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SUDDENLY I DON’T FEEL SO GUILTY ABOUT LIKING TEARS FOR FEARS

 Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 4:30pm by

Songs from the Big Chair is fucking awesome, and go blow your grandmother if you disagree with me. This isn’t open to debate; either you agree with me, or you’re a sperm fondler.

The dudes in The Dillinger Escape Plan don’t fondle sperm; they fucking agree with me, because they’re awesome and I love them. (Okay, so that may not be why they agree with me, but you get my point.) They apparently covered “Head Over Heels” at a recent show, and Noisecweep (the favored metal site of people with lisps) posted it (although I somehow missed that and actually saw it at Raging Bombs this afternoon). And it’s just so fucking awesome. I really wish the band would record this a b-side. I’m not being ironic at all; I love this. It is the antithesis of this fucking bullshit, which is made by simple minded children for simple minded children.

If any of the dudes from Dillinger happen to be reading this, please, please, please make it a regular part of your set list.

Oh, and by the way, has anyone heard that DEP have a new album coming out on March 23? Just thought I’d mention it.

-AR

P.S. If anybody younger and more tech-savvy than I takes the above audio and lays it over the scene where the original plays in Donnie Darko for me, I’ll send that person a free MetalSucks t-shirt. I’m not kidding.

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  • Yo Diggity

    I was seriously thinking about Donnie Darko when I first heard this. I would love to see that scene redone with DEP doing it.

  • Eye of Newt

    Sorry, but Head over Heels sucks balls. Did then, still does now. So blow me.

    • gnarlk

      song rules and no thanks….

  • Double D

    I hate to nitpick and sound like a bastard, but I am a special ed. teacher and a lisp is when an /s/ becomes a ‘th’ (which would be ‘Noithcreep’). What you are referring to is what is called a ‘weak /r/’, or if it is done with an /l/, is referred to as ‘gliding the liquids’. The /r/ and /l/ sounds are what are known as ‘liquids’, when you use them in the improper way, you are ‘gliding’ them, hence, ‘gliding the liquids’. Now, I would like you to turn to page 48 in your text…

    • Shinaain

      You wouldn’t happen to do tutoring, too, would you?

      • Double D

        I do, why do you ask? I charge for my services usually, consider that one a freebie. :)

    • thteven

      I LIKE BALLTH!

  • brian roach

    Kudos to you guys for being proud of your non-metal tastes. I’m with you, first TWO Tears for Fears albums were great, and screw anyone who doesn’t think so! :)

    • GuuGuu

      DEP should cover “who killed tangerine?” from T4F’s most recent record, Everybody Loves A Happy Ending. that shit is awesome.

    • TheHangingBrain

      Word. I’ve been catching slack for loving that album for years. Fuck the haters.

  • Shinaain

    “P.S. If anybody younger and more tech-savvy than I takes the above audio and lays it over the scene where the original plays in Donnie Darko for me, I’ll send that person a free MetalSucks t-shirt. I’m not kidding.”

    And please give Axl permission to post that here, because I would love to see that.

    Not that DEP needed any more cool points, but they definitely just scored in my book. That’s actually my favorite song off of that album. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” at the end of *Real Genius* was pretty sweet, too, and I wonder what a metal rendition of THAT would sound like. Actually, just give me more young-Val Kilmer.

    …And now my true intentions have been revealed.

  • Facebook User

    I don’t feel guilty at all.

    Give me 20 minutes and I’ll be uploading that video…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-John-Crispen/100000169530540 Jason John Crispen

    killer cover

  • wha?

    Reminds me of FNM and the many cover songs they have done (both live and in the studio) over the years….

  • Facebook User
    • Facebook User

      Ooooh no you don’t.

  • Facebook User

    HERE YA GO AXL!

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

    I’ve emailed to you as well with shirt information!

    • Double D

      Well, it seems we have ourselves a conundrum! Which one of these two fine, computer savvy lads will get the shirt?

