WH Covers Rekkid Reported On Rock-Sound.Net

[Stuart Brackpool]

The idea of this album sounds like a lot of fun and I'll be buying it on it's release. Not familiar with many of the aforementioned confirmed bands so it'll be interesting to see if any of us become fans of bands we hadn't previously checked out.

If there has to be a Girls Aloud cover (and I'll admit to liking them and *cough* owning their best of) then how about No Good Advice? Mash it up with My Sharona as they basically have the same rhythm and bass part anyway. I'd like to hear that.

Also, Lady In The Front Row by Redd Kross and (complete dream or nightmare possibilities here) Don't Stop Believin' by Journey.

[SteveP]

owning their best of

How the fuck have they got a fucking best of album out???

FFS

Cowell screws yet more money out of the gullible knobheads called the great british public

[Stuart Brackpool]

owning their best of

How the fuck have they got a fucking best of album out???

FFS

Cowell screws yet more money out of the gullible knobheads called the great british public

They had three albums out before the best of, or more accurately, singles collection came out. They're not just Love Machines, they're pop machines, too! Cowell may well be swamping music land with shite but by the law of averages something he did was going to be likeable at some point. We've all fallen for something (or someone) we know we shouldn't. My thought is just to enjoy it and have calamine lotion ready for when it eventually bites you on the arse.

[jayvee]

Girls Aloud or The Cardiacs. HHHmmm........no contest whatsover!

Girls Aloud are quality. There I said it - I like them too!!

Give me The 5 Hotties anyday! A lot easier on the eye and certainly a lot easier on the ears!!

[Ben Wright]

I'm quite looking forward to the covers record, the same as I would with any new Wildhearts release.

Nice to see the boys are still making music - and there's some stability in the band. In fact, since being a fan from 1995, I can't recall a time when the Wildhearts have released two proper studio albums back-to-back. I look forward to this record, and hopefully the ones after that.

I think a consistent flow of releases from the band will prove the doubters wrong that they are a spent force.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

having just listened to some of "Pinkerton" after borrowing it off my flatmate, i'm reminded of how great "pink triangle" by Weezer is, and how i'd fucking LOVE for the wildies to cover it!

[wez_wildheart]

just reading this thread and to be honest all i can say about this album is fun.

i think its gonna be a bit of a laugh, a break from the norm.i welcome it.as already said Ginger never stops writing and im sure there's an arsenal of new Wildhearts songs waiting to go

its a bit of craic for the band, something thats so missing from music today.why does everything have to be so rigid and without FUN.

fucking bring it on.id love to hear the band do a Metallica song though....reckon they could do it really well

[spoon_of_grimbo]

just reading this thread and to be honest all i can say about this album is fun.

i think its gonna be a bit of a laugh, a break from the norm.i welcome it.as already said Ginger never stops writing and im sure there's an arsenal of new Wildhearts songs waiting to go

its a bit of craic for the band, something thats so missing from music today.why does everything have to be so rigid and without FUN.

fucking bring it on.id love to hear the band do a Metallica song though....reckon they could do it really well

"enter soundman," anyone?!

[markE]

[wez_wildheart]

just reading this thread and to be honest all i can say about this album is fun.

i think its gonna be a bit of a laugh, a break from the norm.i welcome it.as already said Ginger never stops writing and im sure there's an arsenal of new Wildhearts songs waiting to go

its a bit of craic for the band, something thats so missing from music today.why does everything have to be so rigid and without FUN.

fucking bring it on.id love to hear the band do a Metallica song though....reckon they could do it really well

"enter soundman," anyone?!

big Mick Hughes on backing vocals

theres The Wildhearts/Metallica link committed to CD haha

if Lars can like Beatallica then he could learn to love a Wildhearts cover and offer them a support slot on the next Metallica tour

sexwee alert

[seventieslord]

Well if its good enough for Metallica to do. Then it's good enough for WH I say.

No way! Metallica have overdone the cover-thing because the needed to, and when they released that double cover CD it was very clear that the bands songwriting idea was running dry around that time. Its´a weakness that the best stuff Metallica have done the last billion years are songs written by others.

