Queensryche Covers Pink Floyd

Progressive Metal band Queensrÿche released their first single for their latest album 'Take Cover' on iTunes today. The song's name? Why, none other than Pink Floyd's classic song "Welcome To The Machine".

The new album will be full of cover songs that range from Black Sabbath, The O'Jays, to Broadway musicals. The album will be available in stores on November 13th.

Take Cover contains Queensrÿche's distinctive arrangement of Pink Floyd's "Welcome To The Machine," an acoustic version of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth," and a highly charged live version of U2's "Bullet The Blue Sky." "We'll never top the originals; they're classics for a reason," Geoff Tate (lead singer) says.

"We were more focused on finding different approaches that took the songs in unexpected directions."

Comments

[iamweasel]

Welcome to the Machine is an awesome song, but I bet Queensryche will completely ruin it

[ozzgod]

iamweasel wrote:

Welcome to the Machine is an awesome song, but I bet Queensryche will completely ruin it

Welcome To The Machine is an awesome song... and Queenrÿche have always totally rocked... however, they completely mutilated and ruined this song when I saw them play it live during their Irvine, California USA concert with Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath) and Alice Cooper on October 6th... and it sucked that they covered this tune so badly live because the rest of their set was flawless... I haven't yet heard this cover CD but, if hearing it live is any indication, I'll pass on this one, I'm sorry to say...

[jpast]

This story was posted like two months ago.

[MegaRon]

iamweasel wrote:

Welcome to the Machine is an awesome song, but I bet Queensryche will completely ruin it

Hell no. I heard them perform it live last month and they did an amazing job with it.

[Chewy120]

ozzgod wrote:

iamweasel wrote:

Welcome to the Machine is an awesome song, but I bet Queensryche will completely ruin it



Welcome To The Machine is an awesome song... and Queenrÿche have always totally rocked... however, they completely mutilated and ruined this song when I saw them play it live during their Irvine, California USA concert with Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath) and Alice Cooper on October 6th... and it sucked that they covered this tune so badly live because the rest of their set was flawless... I haven't yet heard this cover CD but, if hearing it live is any indication, I'll pass on this one, I'm sorry to say...

wat r u talking about? why was so badly? it was freaken awsome , i loved it when queensryche cover pink floyd in that concert

[mfergel]

Too me, it's a sign of a bands demise when they start releasing an album of complete covers, especially this far into their career.....can you hear me Poison, etc.....

[suminorudder]

ive never really liied queensryche, but i would like to hear this. i just hope they dont mutilate it like korn did to "another brick in the wall"

and to mfergel^ i disagree. think about it. if youve been recording ten, twenty, 30 years, dont you think youd want to record the songs that you love and inspired you to play music? now im not saying that cover albums are always good (hackdreamlandhack) but most are pretty cool.

[Super Llama]

Ive heard it on the radio. sounds pretty good to me, though im not familiar with the pink floyd version.

[motorbreath_445]

i saw queensryche in hamilton with black sabbath and alice cooper, and not only did they do justice to "welcome to the machine" they DESTROYED IT!!! each individual member (minus bass and drums) took a solo, with tate using a sax. it was one of the best covers i had ever heard. so in other words, they made it better.

[Doodleface]

ozzgod wrote:

iamweasel wrote:

Welcome to the Machine is an awesome song, but I bet Queensryche will completely ruin it



Welcome To The Machine is an awesome song... and Queenrÿche have always totally rocked... however, they completely mutilated and ruined this song when I saw them play it live during their Irvine, California USA concert with Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath) and Alice Cooper on October 6th... and it sucked that they covered this tune so badly live because the rest of their set was flawless... I haven't yet heard this cover CD but, if hearing it live is any indication, I'll pass on this one, I'm sorry to say...

I loved it when they played it on that tour! Maybe they were more together by the time they hit Hamilton?

checked.

[reason49]

Oddly enough, I'm not a big fan of much of their stuff before Empire. I'm glad that they're going to change the original songs around some, but hopefully it won't turn out to be like A Perfect Circle's "eMOTIVe" which attempted the same thing.

[MXFNCK]

a cover can turn out either good or bad. For example, i really like GNR's spaghetti incident. they did a good job. however ozzy's version of sympathy for the devil was so bad that it made me like the stones even more. dont judge before you heard the album. queensryche rules

[shwilly]

Hmmm, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned that OTHER prog rock-band who covered the Floyd on several occasions, including a full rendition of "Dark Side" which I was lucky enough to see live. It was one hell of a performance, which didn't surprise anybody because Dream Theater (woops) can nail almost anything, but then again...

