place of misunderstanding and rebellion, the cover comes from a place of sadness and loneliness. why all the gloominess?
so, yeah, the song makes me think. no, it doesn't contribute to my growth as much as the original did (i was a jaded, angst-ridden teenager). but to purely dismiss it b/c it doesn't vibe with you isn't fair. Whistler doesn't vibe with me, but I would never call him a bad artist. he forces me to ask questions.
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