Who is Seether, and who told them that a remake of "Careless Whisper"

[flvegan]

was a good idea?

[TZ]

1. I have no idea who Seether is...

and as for two, well, obviously there's a good reason why I don't know who they are..:eyes:

[arcadian]

2. They play it incessently on the radio here.

it's so "edgy" :puke:

[DarkTirade]

3. I thought it wasn't half bad.

It is, however, overplayed. :P

[arbusto_baboso]

4. Hell, the original wasn't even a good idea.

IMO, anyway.

[Lucian]

5. I actually like Seether's version over Wham's version.

But it's just overplayed on my local rock station. x(

[alphafemale]

14. It's way better. But you are right about it being overplayed.

But I never much cared for Wham... At. All. So I may not be an unbiased judge.

[LeftyMom]

6. Honey, are you listening to the radio? WHY?

Anymore that's like letting people with no taste drop a gigantic shit directly in your ear, you know?

For the love of all that's good and decent, make yourself a big old playlist of shit that doesn't suck, play that, and forget the radio exists. And don't tell me you play it for the dogs, because making them hear Nickelback every 45 minutes is abuse. I'd suggest satellite radio, but both providers got rid of their punk stations (Sirius' was really good- a nice mix of old hardcore and newer stuff that doesn't suck) and are DTM.

[Kali]

7. unless you have a decent community station down there on the left of the dial

[flvegan]

8. It's the dogs' stereo, and WUSF went kaput a couple weeks ago.

WUSF is the local non-profitish classical station. I'd leave in on WMNF, but polka hour makes them howl.

[LeftyMom]

9. Polka? Subjecting them to that should make them bite you in the junk.

There's got to be a humane alternative here.

[flvegan]

10. This one, 97x at least overplays Rise Against along with

the payola shitola that passes as "the new rock alternative" whatever the hell that means. The only station I've heard play Social D in years.

[LeftyMom]

11. There's a station here that does, but they also play A LOT of crap.

Hence the ipod hookup in my car. :evilgrin:

[mtnester]

12. We have an indy station here that plays Social D regulalry

hubs came home the other day, with Social D BLASTING out the windows

It was like high school all over again. He put the CD in and we just sat and listened (sang a bit too)...then we put the Ramones on...sigh

only one thing could have made it better.....

[MrSlayer]

13. A crappy band and they're thrying to be ironic or something I guess.

Seether is terrible.

[InvisibleTouch]

15. Okay, now you sent me to YouTube...

...as an 80's girl who loves 80's music and loves the original song, I was curious about the remake.

Ugh!! Could not even stand to listen to it all the way through.

[jobycom]

16. Seether is a rock band who lost a bet at a party with way too many drugs.

It could happen to anyone.

[LostInAnomie]

17. HAHA... I posted almost the exact same statement earlier today.

See here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8856613&mesg_id=8857216

I cussed a little more though.

[ElboRuum]

18. Wow, good questions...

Hmm... let me answer this as best I can.

They are an awful "nu-something" band (you can tell by the music, although one only has to look at the "edgy" band name to understand that this band is bankrupt from concept) who draw their influence off of 90's alt rock and have a ken for 80's kitsch, but apparently understand neither well enough to find the obvious fault in remaking an 80's pop ballad into a pseudo-grunge/metal... um... interpretation... I guess... of an 80's pop ballad.

[FlyingSquirrel]

19. I sang that at karaoke a few days ago...

I like the fact that a cool song I used to sing can now be sung again without people tuning out. (Same goes for the Lemonheads version of Mrs. Robinson, and Quietdrive's version of Time After Time.)

Also I like singing the Seether / Amy Lee duet "Broken", although we sing it much better than they do.

:D