...it was also like seeing a carbon copy of an album which I had heard so many times already, and I was glad that they did an encore with just DT songs: playing cover songs is always fun, but it's a lot cooler to hear a band that has a different take on someone else's material by adding something new, making it their own.

I haven't heard Queensrÿche's song yet, but I hope they did a nice job. Welcome To The Machine is a fantastic track

[dsotm73]

why does God let these things happen. tsk tsk.

[Daburcor]

I'm most excited to hear their take on Queen's Innuendo. It's such an epic track.

[Thefallofman]

this has already been posted here...

[I,Voyager]

Well it sounded great when they played it on tour with Heaven and Hell. Obviously different from Pink Floyd's version, but that doesn't mean it's bad. They play it in their own style.

[XzX_Patrick_XzX]

i have never really listened to queensryche but shadows fall covered welcome to the machine and it was ****ing awesome, i doubt they will top that

[U.S.E.F]

I WENT TO IRVINE AMPITHEATER AND SAW QUEENSYRCHE,ALICE COOPER,HEAVEN AND HELL they were GREAT loved the SHOW and i think queensyrche covered the song PRETTY GOOD (thats my opinion)

[cloudy_skies]

mfergel wrote:

Too me, it's a sign of a bands demise when they start releasing an album of complete covers, especially this far into their career.....can you hear me Poison, etc.....

I wouldn't say "demise", I'd say "contractual obligation". A whole bunch of well-known and respected artists have done covers albums in the past, such as John Lennon, Robert Plant, Aerosmith and Van Halen (ok, technically it wasn't ALL covers, but still...) Usually they would have some sort of contract saying they had to release a certain number of albums, and since they were either too lazy or creatively spent to write more original music they ended up recording other people's songs. Usually, these albums got some recognition just because it was rock act X that recorded the songs, and then faded into the bargain bins.

However, that doesn't mean their careers are spent. Bob Dylan did a covers album in 1970, but some of his best work since the 60's (as in Blood on the Tracks) was yet to come. Also, Eric Clapton did a pretty interesting covers album called Me and Mr. Johnson, which was him doing new versions of Robert Johnson songs (Mr. Johnson wrote the song Cream reworked as "Crossroads"). It worked pretty well considering Eric didn't do any new stuff.

[ZosoLP1822]

they opened for alice cooper and heaven and hell 2 weeks ago and i saw them play this song. it was good

[bropark08]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMcsULG7Fzs

[Floydian45]

XzX_Patrick_XzX wrote:

i have never really listened to queensryche but shadows fall covered welcome to the machine and it was ****ing awesome, i doubt they will top that

Yeah, Shadows Fall did an excellent job at covering that song. I'm a huge pink floyd fan, but when it comes to Welcome to the Machine, I actually prefer the Shadows Fall version.

[majikmik]

it's sacralidge to mess about with pink floyd ive never heard anyone improove on any of floyds classics although i do like to strip them dowm and play bits when i'm stoned specialy is there anybody out there i love playing about with them chords propper chillin

[hardrocker64]

It sounded great live. Just keep an open mind because Queensryche are what they are and a cover song by them is not going to sound like the original.

iamweasel wrote:

Welcome to the Machine is an awesome song, but I bet Queensryche will completely ruin it

[The_lizard_king]

majikmik wrote:

it's sacralidge to mess about with pink floyd ive never heard anyone improove on any of floyds classics although i do like to strip them dowm and play bits when i'm stoned specialy is there anybody out there i love playing about with them chords propper chillin

Thome Yorke and sparklehorse's version of wish you were here wasn't bad or aslan's version of wish you were here but on the other hand korn killed another brick in the wall.

[RockDragon]

"We'll never top the originals; they're classics for a reason," Geoff Tate (lead singer) says.

I'm really pleased he recognises that.

And if you want the worst Pink Floyd cover ever, how about Scissor Sisters cover of Comfortably Numb. Mother ****ers.

[TheFlammableCow]

Anyone else notice that the band name is spelt wrong in the picture that goes with this story?

[clawsofsteel]

Hmmm, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned that OTHER prog rock-band who covered the Floyd on several occasions, including a full rendition of "Dark Side" which I was lucky enough to see live. It was one hell of a performance, which didn't surprise anybody because Dream Theater (woops) can nail almost anything, but then again...

...it was also like seeing a carbon copy of an album which I had heard so many times already, and I was glad that they did an encore with just DT songs: playing cover songs is always fun, but it's a lot cooler to hear a band that has a different take on someone else's material by adding something new, making it their own.
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