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Is it weird for a band to cover another bands song within a year of its release? (1 Viewer)

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Phantogram came out with an album in June of this year and a hit single You don't get me High anymore.

This past month, 3 Days Grace started playing a cover of it. But instead of a one off thing, they have it on sale on iTunes and in heavy rotation on the usual Radio stations. 

I'm assuming Phantogram gave them permission but it seems weird to me that this new band just broke big this year and now a band fading a bit covers their song and is making money off of it.

Just my random thought for the weekend.

 
I always wondered why bands didn't plerform more covers live, and a musician told me he didn't want the best song in a concert to be someone else's.

When you're Three Days Grace, tho, why not cash in on whatever you can?  

 
Historically, quick covers aren't at all unusual.

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Among many, many others ...

"Ai No Corrida", Chaz Jankel (1980)
"Ai No Corrida", Quincy Jones (1981)

"Fire" written by Bruce Springsteen in 1977, only played in live sets
"Fire", Link Wray (1977)
"Fire", The Pointer Sisters (1978)

 
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Just listened to the song.

Its terrible and that band wouldn't be successful without an attractive singer.

No harm no foul. They aren't going anywhere so they sold the rights to 3 Days Grace, a band only a few hairs less terrible, to cash in while they could.

Edit: I hesitate to even call them a band because it's electronic music.

 
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I don't want to miss a thing Aerosmith released August 1998

mark chestnut country version recorded late 1998 and released early 1999

 
RokNRole said:
Doug B said:
Historically, quick covers aren't at all unusual.
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Just ask Taurus.
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That was Spirit, and they lost their lawsuit against Led Zeppelin (deservedly so; only the first 3-4 notes of "Taurus" were copied on "Stairway To Heaven").

Anyway, it was very common in the '60s to cover the popular songs of the day.

eta: you don't need permission to cover someone else's song. All you have to do is pay the proper royalties.

 
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[scooter] said:
That was Spirit, and they lost their lawsuit against Led Zeppelin (deservedly so; only the first 3-4 notes of "Taurus" were copied on "Stairway To Heaven").

Anyway, it was very common in the '60s to cover the popular songs of the day.
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I was close enough lol

 
John Michael Montgomery and All 4 One put out I Swear very close together.

Seems like Trisha Yearwood and Lee Ann Rimes had How Do I Live out at pretty much the same time.

 
Many times it's not as much a cover, more of a songwriter shopping the song to multiple artists at the same time.

Here's  a good one (my apologies to anyone else who remembers this trash)- the song "Hide your heart" was released by 4 different artists in the same year. Written by Paul Stanley and Desmond Child, it was released by Bonnie Tyler in 1998. Then in 1999, it was released by 4 other artists. The odd part was that it was on the Kiss album "Hot in the Shade", which came out within weeks  after Ace Frehley released it on his solo album "Trouble Walkin".

 
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley covered by Ray LaMontgne and Nelly same year..

Crazy by Patsy Cline was recorded by the songwriter, Willie Nelson, within a year.

 
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Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) was written and recorded by Kris Kristofferson in 1971, also recorded by Roger Miller  and Waylon Jennings in 1971.

 
bentley said:
John Michael Montgomery and All 4 One put out I Swear very close together.

Seems like Trisha Yearwood and Lee Ann Rimes had How Do I Live out at pretty much the same time.
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All 4 One covered it about a year later.  They also covered I Can Love You Like That by JMM

 
peaces said:
Pat Boone made a career of it
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And this is why many of the 'exceptions' listed here are the doing of A&R guys, who have been putting 'hits' in front of singers and bands for 50some years. During the time i was associated w Bonnie Raitt she had 3 gold albums, was an anointed voice of her genderation and obviously as roots as a rich white girl can be. Didn't stop a parade of Warner yahoos (especially after they axed like 80 acts off their rolls in one day in '74 and even worse after Linnie Ronstadt had hits w covers) from puttin every ###### Streisand & Carpenter song they could get their greezy hands on in front of her. She finally caved, had her 1st top 40 w a joke cover of "Runaway" and within 3 yrs was without a record deal.

The other thing is that the worst bug a songwriter can get in his head is a take on an arrangement of something they've just heard. You just keep falling back into it and it wont let you alone. Jammin' w a friend of mine trying to find Beatles songs to suggest to his cover band, for example, we were going thru "Hard Day's Night" and i fell onto a whole nuther take on "And I Love Her". Could think of nothing else for weeks and had to talk his band into performing it with me to see if it worked so i could get back to other work. Tunes works that way...

 
I noticed this weekend that Brand Nubian sampled The New Bohemians on "Slow Down" and that released like a year and a half earlier (end of 88 and 90)

 
Ryan Adams covered the entire Taylor Swift - 1989 album not too long after it came out.

Yes, I thought it was weird.

 
RokNRole said:
Just listened to the song.

Its terrible and that band wouldn't be successful without an attractive singer.

No harm no foul. They aren't going anywhere so they sold the rights to 3 Days Grace, a band only a few hairs less terrible, to cash in while they could.

Edit: I hesitate to even call them a band because it's electronic music.
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These are pretty much my exact thoughts on the topic  :unsure:

 
Mr. Pickles said:
Agreed. 

Has Led Zeppelin written anything original?
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No but Peter Grant will put your head through a wall

I heard an R&B cover of Adele's Hello in an uber, around the same time it was big.  Seemed pretty pointless.  I shazamed and it was somebody called Joe.  Bryant maybe?

In the 60's people working in other genres were knocking off Beatles cuts left and right, as soon as they'd hit, and it was usually pretty cool

 
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Has Led Zeppelin written anything original?
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Led Zeppelin did the exact same thing that many '60s artists did. The only reason they get singled out is because they made money from it.

Not even the Beatles or the Stones were immune from lifting copyrighted material without credit.

 
[scooter] said:
That was Spirit, and they lost their lawsuit against Led Zeppelin (deservedly so; only the first 3-4 notes of "Taurus" were copied on "Stairway To Heaven").

Anyway, it was very common in the '60s to cover the popular songs of the day.

eta: you don't need permission to cover someone else's song. All you have to do is pay the proper royalties.
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And OJ was acquitted of murder

 
Joe Summer said:
Led Zeppelin did the exact same thing that many '60s artists did. The only reason they get singled out is because they made money from it.

Not even the Beatles or the Stones were immune from lifting copyrighted material without credit.
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Big difference between a cover song and stealing. 

 
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