The Song Fight Bulletin Board

I would absolutely love to do an album.

An album entitled "Bob Dylan sings....Nirvana".

Of course, I realize I might be hard pressed to get anyone to want to do only Nirvana songs, so unless I'm wrong, I propose the following....

1.) We discuss the schematics forever, because, well, that's what we do
2.) We select 10 to 15 songs that Bob Dylan should sing (or "Nirvana - Nirvana", including the never-before-released-except-on-bootlegs-under-a-different-title single "You Know You're Right".... j/k really, it can be any song by any group assuming I or SF'ers can sing it; but really, don't we want songs that will be cool with Dylan singing them?)
3.) Someone with some skills must agree to master this piece (see what I did there)
4.) Presto! We've got the greatest thing since Richard Cheese's lastest album!

This could be done with me doing all the singing (I *think* I can do a fair enough Dylan voice), or it could be done in a CoverFight style. If its like the later, then I invite someone more experienced to take charge of this as I don't wanna get in over my head.

My idea is to use a Dylan-esque voice and "the original song modified to a way similar to the way Dylan might do the song if he wrote it himself without doing solely the G&G thing, though a G&G tune or two would be perfectly acceptable ".

So those are the two requirements.... and .... go!

.....well, that went over like a lead balloon....

Heh, maybe folks just don't like Bob Dylan's voice.

Actually, I'm genuinely curious: can you expand on why "Bob Dylan sings Nirvana" appeals to you? Is it just the novelty? Or the PB&J combining of two things that you love? Or something else that I'm missing?

I might be alone on this, but I never totally got the appeal of "X sings Y"-type projects, or Richard Cheese for that matter. They tread dangerously close to mash-ups, the lowest form of art our culture has yet devised.

Granted, they're not as bad as mash-ups 'cause at least the artist (you in this case) gives his own performance. But at the end of the day, even if I initially find a particular "X in the style of Y" project somewhat novel, they're all ultimately a huge waste of time that I'd never listen to more than once.

What am I missing?

I knew people felt that way. So I take it you don't like Weird Al?

I guess it is the novelty that attracts me to it. When I read comic books, my favorites to READ were "What If..." where they explored scenarios like "What if Peter Parker never got bitten by a radioactive spider?"

There's nothing like Paul Anka singing "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Beatallica singing "Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice" cracks me up, but for the most part I agree with everything Deshead said.

I love Dylan, I love his voice, I think the only imitation I thought was ever funny was on the Zappa song "Flakes" especially when the Bob Character responds with random harmonica breathing to a direct question.

The Dylan imitation is really tired and old. Novelty songs are fun and funny for very few listens.

I have the 1st 3 Weird Al albums and I have to say all I ever really want to listen to anymore are the originals therin. "One more Minute" , "Dare to be Stupid". I actually knew the song Yoda before I ever heard Lola, so I kind of consider the Kinks to be doing the cover. Oddly enough the Kinks song is funnier than the Weird Al song.

I like Dylan, I like Nirvana, I even like Mash-ups.

I just don't have any interest in hearing Wages imitate Bob Dylan imitating Nirvana.

I WOULD be interested in hearing a "Wages covers some soft/jangley/indy-ish band or other." I think that would be a good exercise, and might help you to break free of the 90's grunge thing that people have been criticizing you for lately.

Perhaps you should cover a Stephin Merritt or Pavement song.

Or Throwing Muses.

That would interest ME more.

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--Em

Now if you do Elvis singing like Dylan doing Nirvana songs, but with a reggae beat.....I'd be interested.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Now if you do Elvis singing like Dylan doing Nirvana songs, but with a reggae beat.....I'd be interested.

Yeah but who wants to track down the dude from Dread Zeppelin?

Also, I'm totally interested in this idea, Wages. However, I'm terrible at mastering. But if you let me do a song, I'd be ridiculously happy.

I call "Rape Me."

glennny wrote: I have the 1st 3 Weird Al albums and I have to say all I ever really want to listen to anymore are the originals therin. "One more Minute" , "Dare to be Stupid". I actually knew the song Yoda before I ever heard Lola, so I kind of consider the Kinks to be doing the cover. Oddly enough the Kinks song is funnier than the Weird Al song.

Just like how the Presidents' song "Lump" is a much better, funnier song than Weird Al's version. Honestly I never understood it when he made parodies of already comedic songs. That never stopped me from liking "Yoda" though...

WesDavis wrote:Also, I'm totally interested in this idea, Wages. However, I'm terrible at mastering. But if you let me do a song, I'd be ridiculously happy.

I call "Rape Me."

Did you want to do RAPE ME "all by yourself", or did you wanna do the music and have me sing to it? Either way, I say we get this one song done and post it here. Then if anyone thinks they can master it better than you or I, we'll send them the tracks.

THEN maybe we can drum up more interest for further Dylan Does songs.

Oh, I just thought it'd be fun to do Dylan singing Kurt Cobain. Were you wanting to do all the vocs, because I don't know how much I could contribute to the music aside from playing guitar on it.

Actually, I don't need to do all the vocals... this was just my initial plan. I don't care who does it, but I'm desperate to hear it. So if you wanna do it, by all means do Dylan does Rape Me. Maybe if you post a demo, a drummer could be snagged. Mmmmm, nasally, winddy vocals.

As we all know, I lack the guitar skill of "tone", so the best I could do too would be just crappy guitar and vocals.

Hey, that's my specialty, as well! We'll make a great team, on this here project!

It's all over the cryin'.