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[OmegaSupreme]

If you're an elder millennial or just a millennial in the first place think we all remember this Papa Roach song. It was huge. I wasn't a big fan, but you couldn't get away from it. I was driving the other day and caught the tail end of this new version. I couldn't tell who it was at first. Here's the new version.



That's definitely something all right. What do you think fellow millennials?

 

[DGrayson]

Hah, thats funny. I prefer the original but its a nice cover.

Original was huge, I was riding motocross at the time all into the mx culture and all the nu metal was a huge part of the scene. Papa Roach is from Vacaville as well not to far from where I grew up.

 

[Kurotri]

Yeah no don't like that at all. Like, 0%.
Anyway Last Resort was huuuge back in the day. Just listening to the original transports me back, the nu metal era was bliss for teenage me.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Hah, thats funny. I prefer the original but its a nice cover.

Original was huge, I was riding motocross at the time all into the mx culture and all the nu metal was a huge part of the scene. Papa Roach is from Vacaville as well not to far from where I grew up.

It's crazy how big nu metal was. If it wasn't Korn or Limp Bizkit it was a band like them. All the girls loved it too. I bet these guys got mad groupie action.

 

[Telasoo]

There was a follow up video of them showing it to the singer of Papa Roach too. Falling in Reverse guy was so nervous it was kinda funny.

 

[EviLore]

I don't remember this part from Nier Automata.

Seems like the Falling in Reverse guy has his heart in it. Prefer the original but that's almost always the case.

 

[Dark Star]

I love Ronnie and all the music he’s made, he has a good voice, but this is kind of lame/weak IMO. The original has such a badass “early 2000’s chad” energy (think Headstrong by Trapt). This is just an epic emotional mess of a rollercoaster haha.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Wow, it even captures the shoddy apocalyptic CG of late 90s/early 2000s nu-metal music videos

 

[IDKFA]

Gash.

That's what I think of that cover. Fucking, gash.

 

[Peggies]

Eww

 

[TheInfamousKira]

This is Rock in 2023, guys.

Overproduced wailing that makes the collective whole of the 16-27 yo Tiktok user base go crazy because they haven't actually been alive long enough to discover legit impressive performances.

This isn't an old man yelling at clouds thing, either. Papa Roach was pretty bad music without being covered by Eldritch John over here. It just had ENERGY, as most staple examples of nu metal. Bad music with energy. Take that energy away, and can any of the mathematicians here tell me what's left of the equation?

I dunno. Let me hear a version like this live, forty minutes into your set and see how it sounds. Helen Keller could record a competent sounding song in a modern studio, live is the test. Studio recording though? Thoroughly unimpressed.

 

[kimcorecoba]

Nope. Not everything needs to be sappy and emotional.

 

[Panajev2001a]

If you're an elder millennial or just a millennial in the first place think we all remember this Papa Roach song. It was huge. I wasn't a big fan, but you couldn't get away from it. I was driving the other day and caught the tail end of this new version. I couldn't tell who it was at first. Here's the new version.



That's definitely something all right. What do you think fellow millennials?

This is atrocious, Oh My God!

 

[Dr_Salt]

Is this what zoomers like these days?

 

[Giallo Corsa]

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

 

[funkygunther]

minor key covers of punk/rock music is the rage

 

[AlteredForms]

Did Papa Roach have another hit after that? Seems like they made all that noise and then vanished into the ether.

 

[Dr_Salt]

Did Papa Roach have another hit after that? Seems like they made all that noise and then vanished into the ether.

Between angels & insects, scars, getting away with murder, to be loved?

 

[midnightAI]

This reminds me of those slowed down rock covers they add to every dramatic film trailer these days. Not a fan at all.

 

[AlteredForms]

Between angels & insects, scars, getting away with murder, to be loved?

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Easy mistake to make to be fair, since their second album onwards they sound like a completely different band. Infest wasn't good music, but Papa Roach did a better nu metal cosplay than a Nickelback one.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I remember how popular My Way by Limp Bizkit was. Espescially when it was attached to the first Fast and the Furious movie

 

[Slicker than your average]

That was awful op

 

[jason10mm]

Amy Lee looking and sounding ROOOOUUUUGGGHHHHHHHH.

That said, it ain't my cuppa but since I liked a lot of 80s covers of 50-60s songs I guess karma IS a bitch.

 

[MaestroMike]

original hyped me up I didn't even really pay attention to the lyrics this one is too slow/sad lol

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Personally, I hate when bands release covers as singles, and also when they just do the song pretty much as-is. Also the bigger the original song, the poorer in taste it is to cover. So at least they uhhh... did something... with it. It just wasn't good. But maybe teenage goth girls like it. (do those even still exist?)

Based on my criteria, it is scientifically proven that the worst cover of all time is Weezer's Africa:


(no Weird Al doesn't save it)

And close second is Weezer's Take on Me.

