Yeah, yeah you can watch Nine Inch Nails "The Hand that Feeds"
or...you can watch the Blue Lion Marching Band version!!!
...found at your standard life, a darn good music site in its own right.
Anyone else seen something similar, where a rock song was taken out of context, as it were?
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It's one of the greatest crimes of the last 20 years... marching bands trying to do covers for songs that were not written for marching bands.
I cover a lot of junior high and high school games (about 20 games each season) and I have developed a healthy distaste for band.
Well, there is this by the Phoenix Projekt (it might have been run here before). It's the first time I've seen a Britney Spears song covered properly!
On the marching bands doing rock charts--well, you should have seen what we did to them in the mid-1970s. Our band actually did The DeFranco Family song "Heartbeat--It's a Lovebeat" during one show. Despite this, I still love music!
Andy
I just picked up a lot of out of sinc steps.
Anyone else seen something similar, where a rock song was taken out of context, as it were?
About any commerical would do. Reagan's view of Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." is another.
Sit through this made for marching band song if you can http://youtube.com/watch?v=W2IloZFjlvs
Thing Fish stole my thunder....born in the usa was a cry for help from a vietnam vet, and the right absconded with it and turned into some patriotic trype
and i love when marching bands eff up great rock songs...its hilarious
There hasn't been a good song on this site in a while...
This is an embarassment to marching bands everywhere. This is NOT what marching band should be. This is horrible.
Michigan Marching Band: Led Zeppelin Opener
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yTpKjvchfk
2005 University of Arizona Band Day. November 19, 2005.
Evening Performance
"Good Times, Bad Times", "The Ocean", "Heartbreaker"
They even do the formations of LedZep's band members' symbols. Pretty amazing actually.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V1VMkuyx0 (techno-pop)
AND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_8j8k39y0 (the bluegrass version)
RE: justabill @ 9:
oops, that was Arizona's marching band I posted, not Michigan. my bad.
I started to post Michigan's, but AZ was just waaay better. sorry Michigan fans. lol
Similarly by a high school band - "Blister in the Sun". Searching on YouTube, it is apparently not that uncommon. Here is one example.
There hasn’t been a good song on this site in a while…
This'll fix that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAkfHShATKY
There ya go. :)
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What the F does that song have to do with running?
uncle joe mccarthy @ 6:
Sorry about stealing your thunder. But Reagan promoting Born in the U.S.A. as patriotic was for me an unforgettable example of how clueless that news reader was about what he heard.
tip
catch "rock docs - amazing journey: the story of the who" on mhd.
brilliant.
Are we hyping favorite music vids? Here's the Cat Power song from V for Vendetta.
The ones that always get me are in malls and supermarkets, where they play "Dust in the Wind" and "I Started a Joke", thinking that they're lovely Muzak to uplift the shoppers' spirits, but the lyrics are downright depressing.
Well, if a bootleg, or also known as bastardpop, count as well, I know a lot of them. Just try searching for Partyben, Dean gray or GYBO on Youtube. Go on, do it. You'll be surprised.
And I expect some feedback inhere from you all.
Some examples:
The Killers vs. The Clash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BqJ1ndtBMQ
Police vs. Snow patrol = Every car you chase.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVUzCO8jN5A
Chemical Brothers vs. Star Wars! Galvanize the Empire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ReXBLaU3ic
well....i guess there is something wrong with me...i really like the marching band version....maybe it is because where I went to school we didn't have a marching band...
Mr. Bungle is the definition of out of context:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfTjG58P7Ec - My Ass is on Fire !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETIKt9bOXCc - Travolta .... yes, this sounds terrifying!!!
Was looking for a commercial that used DEVO's "Beautiful World" to show the product made life better. No luck.
Did find this: Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO discussing how he inserted the subliminal (in this case in low volume) the words "sugar is bad for you" into a Hawaiian Punch commercial.
My favorite is the Shadow Percussion Project.
Brian Udelhofen from Minnetonka High School in Minnesota thought it'd be cool for his students to learn some DJ Shadow songs....on real instruments.
Here's te original song (ignore the stupid video for it):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ojsb7MAnLmE
Here's the SPP:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HxYNNYoZp9w
NIN sucks!!
Try some Northern State:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmdJimCgWpM
Its on the BlankTV channel...I warn you, you'll spend ours on this one channel.
How about a ten-piece swing band covering a Nirvana song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XadSlzaUEt0
9/11 changed everything.
GonzoD @ 22:
Care to provide examples of their suckitry(SP?)?
Now disturbing, like in the Broken video, yes (not safe for kiddies BTW).
And Whitehouse @ 17:, not big on mash-ups. Only one I really liked was DJ DangerMouse's Grey album. But that was more about a DJ adding to existing lyrics (rather than mixing 2 songs). For example: 99 Problems which used Helter Skelter.
