Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover The Diamond Sea
 

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/t...ic_Youth_cover_

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Diamond Sea (Sonic Youth cover) ”
[2006]


Unclear whose star's hitching whose wagon here: SY and YYY have been parading around like tabloid inamoratas lately, making out at stoplights, sharing milkshakes, co-headlining pool parties. Now they're fucking with covers. Bad idea if you ask me-- New York torch-passings mostly end in fire. Smartly, the Yeahs take the humble route, opting for lame strums and letting Karen O coo the chowder-thick guitar hook. She blows Thurston Moore's original vocal wide open, picking up on the song's discreet marching quality without drowning it in lugubriousness. A late, great boys-only bridge coaxes Endless Summer vibes from Nick Zinner's reverb-soused amp, with brushed snare scratches providing the obvious wave metaphor. I still prefer the Youth's quarter-hour wash cycle, but at least, as iTunes Music Store user Insane Harry Potter Fan!!! puts it, this take is "good to study to."

yeah its abit baffling considering all the songs in the SY back catalog that the yeahs yeah yeahs could choose from, this being soemwhat an unlikely choice... i think "Flower" would be an obvious one.

who's posting the YouSendIt?

Please Someone Post The Track!

Check your itunes people!

Edit:

FIXED: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...3A06186C9633DD

right on!
more appreciation for sy from other bands, please.
they deserve it.
thanks for upload alex.
just started to dl. it....

i can only imagine that steaming pile of crap.

i bet it's going to sound like venom attempting to cover battles, minus the cool sloppy mess and black makeup factors.

actually, i bet it's going to sound like when muse tried to cover "dracula mountain" by lightning bolt

you need to convert it to a non itunes tune. otherwise we have to pay for it:P

? You mean the yousendit thing didn't work?

it does, but we have to fill in a password from your account on which you probrably bought it when we want to play the file in itunes

I am converting it now...

thanks, i'll be waiting :)

thanks ...i;ll be waiting too

Sorry it took so long, I had to go to the library for some homework. When I came back the conversion didn't work. Expect it up sometime tonight.

It took me forever to figure it out but here it is:

The Diamond Sea by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Here is what I did:

I put the song on my Ipod. I pluged that into my Guitarport using a 1/8 inch-1/4 inch converter. I recorded it 'live' using Cubase LE, and then converted that to MP3. Took me a while to figure it out, I was tired of trying to use programs because none of them worked.

Thanks Alex. Sounds good

No problem. I think the sound quality went down...

So did I upload that for nothing or what?

Not at all! Thanks a lot. It ain't a bad cover, but it surely can't beat the original.

YOU ARE FUCKING JOKING. I MUST HEAR THIS.

hehe, it was quite late over here when you uploaded is the first time...

so by now: thanks a lot :)

muse embarrass themselves by attempting to cover the bolt.

and for the record, it's exactly like that, yyy sound as clueless as muse...just hearing the "ooh ooh"s made me want to beat someone senseless.

yyy's cover is quite nice in my opinion.explores the pop side of the diamond sea (and that's a powerful side in that song,and it's a good thing).dracula mountain sounds crappy coz that is not a song you can "interpret" in a different way.next we'll have paris hilton covering cpt.beefheart,apparently.

and check this cover,it's funny.i like the original too.
http://www.localh.com/toxic.mp3
and take a look at the page where it comes from,it's funny too
http://www.localh.com/toxic.html

where do you hear this "nice" quality in the yyy cover? all i hear is some pretentious lady trying to be all emo and self-important ('this cover is gonna make history') about the song. i mean the acoustic guitar doesn't sound bad but she completely destroys the song.

it's right up there with blink 182 doing "freak scene"! but probably, since we are talking about the hippest band of the moment doing the cover, people are bound to think it's a "cool" cover.

actually the fact that it's done by yeah yeah yeahs does not affect my judgment.i do not like them that much,and surely i'm not a "victim of the hype" (my music tastes are way far from what is trendy/commercial/popular on many levels),i simply think it's not bad,it takes the song in a different direction (and it's a good thing for a cover),and if you have a problem with her vocals it does not mean it's a bad song,but simply that you don't like how she sings (or HER/what she represent for you as a whole judging by your words)

Wow. I didn't know they did that. I must hear this.

I don't think she is trying to be emo, or is self-important. Maybe it is because I have been a YYY fan since I was about 13, but I think she sounds nice.

i can't stand karen o's voice

yeah, horrible cover...or maybe diamond sea is impossible to do in a "different" way by a "different" artist. i liked umade bed cover by flaming lips bit more, it was interesting actually.

HAHAHA. Terrible bands doing terrible covers. HAHAHA.

I don't mind the cover. I agree with Nicfit. The "oohs" kinda seem iffy, but it's nice to go from one end of the spectrum to another. A good song will really survive all the cover versions people wanna do.

As for Muse covering LB, it was sorta weird, plus I was fucking pissed that they couldn't even get the location right. PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND DOES NOT EQUAL BOSTON YOU FUCKS!

boring.

You guys have horrible taste, I'm convinced.

I love this cover. It rivals the FLaming LIps cover of unmade bed.

I don't really like the YYY's too much but this cover is far from horrible. It's decent.

I think the cover was okay... it sounded like it really wanted cat power on vocals or something, though

Indeed. I always wonder whether people here have used up all their good taste quota on SY, and have none left in reserve.

better they use it on sonic youth than most other shit.

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Someone plzzzzzzz upload it again. :(