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(YouTube) Spiffy And now your "WTF?" moment of the day: The Sisters of Mercy performing a song by Dolly Parton   (youtube.com) divider line 38
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SushiJoe [TotalFark]
2009-11-04 12:59:46 PM
what would truely be WTF is Dolly Parton singing Nine While Nine
 
netizencain [TotalFark]
2009-11-04 02:43:43 PM
I miss SoM.
 
skammie [TotalFark]
2009-11-04 02:45:36 PM
netizencain: I miss SoM.

They're still around. Well, Andrew is anyway. Some friends of mine saw them last year in Atlanta.
 
ne2d
2009-11-04 02:50:27 PM
Is it really that WTF when a band does a cover way outside their genre? Seems pretty commonplace to me.

/a friend of mine from high school didn't know that Gimme Shelter was a cover.
 
Iwouldhitit [TotalFark]
2009-11-04 02:51:09 PM
On the other hand, Dolly's rendition of "Stairway to Heaven" is actually pretty good.
 
oldebayer
2009-11-04 02:52:33 PM
I remember wincing through a rendition of Don McLean's Vincent by Jerry Reed.
 
brap [TotalFark]
2009-11-04 03:35:03 PM
This is my prayer. Please be Me and Little Andy. Amen.

- Video player not working.
 
Cagey B
2009-11-04 04:48:11 PM
The best cover of anything by anyone will always be the Laibach version of Let it Be.
 
ntrino
2009-11-04 05:06:10 PM
yeah.....
Like this was not done years ago by the White Stripes (new window)
 
LewDux
2009-11-04 05:08:56 PM
www.thegauntlet.com
covering
php.allstarz.ee

PNSFW
 
LonMead
2009-11-04 05:27:51 PM
No more unusual than Johnny covering Trent.
 
jerkobson
2009-11-04 05:30:49 PM
brap: This is my prayer. Please be Me and Little Andy. Amen.

- Video player not working.

My favorite Dolly song. Sadly not the song being covered.

/a cover of a song outside your genre is not a WTF moment. It's overly common anymore.
 
Necrosis
2009-11-04 05:37:45 PM
They could be covering nursery rhymes or Opeth and you couldn't tell with that sound quality...
 
devilskware
2009-11-04 05:57:53 PM
Damn. That sucked as bad as the White Stripes version. There are very few songs that are perfect. You should never try to cover a perfect song. Jolene is perfect as it is.
 
farkilada
2009-11-04 06:03:05 PM
Anyone know if there is a PAL version of this?
 
Kerr Avon
2009-11-04 06:35:57 PM
The Sisters did quite a few covers, Gimme Shelter, Emma and 1969 for example.
 
plywoodjungle
2009-11-04 06:48:35 PM
Love's Sisters of Mercy

but

Unwatchable. Unlistenable.
 
FormlessOne
2009-11-04 07:12:00 PM
plywoodjungle: Love's Sisters of Mercy

but

Unwatchable. Unlistenable.

Yep. I'm a big Sisters of Mercy fan, but the video is damn near impossible to enjoy.
 
tboucher
2009-11-04 09:51:56 PM
LewDux: covering


PNSFW

pure awesome
 
oldebayer
2009-11-04 10:48:41 PM
Funny. I read that headline as Dolly Parton singing Sisters of Mercy, which is a song by Leonard Cohen. Wondered about the WTF, since I imagine she could do a good jorb with it.
 
nmhansen
2009-11-04 11:32:41 PM
How did I know it was going to be Jolene?
 
nmhansen
2009-11-04 11:36:05 PM
Found a (slightly) better version

Link (new window)
 
VwlssWndr
2009-11-04 11:50:46 PM
Cagey B: The best cover of anything by anyone will always be the Laibach version of Let it Be "One Vision."
 
djstortion
2009-11-05 12:10:26 AM
Best covers thread?

The correct answer is always going to be Negativland covering "I Still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For"
 
Obamas Fark Czar
2009-11-05 01:51:17 AM
TSOM "Gimme Shelter" (new window) (parts of video PNSFW)

TSOM "Emma" (new window)
 
Jedekai
2009-11-05 01:52:25 AM
Covers that are awesome I've heard in the past two months:


Sex Pistols - "My Way"
Sentenced - "The Trooper"
Peter Gabriel - "Cape Cod Kwassamassa" (I just heard it a week ago - it's AWESOME.)
Eric Cartman - "Sailing Away" (Every so often it goes on repeat for a week solid)
Eric Cartman - "Pokerface"
 
Savoir-Faire
2009-11-05 01:56:38 AM
I was always fond of Laibach's version of "Sympathy for the Devil", but only the "Who Killed the Kennedys" remix. Somehow, a woman singing it makes more sense for me. More of a dance version too.

Link (new window)
 
MooHeiferGhandi
2009-11-05 03:05:22 AM
skammie: netizencain: I miss SoM.

They're still around. Well, Andrew is anyway. Some friends of mine saw them last year in Atlanta.


I was at that show also. The sound quality blew, especially at the edge of the stage. It think maybe it was Andrew's way of saying, "It sounds better if you just stand a little further back...".

/still a good show
 
LewDux
2009-11-05 03:48:36 AM
 
swahnhennessy
2009-11-05 06:57:05 AM
How is that "WTF"? It made the rounds in the 80's, a cover of a well-covered song from a band known for doing lots of covers. Cover.

Also fairly well-known, but more weird than this, is their version of ABBA's "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight)".
 
smokesteam
2009-11-05 10:40:26 AM
LonMead: No more unusual than Johnny covering Trent.

And actually making the song listenable?
 
LewDux
2009-11-05 10:55:00 AM
smokesteam: LonMead: No more unusual than Johnny covering Trent.

And actually making the song listenable?

Banjos make everything listenable
 
J13P
2009-11-05 11:38:01 AM
if you noticed the date:

ntrino: yeah.....
Like this was not done years ago by the White Stripes (new window)

this was almost 20 years before the stripes did it..
 
LonMead
2009-11-05 01:32:46 PM
LewDux: smokesteam: LonMead: No more unusual than Johnny covering Trent.

And actually making the song listenable?

Banjos make everything listenable

Or a Martin D-35. Whatever.
 
LewDux
2009-11-05 01:43:45 PM
LonMead: LewDux: smokesteam: LonMead: No more unusual than Johnny covering Trent.

And actually making the song listenable?

Banjos make everything listenable

Or a Martin D-35. Whatever.

What's next? Airbus manufacturing balalaika's?
 
ntrino
2009-11-05 01:51:03 PM
J13P: if you noticed the date:

ntrino: yeah.....
Like this was not done years ago by the White Stripes (new window)

this was almost 20 years before the stripes did it..

well that would explain the audio quality. and no, i never learned to read.
 
leland242
2009-11-05 02:47:59 PM
I saw SoM last year - god, what a terrible show.

all they did was pump the whole building full of dense fake smoke, have the most half ass lights ever, and phone in the performance. the song selection was pretty bad too...

really, i was so psyched to see them, and so, so disappointed.
 
illusionofjoy
2009-11-05 07:34:52 PM
I don't think I'd even want to see The Sisters of Mercy live at this point. I'd much prefer to remember them as they were back in the 80s. I can still listen to those three LPs and pre-Elektra singles anytime, so I'm good.
 
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