NiN is as old as I. I use to party with them along time ago. I still feel the music.
got a couple tonite...
as i promised last night, here's pete seeger from skippy's late nite music club, along w/doc watson, frank price and clint howard (not ron's brother) doing careless love.
but back to the topic at hand...nin:
johnny cash sings hurt
whitehouse @ 17:
k, i call those mash ups, and i luv them. google dj earworm, or better yet, just go here (i especially like no one takes your freedom - bascially it's george michael v. beatles v. aretha franklin v. scissor sisters).
love police v snow patrol, seen it a while ago.
and along those lines, and on topic: nin v. the beatles - come closer together
I once saw the Abba tribute band Bjorn Again doing their version of "S.O.S." and partway through it turned into the Police's "Message in a Bottle." That was a pretty unexpected delight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqH9UJzd4-0
I loved the HS kids playing the rock and the roll in their marching bands. The kids are having fun! I thought that it was cool as hell and I love the drum lines.
I'm pretty sure Reznor was in his high school's marching band, so maybe it's not so weird that a marching band is playing one of his tunes.
Apocalyptica - The Unforgiven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqUXDdJ3C-c
Also, anything by Richard Cheese, but especially his version of NIN's "Closer":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIRmA4yhvQU
as promised, skippy's late nite music club features pete seegar (call back to last night) along w/doc watson, frank price and clint howard (not ron's brother) doing careless love.
ok, i tried to do these posts all as one post, but it wouldn't take, so please forgive my multiple posting...
more on topic of nin: here's johnny cash doing hurt.
whitehouse, if you like mash ups (or bootlegs as you call them) check out dj earworm.
i especially like his version of no one takes your freedom. it's basically george michael v. aretha franklin v. beatles v. scissor sisters.
but staying on topic here's nine inch nails v. the beatles - come closer together.
EC @ 30:
That jives with a guy I knew who said he graduated from the same high school as Reznor. If I recall this guy's story correctly, Reznor was in the school band (along with this guy). And one day the band was over his grand mother's for dinner or something. Grandma asked around what the other member's were going to do after high school. All had something or other. So after asking all Grandma turns to Reznor and noted something along the line of "All these boys seem to have plans for after high school. How about you Trent?"
Don't know how true the story. Guy told me was the right age. And he did come from Greensboro. But it is one of my few 1-degree of separation stories.
Crap, I meant to tack on this NIN to Mars as a great example of an audio (Sunspot) video (NASA animation) mashup.
(Yea, I've posted it before. I just like it that much!)
How about a 7-part acapella version of Bohemian Rhapsody?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyqpjkCwEI4
Scary part? Kinda love it.
I played in a saxophone quartet a time ago and at a conference I saw a saxophone quartet that was from the Army, I believe (one of the armed forces), they played a radiohead tune for sax quartet it was a decent arrangment, but it was kinda eerie seeing them play it in military garb.
How about Maxwell's gospel flavored cover of NIN's "Closer"? lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDkp07EtOIU
Here's an audiotape of the Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band killing Yes' Roundabout.
From The 365 Days Project, Ubuweb's amazing repository of bizarre musical treasures - curated by Otis Fodder.
The first complete version I've seen was Jeremy Deller, a conceptual artist, who hired a Stockport, UK brass band to do an album of acid house covers. My favorite (one I know you'll love, too!) is Guy Called Gerald's "Voodoo Ray." Masterstroke. Other cover tracks from 808 State and, of course, the KLF.
http://www.faireyband.com/acidbrass.html
This is too cool. Anyone who played in the old marching band, like yours truly, can really appreciate how much damn fun this would be. The musicians get soooo tired of the standard fare, and this one is both challenging and rocking out ! Thanks for sharing! These kids must have one cool, ballsy band director. Good for them. I WISH we could have done something this fun and exciting back in the day - but the best we could hope for was the theme from Star Wars and VSOP.
I know there are thousands out there who can relate.
skippy @ 36:
As if I didn't know him. :) Hahaha!
ldzppln @ 26:
Wooohooooooooooo!!!
Hungry March Band from NYC does a cover of "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath that is pretty good.
The biggest crime is the use of Led Zeppelin by Cadillac.
Nine Inch Nails
The Hand That Feeds
You're keeping in step
In the line
Got your chin held high and you feel just fine
Because you do
What you're told
But inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold
Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?
What if this whole crusade's
A charade
And behind it all there's a price to be paid
For the blood
On which we dine
Justified in the name of the holy and the divine
Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?
So naive
I keep holding on to what I want to believe
I can see
But I keep holding on and on and on and on
Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees? [8X]
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Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz_bCyirfn8
Young At Heart Choir, covering same song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBeFL3qI-n8
I live in Italy, where any American rock song is fair game for commercials. It doesn't matter that the words make no sense w/r/t the product -- most people can't understand the words, and not all producers take the trouble to craft something coherent, so we have lots of wacky examples.. happy active chic people in a mobile phone ad dancing around to the Rolling Stones: "I yai yai yai yai yai yai walk the streets of love, and they're full of tears"!
But the BEST disturbing-context song --I will never forget-- was played at my wedding in Italy. We hired some great musicians and gave them a free hand. When the last, slow, romantic dance came up, we heard the lovely strains of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". :-O They did a great job with the tune, but had no idea what the words meant.
