I found it odd that the movie used "Cum On Feel The Noise" so heavily, especially near the end. It is a cover tune for christ sake. While I do love the Quiet Riot version, as band or musician I would not want to be known only for a cover. Can you imagine a Van Halen documentary that only featured "You Really Got Me"?
shareI don't even remember them saying it was a cover or mentioning the name 'Slade'. Or the fact they didn't even want to do the song in the first place, lol.
shareThey left out a lot, but there's no denying that COFTN was their biggest hit, even if it was a cover. Van Halen has had many, many hits since YRGM.
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I was also dumbfoudned by this. How can you not acknowledge that your biggest hit by far was a cover? I get that they had influence but they never would have broke or been doing a documentary without that song and to not even acknowledge the band that wrote it and performed it is very selfish and also very misleading.
shareElvis never wrote a song in his life, or Sinatra, etc. If someone makes a documentary about them do they have to talk about the song writers too? This movie is about this band, the members, their lives, relationships and struggles.
If you want to watch some boring blow by blow of every detail of the songs go watch Vh1. The Showtime network wouldn't buy a movie like that.
You're talking apples and oranges. The songwriters for Elvis and Sinatra were writing songs for them. Slade never wrote the song for Quiet Riot. When 1 song is such a huge deal for the band's success and its a cover of a song that had been written and performed (another key point - the song structure is all there) then I think its negligent to not mention it. What kind of deal did they have with Slade or was the rights to the song open ended? Those were details that would have been good to know. I'd actually expect a more detailed version from Showtime, not from Vh1. Not sure what you've seen from Vh1 that has been in depth lol.
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