So fucking good! The perfect song to rock out to while doing 20 minutes of random shit around the house like putting away laundry and shaving like I just did. BtS is one of the best ever
I read about this band on google chrome. I thought I knew the song . Didn't read the first comment . I thought of neil young . Very good cover . Sydney Australia 🦘 19/9/2024😊
Listening to this on the home stretch of a small road trip. It's great to zone out/vibe to. Also makes one yearn for that bucolic society that's described, yet sadly taken... A perfect good destroyed by a perfect evil.
I've always loved the Dave Matthews and Warren Haynes version. Neil young and crazy horse wrote it, and I play their version the most. This version also rocks hard!!!!!!!!!!!! I will surely start playing this more. It's my first listen. Wow. Built to spill has always been a great band to me, and I never realized how much the singer sounds like Neil young! My favorite part about this version is the transitions between the verse/chorus/ect.
@@merdefilms3837 The only Widespread Panic song/cover ever that doesn't have Houser and I still really like and Jerry Joseph is there so it makes it all better. ruclips.net/video/p_l6ipYy53Q/видео.html
I have to say, as much as I love this song it's quite inaccurate. It paints the Aztecs as "noble savages" living without war or hate. Quite the opposite, really. The Aztecs brutally controlled the surrounding tribes. The reason Cortes so easily defeated them is that he was able to raise thousands of Indian allies against the hated Aztecs. Cortes certainly was a killer, though. Still one of my favorite songs anyway.
old comment, but yeah would've been far more fitting to tell a general story of native lands being destroyed by Europeans than a specific example especially of the Aztec and not the Inca
LetThePoorStarve This was written by Neil when he was in high school so he may have been a bit naive. Or there is a slight possibility that the way the Aztecs were portrayed was a sarcastic caricature of someone who would be that naive
Whatever you feel about the politics of this song - how about a more central venue than The Thalia Center when you come into Chicago, BTS? When you coming to NY? Or the Capitol, Port Chester? You ROCK
judge not lest thy be judged - in the same way we can paint 'western civilization' - decades of wars basically animals is how they will be painted when they are wiped out like the Aztec yet here you are believing you are civilized. : D
How do you purpose to know the 'sentiment' of indigenous people who lived in what we now call 'Mexico' from AD 1300 through AD 1500 and NEVER wrote down a single piece of historical documentation ...let alone the 'thousands' of documents that would be required to support your 'theory'. To act like you can know this is preposterous ! All 'documentation' of the Aztecs comes from the Spanish Priests and conquistadors, you know, the conquerors, the ones who gained' from the annihilation of their culture and then 'interviewed' people who didn't speak the Spanish language. To think that a ruling tribe who established such an advanced civilization wouldn't have some enemies is ludicrous. It is well documented by the priests that Cortez had No Easy March to Tenochtitlan I He was damn near quashed, early on, but fortunately (for him) the diseases that his men carried would be able to be used as to kill thousands of natives. Neil Young's 'interpretation' is as viable as anything proposed since AD 1521. Because it evokes so many images and possibilities it deserves equitable affirmation !
Brewer Barkley I don't know man, I find it hard to actually give a f*** about what you said. I'm entitled to have my own opinion, and I do not like this guys singing, regardless of what the background story is. But tbh, everything else in this song is perfect. I hope you have a lovely weekend!
I loved Perfect From Now On, but I agree this is hard to sit through. Simply a copy and the longer it goes on the worse it gets. At the time Cortez was judged/voted possibly Neil's greatest track, and this is cover was a bad idea.
Wow these guys sure butchered it. Can't think of a more obnoxious cover... Slint and J Mascis on the other hand sure have some amazing takes on this song
sometimes a cover of a song, you've long loved, comes along and just blows your existential socks off...
Love this song and Built To Spill does an excellent cover of it!!!!!
I love neil young and liked built to spill. This cover made me love built to spill
I'd never heard of built to spill till now. Awesome.
Loved everything but the Comic Sans
Comic Sans FTW. Comic Sans is ALWAYS appropriate (excepting those times requiring wingdings, or, of course, ASCII).
What an incredible version of my favorite Neil Young song.
Fucking incredible.
Killer cover
Dude went other world
lots of memories in this song for me. Someone I cared deeply for showed it to me. It breaks my heart all over again every time.
dont be a bitch
I used to be a bitch. Then i grew older.
ya'll just don't know what its like to care deeply for another individual
@@KreamOnMe I know exactly what it's like. It feels like being a bitch.
Wicked!
Indie goes prog
...is it possible they taught Neil this song? So great
I prefer this version. Even if you remove the 15 minute Guitar solo. Lol
So fucking good! The perfect song to rock out to while doing 20 minutes of random shit around the house like putting away laundry and shaving like I just did. BtS is one of the best ever
One of my favorite jams ever recorded by anyone.
Wow... what an amazing Neil Young cover. Each riff tells a story like the original one. Just wonderful and emotional! Love it. Thanks for sharing.
My favorite Neil Young cover ever! What a song!
great sound, guitar tone is just.....perfect
my cat Cortez was named after this cover : ) hes 14 this year!
