Covers that are better than/you like better than the originals. - by SubJeff
Sg3 on 10/8/2011 at 16:51
Cool! Thanks for sharing. This is the kind of thing I would never find out about if a random person on an Internet forum didn't mention it.
Papy on 13/8/2011 at 06:42
Quote Posted by Syndy/3
Sweet Dreams when it came out was so far ahead of its time
That's not how I remember things. Back in the 80s, I did like Eurythmics, but even then I wouldn't have called them ahead of their time. They were mostly another pop group (although a good one) following the new wave trend. They were certainly not considered as cult or anything special, at least not in Europe.
Fingernail on 13/8/2011 at 07:54
Quote Posted by Nicker
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68edB_Q1e4g) Improving on a Ringo song is something most musicians can do in their sleep but...
Cocker’s version is certainly more lush and professional, with big orchestration and grand arrangement, but he’s turned
A Little Help into a stadium sized anthem. Ringo wrote a humble tune about the importance of friendship, Cocker dumped its humility and turned it into something that sounds more like a paean to his immense social network.
If he intended that as tongue in cheek parody, he did that in spades but I don’t think that was his aim.
A cover needs to nail the original to a T (especially in live performance), illuminate the original theme better, make good fun of it or reveal some hidden angle. Cocker just pumped up the volume, splashed around some glitter and missed the song’s point entirely.
When it comes to covers that thoughtfully re imagine the Beatles how about the Tubes playing "I Saw Her Standing There", 801 doing "Tomorrow Never Knows", Fiona Apple doing "Across The Universe"...?
I don't think that the Beatles are sacrosanct.
Fine, except that Paul wrote "With a little help...", not Ringo.
Tomi on 13/8/2011 at 10:27
I kinda knew that someone would post these two, and even if I suppose it's cool nowadays to like Johnny Cash and hate everything that Sting does, I got to say that Sting's original version is just so much better. Not that Cash's cover is bad either, and I love his music normally, but I feel that his version is missing that little something that makes a cover a good one.
Volitions Advocate on 13/8/2011 at 10:43
Re: How Soon is Now - Personally. and i'm ashamed to admit this but proud to say I can cast off my bias and admit to it. The Tatu version is actually my favorite version. I like it even more than Love Spit Love's version, which for awhile was the go to song for anything with neve campbell or alyssa milano in it that involved witchcraft.
I never liked the snake river conspiracy version of it. It felt more like an obligatory tip of the hat to their own broodiness and was about as creative and honest as lacuna coils cover of Enjoy the Silence.
on that note... obligatory Enjoy the Silence cover: (
http://www.myspace.com/untilifall/music/songs/enjoy-the-silence-25888328)
Some indie band in the milddle of BF-Who knows where. That apparently broke up. Best cover of it i've heard, beats out the Failure version in my eyes. But i'm kind of a fag for that wall of guitar sound.
EDIT: Sting Rocks btw
frozenman on 13/8/2011 at 12:03
Quote Posted by Volitions Advocate
EDIT: Sting Rocks btw
Ever heard of the Roxanne drinking game? You listen to the song, and drink and continue to drink for the duration every time Sting sings 'Roxannnnnnnne.' During the chorus it's basically solid drinking, and you go through about 2 beers in the course of the song if you can keep up.
The thing is, you can do this with just about every Sting song. Every time he sings 'Don't stand so close to me,' 'Sending out an SOS', 'Eee-ohhhhh'
SubJeff on 13/8/2011 at 13:42
That's a pretty cool cover. It's still got the creepiness of the original though.
