Heavy metal band does Rita & the Tiaras

[Amsterdam Russ]

Retro European heavy metal band, Lucifer, have released a new single, a cover of Gone with the wind is my love.

 

I bring this to everyone's attention now with the deliberate intention of preventing any DJ on the scene from playing it out as a cover-up. 

[Solidsoul]

There should be a law to stop this sacrilege!.

I hope it doesn't turn into another big hit, like Soft Cell and "Tainted Love!".

Edited July 3, 2021 by D9 Ktf

[Kenb]

as versions go...i think it's a pretty good effort and quite like it (not enough to buy it). I guess that's partly down to the lyrics and production which haven't been too messed about with from the original.

[John Hart]

Gracias Russ ,

                    Just bought a copy for 9 euros off Metal MailOrder ,{Plenty left on Discogs ,in coloured vinyl ,from Transylvania ,Doom Metal etc on discogs } ..  Tiaras, Gloria Jones  etc Kent copies £40 ,to £100, Orig versions £6,000 !!  Vocals very authentic to Ritas ,arrangement spot on ,and slightly stompier. As Ken B says Good effort from Sweden ,NS meets Death Metal !

[Keamus]

Agree with Ken. Adds nothing to the original, but as far as cover versions go it's not bad at all

[Jules]

I`ve heard worse

[Kevinkent]

Hmm, a blonde and a brunette, based in Stockholm. That sounds familiar, and similar to and old band that I recently heard were getting back together after all this time...Nah, surely not?

Anyway, I quite like it in a Dancing Queen sort of way.

- Kev

[Dobber]

I really like it,its like ABBA with guitars,which i must add i cant stand ABBA! But this version is very good! I wouldnt call it heavy metal though! More garage band sounding!

[Lionelonthevinyl]

On no!!! I like it .....thank you for posting....Rob

[Soulandy]

Quite like that. I wonder what would happen at 4am on a Sunday morning.......................

[Robbk]

That's the first heavy metal song I've ever heard with actual singing (not screaming), and they actually can carry a tune!  Too bad about the awful instrumental.  The drummer was good, however.

7 hours ago, Dobber said:

I really like it,its like ABBA with guitars,which i must add i cant stand ABBA! But this version is very good! I wouldnt call it heavy metal though! More garage band sounding!

Their singing is more soulful than ABBA.  It's not really heavy metal.  It's "Light Metal"! 

[Mach]

Not for me..poor immitation of the original

[Tomangoes]

How did these folks ever get to know this song....closet northern soulies!

Ed

[Robbk]

10 hours ago, Mach said:

Not for me..poor immitation of the original

I didn't mean to imply that they sang the song better than Rita and The Tiaras.  I just meant that their delivery was a more Soulful sound than ABBA's (which wasn't at all very "Soulful", and that I had never before heard the remotest link to decent singing or anything to which I could listen without having the urge to vomit, from a "Heavy Metal" song.

[Happy Feet]

In the past there have been lots of these cover sounds ,and they still command a lot of money to own , I'm just surprised that somewhere down the years it wasn't covered by Texas , Cher or Banarama if only ,it may have sounded better ,,,,

 

 

[Whiskyagogo]

Total rip off

And kin awful 

[Sebastian]

Lucifer is Nicke Andersson's "new" group together with his wife Johanna. Nicke used to be in Hellacopters, Imperial State Electric an death metal pioneers Entombed. This choice of a tune to cover doesn't surprise me, as he's a big r&b/soul fan. The Hellacopters, a garage group that I absolutely loved when they came onto the scene in 1995-1997, covered Silky Hargreaves "You're Too Good To Me Baby" and another one of his groups, the heavily soul influenced The Solution covered Fantastic Four's "Can't Stop Looking For My Baby", Albert King's "Had You Told It Like It Was" etc. 

 

 

Edited July 5, 2021 by Sebastian

[Westender]

I reckon it's OK. Nothing wrong in covering a good song and taking it into a different direction.

Not my cup of tea but it's well enough put together.

I've heard far worse cover versions.

[Mach]

The thing that annoys me with these cover versions is when the masses hear these tunes, the cover artiste usually gets all praise & recognition,and the original artiste is often oblivious to them. The amount of people that think that soft cell are the original artiste of tainted love is a case in point amongst many others.

[Solidsoul]

13 minutes ago, Mach said:

The thing that annoys me with these cover versions is when the masses hear these tunes, the cover artiste usually gets all praise & recognition,and the original artiste is often oblivious to them. The amount of people that think that soft cell are the original artiste of tainted love is a case in point amongst many others.

Yes totally agree. Haven't they got any idea's or creativity of there own!

Things like Yazz "The Only Way Is Up" and Simply Red with "A Lot Of Love". They totally overshadow the original better recordings.

[Tomangoes]

There's a long list of those, going back to the stones, beatles, lulu.....even Tom "the voice" Jones, and his chills and fever effort...

Easy pickings.

Ed

 

[Kevinkent]

On 03/07/2021 at 15:23, John Hart said:

Gracias Russ ,

                    Just bought a copy for 9 euros off Metal MailOrder ,{Plenty left on Discogs ,in coloured vinyl ,from Transylvania ,Doom Metal etc on discogs } ..  Tiaras, Gloria Jones  etc Kent copies £40 ,to £100, Orig versions £6,000 !!  Vocals very authentic to Ritas ,arrangement spot on ,and slightly stompier. As Ken B says Good effort from Sweden ,NS meets Death Metal !

Now on Kent at £7.99 , not £40, in the Soul Store on this site. I think I know where my money would go

- Kev

 

[Shinehead]

2 hours ago, Mach said:

The thing that annoys me with these cover versions is when the masses hear these tunes, the cover artiste usually gets all praise & recognition,and the original artiste is often oblivious to them. The amount of people that think that soft cell are the original artiste of tainted love is a case in point amongst many others.

If the records puts some cash in the songwriters pocket I do not mind at all , and I doubt if the songwriters mind too.

Bit like the Womack story when The Stones covered " It's All Over Now ' he was fuming till the writers cheque came in.

[Tom C]

well I've bought both versions today - go stick that in your pipes

[John Hart]

  Great News For Lew Baretto ,{Dore Records} .

               Some well deserved , more income from a tremendous Failed commercial tune !

 Gloria Jones got nada from " Tainted",{Alledgely},.. But yet the producers of the 2019 Richard Curtis movie "Yesterday " Paid Sony 10 Million $ for a  few Beatles  songs, { Macca Still Fights for the Rights on early tunes Post 50 year copyright deadline !!}  The Mafiosa Minefield of Music Rights ??

 

 

 

 songs {Macca still fights for copyright on earlier tunes,, post 50 year limit}.