Graveyard Classics

Artist: Six Feet Under
Label: Metal Blade
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 039841434125
EAN: 0039841434125
ASIN: B00004Z43H

Release Date: 2000-10-24

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Tracks:

Holocaust
TNT
Sweet Leaf
Piranha
Son Of A Bitch
Stepping Stone
Confused
California Uber Alles
Smoke On The Water
Blackout
Purple Haze
In League With Satan

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Customer Reviews:

Hilarious........2006-06-22

This album is really more for comic relief than a reverent tribute, which I guess is what it was really supposed to be. Chris Barnes' deep vocals fit for songs like "Piranha" and "Holocaust", but for stuff like "Purple Haze" and "TNT", it just sounds like a goofy parody. I can really only enjoy them in the sense that it sounds so funny, but that's probably not what they were going for. The "Sweet Leaf" cover kinda sorta works, I guess, and John Bush sings on "Blackout", which is pretty cool.

Anyway, yeah, this is worth hearing for a laugh, if nothing else, but otherwise it ain't that great.

Don't think of it as a covers album.......2006-04-28

I bought this C.D. because I'm a Six Feet Under fan and I thought it would be, if nothing else, good for a couple of laughs. So no, I didn't exactly listen to this covers album with an open mind. But after listening to it in its entirety, I can safely say "Graveyard Classics" is quite a bit better than I expected. It may be all hit or miss, but this is a great buy for Six Feet Under diehards, as well as fans who collect everything to do with Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, etc.

Some think of any death metal group covering bands like Jimi Hendrix and The Dead Kennedys as a laughable idea. But you should at least give Six Feet Under props for a few things. First of all, you've got to admit that this was a bold, daring, maybe even imaginative move by the band. Second, at least they didn't cover a song like, say, The Beatles' "I Want To Hold Your Hand." Next, Chris Barnes' vocal style does often sound a bit silly, but this is the guy who perfected (maybe even created) the Cookie Monster vocals, so you can't expect him to sing properly. Plus, Chris didn't add any new lyrics to the songs--he left them the way they were written. Lastly, and most importantly, SFU's instrumentalists (especially guitarist Steve Swanson) usually remain quite faithful to the original songs (this album's music isn't very far off base.)

The best advice I can give you, when listening to this disc, is that you shouldn't think of it as a covers album. Now, granted, it is sometimes hard not to think of what the original song sounded like and compare it to what it sounds like on "Graveyard Classics." (For example, it takes a lot of strength not to crack a smile when SFU try their hand at the classic tune "TNT," especially because they obviously tried to make it equally as catchy as when AC-DC first played it.) But every ingredient is here for this to be a good death metal and trademark Six Feet Under album (like heavy riffs and drum beats, wild guitar solos, and strong, visceral vocals), so if you just think of this as a regular death metal album, then you should enjoy it a lot more and realize most of the songs are pretty solid.

When using the above-mentioned strategy of not comparing these songs to the originals, some of the tracks here are great! The door opener, "Holocaust," has a churning rhythm with fiery guitar licks, heavy, thumping drums, and Chris' patented, frog-throated bellows. "Piranha" is probably my personal favorite. It's a very fast, heavy, and all around excellent song which is brimming with walloping drums, great, ferocious riffs, and it even includes a fairly long, careening guitar solo. Tracks seven and ten, "Confused" and "Blackout," are two other pretty good songs, even though the latter features an out-of-place cameo by Antrhax's John Bush, which kind of drags that song down. (Yes, I'm aware that "Blackout" is an Anthrax song, but putting John Bush's singing next to Chris Barnes' isn't the best idea.)

Still, this is a covers album, so one can't help but compare these songs to the originals. "Sweet Leaf" (which, most likely, appears here because Chris Barnes is openly obsessed with pot) and "Son Of A B - tch" aren't bad covers ("Son Of A B - tch" would even be a good one if it didn't have an odd, very unexpected and loud shriek from Chris). Next, "Stepping Stone," "California Uber Alles," and "In A League With Satan" all sound kind of funny, even though I haven't heard the original versions. And finally, there are a few atrocious tracks. If you don't roll on the floor laughing after listening to "Smoke On The Water" and "Purple Haze," then there's something wrong with your hearing. These two songs prove that there's sometimes truth in the saying "don't tamper with the classics."

So, in short, if these songs had different lyrics (or if Six Feet Under were the first band to play these songs), this would probably be a great album. One can't help but wonder what it might have sounded like if there was anybody except Chris Barnes singing, but as it stands now, "Graveyard Classics" is a good death metal album, but a terrible set of covers.

an embarrassment to the original singers.......2006-03-24

I got this album cheap, I liked them for a bit but the novelty wore off....I HATE Barnes vocals...George Fisher is better...anyway, if anyone wants to hear 14 butchered songs by great bands like hendrix, acdc and venom...here you go

This is your brain on drugs........2005-07-07

I would call this album a piece of crap, but what did crap ever do to me to deserve such an insult? I'm serious, this album is the worst I've ever purchased. What was Chris Barnes smoking when he decided to cover these songs? Not one of them benefited from SFU's interpretations. In fact, every song sounded to me like a slap in the face of the originals. Purple Haze had to be the worst, followed by California Uber Alles. Those are the worst, but none had any redeeming quality whatsoever.

This album is so bad that I rank it with Metallica's "St Anger." Only SFU themselves could come up with anything worse, so they did just that, "Graveyard Classics II." In this case they cover the entire AC/DC classic "Back in Black" album. Please don't buy these albums, don't go to see SFU in concert, don't buy their t-shirts or support them in any way. Tell them that you are smarter than this and that you deserve good metal. This is pure drivel and SFU should be ashamed of themselves for releasing it.

Boring and Embarassing.......2005-03-09

Some bands can release a whole album of cover songs and make it work (see Napalm Deaths' Leaders Not Followers 1&2), but here Six Feet Under fall flat......horribly flat. If you want a prime example of how bad this album is listen to "Purple Haze", here you have one of the best songs in history ruined by one of the worst bands in history. Other greats butchered by SFU: AC/DC "TNT", Dead Kennedys "California Uber Alles", Deep Purple "Smoke On The Water"......the list goes on and on. If you want to hear all of these songs in their original glory go buy the original albums and leave this swill where it belongs......in the bargain bin.

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