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Bardsley
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Bardsley
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01/25/2002 1:59 am
Partly why I like Rage's last album of covers so much. Yes their riffs continued to be fairly predicatable, but it worked so well on many songs, and with the lyrics already written, Zack already had slightly different things to sing about. As a Dylan fan, I think their version of Maggie's Farm is about as perfect a cover as is possible with that song; the lyrics are perfectly suited to such heavy riffs and I think it demonstrated how relevant Dyaln is to hard Rockers. Other favourites were Cypress Hill's "How I could Just Kill a Man" and Springsteen's "Ghost of Tom Joad". I don't actually listen to much Rage, and par tof the reason why i think they are so good probably stems from the fact that I spend weeks listening to Jazz and earlier rock like Hendrix before suddenly putting on Rage and dancing round the room like a maniac.
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