      • Facebook User

        I’d say since both our timings were impeccable, the only sportsmanlike thing would be to give both of us DIEHARD METAL SUCKS ENTHUSIASTS a shirt. :

        • Double D

          I gotta say that ‘Facebook User’ is definitely the one who should get the shirt. ‘Facebook User’ just doesn’t deserve it (because he’s a bastard).

  • nate
    • Double D

      I’m confused. What does that have to do with this? I guess because it’s pussy music?

      /not meaning to sound like a dick

  • builtforsin

    Just horrible. STFU already.

    • Facebook User

      Ta yeule.

  • teaches_of_peaches

    Check out the Goblin Cock cover of the song.

  • http://myspace.com/duckbillz Duck Billz

    I have this album on vinyl AND audio cassette; that is how much I like listening to it. For real, great record.

  • Nick

    That sounds horrible how can anyone think this sounds good? Oh yeah its DEP it has to be good right? Its a shit cover.

    • Fufkin

      This.

  • DustintheWind

    Fuck yes dude, i just heard “Shout” on the radio the other day and it reminded me how awesome this band is… The solo at the end of that song fuckin shreds…

  • Hammer_Smashed_Hurtt

    You should never feel guilty about Tears for Fears. Awesome songs.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chad-Anderson/1350940795 Chad Anderson

    Tears For Fears is awesome. This video is awesome.

  • steve-o

    Very cool. “Head Over Heels” has long been my favorite Tears for Fears song.

    I’d have liked DEP’s cover more if it was a bit more hardcore. Yeah, it’s cool to make the song electric and a bit more up-tempo, but it would have been a lot cooler if they tore it up and Greg had been screaming his brains out. I feel the same way about DEP’s other covers, like “Like I Love You”. Not bad, but missed opportunities, if you ask me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Punch-McChainsaw/100000274695976 Punch McChainsaw

    Great song, but Gregs throat isn’t cutting it.

  • Benjamin

    You see? I’m happy I come to MetalSucks occasionally to see what’s going on.
    I’m happy about this. I like this too.

    You made me smile.

    Next, a cover of ‘do you really wana hurt me’

    Agluglugluglug.

    -Benzel

  • http://www.metalmaniacs.com Mike Riddick

    Very cool to see a metal band interpret this song. I’m unashamed about my sentiment for 80′s rock and for Tears for Fears. My band did a medieval interpretation of “Shout” (Tears for Fears) on our latest album.

    I’d like to hear a metal band do Cyndi Lauper.

    • Shinaain

      I have also have an unabashed affinity for 80′s music. Cyndi Lauper started in the 80′s and continues to make excellent music. In fact, I rather enjoyed the Christmas music she did with The Hives a few years back. “Metal” Cyndi Lauper? Intriguing idea. Surely someone already has? I’d love to hear what Skin of Skunk Anasie (I know they’re not metal) would do with something of Cyndi’s. But then I love glimpses in alternate universes, such as Tori Amos’ cover of “Reign in Blood.” That song had WHOLE NEW MEANING when Tori used it to go after the Taliban.

  • Shinaain

    You know, I seem to remember that Disturbed used to cover “Shout” live.

    No point. Just saying.

    • Caspar Colderson

      there’s a cover of it on their first effort, “The Sickness”. It’s just called Shout 2000 for some reason, but I think it’s pretty cool.

  • BTK666

    Tears For Fears are AWESOME, easily the best in their field. The layering of their songs was done so well you have to listen to a song three or four times to catch all the things they have going on. I despise the resurgence of 80′s style anything, Tears For Fears on the other hand are simply timeless. Definitely not Metal, but timeless none the less.

  • Cool White Guy Name

    Fuck this band. And fuck that they are releasing an album on my Birthday!

    • guy

      Fuck your birthday for being on the day this album is released!

  • Corey Borger

    I did it! Heres the link :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDL5U52qqU

    • Facebook User

      You’re way late, my friend.

  • TFF Rules

    Sowing the Seeds of Love is as close to perfect as a composition of music is likely to get.

  • BigOneInMyPants

    I LOVE tears for fears!

  • Lady Luck

    Fucking awesome! I second the vote for DEP to add this to their live shows.

  • A

    Oh man AWESOME!! I hope they do this at Irving next month!