I think dupes would be a lot easier to see if people labeled their submissions properly. i.e. a couple o months back I submitted Dio's song Holy Diver. There was an existing one but it didn't have Holy Diver in the tags or title. So when it was pointed out by a member who was pretty irate with me that it was a dupe. I had no way of knowing because a search for it and the possible duplicates didn't bring it up at all.

The moral of the story: give your video proper tags. Not only that but it would clear up a ton of videos in the dead pool that say stuff like "Holy Crap!" and "Unspecified humanoid in Unspecified State does Unspecified activity."

http://wc07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kxfpxqthldde

I see your Paul Anka and raise you Pat Boone doing an entire album of metal covers. It has to be heard, but only once. They actually used his Crazy Train cover for the opening of "The Osbornes" tv show. The cover of Dio-Holy Diver is as funny as it gets.

Yes, Iron Butterfly and I have though of a few more since I posted and I will probably think of many more. I think a best of list is very subjective to the list makers personal taste. I mean if you hate Nirvana, for example, you will not put Teen Spirit on a best of list. It doesn't make it any less of a good riff you just personally don't like Nirvana. Like choosing a favorite song. I would be hard pressed to pick one favorite song or one favorite band even because my moods change from week to week. This week it's death metal(Morbid Angel, Deicide, Suffocation ect.). Last week it was black metal(Venom, Mayhem, Darkthrone ect.). And next week it may be something else. Depending on which week you ask you may get an entirely different answer. I wrote about this condition one time and I coined the term "multiple music personality disorder" or m.m.p.d. for short. This is an affliction that render the person broke from trying to keep up with and collect so many different genres of music. I blame the internet for making all these obscure band readily available. Thanks for the background on the Black Sabbath riff. Oh that reminds me that riff in the middle of Chapel Of Ghouls(Morbid Angel) and Crazy Train(Ozzy) and Whiplash-Metallica,now thats a huge riff and Holy Diver(Dio) and The Trooper(Iron Maiden) and..........................................................

I fail to see the issue. The other video is dead, it was pre 3.0, and as covered in a sift talk post, pre 3.0 vids need to be restored by the poster. I left a note for Raven. Way I see it, he'll fix it. If not, at least we have a copy on the sift that works and not a link no one can fix.

If you still have a problem with it your welcome to blog it again. I feel the issue is taken care of. If you don't blog it and we'll see what the rest of the community thinks. I'm sorry for the confusion. I have no problem with Ravens post other then that he hasn't fixed it an neither has anyone else. Once it's fixed I'll promptly take down my post.

In reply to this comment by looris:
you miss the point about how dead pool works. Still, it's bad habit if you have a discussion to someone to call these commands yourself.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'this, guy, lives, metal, holy, diver' to 'this, guy, lives, metal, holy diver' - edited by looris

There's nothing like a video to ruin an otherwise great song... kinda like Dio's video for Holy Diver. Ich.