Cover vs. Original

No Quarter


TOOLs reinvention of this decent at best Led Zeppelin tune is fantastic. Long, loud, and loaded with the the fantastic sounds you would expect from a band that only releases albulms every 4-6 years. TREMENDOUS!

- Shweetbox@linkswarm.com, LOS ANGELES, United States, 16.02.2006


Tool
2000

vs.

Led Zeppelin
1973

CD-Cover: Tool - Salival 56.5 % 43.5 % CD-Cover: Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
Results of the voting: Cover versus Original
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Tool 1999 Votes Led Zeppelin

Comments about No Quarter:

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Tool's version may be as good as the original Zep studio cut found on Houses of the Holy, but the live Zeppelin performance from their live album The Song Remains the Same hands-down blows any other version of this song away.
- Patrick, Chicago, United States, 08.02.2010
Tool's version may be as good as the original Zep studio cut found on Houses of the Holy, but the live Zeppelin performance from their live album The Song Remains the Same hands-down blows any other version of this song away.
- Patrick, Chicago, United States, 08.02.2010
this song means a lot to me, reminds me of one of the scariest time in my life, 1988. It changed me and this song takes me straight back to it. Kinda where Angels dare tread.
- Johnny Hicks, Deceit, Depravity & Death, England, 28.01.2010
The original is a great song, but the depth of sound in the Tool cover really adds power to the track.
- Andi, San Diego, United States, 27.01.2010
Although I absolutely LOVE Zepplin - I cant help but enjoy the Tool cover even more than the original. But as others have said, there is no doubt Tool is heavily influenced by Zepplin and the cover should be considered an ODE to a brilliant band, by another brilliant band.
- steve, vancouver, Canada, 18.01.2010
I will always be partial to Zep's original, in no small part because it was so very, very forward-thinking for its time and -- let's face it -- so very, very heavy by any standard of the time.

That said, Tool has done an amazing job with this cover. Yes, Tool has made this song a Tool song, essentially, and in a peculiar, beautiful way. And, yet, I also can't help but hear, in Tool's cover, evidence of Zep's profound influence on that band. It's as if Tool wishes to honor Zep with this cover and wants us to infer the newer band's profound reverence for Zep. That is awesome: two awesome band and the clear lineage revealed.
- brent, hancock, United States, 22.12.2009
Anybody can do a cover. The real talent is in the creation of the work. JPJ is at the pinnacle of his musical genius with this song. Tool does a good cover but it falls far short of the original.
- Gunnar, London, Canada, 17.12.2009
I discovered Tool's cover today, it's absolutely amazing, but nothing could ever be better than the original, it was so epic, so creative and innovative ! Imagine such a song in 1973, with such a sound, such a perfection in keyboards and arrangements ! Tool's version is obviously great, very smart and faithful, with a pachydermic dimension that fits perfectly with the song, but i do prefer the original, whatever good the cover is.
Moreover, Led zeppelin took another dimensions in live ;-)
- lMaxime, Nice, France, 08.12.2009
I grew up with Zeppelin, just recently started blasting it again. No Quarter is one of my favorite songs by Zep.
I just now heard the Tool version for the first time, and ended up on this site looking for which CD has this is on. I think I could loop this with the original and not be disappointed which one was playing, or back to back. They covered more Zep? Which Tool CD should I buy to check them out?
- Marcus, Redondo Beach, United States, 03.11.2009
We all claim that a master piece of art better not be touched... in art you can not re-create one of the best piece by one of the greatest... however Tool has proved this all wrong. Not just they have re -created No Quarter, they have painted it into their own color. A dark and a peculiar color. I always used to envy my father's generation to had Floyd and Led Zeppelin in their times... but I am proud to live in time when Tool is producing their music.
Tool is heading to for a place where very few has ever dared to go... and only Zeppelin and Floyd had reached.
- Tahir Hashmi, Islamabad, Pakistan, 18.10.2009
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