Pitchshifter - Kerosene (Live Astoria 2000)

PSI covering Big Black's 'Kerosene'.

[@KJGould]

I was at this but honestly don't remember them playing Kerosene lol. If it's the gig I'm thinking of, Sona Fariq and Group Dogdrill were supporting.

[@Godbombertheband]

@KJGould It wasn't at the Astoria, it was at the LA2, it was a special show filmed in the afternoon for a Japanese tv station (Fuji tv I think) and there were no supports, it was quite strange coming out of a gig at about 5 in the afternoon.

[@PerteTotale]

In the 80 I walked in a very dark pub. I wore long hair, but the dudes in the pub wore their hear all upward like punks, long or short didn't matter. After 2 songs they played kerosene. They didnt know I liked this song. So I stayed for more. Later I heard the barkeeper played this kind of music to get rid of certain king of folks. So now I see these long haired metalheads covering a band without even understanding the MEANING of this song. You are main stream. Period.

[@halberkstresser]

i miss the "desensitized" vocals

[@bullgoosesam]

I like the way they turn a stripped down song into an over egged piece of shit. That's talent folks.

[@meatmachines]

LOL yea this is freaking awful

[@leeranaldo]

I didn't criticise the cover for not being straight. It's just not a good cover. There are great covers that are completely warped and hardly recognisable. This isn't that nor is it an exact replica, it just takes all the best and most creative elements of the original and unwittingly parodies them, to both bands' detriment. It doesn't matter if I wasn't a fan when they existed. If that was a prerequisite for forming an opinion on something, not many people could say much about anything

[@kommissar.murphy]

Laughing out loud at the Wah Wah effect.

[@leninrock]

ibanez rulesss pitch ruless indus metal ruless .... yeahh...

[@clemzzz]

@generalbry You're right... it's wowfull ... have they not listened to the lyrics ??

[@karloskoeman]

drown 's version is much better. too bad I can't find anything about DROWN in the youtube :-( can anyboby put something from them? please?...

[@MrBlick76]

Yess thank you!!!! I saw drown open for clutch and neil came on stage with the. To do Kerosene. It was heavy af

[@Jackaaum]

WAYY BETTER THAN ORIGINAL, NUF SAID

[@livingfonz77]

You must like really shitty music.

[@johnhokey8964]

are you high?

[@yaddayaddayah]

fuck no, idgaf if this comment is 10 years old, this sucks, Big Black is the best band ever and this cover is ass lmao

[@discotoaster]

if ever there was a band not to be covered....

[@KJGould]

Funny, I don't spot a DJ or a white guy rapping badly. Personally as a big black fan I'm glad to see them influence later generation bands so that their fanbase might check out their influences. I see a Dead Kennedy's sticker on the bass, that's another band worth covering & introducing a new generation to. I like this cover and considering it's a live performance it sounds great. But maybe you'd prefer Big Black restricted to your generation, which is about as narrow minded as you can get.

[@GEARHEADCT]

They are performing the lyrics pretty much as the original was. What the hell is so rap about it.

[@oiyabastard7275]

S U P E R. L A M E. ALBINI

[@Jackaaum]

Wow !!!!! It's Better than orginal, 5 stars !! Thank You !

[@KJGould]

18, from Ireland, wants to be a marine. OK.

[@KJGould]

Where's the rap?

[@KJGould]

What's the point in doing a straight cover? Then they'd be accused of ripping off Big Black. It's not like you can lay claim to being a Big Black fan when they were active. You're 21 years old. I'm nearly 27 and I'm not an authority of what should and shouldn't be.

[@oiyabastard7275]

KJ Gould. I can claim that . And I know if you didn't go to high school in the late 70s early 80s you missed the boat on hardcore punk rock cuz everything else is poser shit fucking Pretenders to the throne fall to your knees fall down and worship King dick

[@raybowell]

KJ Gould you’re nearly 38 now... any more authoritative?😜

[@mrpisyabanci]

big black's version was but awesome. this was just good.... but it was good.

[@jj-et5kj]

holy shit this is so awful i am having a weird embarrassed feeling inside myself right now

[@projectno5]

just because the drums arnt mic'd properly doesnt take away from the fact that they turned it into some gay rap metal song

[@Vb98765]

thanks for that input, homophobe.

[@BillSwansea]

God That Was Awful

[@martinradcliffe4798]

Unwise.

[@leeranaldo]

Speaking completely objectively, thats a horrible thing to do to this song. Nothing personal against anyone who likes this, but seriously... its not fucking meant to sound like that. There's no way anyone who likes the original could say one remotely good thing about this. Fucking embarrassment.

[@karenchristine9]

i mean, what's up with the wah wah bass sound. if you just plain suck at it you shouldn't cover the song.

[@PersonMan92]

This is disre-fucking-spectful to Big Black. Way too many effects and too much bullshit.

[@melanchronic]

You clearly don't know anything about Pitchshifter.

[@frog606]

Possibly one of the WORST COVER VERSIONS EVER.

[@robokendall]

Absolute crap!

[@blzbug242]

Wow, this totally sucks.