Deftones - Say It Ain't So

I was discussing Weezer's 'Say It Ain't So' with a coworker and he informed me that Juliana Hatfield had done cover of it. So that got me to searching online for her version. And instead of finding the version I was looking for, I came upon the Deftones' live cover of that very same song. The lead singer sounds exactly like Rivers Cuomo and its really not half bad. They slow the song down considerably, bring in metal guitar effects, and it works for me.

Doing some additional research on the band, I found:

Deftones are a Grammy award-winning experimental alternative rock band from Sacramento, California.

Moreno's poetic lyrics—described by a Time magazine critic as "furiously intelligent"—are often evocative, yet sparse enough to allow for multiple interpretations. Moreno has cited Morrissey, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, The Cure's Robert Smith, Bad Brains' H.R., and Depeche Mode's David Gahan among his favorite singers, and, beyond an occasional similarity in vocal technique, these singers' sweeping sense of drama is often evident in Moreno's vocals.

The album, Saturday Night Wrist, features a song titled "U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,SELECT,START", an obvious reference to the Konami code, which is normally represented as (U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, B, A, Start).

Source: Wikipedia

Everyone knows its Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A, Select, Start. I can't believe they got that wrong. Losers.


Deftones
Say It Ain't So