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Anyway, music appreciation class tomorrow, taken by Patrick. xD Should be fun. He gave us assignment to do. -.- Supposed to research on a song that has been covered by other artistes, and trace the genre of that song to like, the 70s and 80s... progression of time and how the genre "evolved", so to speak. We're also supposed to find out what infleunced the original band intodoing that particular genre of music. Preferably no genre that we're particularly fond of or familiar with.

Initially I researched on Carpenters, because I found this really nice song of theirs that Rie Fu covered, titled (They Long To Be) Close To You. Finished everything and went to school today, and Ian happily said, "I'm doing the Carpenters!"

I was like WTF. Turns out he's also doing the same song, only different cover artiste. Tsk. So I came home feeling kinda panicky cos the presentation's tomorrow, and dug out all the other mini researches I did before I decided on the Carpenters. Came across Hirai Ken's cover of the Eagles' Desperado, but damn, I couldn't find the cover version of the song, so I gave up on that one. After a while more of googling and wikipedia hunt, I stumbled on X Japan. xD Turns out that two members of Guns N' Roses covered a ballad of theirs, called "Endless Rain".

I also found High and Mighty Color covering Luna Sea's "Rosier", but I was more unfamiliar with X Japan's genre, and I highly preferred High and Mighty Color's music, actually... so I took X Japan up, since we were asked to try not to pick what we liked. -.-

Quite interesting, really. If only the words "punk rock" and "metal" didn't appear so often. Bleh. xD 

After all this research and understanding of the "metal" and "progressive" rock genre.... I still don't like this genre at all. But it's cool, I guess. Even ballads sound so heavy metal coming from heavy metal bands. >.<>