Shouldn't bother me, but it does...

Thank God I work with a bunch of old farts like me and don't have to deal with this kind of nonsense.

BTW Ult, while I sympathize with your feelings on this, it does sound like a case of OFS (Old Fart Syndrome).

I should know I've suffered with OFS for years.

My co-workers bust on my for having cds but they know the artists. I think there are a lot of great AC/DC covers out there. I know the Upper Crust's version of Back in Black just rocks,

My boss is an old fart Blues guy (even older than me) and he thinks I am a tool because I prefer the "electrified" covers of old blues songs that Cream, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Jeff Beck, etc recorded to the original blues versions. Muddy Waters and all that. Covers were a major staple of most late 60's hard rock bands, and he scoffs at them. So I guess it's just a matter of perspective and the going around coming around maybe.

Man - I do not have a clue what is going on any more. I am just gonna go crank some Exxplorer on old fashioned CD and not try to figure out what this thread is even talking about.

ultmetal wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

mc666 wrote:

BearOnUnicycle wrote:

The question is how she find about tribute bands before listening to real AC/DC or Zep.

probably uses the "similar artists" function on Spotify.

If you search AC/DC or Led Zeppelin on Spotify, tribute albums come up automatically.

Now she's listening to a tribute version of Metallica's Enter Sandman. Haha! I walked into her office again and checked to see who it was and she said, "what, that's not the right song either?" to which I replied, "nope". I'm sure she thinks I'm a tool.

Yes Scott... you are the one with the problem.

mc666 wrote:

not everyone cares to know the history of a song or band. some just like what they hear & enjoy it. realistically people like us, who stuff like that actually matters to, are the minority imo.

You are spot on Monty. All except for one co-worker listens to rap/hip-hop or whatever top 40 music is currently playing and I have to to hear this sh*t day in and day out out of their loud headphones, and needless to say, all of them are clueless when it comes to the history aspect of music, which isn't a surprise of course. It's bad and embarrassing when I have to tell a girl in her 20's that the song she's humming to is a chorus taken from a Paula Abdul song and she doesn't even know it. Yes, the apocalypse is upon us.

Tell her to play '77. If they're on there, that's about as close you're going to get to Bon Scott-era AC/DC without actually listening to AC/DC.





So ridiculous how blatant they are. Haha. So good, though.

Going back to 2005, I stumbled across a music store in Singapore that sold wall-to-wall of covers music. I remember looking at cds which showed the original artist names and titles, but these were not originals at all - just local bands performing covers. I vaguely recollect seeing a similar outlet in Melaka, Malaysia as well.

GrandNational wrote:

mc666 wrote:

not everyone cares to know the history of a song or band. some just like what they hear & enjoy it. realistically people like us, who stuff like that actually matters to, are the minority imo.

You are spot on Monty. All except for one co-worker listens to rap/hip-hop or whatever top 40 music is currently playing and I have to to hear this sh*t day in and day out out of their loud headphones, and needless to say, all of them are clueless when it comes to the history aspect of music, which isn't a surprise of course. It's bad and embarrassing when I have to tell a girl in her 20's that the song she's humming to is a chorus taken from a Paula Abdul song and she doesn't even know it. Yes, the apocalypse is upon us.

Eyesore wrote:

Tell her to play '77. If they're on there, that's about as close you're going to get to Bon Scott-era AC/DC without actually listening to AC/DC.





So ridiculous how blatant they are. Haha. So good, though.

Wow - you are not kidding!!!! Are these the illegitimate bastard children than AC/DC fathered on the road?

thejokeriv wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Tell her to play '77. If they're on there, that's about as close you're going to get to Bon Scott-era AC/DC without actually listening to AC/DC.





So ridiculous how blatant they are. Haha. So good, though.

Wow - you are not kidding!!!! Are these the illegitimate bastard children than AC/DC fathered on the road?

Bon Scott knew his time on earth was going to be short so he had to get busy as often as possible

ultmetal wrote:

Some of my employees listen to Spotify while they work. I don't mind that, but one employee listens to Led Zeppelin and AC/DC a lot. She is in her 20's. I hear the music cranking out from in her room quite a bit. What bothers me about it is, none of the songs are original AC/DC or Led Zeppelin songs. They are all covers by tribute bands yet she doesn't even realize they are not the real songs. I guess AC/DC and Zeppelin aren't on Spotify.