Hi kitty 🥰
I read about this band on google chrome. I thought I knew the song . Didn't read the first comment . I thought of neil young . Very good cover . Sydney Australia 🦘 19/9/2024😊
what a cracking version
....what a killer
Listening to this on the home stretch of a small road trip. It's great to zone out/vibe to. Also makes one yearn for that bucolic society that's described, yet sadly taken... A perfect good destroyed by a perfect evil.
Best cover of Cortez the Killer I have ever heard.
any chance u can share where did u hear those covers ? cant find them on youtube.
btw my vote goes to govt mule cover...and this one of course :D
I've always loved the Dave Matthews and Warren Haynes version. Neil young and crazy horse wrote it, and I play their version the most. This version also rocks hard!!!!!!!!!!!! I will surely start playing this more. It's my first listen. Wow. Built to spill has always been a great band to me, and I never realized how much the singer sounds like Neil young! My favorite part about this version is the transitions between the verse/chorus/ect.
Probably my favorite cover of this song. This, Petrified Alien Brains, and The Screaming Females.
What! I've heard other covers, but never heard those bands. I'll have to check them out. Thank you so much for telling me.
best cover
amazing cover.
17:10 ... this part that goes for a few minutes is deserving of a special mention
che acida...wow
Bravisimo
It's a wonder this track hasn't become self aware somehow....it's just....so
....complex......
HELL YEAH
they understand...
1. Neil Young, 2. Dave m. And Warren Haynes, 3. Bts
Wow
Awesome.
Amazing
Google "cortez the killer the screaming females" and find the one titled 12 O'Clock traffic. They have it there.
Petrified alien brains is on spotify.
Breaks my heart too.
froggie
Thanks, Built to spill, you made my day
This is my second favorite Cortez cover. It's very well done and the video is pretty rad.
whats your number one favorite Cortez cover?
@@merdefilms3837 The only Widespread Panic song/cover ever that doesn't have Houser and I still really like and Jerry Joseph is there so it makes it all better. ruclips.net/video/p_l6ipYy53Q/видео.html
I have to say, as much as I love this song it's quite inaccurate. It paints the Aztecs as "noble savages" living without war or hate. Quite the opposite, really. The Aztecs brutally controlled the surrounding tribes. The reason Cortes so easily defeated them is that he was able to raise thousands of Indian allies against the hated Aztecs. Cortes certainly was a killer, though. Still one of my favorite songs anyway.
old comment, but yeah would've been far more fitting to tell a general story of native lands being destroyed by Europeans than a specific example especially of the Aztec and not the Inca
LetThePoorStarve This was written by Neil when he was in high school so he may have been a bit naive. Or there is a slight possibility that the way the Aztecs were portrayed was a sarcastic caricature of someone who would be that naive
Whatever you feel about the politics of this song - how about a more central venue than The Thalia Center when you come into Chicago, BTS? When you coming to NY? Or the Capitol, Port Chester? You ROCK
judge not lest thy be judged - in the same way we can paint 'western civilization' - decades of wars basically animals is how they will be painted when they are wiped out like the Aztec yet here you are believing you are civilized. : D
How do you purpose to know the 'sentiment' of indigenous people who lived in what we now call 'Mexico' from AD 1300 through AD 1500 and NEVER wrote down a single piece of historical documentation ...let alone the 'thousands' of documents that would be required to support your 'theory'. To act like you can know this is preposterous ! All 'documentation' of the Aztecs comes from the Spanish Priests and conquistadors, you know, the conquerors, the ones who gained' from the annihilation of their culture and then 'interviewed' people who didn't speak the Spanish language. To think that a ruling tribe who established such an advanced civilization wouldn't have some enemies is ludicrous. It is well documented by the priests that Cortez had No Easy March to Tenochtitlan I He was damn near quashed, early on, but fortunately (for him) the diseases that his men carried would be able to be used as to kill thousands of natives. Neil Young's 'interpretation' is as viable as anything proposed since AD 1521. Because it evokes so many images and possibilities it deserves equitable affirmation !
From the movie, 'Kill Spill'
built to spill is probably my favorite band, but admittedly this cover isn't quite as good as the original. still a good one tho👌
Nice!
Good cover guitar wise, but the singing lack of soul and sensitivity like in Neil Young's voice
your comments lack any sensitivity or soul unlike the song posted about those who died for you to be here today to share your pitiful shallow view.
Brewer Barkley I don't know man, I find it hard to actually give a f*** about what you said.
I'm entitled to have my own opinion, and I do not like this guys singing, regardless of what the background story is.
But tbh, everything else in this song is perfect.
I hope you have a lovely weekend!
your opinion is wrong.
LivingLegend83 you're opinion doesn't matter
i bet you are fat an alone too. and have no valuable opinion on anything except the changing prices of the dollar menu at macdonalds. lmao
WTF? This cover is bad. ! Why are people saying its GREAT !
love neil young this is a evelution awsome
Maybe they like it?
I loved Perfect From Now On, but I agree this is hard to sit through. Simply a copy and the longer it goes on the worse it gets. At the time Cortez was judged/voted possibly Neil's greatest track, and this is cover was a bad idea.
No, this is excellent.
Wow these guys sure butchered it. Can't think of a more obnoxious cover... Slint and J Mascis on the other hand sure have some amazing takes on this song
realy this is awsome