Cover Tunes Today ... With Your Host Fred Durst
Today MTV News catches up with Fred Durst, who was only talking "because his record label was making him promote Limp's new Greatest Hitz."
"A lot of times that throws the wrong signal out there," Durst explained. "That's sometimes a cash-in time for any artist out there, and they always come out at Christmas. So I don't think any of us were ready for a greatest-hits record at this time, but it is what it is."Since the kids turned their back on Bizkit, Fred's stayed in the news by making out with Halle Berry in a music video, stalking Paris Hilton, and leaking homemade porn. Now, he tells MTV News, it's "time to make an impact with the unexpected."
So here's Fred doing something we didn't expect ... ruining two songs at once. Download the band's double cover of Mötley Crüe's "Home Sweet Home" + The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony."
Limp Bizkit - "Bittersweet Home" (MP3)
Fred talks up the tune on his blog:
Bittersweet Home has a message. it doesn't has a style that is supposed to please you or anyone. When the music is heavy, so is the head. When the music softens, so does the heart. The balance is what it is all about. Juxtaposition. Obligation. Fulfillment. Win. Lose. Win. Stop. Begin. Figure it out when you care. Until then just be lost as we all are at many moments in our lives.Wha?You do not want to hear the truth. You can't handle the truth. Or can you?
Since you loved last Friday's MP3 blog cover song round-up, here are a few more...
Dar Williams (Feat. Ani Difranco) - "Comfortably Numb" (Pink Floyd)
From the album My Better Self
Download MP3 at Jefitoblog
Franz Ferdinand & Scissor Sisters - "Suffragette City" (David Bowie)
Live @ V Festival, Chelmsford
Download MP3 at My Old Kentucky Blog
Nickel Creek - "Toxic" (Britney Spears)
Live @ House Of Blues, Cleveland
Download MP3 at Music Cherry
Snowden - "Time Of The Season" (The Zombies)
From snowden.info
Download MP3 at Badminton Stamps
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Yeah, Fred's funny and sad at the same time, but isn't this the real news that stereogum should be covering:
(BANG) - Britney Spears and Kevin Federline are at the centre of a break-up riddle.
Britney Spears
The new mom has demanded a trial separation and kicked her husband out of their Malibu home after a blazing row, according to US reports.
Kevin is said to be temporarily staying at a friend's house.
A source revealed to a US magazine: "Brit's had all she can stand of the problems with Kevin. She explained to him that the split would be temporary, that it would give them some breathing room to sort out their problems.
"Britney's giving it her all to make things work."
Last week, Britney was reportedly upset Kevin was not spending enough time helping her with their baby son, Sean Preston.
Insiders claimed she was particularly annoyed when her husband spent two hours having his hair braided, while she was left to change the baby's nappies.
Kevin has also reportedly been avoiding his fatherly duties by partying till the early hours at nightclubs.
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Not even showing up drunk at a McDonalds would help this guys cred. I think their last album sold like 49 copies too. Lets hope this "Greatest Shitz" package can live up to those monstrous numbers.
p.s. I'd buy it, if it meant that I could kick Fred in the nuts upon purchase.
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it could be me - or just the chord progression - but it sounds like he's biting a little bit of 'streets of philadelphia' at the top, too.
it's really really not good.
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wow, suddenly thom yorke's blog entries seem really genius.
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Thanks for the picture. I had to give my Sigur Ros album away after seeing that nasty-ass video.
And wait a minute, once you wade through the bull, is he saying that he he knows the song is bad but we should just wait for a measure that we don't mind? As if to say, "here's a plate of crap mixed with chocolate-covered worms. decide whether you'd rather eat crap or worms, then pick that out."
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Someone seriously needs to tell Fred Durst he's irrelevant.
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I didn't think anything could be worse than the new K-Fed single, I was wrong.
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Fred Durst and Ashlee Simpson today? hell why not throw in throw in what Tom Green's up to or how Silverchair defined a generation. Anyway if the fredurst and a-lee s-son had children i think they would literally be The Offspring.
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I hope that faggot dies
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I can not overstate how much I despise this man; the king of the "well, we're drained 'creatively,' so for our comeback song we'll cash-in with a WTF cover track."
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D00d!
The dude is a millionaire. Can't he afford a better drum machine? Does he think that's funny/ironic?
I won't even get into how bad the "singing" is.
Does he really think of himself as a musician?
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did someone forget to tell him his 15 minutes were up, like, back in 1999?
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Nookie and Break Stuff.
Just saying those song titles should remind you all why you should hate the year 1999.
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Two posts featuring Fred Durst and Ashlee Simpson. Wow. That is like a universal confluence of suckitude. If those two had a child, it would grow and wreak havoc on goodness in music. Then Jack White would kick its ass Rodan style.
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More telling comments from Fred's blog:
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Free speech. Censorship. Juxtaposition.
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That has to be the worst crap I have heard in a while. K Fed and Fred together on tour would just be unstoppable.
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They could call it the "Still Mooching Off of Something That Was Big in 1999" tour.
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you ruined my day with that picture
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Evan... brilliance
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The Local H cover of Toxic is WAAAAAY better than the Nickle Creek one...
http://www.localh.com/toxic.mp3
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Here's another cover song. A girl called Amanda Rogers is covering an At The Drive-In song. Reminds me a bit of Tori Amos covering Nirvana:
http://www.2ndrec.com/blog/2005/11/03/mp3-amanda-rogers-198d/
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I am pretty sure thta Snowden song is not on the soundtrack album for Stubbs The Zombie.
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Isn't Bittersweet Sypmphony a Rolling Stones cover?
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Best line ever about Durst is from (of course) Buddyhead. Talking about Durst getting a tat of Kurt Cobain on his chest, they said, "That's like Hitler getting a tatoo of Jesus."
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About the "isn't that a Rolling Stones cover?" comment...Bittersweet Symphony is NOT a Stones song. It's based on an orchestral version of a Rolling Stones song. Richard Ashcroft wrote the lyrics, etc.
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Hmm. Fred seems to be giving the impression that he's not happy about a Greatest Hits package being released. Er, isn't he the president of the record company? And someone should tell him that adults don't replace "s" with "z". The ztupid baztard.
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Fred is 5 feet of no talent flab, go away now before I swat you.
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The string arrangement that's the main hook of "Bittersweet Symphony" isn't taken completely from the orchestra version of "The Last Time," only a small part of it. The band wrote the main part, but Keith "Why Not Have Some More Money?" Richards decided to sue them anyone and got the rights to the song.
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So i hate thh Bizkit. Durst is an ass. The song sucks fiercely...
But admit it, this is the kind of shit you would've loved if it was done by some poor nerd/geek/hipster while being "ironic". Just like white dudes doing folkie covers of old school rap or exotica/bossanova covers of post-punk depressing stuff.
Durst fault is that he doesn't know he embodies kitsch. He can't go meta.
G.
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