How come no Emo band has covered 'Zombie'?

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Cuz that song begs for that treatment or even a little jock-rap cameo.

― Baaderonixx in the year of the locusts (baaderonixx), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

go for it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 October 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

Because all emo bands had broken up long before it was ever recorded.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

The Cranberries, right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Worst song ever written, right?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Because no emo band would do a song with a one-word title.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 13 October 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe an emo band should cover "Zombie" by Drunks With Guns instead.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Worst song ever written, right?

i think dolores' song abt john lennon wins that award, by a shade

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

cos as son as emo bands listen to fela they realise how pointless their recorded output is and split up.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Dom OTM.

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Friday, 13 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this thread was "How come no Emo band has covered The Zombies? Cursive could do a pretty killer version of "She's Not There"...

― Radio Free Albemuth (DocMartensBoots), Friday, 13 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Just seeing that word brings the chorus of the song rampaging through my mind. Thanks a lot.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

with yer guns...and yer bombs...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, the guitar parts on "Zombie" would be way too slow and ponderous for most pop-emo bands now. I mean, they're super-trudgy. You could play it in double time and spruce up the rhythm a bit, but if you did that there wouldn't be so much left to recommend the song -- the trudginess was one of the bigger things it had going for it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Do emo bands do cover songs? The last big rock movement that did cover songs was the goth thing.

― Period period period (Period period period), Friday, 13 October 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Worst song ever written, right?

i think dolores' song abt john lennon wins that award, by a shade

-- i am not a nugget (stevieisdrinkingdosequi...), October 13th, 2006.

Ha ha, god yes. I saw them preview that album while supporting REM when I was 14 and it struck me as quite possibly the worst thing I'd ever heard. The word crass doesn't do justice to quite how misguidedly atrocious that song is.
I think this is as good an excuse as any to post the link to ET and Taylor Parkes's immortal demolition of To The Faithful Departed.
Come on now, admit it - who here likes/has liked the Cranberries?
(It's down a bit - nov 10 2003)

Thank the lord no emo band has attempted Fela Kuti's Zombie!

― Stew (stew s), Friday, 13 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

'zombie' is very bad but all of emo is worse

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 13 October 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

now, if an emo band should cover "Zomby Woof"...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 13 October 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Do emo bands do cover songs? The last big rock movement that did cover songs was the goth thing.

Nu-metal, surely

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 13 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I meant the gothy end of nu metal like Mariln Manson and Orgy

― Period period period (Period period period), Friday, 13 October 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

an emo cover of this song would use some clever lyrical editing turn the anti-war message into an anti-'that one bitch from high school' message

― gear (gear), Friday, 13 October 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I blame the Northern Ireland peace process.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Can someone YSI the cantonese Cranberries' song from Chunking Express?

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

I proffer that IMHO The Fall-outs' "Zombie" is the best of all songs with that name.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, I once did an emo-ish cover of "Original Suffer Head." Okay, it wasn't that emo.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

MCR could actually make this a good song

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

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