OFF: Re: Sympathy For The Devil (Motorhead new album taster)

[Arin Komins]

On an album, the best covers are those that are different than the original in some way.  The ones the diverge the most tend to be ones I prefer (Mask of the Morning/Mirror of Illusion, for example.)  ...and there is a fine line between an outright cover, than variations/jamming on the original, the latter of which tends to work fairly well in live performance.

That said, some things they can play over and over and over in live performance, and I would be relatively content.  (We've had a warrior live....now just give me Quark or PXR5 live, and I would be a happy hobbit.)

Yet, have been pleased as punch to see new work on the albums.  For instance, some of Dibs' contribs have brought science fiction lyrics back, and I'm very grateful for that. .... 

Just my tuppence worth :-)

Arin

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Subject: Re: OFF: Re: Sympathy For The Devil (Motorhead new album taster)

Yet even granting that, even _Onward_ has a self-cover on the first disc (“Death Trip”, itself already previously self-covered a decade previously) along with another 3 on the second disc (if one has that, and allows “Aerospace Age” as a kind of Hawkwind song — which is at least arguable); _Blood of the Earth_ 2 self-covers on the first disc, and another 3 on the 2-disc version.

I’m not saying all self-covers are bad — very much the opposite — I’m just saying Hawkwind does it a _lot_ in comparison to most acts of which I can think.

Cheers,
Carl

> On 10 Sep 2015, at 00:13 , Jonathan Smith <smithjm77x7 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> *Spacehawks* was a special case. It was supposed to be for the US 
> market, as I understand, to accompany their tour, which obviously 
> didn't happen. I would see that as a compilation rather than a new album.

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