Wildhearts ar a much better, more original and better songwriting band than Metallica will ever be. Unlike Metallica, Wildhearts will never need to do a cover album. So unless Ginger and CJ have run completly dry of ideas, than I dont understand this release. And, for me personally its much more interesting with an album of Wildhearts original tracks than the Wildhearts fooling around with some old music.

I guess it would be an ok idea for Ginger to do it as a solo thing or Silver Ginger or Sonic Circus or.... But its my strong point of view that an orginal and colorful songwriting force like The Wildhearts should never do a cover album.

BTW: Ginger could fart a better Metallica album than Hetfield/Ullrich could come up with in 5 years. IMO.

Over to you then, Seventieslord...

Just saw this now....I don't have much to say... here's my take:

Songwriting:
Wildhearts: 10, Metallica 9.
Edge, Wildhearts.

Heaviness:
Metallica 10, Wildhearts 9
Edge, Metallica.

Musical Talent:
Metallica 10, Wildhearts 8
Edge, Metallica.

Riffs (quality and quantity):
Metallica 10, Wildhearts 10
Draw.

Song Composition:
Metallica 10, Wildhearts 9
Edge, Metallica.

Diversity:
Wildhearts 10, Metallica 8
Edge, Wildhearts.

Honesty: (career average)
Wildhearts 10, Metallica 8
Edge, Wildhearts.

3 for Metallica, 3 for The Wildhearts, one draw. It's a tight race with me. For now, let me just say I have "co-favourites" because it's very difficult to pick just one or the other. These are two bands who excel in many areas, but have different advantages over eachother.

The original poster makes it sound like Metallica is rubbish compared to The Wildhearts. Nothing could be further from the truth. Say what you will about them now, but from 1984-1990 they reached heights musically (and commercially, obviously) that the Wildhearts have only approached. The Wildhearts have remained fresh, original, and interesting, while many have lost interest in Metallica, probably rightfully so. But you can't pretend Metallica's first 4 albums never happened. They did. And they were something to behold.

And to clarify, the double covers album was actually just a disc of new material. The rest was a "tie up the loose ends" disc featuring all the covers they did from 1986-1995. So to say they recorded two discs of covers because they were out of ideas for songs is highly unfair and an exaggeration.

Every good band ends up doing it eventually. And I'm just happy there's a new Wildhearts release coming out. They're keeping busy, and I'm sure it will lead to a new studio album in the near future, and I'm sure it will be better than St. Anger.

[nuno75]

Metallica is an awesome band, but, in my opinion, pale in comparison to the 'Hearts. I don't take Metllica's consisten heaviness as a drawback, but rather a limitation. The Wildhearts are better for their diversity. Maybe not tons and tons better, but better for sure.

Everything that Metallica is or ever was is only one aspect of The Wildhearts.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

But you can't pretend Metallica's first 4 albums never happened. They did. And they were something to behold.

shame megadeth's "rust in peace" blew them all right outta the water

[seventieslord]

But you can't pretend Metallica's first 4 albums never happened. They did. And they were something to behold.

shame megadeth's "rust in peace" blew them all right outta the water

pfft.

[Sarc]

Im gonna need witness protection after saying this i know but am I the only person in the world who thinks Metallica are pointless, full of cliches and just down right stale and boring, yeah theyve had their moments but the only thing they've really got going for them anymore is Rob Trujillo who is one hell of a bassist and i just dont think that band does him justice, if you wana hear him at his best pick up eith Groove Family Cyco, Sarsippius Ark or The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move by Infectious Grooves, which was his and Mike Muir's side project from Suicidal Tendencies (for those who dont know), the musician ship and skill is phenomenal on those disks and best of all they dont take themselves to seriously either.

Plus they have Ozzy singing backing vocals on a track called Therapy which is well worth checking out for its comments on the state of private mental healthcare i think the line that pretty much gives it away is "Y'know we'd love to help we really care, but once your moneys gone you're outta here", the song i think was ahead of its time as it came out right at the beginning of the nineties when mental health got even less of a look in than it does now