Originally published at: Check out this awesome metal cover of Titanic's theme song | Boing Boing
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Once again, I beg to differ. Titanic the film is an abomination, though not quite the tragedy that it was opportunistically named for.
Oh, goody; another YT vid.
That said, the version of the song linked doesn’t strike me as particularly ‘metal’…
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Nor particularly “worth a listen.” I got bored and quit about a minute in. 
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Agreed, though I watched the whole thing.
I kept waiting for ‘the thunder’ that never came.
Though it’s not my personal genre of choice, I am still somewhat familiar with old school metal, at least.
I expected something more like this:
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Call me crazy, but I’m beginning to gather that you don’t like my work.
I can play requests too.
I would never do that, though; it’s against the CoC.
Let’s just say that I am… underwhelmed thus far.
Great to hear… er, read.
First request, and it’s even an easy one:
Please post about something of interest which doesn’t require watching a video from YouTube.
See?
I even asked politely, like I had some sort of home training or something…
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Fair enough.
I’ll work it into the setlist.
How very kind of you, young man.
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I’m with you on the appraisal of music, but I think Johnathan attempted to be faithful to the original arrangement.
I like my metal to be significantly heavier too, but I think John’s cover of the song is still pretty fun.
Here’s the kind of metal I usually go in for.
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Sounded very similar to the original, except a man was singing it. Maybe it sounds more awesome using different speakers (or ears, or something)… 
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Precisely my point.
That definitely is more along the lines of what comes to mind when I think of “metal.”
Though for my personal tastes, I still tend to gravitate towards the classics, regardless to genre:
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Dio slaps WAY harder than Ozzy, but I see your point.
In regards to Johnathan’s video, I guess I enjoyed the guitars and drums in comparison to the goofy flutes and stuff from Celine’s version.
And I dig Celine as an artist. I just really hate “my heart will go on.”
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Who doesn’t, though?
Your point about overplayed, sickly-sweet sentimental ballads is 100% legit… totally looking at you End of the Road and I Will Always Love You…
Hell, I once worked in a music box shop where we did customer requests; and one of the most requested movements ever was freakin’ My Heart Will Go On, right after Wind Beneath My Wings.
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How about Baby Metal covering Breaking the Law with Rob Halford…
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I love me some Babymetal.
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I was expecting for the cover to be done in a heavier metal kind of style, feeling underwhelmed but its still sung and performed well
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What I really love is the fact that the backing band are old metal stalwarts from the Japanese metal scene…
They really kicked off a craze for J-Pop Idol metal, too…
OH! Sam Sutherland did video about it back when he was still doing those awesome This Exists videos…
Anti-idol music!
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Oh no, no, no…
Titanic is a steaming turd of a film.
The song is also somewhat… pooey.
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This reminds me of the trauma I had about the Dirty Dancing soundtrack in the 80s. It was played every single hour on Z100 in NYC and I hadn’t seen the movie, but worked in an office with people addicted to that radio station. It literally took 20 years before I watched the movie, and then I really liked it (and had mostly gotten past the soundtrack).
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It’s a good movie… and all the older songs on the soundtrack are great… the 80s songs, not so much…
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