posted by davidt on Saturday March 13 2004, @10:30AM
torr leonard writes:

The Smiths get unlikely tribute - NME.com

THE SMITHS are the subject of an unlikely tribute from the heroes of emo and post-hardcore.

New compilation ‘How Soon Is Now?’ sees acts like Hundred Reasons, Million Dead, Cursive and Instruction tackle the hits of Smiths and Morrissey.

The idea came about when Nigel Adams from the Sorepoint label realised that the new wave of bands overwhelmingly cited the Manchester legends as an influence. Work began on the project six months ago, and the album is due for release in May.

On it, Hundred Reasons cover ‘How Soon Is Now?’, Million Dead tackle ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’ and Cursive re-interpret ‘Frankly Mr Shankly’.

Elsewhere, Instruction do ‘Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me’, thisGIRL do ‘Shoplifters Of The World Unite’, Yourcodenameis:Milo do ‘Death Of A Disco Dancer’, Read Yellow do ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’, Lomax do ‘Handsome Devil’ and Garrison do ‘Panic’.
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  • I am into some of these bands and I think this tribute might end up being half-decent. I just wish Quicksand's cover of HSIN would be on there, as they were the best post-hc band in my opinion and their rendition of that song is amazing.
    fightingdog82 -- Saturday March 13 2004, @04:12PM (#90343)
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  • !!! yuck !!!
    Anonymous -- Sunday March 14 2004, @11:25AM (#90418)
    • Re:emo tribute by Anonymous (Score:0) Monday March 15 2004, @05:01AM
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  • I was watching Emo band Dashboard Confessional paying tribute to REM and it was the biggest garbage I ever heard.Could you imagine how bad this will be?45 minutes of grating screeching and over the top,forced teenage angst b.s.

    I wish good bands would do a tribute (like the Leonard Cohen tribute album)-REM,Pearl Jam,Paul Westerberg,Tori Amos,The Cure,etc

    but Emo?My ears would prefer hearing chalk on a blackboard.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 23 2004, @04:57AM (#91621)


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