TSOM covers by heartlanders ? I just covered Alice.

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I don't know if there's been a topic like this. Anyway I was thinking, has anyone here at heartland made any cool (or horrible) TSOM covers ? Are there many musicians here ?

I'm not really a musician, just a bad drummer who happens to own a crappy stratocaster and really cheap eko bass. I thought about trying to cover some song. Today I was hangoverous and bored and recorded the most awful primitive simplified version of Alice: http://koti.mbnet.fi/shagriml/temp/alice.mp3
Everything's been done in one take and there are errors and the whole thing is just absolutely horrible.

It was the first time I tried to play it and tried to sing it. Dug out the tablatures and lyrics today... I'm not sure if the tablatures are correct though... I would appreciate a link to a verified tablature...

With proper rehearsing I might actually learn to play it decently...

Anyway, post your own covers if you have any ! Doesn't matter if they suck, they can't suck as much as my alice rape :lol:
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The best way to work out how to play Alice is to sit down with the CD/Record and work it out.

I've never seen an accurate tab of it yet and god knows I can't be arsed to write one ;)

Anyway, I did this last year sometime. It's (not very good) version of Something Fast
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Don't make me put up my piano cover of Logic...:innocent:

No really, don't, it's embarassing, as Dark will attest. :|

I might put up Body Lethargic if I ever get around to recording that ;)
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CellThree wrote:The best way to work out how to play Alice is to sit down with the CD/Record and work it out.
Don't have the CD, not even MP3 and I don't wanna wear out my Alice 12". I'm not into too much accuracy anyway, I'm too lazy to pick out all the details :lol:
CellThree wrote: Anyway, I did this last year sometime. It's (not very good) version of Something Fast
Me likes. Nice voice ! The guitar sound could use some work but it's decent.
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Motz wrote:Don't make me put up my piano cover of Logic...:innocent:

No really, don't, it's embarassing, as Dark will attest. :|

I might put up Body Lethargic if I ever get around to recording that ;)
ffs, personal gripe. It's AMPHETAMINE Logic, don't submit to the tyranny of Woolworth's....
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I cover "First and Last and Always" occasionally, in a kind of Depeche Mode circa _Black Celebration_ style.
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shagriml wrote:I don't know if there's been a topic like this. Anyway I was thinking, has anyone here at heartland made any cool (or horrible) TSOM covers ? Are there many musicians here ?
I think your version is actually quite decent. Primitive but decent. It's just the vocals I have a problem with. But not being a musician myself I can only appreciate the effort. :notworthy:

Still... that singing... :urff: :P 8)
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See also these threads: http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=5390 and http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=8271
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Uhh, if i ever get to finish the mixing of my band's Some Kind of Stranger i'll put it up here, but i've been mixing it for a long time, or rather not mixing, cause i hate mixing.
But it'd not be something i did for fun or cause i had too much time, it'd be a serious take on the song.
i feel kinda like Stepan in Dostoyevky's the Devils..."all the information has been collected and i should just get to work, unfortunately i just have no desire for the work"
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ruffers wrote:ffs, personal gripe. It's AMPHETAMINE Logic, don't submit to the tyranny of Woolworth's....
And I have a personal gripe with typing long titles when a suitable abbreviation exists. I don't add Amphetamine to Logic and I don't add (A Fragment) after Neverland, it's hardly a case of submitting to the corporate tyranny of Woolies :roll:
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I can play Temple, FALAA, Logic, Crash & Burn, Summer, Will I Dream, Come Together, War On Drugs, Ribbons, Anaconda, Alice, Vision Thing, Flood I & II, Romeo Down (on bass too), Slept & Top Nite Out.

Now, if anyone can give me any clue on how to get this stuff from a guitar to a PC & then on to here I'll happily do so! I have the technological know-how of an ant. :innocent: :roll:
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I used a cassette recorder to recorded myself playing Heartland once. It lasted ten minutes.

Beat that on the speed scale, Von. :twisted:
I wasn’t even on speed when I recorded the unnecessarily long chorus. I know. I’m that good. :innocent:
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i've got a somewhat dreadful version of Teachers i did on a 4-track with a drum machine, a bass, and two vocal tracks. sounds a bit like bad Suicide.

still, my vox can't be half as rough as Mr. Cohen's, right?
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davedecay wrote:i've got a somewhat dreadful version of Teachers i did on a 4-track with a drum machine, a bass, and two vocal tracks. sounds a bit like bad Suicide.

still, my vox can't be half as rough as Mr. Cohen's, right?
Leonard Cohen rocks, but have you done any TSOM covers? :wink:
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Motz wrote:I don't add Amphetamine to Logic and I don't add (A Fragment) after Neverland
is it too much to expect a space between "never" and "land" ? :innocent:
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nick the stripper wrote:
davedecay wrote:i've got a somewhat dreadful version of Teachers i did on a 4-track with a drum machine, a bass, and two vocal tracks. sounds a bit like bad Suicide.

still, my vox can't be half as rough as Mr. Cohen's, right?
Leonard Cohen rocks, but have you done any TSOM covers? :wink:
um, nope. i'm not really a musician.
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I wouldn't post Mike's version of Amphetamine Logic, unless you're all feeling masochistic. :lol: :kiss:

And I can play something vaguely resembling Snub Nose and a completely-wrong-key Anaconda.
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I've made some dodgy versions of Train, I Was Wrong, SKOS, Emma, F&L&A and Marian.

None of them sound like the originals ;D

my band will be covering Susanne for our new single and another song from the new single sounds (strangely) familiar to Flood I...
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Careful when it comes to cover songs. We have one in the making that the artist said we could make without paying him for it (though we'll obviously send him the CD ;)) but Eldritch is harder to contact, and probably less kind when it comes to copyright.
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We won't be making any money out of it.
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Sucks ass that my 4-track broke :(

I would have fixed the guitars and re-recorded the vocals. I've also been practising Black Planet and No Time To Cry + a few songs of my own...

Gotta fix the damn thing or buy a new one (with what money :oops: ).

I'd really like to find a band to play TSOM covers but nobody here in Finland seems to like the Sisters. Most of the dudes think they're awful, a few think they're okay but no-one seems like to enough to be interested in playing their songs...
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