Italians also love the song "YMCA", but hardly anyone knows it's a tribute to gay sex. One night a few years back I was watching a news talk show where they usually have 5-6 politicians plus a couple of 'celebrities' yell and interrupt each other.. but they often introduce some 'light' topic at the end. I don't even remember how it developed but by the closing credits they were all up on their feet and dancing to "YMCA"! It was quite surreal -- mostly 60-70 year-olds in suits, Catholic conservatives among them.
Nothing wrong with a band director mixing it up. Sure, sometimes the kids don't hit it out of the park, but it beats listening to 'West Side Story' for the 8 millionth time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Top0ZUzg5bQ ya ever wake up with a song in your head.....this ones mine this morning.......turn it up
I rather liked it. No, it wasn't the best cover ever, but they were really going for it, and that's what it's all about.
I am a fan of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. Their swing-jazz version of Wuthering Heights [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSed1K-QNMc] is fantastic.
Re: Rock songs out of context
If any of you are bluegrass/americana fans, e.g. Nickel Creek, Robbie Fulks, etc., then check Keller and the Keels. On their latest CD they do a meddly of two Tom Petty songs called "Mary Jane's Last Breakdown;" a version of Pink Floyd's "The Wall, Parts 2 and 3;" and a killer version of an old Grateful Dead song "Loser."
It's well worth the money, and I encourage anyone interested to BUY THE CD. Support these artists. They're not Metallica looking for more bucks.
Kids in marching bands get no respect, except from their marching peers and maybe from their parents. Just like the athletes, they practice every day, they play in the rain and the snow and the same crap the football players play in, and hardly anybody pays attention to them when they perform. But they still do it, because they LIKE it. So if they want to take a Nine Inch Nails song or whatever and blow it to smithereens - even if we think it sucks - I say, let 'em.
And then clap politely when they're done. Someday that might be YOUR kid out there...
I like this song but I'm always amazed how much mileage the riff from "You Really Got Me" has had. (G A A G A G or something similar that).
I think the Ohio State Marching band used to play Clapton's "Cocaine" until the alumni found out.
I always dig it when you hear "The Imperial March" casually playing in the background of football games.
I'm a band director and have used rock for my band almost every season. The arrangement is everything. Bad arrangements = bad cover, no matter how well the band plays. I've found the best way to do this is to get a demo recording of the arrangement and let the kids decide. My kids can spot a bad arrangement in the first 4 measures every time. You also sometimes have to do some creative editing to take the "cheesy factor" out, especially with the endings. We have a great arrangement of Karn Evil 9 that brings them to their feet every time.
Personally, I prefer to hear some rock at halftime instead of the same old stuff from "Cats" over and over.
And yes, Reznor was in his HS marching band. We have the yearbook picture of him, in uniform with trumpet, on the bulletin board in the band room. One of my kids found it on the net about 6 years ago.
The Blue Lion marching band version is tons better.
Spared the insipid 'lyrics' for starters.
Tomasito @ 44 and Gretchen @ 58
You've described much of my HS marching band experience. I was watching a college football game last weekend--I think it was Texas vs Oklahoma St--and hearing one of the bands play the Whites Stripes' Seven Nation Army certainly caught my attention. This thread reminds me of this song.
Tusk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsQHZaqqMQ
Yup. #57's right. The KiNkS "You Really Got Me".
See, the trick to attaining immortality in the rock biz is to write songs that other people steal from 40 years later.
"The British Invasion" - that invented what we now know as the generic 'Rock', boils down to four critically influential bands and six seminal writers. Those bands can be termed The Big Four: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who.
You can list them in any order you choose but that's it in a nutshell.
I don't expect the World to be hearing much about Trent Reznor in 40 years - other than some newspaper noting his passing - as an afterthought.
Late Night Music Club with Nine Inch Nails
I hope they never had to scratch their nuts.
So whatever happened to Icehouse?
Sorry I'm late!
Extreme Elvis w/ Extra Action Marching Band
playing *Black Sabbath* in San Francisco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0HB5JhaU3U
Caralho!
Oh come on guys NIN OWNS BUSH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYkDw7HNaSw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgq0_OqYkx4 !!
They've adapted the Stones for elevator music too, its a form of stripping the radical from the message and making the sound of the music the attraction to the song.
They don't mind if you hum it to yourself, as long as you ignore the lyrics.
Defusing radicalism by burning you out on it.
Jesus them bandbots look especially dorky today, get the cheerleaders back out dere!
Why do Americans need to be constantly entertained?
Walter Murphy, who composed the theme songs for both Family Guy and American Dad and shares musical duties for both shows with a guy named Ron Jones, was my friend back in high school.
He was a musical prodigy even back then. I remember watching him writing out an arrangement for Hey Jude during home room, which was eventually performed by the school's marching band. This was in 1969, by the way.
When I was in the university of wisconsin marching band, we did "Jump Around," by House of Pain. If you've never been to a badgers football game, in between the 3rd and 4th quarter they play that over the PA, and the place goes nuts with 100,000 people jumping in unison. The band thought it would be interesting to try a version of it once or twice, but it never went over as well.
I have also always liked the arizona band doing radiohead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIBEZYQAPEE.
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