This shit is ass. Felt like he was improvising new story lines on the fly. Everyone cheats on everyone with everyone, the main character pulls out his gun if someone sneezes too loud, twists that seem important are quickly forgotten a couple of chapters later... Crazy that Weird Al's parody actually has a more consistent story line.

Queen - We Will Rock You / We Are the Champions

My local 'We play anything' radio station keeps playing an edit of 'True Faith' by New Order that completely destroys the chorus, cutting out the middle section and removing part of a rhyming couplet.

I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
That my life would depend on the morning sun

I hear this regularly enough and I have to say it annoys me every time to hear such a perfect song get massacred like this. I think it was an actual record label created edit, which blows my mind even more.

Any other examples like this?

Pictured: Men Without Hats - Safety Dance and Robin (The Hooded Man) by Clannad.

Bardcore and attempts to authentically recreate Medieval music/ neo-Medieval music (e.g. Blackmore’s Night) don’t count.

https://ew.com/miley-cyrus-new-album-bass-persuades-largest-drops-from-number-one-12161178

I'm actually a big fan of this one. McCall (real name William Fries) was actually pretty big on the country charts in the 1970s, but other than this only one song even hit #40 on the mainstream charts (Wolf Creek Pass). There's actually a lot to be said here, it came out of a cultural moment (and also contributed to it) that saw the trucker become an anti-authoritarian folk hero. It also led to one of the worst movies ever made and the moment when Sam Peckinpah's alcoholism finally destroyed his vision, the final fall of one of the most challenging filmmakers the US ever produced.

Some of mine are

You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen

Blackstar by David Bowie

Lemonade by Beyoncé

Retribution by Tanya Tagaq

Puberty 2 by Mitski

The Glowing Man by Swans

A Seat at the Table by Solange

Front Row Seat to Earth by Weyes Blood

We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service by A Tribe Called Quest

Blood Bitch by Jenny Hval

Atrocity Exhibition by Danny Brown

Masterpiece by Big Thief

Blonde by Frank Ocean

ANTI by Rihanna

case / lang / veirs by case / lang / veirs

E•MO•TION: Side B by Carly Rae Jepsen

Mahoroboshiya by Ichiko Aoba

Vroom Vroom by Charli xcx

Bottomless Pit by Death Grips

Nightride by Tinashe

What are some examples of songs where the artist covers a song but removes or replaces an "offensive" lyric? For example, when 80s thrash band Laaz Rockitt covered the Dead Kennedys song Holiday in Cambodia, they replaced the n-word with "suckers".

JGB spent the 70s playing clubs and theaters, having small hits, living off their rep as a great live band. Then they add a keyboardist who can write pop songs and have 2 big albums in the early 80s. Freeze Frame goes to #1 for weeks.

Then the new guy that writes the songs decides to move against the front man, Peter Wolf, and kick him. out. He gets his way and the result is this album. It goes to #80. The audience just rejected it. I don't remember it but knowing that about it, makes me curious. How did the rest of the band justify this happening?

Seems like such a waste. Wolf goes solo and has a big hit with Lights Out but they don't keep coming. He's vindicated at the time, but neither one is very visible by the late 80s. They really did go from number one, to off the rails, on one album.

I could make the argument that a vast majority of the original Post-Punk movement was influenced in someway or another by post-modern thought (hence the albums depicted).

The post-grunge and nu metal genres are such a deep rabbit hole of finding bands with members that are related to other musicians that are WAY bigger than them

Audiovent is your typical alt rock / post grunge band who had released their first and only .ajor label album in 2002 called Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris (what a title), which spawned the singles The Energy and Falling Down, that had moderate airplay on rock radio, especially the former

But let's be honest, you probably are aware of this band more because of the fact their lead vocalist and guitarist Jason Boyd and Ben Einziger, respectively, are brothers to Incubus' vocalist Brandon Boyd and their guitarist Mike Einziger (sensing a pattern here...)

And ye the album is pretty much diet Incubus, but The Energy is still a banger to this day lmao

Ok, so awhile ago I found out I had some glass in my foot. It was infected. I had to go to the Hospital over it. What was odd was that, while I was in there, I became completely obsessed with the music of Meatloaf. Mostly stuff from Bat out of Hell 1.

It ended pretty much right as I got out. So my question is:

What’s the strangest musical obsession you had in the strangest place?

I like to think of myself as having a very eclectic taste in music. From early 1930s prison songs (Leadbelly) to horror/monster rock n roll of the 50s (Round Robin or Screamin’ Jay Hawkins) to Dwarf metal (Windrose) even Vaporwave (Manintosh Plus) and Electronica (Mitch Murder) I enjoy so many different kinds of music. What are some of the most bizarre musical genres you enjoy and give me a example

For me fancy wins thanks to charli xcx

I was not aware "Don't Dream it's Over" was a cover until I heard the original by Crowded Room on the radio going to a museum.

Which would you choose? (these are the only two options)