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Two full minutes of listening to music that made me think that I was at the worst Fashion Week runway show. If you like it fine, does it "blow away the original" I don't know, I never got that far.
Well, we just can't all appreciate the same things. No harm done. But yeah, it's a far better version than Britney's to my ears. For Britney fans, probably not so much. But when a 60 yr old guy, with nearly cult-like followers, takes a tune aimed at teens, performs it in one of his shows and makes it relevant that's a pretty cool trick.
Then there's the Creedence Clearwater Revival's version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine(by Smokey Robinson (and later by Marvin Gaye). I just love the bass drive in this version:
I like Doris Day okay, but Cole's almost certainly deserves it's more iconic status. Day's came out soon after the instrumental from the film, as in the same year by the looks of it, so I'm counting it as "the original" unless I find there's an earlier vocal version. Hope that's not "a cheat."
Well, we just can't all appreciate the same things. No harm done. But yeah, it's a far better version than Britney's to my ears. For Britney fans, probably not so much. But when a 60 yr old guy, with nearly cult-like followers, takes a tune aimed at teens, performs it in one of his shows and makes it relevant that's a pretty cool trick.
The thread is about covers that "blow away" the original. In the first post I pointed to Bob Dylan's 'All Along The Watchtower", which by Dylan's own admission, Hendrix had permanently taken possession of the song making Hendrix's version canon, the standard by which all subsequent covers are to be judged. That is blowing away the original.
So this isn't about which version of a song that you like more than the original, there are tons of those. The thread is supposed be about songs that so exceed the original as to make it nothing more than a musical footnote (that might be going a bit far but I don't know a better way to phrase it).
So, like in any nominating list such as this, submissions must meet or exceed the criteria set; songs that blow away the original. So when you submit a song for consideration and discussion folks have no basis for being offended when others find their submission lacking.
I always liked Cheap Trick's cover of Ain't That A Shame (by Fats Domino)
Interesting blows away? Naw.
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Then there's the Creedence Clearwater Revival's version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine
This is a tough one, this song has been covered by all the greats, Smokey, Marvin Gaye, and let's not forget Gladys Night and the Pips and CCR's version deserves being included in that number, but I don't think to this day that anyone has recorded a definitive version of the song.
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And lastly, Eric Clapton's remake of his own cover of JJ Cale's After Midnight:
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