Subject: really different covers
Date: Sun May 27 13:21:47 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Good one. Bruce's stinging solo is very Neil-esque. Patti is now 71, hard as that is to believe.
That's the kind of stuff r 'n' r is all about.
Date: Thu Aug 23 10:35:39 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Not trying to be Debbie Downer here...…..but what does it mean when she's "going straight to the live shows"? If that wasn't live already, what was it? That seems to make no sense. Also...…...I've heard there's quite a bit of controversy about this girl, as she already was quite successful in a Brit kids version of this the year before - but apparently she was still technically eligible for this somehow.
That said, she's got the voice and the verve, but (to me) lacks 'authenticity'. But then that's not surprising for someone of that age, right?
Date: Thu Aug 23 13:26:03 2018
User: outskirts
Message:Oh, she's authentic all right. Idk about that other stuff because I don't watch those shows. The crap is boring to me!
Date: Thu Aug 23 13:49:30 2018
User: outskirts
Message:Not many 13 year old girls can blow away Otis Redding *and* the Black Crowes. She surely did, and it was her own. How much more authentic can you get? Did you think she was trying to emulate someone else maybe? Maybe she was, idk. But I can't find a negative word to say about her. As to the show, it's format and other shows like that, well they bore me. All the "controversy" means nothing to me. What matters is what starts at 1:00.
Date: Mon Sep 10 12:44:46 2018
User: Patti_Scialfa
Message:Loves me some Patti Smith, as in what ThunderRoad posted at the end of page two of this thread. I don't mind my man hanging with another Patti if it's her, doing stuff like that. Chicks can rock.
Date: Mon Sep 10 12:51:59 2018
User: Patti_Scialfa
Message:Oh, and I meant to include this. I know someone going by Kaos posted this a couple of year ago, but it's nice to "discuss and compare". So here we have two "really different covers" within the same song and thread.
Did I mention that chicks can rock?
Link: a less rocking, but no less passionate version
Date: Sat Oct 6 12:28:41 2018
User: outskirts
Message:Sending happiness to Patti, and ThunderRoad
Was putting it in old music changed mind and yep it's two different covers in one. Twist and Shout and La Bamba 🎵
Link: BS&TESB
Date: Sat Oct 6 13:27:45 2018
User: Patti_Scialfa
Message:Ahhhhh..………… Young love and my '80s hair! Thanks!
(That Stingster is cute, but I made the right choice!)
Date: Sun Oct 7 20:54:58 2018
User: ThunderRoad
Message:Is that Patti covering a song she really made her own? Even the Boss will cover her version.
Date: Thu Oct 11 11:50:57 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:I'm not saying this is a great version, but it's certainly "really different", and there's some nice jangly guitar....
Link: Van didn't do it thisaway
Date: Thu Oct 11 19:49:26 2018
User: jamesblackburn-lynch
Message:Van may be my all-time favorite artist, but I think Patti crushes him here. She takes a garage-y song and makes it into a monstrous mythic beast.
Date: Fri Oct 12 13:55:37 2018
User: outskirts
Message:...covered by that other Morrison dude and his highly talented band The Doors. This is the "dirty version" and indeed it does get a bit filthy. But hey we've heard worse from Kanye.
Someone put together a pretty good video.
RIP Jim Morrison
Link: Gloria
Date: Fri Oct 12 22:12:09 2018
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:Interesting. The Doors version starts out sounding very similar to the Them version but then morphs into something a bit different. Alas for me everything by the Doors sounds dated, even this (out)take on Gloria. I love the Patti Smith version - it still sounds fresh to me today and it is a very different (half) cover. I was living in New Jersey just outside NYC when Horses came out and it was impossible to escape the buzz about the album if you had any interest in music.
Date: Sat Oct 13 12:51:25 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Like many things in R&R, I suspect one could have a full class session in R&R history about the various versions of this song, and the artistic nuances involved. Which is reflective of the author's capabilities and how he used to stretch it out. I don't know much about his own alternative takes back in the day, so that makes me wonder how much of Patti's additions are her own (many or most, I think), or how many of Jim's are his own (many, or some, I think, but that's where lack of knowledge about Van's live ad-libbing comes in).
Great songs inspire many thematic interpretations. Thus the purpose of this thread.
Date: Sun Oct 14 06:57:31 2018
User: outskirts
Message:I know a woman named Gloria that hates that song. You don't want to be singing it to her.
Date: Sat Nov 10 13:26:17 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:That's pretty nice. Still a strong voice for someone 72 years young. I almost saw him here this summer at a great venue, but I decided the tickets were just a bit high, at somewhere around $40-50, as I recall. For you youngsters out there, Mason was also on *the* Hendrix recording of this song.
Date: Sat Nov 10 18:17:10 2018
User: outskirts
Message:Not shabby on the geetar either!
Date: Tue Dec 25 12:20:51 2018
User: BuzzClik
Message:Bob Dylan covering "Must Be Santa" in a polka style.
I suppose this could fit under "Obscure Christmas Music," but it clearly belongs here.
