I feel like if they were going to obviously rip off the song, they could have at least tried to add the same emotion when they say “I will watch over you”. The above just sounds like a boring cover of the original. On the other hand, the commercial is pretty moving with the song.

To be honest, I was kinda sad that I See A Darkness was changed to 4/4 time, and the tone was changed so dramatically. It used to be such a perfect song, and now I feel it has lost a lot of the original feeling that made it so heart breaking.

Upvote him to 0. All he is trying to do is get the lowest rating each week.

No Outside Lands? Maybe I am biased because I live in SF, but I am ridiculously excited by their lineup this year.

Holy shit, thanks for telling me about this festival. How can you seriously say no to Girls, No Age, The Weakerthans, Japandroids, Ty Segall, Strange Boys, Olivia Tremor Control, Explosions in the Sky, OFF!. Definitely considering the 5 hours drive for this.

The band is amazing (one of my favorite to live bands), however I was really disappointed with Be the Void. Although it is not a bad album, it only has a few really great songs. I felt that Shame Shame was just leagues ahead of Be the Void. With that said, I am absurdly excited to see them again at Outside Lands

It’s better to burn out than to fade away?

Part of me is ridiculously excited by this, but another part does not want it to happen, and keep the mysticism of Loveless alive.

Michael is at least interesting, I seriously read through all of his long rants, because they are well written. RubberJohnny is predictable and boring, like most trolls. I would take Michael on a tantrum any day of the week over RubberJohnny.

This is definitely a grower of an album. To be honest, I (who knows little about metal) feel the album is not original enough to truly astound me, and has nothing truly original enough that I could differentiate it from other albums made in 1995. Sure I can here the CoC influences (it does remind me of Wise Blood), but feel that the mastering of the album takes away from any of truly genius moments, having drowned out all of the instruments, or maybe Spotify’s just low quality….. Either way, based on my first listen, I just do not feel like this bring enough to the table to truly differentiate it from so many other metal albums out there.

I guess I can agree with the “no such thing as a true cover” to an extent, however there is no question that there are original takes on covers, and those that feel like covering artist is not contributing. A great example of this would be Jimi Hendrix’ version of “All Along The Watchtower” or even remixes, such as Wise Blood’s version of “Someday”. To be honest, even Rod Stewart’s version of “Downtown Trains” was exceptional given that he changed the feel of the song. There are also cases where nothing has changed song wise, except the singer, and even then, the difference is so small, the cover feels flat.

Sadly, a number of artist do not have control over who get’s permission to cover their track (the record company does). Even those that do have a right to be disappointed by the outcome. Think about it this way, Gotye could have been expecting something more original or a completely different take, something Glee has done many times in the past.

I can respect Gotye in this case. He is not complaining about Glee in general, but rather how they performed his song, believing that they did not do it justice. Although it may have propelled the single, it is not wrong to wish that the best version of the song was put forth. I know many musicians get pissed off when the radio fucks up the EQ on their songs, even though they are getting free publicity, so I can only imagine how someone would feel when their biggest hit is “ruined” in front of a wide audience.

Although far from the best, Heavy Metal Drummer makes me ridiculously happy every time I hear it. Radio Cure is my favorite, every time I hear the line “Oh, distance has no way of making love understandable” breaks me heart.