As a reasonably-educated consumer who prefers organically-grown fruits and vegetables to the conventional, I often wonder why we've got these labels. After all, organically grown food is just food that hasn't been treated with anything whilst the intrepid farmer has been cultivating it. The so-called "conventional" on the other hand, means that the fruit or vegetable in question has been doused in chemicals to make it plumper, prevent bugs from eating it, etc. This bugs.
Sometimes you hear a cover and go to yourself, "hey, that's doper than Sam Perkins at Woodstock." Other times, you wonder (possibly aloud) "that no talent hack! They couldn't even carry [inset original artist here]'s guitar case!" [Ed. note: You should have seen what the author originally wanted to use as the carried item. Believe us, it wasn't a guitar case.]
Today was an example of the second. Some fool whose name I cannot even spare the mental RAM for, has covered "High and Dry" by the esteemed Radiohead. This is up there. With the worst covers of all time. Some songs just don't ever need to be covered. Like this one. And like "It's My Life" by Talk Talk. But No Doubt did a decent job with that one, although they crapped all over it with that video.
This one today was bad. When you do a cover, you're supposed to bring something to it. Maybe your sound is similar to the original artist's, an...
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