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Weezer's biggest hit in a very long time is a cover of Toto's 'Africa'
Chicago Tribune ^ | 2018 | Allison Stewart

Posted on 07/21/2018 7:29:54 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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1 posted on 07/21/2018 7:29:54 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Links don’t work click this:

https://youtu.be/E4c7EE8_IX0


2 posted on 07/21/2018 7:30:50 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Many thanks to the FReeper (whose name I forgot) who turned me on to this cover:

Perpetuum Jazzile - Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjbpwlqp5Qw

3 posted on 07/21/2018 7:33:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I think their cover sounds too much like the original. What’s the point?


4 posted on 07/21/2018 7:33:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Next thing you know, Foo Fighters will cover Safety Dance


5 posted on 07/21/2018 7:33:37 PM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Wasn’t Weezer one of The Our Gang Kids?


6 posted on 07/21/2018 7:39:04 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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that would be Wheezer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRcInZWL7Do


7 posted on 07/21/2018 7:42:55 PM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; Diana in Wisconsin

Cover “Africa?” That song still, IMO is one of the greatest of all time. It can’t be covered. Just like Foo Fighters tried covering Baker Street. (Disclosure, I’m listening to it now ironically. Diana I had too may Spotted Cows again).


8 posted on 07/21/2018 7:58:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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It’s good.


9 posted on 07/21/2018 7:59:27 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Weezer - Man, there is a name that I have not heard in a while.


10 posted on 07/21/2018 8:04:43 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Cover “Africa?” That song still, IMO is one of the greatest of all time. It can’t be covered.

Listening to a talented band like Weezer cover "Africa" makes me realize what an incredible group of musicians Toto was. RIP Jeff Porcaro.

The Rosanna Half Time Shuffle by Jeff Porcaro

11 posted on 07/21/2018 8:07:54 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
That's cute.


12 posted on 07/21/2018 8:08:00 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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I’m watching the “Wasted Years” video even as we speak.


13 posted on 07/21/2018 8:12:37 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: wastedyears

“We make really great 7 minute songs.”

—Steve Harris

Freegards, ha I swear I heard him say something like that in a doc, so great


14 posted on 07/21/2018 8:12:52 PM PDT by Ransomed
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Seven minutes? Hell, Bruce composed Empire of the Clouds, and that’s 18 minutes and 2 seconds long. The Book of Souls is 10 minutes and 30 seconds long, and is my favorite off the album.


15 posted on 07/21/2018 8:24:37 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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His point in the doc was about exposure on a mass media platform like terrestrial radio. Today most folks can’t listen to a even a 2.5 min song unless they are doing something else, driving , walking, whatever. With Maiden you have to be into it to appreciate fully, it isn’t 8 minutes of background or whatever. At least that’s what I took from it.

Freegards


16 posted on 07/21/2018 8:30:15 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: wastedyears

I love that a 2018 FR Weezer thread is going Maiden. Pretty funny.

Freegards


17 posted on 07/21/2018 8:32:49 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

later


18 posted on 07/21/2018 8:57:35 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: BenLurkin
Awesome.

You do Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir pieces?

19 posted on 07/21/2018 9:01:54 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Thats a very nice cover, very safe. I like it.. but for something with more of a twist, check this one out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw


20 posted on 07/21/2018 9:05:01 PM PDT by Paradox (Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
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