Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! - The Original or the Cover

This is another metal cover of the song, and a much better one IMHO. 

Archisorcerus wrote: Cristi wrote: This is another metal cover of the song, and a much better one IMHO.  Well I neither agree that Malmsteen's cover is "metal" (it has metal qualities, for sure though), nor that Sinergy's one is better than that.

I like ABBA, but that is not one of my preferred songs by the group. I still prefer it to the Malmsteen. As for the Sinergy, I feel it lacking in creativity. It's the synth/ keyboard lines that are most memorable to my from Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, and that is too similar from first listen and it seems a bit too generic to me in other ways (maybe I am off-base). Some covers are more original than others. "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" is a cheesy song, and a good cover would somehow have to eliminate the cheese, make it über-cheesy, or turn it into a different kind of fromage for the homage for me, maybe.

While this is a different ABBA cover song, as a fan of Portishead I feel compelled to mention this cover of SOS:



Portishead's song adaptation was recorded for the soundtrack of one of my favourite films of the past decade, Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise film with Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons, which is an adapatation of J.G. Ballard's novel.

Edited by Logan - February 14 2022 at 07:37

^ Thanks, Ozgur. It was interesting checking out the Malmsteen cover, which is musically outside of my comfort zone.

I only managed about 45 seconds of Yngvie Malmsteen's ear-torture. Eagle is the ABBA-song with an obvious potential for metal anyway. 

Archisorcerus wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: I only managed about 45 seconds of Yngvie Malmsteen's ear-torture. Eagle is the ABBA-song with an obvious potential for metal anyway.  I'm not a Malmsteen fan. His music is not torture to my ears, but is generally bland. I like this cover quite much though. I've just noticed that this cover is entitled: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimmie!". Lol. Everyone seems to see this as metal, but I confidently say that it can be rock-metal hybrid, at best.

I see it as metal as it sounds like an 1980s power(plus some hair) metal band covering a pop song.

Saperlipopette! wrote: Archisorcerus wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: I only managed about 45 seconds of Yngvie Malmsteen's ear-torture. Eagle is the ABBA-song with an obvious potential for metal anyway.  I'm not a Malmsteen fan. His music is not torture to my ears, but is generally bland. I like this cover quite much though. I've just noticed that this cover is entitled: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimmie!". Lol. Everyone seems to see this as metal, but I confidently say that it can be rock-metal hybrid, at best. I see it as metal as it sounds like an 1980s power(plus some hair) metal band covering a pop song.

I'm very much into metal, and I know a pure metal song when I hear one. Malmsteen's pompous solos and some rhythmic parts carry "metallic" qualities, but the rest is outright rock in my book.

Cristi wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: I only managed about 45 seconds of Yngvie Malmsteen's ear-torture. Eagle is the ABBA-song with an obvious potential for metal anyway.

Well, this is even more rock.  Good cover though.

BTW, some bands do both rock and metal. Like Scorpions. Their Alien Nation is clearly metal, but most of their other songs are rather rock. I prefer to assess the songs, rather than bands. The metallic "edge" is something that many rock bands use, and vice versa.

Archisorcerus wrote: Cristi wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: I only managed about 45 seconds of Yngvie Malmsteen's ear-torture. Eagle is the ABBA-song with an obvious potential for metal anyway.  Well, this is even more rock.  Good cover though. BTW, some bands do both rock and metal. Like Scorpions. Their Alien Nation is clearly metal, but most of their other songs are rather rock. I prefer to assess the songs, rather than bands. The metallic "edge" is something that many rock bands use, and vice versa.

While not exactly a cover, Madonna did an excellent job at borrowing the main keyboard sequence from the classic Abba song and reinterpreted it on her song "Hung Up.