i've always found pop covers of metal songs fascinating as they clearly draw out the original creator's intended melody and reveal the pop underpinnings of metal (standard verse-chorus song structures, for example), and The Cardigan's cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath comes close to being one of my favorite renovations.
Of course, you could throw in Soft Cell's cover of Tainted Love, Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of Blinded by the Light, Charles Bradley's cover of Changes, etc.
@optilude Cupcake. I quite like the design of the knurled one, but the very clean white seems to clash with the pickups and pickguard; in the opposite direction, the stratty knobs are too yellowed to fit in.
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE
Diary
2017 U.S. 2xLP Ltd. Ed. Reissue
A monster album for me when I was in high school.
Being a total devotee of all things Sub Pop in the #90s , this one hit me in a way that none of the label’s other releases at the time.
I remember buying it on tape, & it taking me at least a week to get past the first 3 songs, because I kept rewinding it after Song For An Angel and playing those 3 over & over.
@TheVinylApe First three songs really are the best on the album. The rest of the album's still solid, but I find they all start to kind of blend together after those first few for me.
Godsdamn it, Pittsburgh Modular, if you could stop making badass synths that I feel like I can't live without for a while, that'd be great!
(This is in reference to the new Voltage Lab 2, as well as last year's Taiga, to a lesser degree.)
Especially since they're not cheap 😅
(No shade intended, I KNOW they're actually very cheap for what all they can do, but the raw cost is eye-watering to a indie artist who doesn't make $10's of thousands a year from music making.)
@dinosaurgerms Post what you want to! There's no reason to censor yourself to cater to other people's interests. It's your account, you decide what's on it.
Can definitely recommend Since I Left You and Wildflower. We Will Always Love You hasn't clicked with me the way the other two have, but I've been meaning to give it another shot.
@Strider Really makes you question how places like The Onion stay in business. I guess they're closer to fortune tellers than comedians at this point, aren't they?