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Sometimes the original is better.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:05 pm
by Splitpin
As much as I love the Pink cover .... you can't beat the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfjon-ZTqzU

Re: Sometimes the original is better.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:42 pm
by toprob
Ah, yes. Sometimes I wonder 'what if'. I've been listening to a podcast which plays all the albums from the book '1001 albums to listen to before you die'. Someone mentioned that 'Pearl' was kind of a best-of, which is kind of sad. My favourite Youtube vid isBall and Chain at Monterey, although I always cry, thinking that we could have seen a lot more of these blues belters.

Seeing Mama Cass in the audience always make me think that if these two had looked after each other, their legacy would have been very different.

Re: Sometimes the original is better.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:07 pm
by emfrat
Splitpin wrote:As much as I love the Pink cover .... you can't beat the original.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfjon-ZTqzU


I don't understand how any artist could think they could cover a Janis recording, and do it better. It's not a tribute, it's an insult. Bl**dy arrogance :mad:

Re: Sometimes the original is better.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2023 9:31 am
by chopper_nut
This is one of the songs that the missus and I play together. She sings of course... I don't ever knock covers, some of my favourite songs are covers.

Re: Sometimes the original is better.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:26 pm
by Charl
Erm chaps before you go off the deep end:



I was mightily surprised when I learned that Joplin actually had a beautiful singing voice, just the screechy one sold better!

Re: Sometimes the original is better.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2023 5:52 pm
by deaneb
Hearts cover of Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven is quite something too. Sometimes just sometimes a cover can be exceptional.

Re: Sometimes the original is better.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:20 pm
by Charl
Totally agree - and Jimmy Page also thought so, if his face was anything to go by, at the performance.