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Covers that were better than the original

Uh-uh. Don't agree at all. The Boystown Gang version was junk. I refused to play it at the Badlands in San Francisco, but the (white) gay crowd loved it for one reason - it was FAST. By 1980, gay disco was all boringly fast uptempo shit. Play a mid- tempo song at the Trocadero Transfer before 4 a.m. (where they loved "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" and the equally pitiful Viola Wills song, "If You Could Read My Mind" (also super uptempo) and the crowd left the floor (well, they were all on speed, for one thing, so slow didn't cut it). But it was boring. I had actual fights in the print media with the Boystown Gang and their producer when I reviewed the song, calling it "standard Moby Dick (the label) drivel." The Franki Valli original was far superior: it had feeling. You could believe he was in love. It had heart, soul and tenderness. And he was a vastly better singer and that's inarguable.

Guess we'll agree to disagree here. I liked almost nothing on Moby Dick Records. Completely formula disco. BAD formula disco at that.

I think you are right about that Viola Wills song (version): that sort of garrulous songs demand a crawling tempo, while shorter or more repetitive shit, like that "Dead World", are made for speeder tempos, no matter the good effect a slower one may work on them. Anyway, all those tunes are just fucking rumbling. The "feeling" is in the lyrics, you don't need a lecherous middle-farter to add his candy overcoat to make it more "genuine" and "deep" :cool: It's like with that Cher song, "Believe", in which the funny thing is that she made a "cover" of her own song as the launching version. It seems that Carly Rae tune was originally intended as a ballad too, wasn't it.

We agree on the superfluity of the aesthetics musical fads (disco, techno...) but the songs remain as good as they were written... provided you are willing to accept pop as legitimate music :mrgreen: But, anyway, I don't give a fuck about either version of the song, nor about the others... outside the fact that I recall liking the song from when I was seven or so, I do not really take them that seriously, just trolling around lol.

"Standard Moby Dick drivel" : I love how it would sound as a way of saying "grrrrreat literary classic that nobody reads" :lol:
 
You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton. FAR better than Elvis' version. Its just that he was White and turned it into a rock and roll song, far changed from its blues original version.

Neither is remotely in the same class as the Luther Vandross/Martha Wash version. It wipes Bassey AND Jones out.

Both "Hound Dog" and "I Who Have Nothing" were both written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. I don't know that there's any bad cover of Leiber & Stoller- their songs are some of the best.

 

I do think this version was better than Henley's
 
The Clash really amped up Brand New Cadillac.


Original

 

Better than Ewan MacColl's

 
^ which one is the Original ?
both version are for different taste or for different event.
 
I really can't decide which one is better talent-wise, although Johnny is pretty damned cute, and that gives him the edge for me.


 
<---------- This guy, Miloš Karadaglić, plays 'Asturias' from Suite española by Isaac Albéniz. Originally composed for the piano (below), it was arranged for guitar and many artists have covered it. IMHO, this is the best version and far superior to the piano:


 
Pentatonix - Daft Punk

A mashup of 'Technologic', 'One More Time', 'Get Lucky', 'Digital Love', 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger', 'Television Rules the Nation', and 'Around the World'.

 
^ My mind is completely blown and I can barely see the screen through the tears. The little boy walking to his dad did me in big time.
 
^ My mind is completely blown

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