Well Miley, when you offered to cover it we didn’t think it would be…

Her cover of Zombie didn’t offend my ears.

It could hardly be worse than the original.

Prefer the Kermit cover to Miley’s.

Quite like Miley when she’s doing rock.

Milleys version is equivalent to a ten ton bag of shite and ten seconds was more than enough to realise it wasnt for me.

It sounds autotuned to **** and back.  I’m with you on this.  Whether she’s talented or no, it’s dreadful.

The Nothing Else Matters interpretation was listenable, but you shouldn’t be sung off the stage by the backing vocals (which James himself once described as “yelling in key”).

You know,

Having watched a couple of videos linked from here, I think I just don’t like her voice.  Which is maybe a “me” issue.  I’m an absolute sucker for a female rock vocalist but she sounds like someone went to Poundland looking for Tammy Wynette.

My favourite version of Road to Nowhere, after Talking Heads, is Nouvelle Vague/Sandra Dee. Really beautiful version.

42 seconds before it had to stop. 🤮

Haven’t listened to Riley’s psycho killer yet, but The National’s cover of Heaven off the same album popped up on my feed a couple of days ago, and is dire, had to ⏭️ quickly.

Compilation album not getting much love…

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/17/everyones-getting-involved-review-tepid-all-star-talking-heads-tribute-album-review

Old White(?) Male annoyed that Cover Version is “not quite like the original” shocker.

You can say what you like about MC but she certainly has range both vocally and stylistically.

Nope, that ain’t it Bill – covers have to be in the artists own style. Just not shit.

Just watched RNP’s suggested Blondie cover, and it’s not bad, suits her style better.

Am puzzled why she’s wearing some kind of Timetrial skin suit tho

The National’s cover of Heaven off the same album popped up on my feed a couple of days ago, and is dire

It’s just a bit pointless… isn’t it… and I really like The National.

Same goes for Lorde… great voice… but it’s just a straight run through of the song. Disappointed.

Oh, and I love cover versions… when something new comes out of it.

I think the only keeper on this compilation isn’t a Talking Heads song, Genius of Love, and is by people I’ve never heard of before… Toro y Moi & Brijean? Even more summary and sugary than the original… one for sunny parties…

Not for me but she has a great voice.

I always hoped that Marylin Manon would cover it, right us his street after the cover of Tainted Love

Massive Talking Heads fan here – I listened and…..actually I didn’t hate it. But then I quite like Miley Cyrus, though more her attitude than her music. Having teenage daughters commandeering the HiFi most of the time gives a stale white male who’s appetite for new music stopped in 1997 a new lease of life.

Also, coincidently I’m just starting How Music Works which someone bought me as a present…

Nope, that ain’t it Bill – covers have to be in the artists own style. Just not shit.

It’s in her/the producers own style, whether you enjoy it or not is entirely up to you.  Some people love a club banger, some people love Death Metal and some people like Jazz.  Music like all art is subjective.  Labelling music as “shit” is really reductive and makes you come across as either thick, judgmental or a music snob.

The original is bloody rubbish what you on about?

on that subjectivity thing, this is a much better cover of Heaven

makes you come across as either thick, judgmental or a music snob

Can I be all 3 please?

Good grief, that’s dire.  I came here to root for Miley as I reqlly like some of her other stuff.  Her cover of Look what they’ve done to my song is fantastic.

I reckon Byrne’s voice is so individual, and that particular song is so instantly recognisable that any artist trying to cover it is taking their life in their hands really.

She’s spun it in a way that suits her ‘house style’ – modern country? shall we call it that? And it sort of works, and if you’re not massively familiar with the original (and I’m guessing most of her fanbase won’t be) then it’s OK I guess.

Her cover of Zombie didn’t offend my ears.

You could plot songs on an axis from random nonsense to meaningful.  So the original sits firmly at the meaningful end of that spectrum.

Miley’s cover of Zombie is great, but does it mean anything (it could be, but I’ve not seen her protesting against the NRA or anything). It’s also not really that different to the original.

Sometimes a cover takes a song and strips it of all meaning, like Leona Lewis covering Hurt, and it’s awful, instantly forgettable, or other negative platitudes.  On the other hand you get a great cover that leans on this like the Artic Monkeys absolutely wetting themselves covering the absurdity of covering Love Machine (which was hardly “meaningful” but at least made sense in it’s original context).

Sometimes a song’s so universal that anyone could cover it with feeling (Nothing Compares to You).

Psycho Killer was just random nonsense to start with (unless David Byrne is going to be outed as a serial killer) . And not in a brilliant high concept Flaming Lips kinda way. Katy Perry could cover it with as much credibility. 

 

she clearly likes songs by old white guys

I was going to post the vid of her dad and lil naz x doing old town road, might as well now I’ve got it in my head, btu maybe a bit off topic.

the OP version is a pleasantly petshop boysy and makes me think they could have done something with it.

There’s a jam night on Tuesdays at a local pub.

After a few cans of Guinness 0.0 I occasionally pick up my guitar and murder Talking Heads’ Heaven and Psycho Killer so I don’t think I’m qualified to comment.

Labelling music as “shit” is really reductive and makes you come across as either thick, judgmental or a music snob.

It is shit though, be honest.  Even self-confessed MC fans here are saying it’s poor.

Given the demographic of STW, ask your kids what they think?  See how many go “OMG GOAT!” or whatever it is that kids say this week.

This cover version is better, strangely he seems to have released it before The Talking Heads released the original version, wonder how that happened.

wonder how that happened

🤣

Psycho Killer, a track that really doesn’t need covering.
-1/100 for MC

THAT Black Dog version isn’t much betterer!

Given the demographic of STW, ask your kids what they think?

Daughter (23) thinks its Ok (isn’t a massive Miley fan, although used to be), didn’t realise its a cover, asked (’bout the original) “Is this some white dude/band that I’ve never heard of that you think are genius?” On listening; “He’s got a weird voice, but it’s also OK, sounds very Smooth FM”

Pop star produces pop version of a TH song for a TH tribute album shocker.

I like TH and im not a fan of MC but this sounded OK with a dash of meh. I can’t see what there is to get worked up about, sorry.

You can say what you like about MC but she certainly

is hugely overrated and completely unoriginal?

There are a multitude of tribute and covers bands that kick shit out of anything she has ever tried to do justice to.

I’m big on TH and that Miley cover is such a crime against their music I am not going to subject my ears to the rest of the covers album.

Yes that was bloody awful.

covers have to be in the artists own style.

Missing word?

I’m not Miley’s target audience – but I have loved her cover of Jolene, since I first heard it.