I'm guessing the actual bands getting covered completely disagree with me as they like nothing better than a bump in royalties

The Nirvana Unplugged stuff is kind of the gold standard. Not even a studio recording, but still on the radio 30 years after the fact out of sheer force of awesomeness.

 

[badblue]

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Personally, I hate when bands release covers as singles, and also when they just do the song pretty much as-is. Also the bigger the original song, the poorer in taste it is to cover. So at least they uhhh... did something... with it. It just wasn't good. But maybe teenage goth girls like it. (do those even still exist?)

Based on my criteria, it is scientifically proven that the worst cover of all time is Weezer's Africa:


(no Weird Al doesn't save it)

And close second is Weezer's Take on Me.

I'm guessing the actual bands getting covered completely disagree with me as they like nothing better than a bump in royalties

The Nirvana Unplugged stuff is kind of the gold standard. Not even a studio recording, but still on the radio 30 years after the fact out of sheer force of awesomeness.

I mean, I completely understand the grading criteria of making a cover your own distinct version of the song. You want to (maybe, someone does, I'm sure) hear Weezer's Africa, not Weezer playing Toto's Africa.

But I add on a second supplementary condition to my grading: Only make the song your own if your own isn't shit.

I dunno. I understand what this dude was attempting, but the execution didn't land for me. I like the concept, but Last Resort was the Kim Kardashian of Butt rock nu metal. Take away that honky flow of Shaddix and those crunching glass power chords, and it's just....ehhh. it's like if someone were to take a top rated recipe book and made a Broadway musical out of it. Like...I'm sure you could do it and it'd be ight, and the sub section of avant garde normies would dig it and All, but like

Why?

 

[gow3isben]

Original was a shit. I hated how it was all over the place early 2000s as it sucked.


This one is actually a good song imo.

 

[eddie4]

 

[Doom85]

Cut my life into pizza
This is my plastic fork
Oven baking, heavy breathing
Don’t give a fuck if it’s carbs that I’m eating!

Anyway, remember “The One” with Jet Li? That one where the evil Li is sent to some sort of prison dimension, and the movie ends on him just beating the shit out of a wave of prisoners rushing him as ”Last Resort” played? Good shit.

 

[DryvBy]

In the early 00s when this song and other suicide songs were coming out, my parents warned me that these songs would make me depressed or suicidal.

No, mom and dad. This horrific cover of a great dumb rock song is enough to make a man hang up his head. This is horrific. I'd rather listen to Britney Speaks sing without autotune.

 

[Firestartah]

I kinda like it. Its like a no guitars post-hardcore reimagined cover. At least they tried to make it very different besides the lyrics, not a lazy cover.

 

[Kenpachii]

minor key covers of punk/rock music is the rage

This great thanks for posting.

 

[kingwingin]

Sounds worse than the Richard cheese version

 

[EddieVanHelgen]

Shite.

 

[ZehDon]

When I hear "Last Resort", I also immediately think "why isn't this slower, softer, less badass, and sung like a nu metal emotional power ballad despite the lyrics not really meshing with the themes that style invokes".

 

[H4ze]

We listened to the original non stop at the evening I got drunk for the first time in my life. I was 15, at a friends place and we had a bottle of wodka, it was absolutely awesome.

But I just can't listen to it anymore tho

 

[March Climber]

It's not offensively bad, and it's not amazing either. It's just something I can hear being used as a throwaway song for a movie or video game trailer, since they like these kinds of covers so much.

 

[Blitzmangoman]

It's good.
The original had the rage in it, this one is slower, focuses on sadness kinda.

 

[Pagusas]

Hated the original as I hated that type of music, but I kinda like this new cover, you can tell the singer has his heart in it.

 

[Ownage]

Papa Roach? More like poppa deez nuts.

 

[Badlucktroll]

I also remember back then The Rock was busy cookin jabronis

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Original was big amongst the custodial and prostitution industry.

 

[diunxx]

That was awful and the front man looks like a douche.

 

[Havoc2049]

This is a little to slow and lifeless. The original is better.

 

[Pimpollo818]

LOL

 

[V1LÆM]

I hate it. I also hate the original.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

It's terrible. Nothing with it being more mellow than the original, it just sounds so uninspired and bland. It like doesnt go anywhere by the end, no clear catch hook.

 

[Haint]

This is Rock in 2023, guys.

Overproduced wailing that makes the collective whole of the 16-27 yo Tiktok user base go crazy because they haven't actually been alive long enough to discover legit impressive performances.

This isn't an old man yelling at clouds thing, either. Papa Roach was pretty bad music without being covered by Eldritch John over here. It just had ENERGY, as most staple examples of nu metal. Bad music with energy. Take that energy away, and can any of the mathematicians here tell me what's left of the equation?

I dunno. Let me hear a version like this live, forty minutes into your set and see how it sounds. Helen Keller could record a competent sounding song in a modern studio, live is the test. Studio recording though? Thoroughly unimpressed.

LOL @ Eldritch John.