Queensrÿche - Take Cover
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Artist: QueensrÿcheEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Music Label: Rhino Records
Product features:
- QUEENSRYCHE TAKE COVER
- Welcome To The Machine
- Heaven On Their Minds
- Almost Cut My Hair
- For What It s Worth
- For The Love Of Money
- Innuendo
- Neon Knights
- Synchronicity II
- Red Rain
- Odissea
- Bullet The Blue Sky (Live)
Music reviews of Take Cover
Music Review: ugh...
Rating: 1 Stars
This is just slightly better than extremely bad (saved by two of the songs). By the songs they chose, I really felt... "wow... this will really be interesting and they are songs, by rights, that Queensryche would and should do well with". Sadly, I find it falls very flat and some of the songs are just downright embarrassingly bad.
Queensryche doing Pink Floyd would seemingly be a match made in heaven. It is not... not even close. The bass is prevalent in a way that works against the song rather than with it. Most of the vocals (this is across all the songs) just sound heartless and weak and rushed and lacking in good effects. I think the production doesn't sound great on most of the music either. The whole thing sounds like it was made on a budget and done very quickly with little emphasis on quality. By far the best sounding song on the CD is the live song... which tells alot about the studio work, which is supposed to sound significantly better than a live recording.
Their version of For The Love Of Money is by far the worst thing on this CD and would rival some of the worst covers I have ever heard. Imagine Geoff Tate trying to do a Vanilla Ice song complete with the dance moves... even THAT couldn't be more awkward than this FTLOM cover is. What's worse, clearly they arent a fan of their own genre... this song has been done before and infinitely better by the Bullet Boys... WHY would you put out such a poor version to be compared with that one that knocked the song out of the park? Synchronicity II, the song I most looked forward to on this CD, is thankfully not as bad as most of the rest... but still, it is not a very good cover of a great song. In fact, I think the fact that the song is so good is what makes it good.... but, the stark contrast between Sting's delivery and Tate's is very noticeable. Tate almost seems bored with what they are doing on the album... and it sounds like they did one vocal take and said... "good enough"... it doesn't sound thick and layered as it should have been. Tate is a much better singer than comes across on this entire album. Actually, the best song on this whole CD is probably the Opera song Odissea where he does show off some of his vocal chops... it reminds me of a lighter Rammstein slow song (but, again, Rammstein does a better job of this kind of sound).
Queensryche has been very disappointing to me in the last decade... other than the stellar Mindcrime At The Moore DVD, just about everything else has not lived up to their past or the expectations and this album is among the worst of that the mostly bad recent trend of their last decade.
Welcome To The Machine - D... not a good cover, and too many stylistic changes for the worse compared to the original. The vocals do not even remind you much of the original.
Heaven On My Minds - C... don't know the original... this one is just there.
Almost Cut My Hair - D... again, just not good... sounds awkward to me.
For What Its Worth - F... easily the worst rendition I have ever heard of this song which has been covered fairly often. Their changes again are too severe and definitely for the worst. The vocals are really bad.
For The Love of Money - F-... possibly the worst cover song I have ever heard. It's like a stereotypical lesson in why white guys cant groove.
Innuendo - D... again, doesn't do the song any justice. But, I can say honestly that I never cared for the original... no hook... and this attempt at being epic failed for Queen just as much as it fails for Queensryche.
Neon Knights - C... forgettable.
Synchronicity II - B-... it only scores that high because the SONG is that good on its own... but, should have been an A with even average delivery... the vocals are the main problem... extremely weak and heartless... I don't even think Tate sings the right words in key spots and the noisy extended guitar "non-solo" after Tate trots out the "Scottish Loch" lyric incorrectly was really a weak change.
Red Rain... B-... its ok again... but the vocals... like most feel like a situation where you tell someone to sing a song they have heard once or twice... and you record their first attempt without giving them much time to learn the song.... thus, it just comes out awkward.
Odissea... A-... I have nothing to compare this against... but here is the only song on this CD where Tate's vocals truly shine.
Bullet the Blue Sky... A- easily the best sounding cover on the album... not perfect, but not as extremely awkward as most of the rest. It actually has some edge to it that the rest lack.
HONESTLY, bad karaoke often does songs better than most of these renditions. Tate hits the notes... but... just doesn't sing hardly anything properly... its like he decided, I will do everything differently rather than like the original. There is a reason the original singer didn't sing most of these like Tate has... because its just not good that way!
This is an album where I just have to recommend people preview the songs very seriously before buying. Some will like it, some wont, and I guarantee some will hate it, like I do. I wish I previewed, I would have saved myself $15! For me, it is among the worst cover albums I have ever heard by any band... and I really didn't expect that even with Queensryche's less than stellar original work in the last 12 years. Honestly, I felt they would be a good cover band and I was wrong. Now I am thinking Geoff Tate and co are too cerebral and eccentric to do covers... they try to tinker too much and not with good ideas. You won't believe it from this review, but I really wanted to like this CD.
Description of Take Cover
You ve Never Heard Anything Like It.Queensrÿche Pays Tribute To A Diverse Collection Of Favorite Songs With An 11-Song Covers Compilation Ranging From Pink Floyd To Black Sabbath and Buffalo Springfield To Broadway And Much More.
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