When Rock covers Rap - Eleven tracks of indie bands sing rap hits

[Niitaayis]

The result is rather astonishing. Turning good lyrics from SHIT music, into great works of art.

It actually turns out quite nice
[url]http://8tracks.com/trevstar/when-rock-covers-rap[/url]

I can't really embed these, but it's definitely worth a listen

[Protocol7]

I love when they do this, a favorite cover of mine by a punk band is Say Anything - Got Your Money.

[TurtlePower]

Hey Ya was cool

[monkey11]

Yea I really like the punk goes... Series. I have all 8 of them and they all are pretty sweet (except I felt Punk goes Metal was kinda weak.) Acctually I don't know if I'd say good. They're all decent and if you like covers they are all worth a listen.

[editline]07:23PM[/editline]

Oh wait that's not what this thread is about. Sorry. also the gourds are my dads favorite band. They're OK for bluegrass. Pretty intersting covers.

[Vedicardi]

most of the bands on albums like this are not the genres that the albums says they are

punk goes metal has the aquabats. I mean come on ):

[monkey11]

[QUOTE=Vedicardi;18691554]most of the bands on albums like this are not the genres that the albums says they are

punk goes metal has the aquabats. I mean come on ):[/QUOTE]

It means that aquabats (punk) cover Leather Pirates (Metal).

[Vedicardi]

aquabats barely qualify as punk is what I'm saying.

[monkey11]

Punk has changed so much in it's meaning. Eversince punk bands started screaming they got classified as hardcore punk. Then these Hardcore bands lost almost all other punk elements and kept the Genre name hardcore as they added more screaming. Then some bands lost the screaming and are just pop punk bands like All time Low and the Maine.

Anyways in the origins of punk it wasn't called punk just by it's style but Also by it's lyrical content.

All in all Punk is now what people are calling anything alternative.

[Vedicardi]

hardcore punk is DOA, no screaming there. Hardcore Punk was defined by how aggressive it was sonically, just in terms of the instruments, not vocally, up until NYHC got real big, and that was way past when Hardcore first came around. Pop Punk had nothing to do with hardcore for that matter.

I mean really all I'm saying is it's telling you you're getting "punk" or "metal" bands covering (x) when it's really the most poppy band you could possibly find in that genre playing pop music from a different genre.

[monkey11]

I know what you mean and I ment to keep pop punk seperate entirely but I'm not sure what happened. Yea hearing All Time low covering Umbrella us just about as poppy as it gets. They choose the poppiest though because nobody us gonna buy a compilation of bands they don't know covering a song they've never heard before. I still think their are a few decent tracks though.

Thanks for clarifying on the punk also.

[Vedicardi]

Well no one would buy that because no "honest" punk band would ever cover a pop song in the first place, mh?

Thanks for understanding.