Link: Bob Dylan, "Must Be Santa"
Date: Wed Dec 26 10:42:35 2018
User: outskirts
Message:Posted on fb by myself a week or so ago, and also on a public Dylan page............ hmm
I like how his wig makes him look grinchy
Date: Wed Dec 26 10:43:52 2018
User: outskirts
Message:Clearly, you looked up the song.
Date: Wed Dec 26 11:30:19 2018
User: TNmountainman
Message:Cool enough to be in both threads...…...
Date: Sun Feb 24 12:08:01 2019
User: outskirts
Message:White dude with the flu righteously covers Prince's Purple Rain.
I would not have watched had it not been recommended
Link: https://youtu.be/o6Wi6oPdBRA
Date: Mon Apr 8 09:50:14 2019
User: outskirts
Message:Decent Hendrix cover
Link: Fox lady
Date: Mon Apr 8 14:49:52 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:Not sure what's "really different" about those. Maybe it being a girl is "really different" for the Orianthi one? They both seem fairly straight ahead to me.
Date: Mon Apr 8 17:49:51 2019
User: outskirts
Message:You may find the appropriate thread and insert it there, with full permissions.
Date: Thu Apr 11 08:57:31 2019
User: outskirts
Message:Another Watchtower, with Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and Willie Nelson
Link: At farm aid 1994
Date: Wed Jul 24 22:21:06 2019
User: BuzzClik
Message:I am a long-time Bruce Springsteen fanboy who used to enjoy requesting bar dj's to play something by Bruce Springsteen when they had no idea who he was. The song being covered in this post is from Bruce's megafame era, after Bruce had discovered tight bluejeans and weightlifting.
Anyway....
I am also an unrepentant, current fanboy of Vampire Weekend, to the point of spending a hefty $54 to see them in concert in a beautiful and famous venue. They covered this song back in 2010 and have revived it for their current tour.
Link: Vampire Weekend cover Bruce, "Going Down"
Date: Thu Oct 3 09:40:08 2019
User: outskirts
Message:Bob Dylan covers himself a lot. I say cover because it's really different. It's something we love or hate about Bob. No one on this planet can tell me a thing about Bob, so don't even think about trying. I challenge anyone to listen to the whole thing. It's 100% Bob, with a nice slide show.
70s Dylan covers 60s Dylan
Link: Mr Tambourine Man
Date: Sat Oct 10 20:39:49 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:I post this because it's pretty darn good, and because she's a friend (sorta) of mine, not for the sociological commentary. But that sure fits the song. She's also 2-time IBMA guitarist of the year, Berklee alum, can also play a mean mando and clawhammer, and is an all-'round great person. Annnnd......she also collaborates with another friend of mine who I've lauded before on this board, Billy Strings - among many others.
(And if you're wondering about the hair thing.........she doesn't have cancer; it's alopecia.)
Link: "She's a Rainbow" - indeed
Date: Sun Nov 15 10:20:58 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:UGH! That is Guh-ross. No, that's not likely the worst cover ever, but it's got to be honorable mention. And according to what I see on gootube, it has 126 upvotes and only 3 down!? What a crazy world.................as Arthur Brown would say.
[warning: lip-syncing may be involved]
(And no, this is not a cover (I don't think) - just part of my reaction to said voting.)
Link: Before Alice Kooper, and before Kiss, there was.........
Date: Sun Nov 15 10:34:58 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Hey, I never said it was bad. It's just that he sounds a little... desperate.
Date: Sun Nov 15 10:38:01 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:Well, you left that part out. It **is** bad.
Date: Sun Nov 15 10:46:04 2020
User: outskirts
Message:You are entitled to your opinion. I however, did not give mine.
Date: Sun Nov 15 11:00:28 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:I really don't think that's an opinion. Just a fact. But you are entitled to your opinion, I guess - even if it might happen to be inaccurate.
Date: Sun Nov 15 11:46:30 2020
User: outskirts
Message:As I stated before, I did not give my opinion. See my last post.
Date: Sun Nov 15 11:49:19 2020
User: outskirts
Message:126 thumbs up - 3 down. I never noticed that but you did. Maybe you want a recount?
I still have not offered my opinion though.
Date: Sun Nov 15 12:10:24 2020
User: TNmountainman
Message:I think perhaps hearing tests and psychological assessments moreso than a recount, methinks.
Date: Sun Nov 15 13:10:25 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Right, because if TNmountainman says it's bad, it's bad.
Date: Sun Nov 15 16:57:23 2020
User: BuzzClik
Message:It's bad
Date: Sun Nov 15 17:31:47 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Oh, well it must be good
Date: Sun Nov 15 23:51:52 2020
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:So, my opinion. Sir McCartney wrote numerous songs (and by numerous I mean numerous) songs that were in The Archies territory of too saccharine sweet for my taste. Their performance by the Beatles hid many of these “flaws”. Alas, in this performance, the true nature of this song is revealed. To the joy of some and the confirmation of their saccharine nature to others.
Date: Sun Nov 15 23:54:22 2020
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:And, in a bit of irony, I’m typing this while listening to Jack Black singing Jolene by Dolly Parton
Date: Mon Nov 16 05:51:15 2020
User: outskirts
Message:Very clever Dr.Bombay! Kudos as a music critic. I have much more respect for music critics than art critics.
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