I went into her room today to see who this one really bad AC/DC tribute band was (AD/CD was their name) and she looked at me and said, "what, you don't know who this is?" I responded, "no, I know it's an AC/DC song, but that's not AC/DC". She said, "it's not? Well, it sounds just like them." I went to my room, grabbed my iPod, plugged in "Back in Black" for her and said, "that's AC/DC!" She responded, "I don't hear the difference." UGH!

Should have played Highway to Hell or something from the Bon Scott Era maybe she would have bought a clue heh

jstate wrote:

I've always wondered what the rights issues are with these "tribute" things. Do they pay for the rights to use the songs? Or is the tribute thing a loophole?

A band/musician is allowed to record a cover/"tribute" song as long as the original performers/songwriters are paid a portion of whatever proceeds are generated.

Most of what today's youth does (music habits or otherwise) on a daily basis annoys me. It shouldn't, but it does. Now get off my lawn.

manny wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Tell her to play '77. If they're on there, that's about as close you're going to get to Bon Scott-era AC/DC without actually listening to AC/DC.





So ridiculous how blatant they are. Haha. So good, though.

Wow - you are not kidding!!!! Are these the illegitimate bastard children than AC/DC fathered on the road?

Bon Scott knew his time on earth was going to be short so he had to get busy as often as possible

Seriously, right? I'd love to hate this band just because they are 110% unoriginal, but damn they do it so well. Haha.

At least some of your co-workers CAN listen to music. My job would be a lot more bearable with that privelage. That being said, it is very sad she doesn't know the difference between the covers and origionals but that's just a sign of the times.

Speaking of covers, that stupid new movie with Tom Cruise has a cover of Pour Some Sugar On Me that has less balls than the origional (and as we know, that's quite a feat).

Yeah, I heard that cover of Sugar. Gack, the original was spineless enough; this version sounds like a wedding band playing it.

ShadowAngel wrote:

Is this even a new thing? Remember File-Sharing from 10 years ago (Kazaa and Emule and that crap) when Songs were mislabeled and so many bands got songs labeled to them when they never did it (Weird Al Yankovic has a very, very, very long list on his website dedicated to this, songs that apparently he did, when he didn't)

Ha -I remember a discussion I had with a student who had Nothin' But a Good Time by Warrant in his files, and his inability to grasp that it was by Poison, not Warrant.

Eyesore wrote:

manny wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Tell her to play '77. If they're on there, that's about as close you're going to get to Bon Scott-era AC/DC without actually listening to AC/DC.





So ridiculous how blatant they are. Haha. So good, though.

Wow - you are not kidding!!!! Are these the illegitimate bastard children than AC/DC fathered on the road?

Bon Scott knew his time on earth was going to be short so he had to get busy as often as possible

Seriously, right? I'd love to hate this band just because they are 110% unoriginal, but damn they do it so well. Haha.

Yeah, no joke! Like Manny said, Bon was busy during his time on Earth! LOL!

I may have to pick up their albums

What the h**l is "Spotify"? I think that hearing a good or great cover of a good/great song will always lead me to hear the original if I haven't aleady. So then, all the cover songs in the world will still help to educate/enlighten the heretofore 'unknowing'. But I concur with you that the sour taste left behind after hearing a crappy cover and being told by the listener that they thought it was the original and then that the original sounds the same. Keep in mind that she's young (20's) and also that not everybody is blessed with 'metal sensibility'. Our duty, those of us that perceive it, is to attempt to 'spread the disease', but we cannot work miracles with the hordes of those who are 'metal deaf'. Just look at the top 40 at any given time. Most of humanity are operating on a base level and are easily edified by pop culture sewage and couldn't understand or enjoy Metal if they were taught it 7 days a week.... and that's a good thing! Ours is a minority niche and thank G-d for that! So go ahead and attempt to enlighten, but don't spin your wheels trying to save the unsaveable.
no really, what is Spotify? (jk, ha)