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Sketches of James is an album of James Taylor songs performed by other musicians. Check out Steamroll Blues performed by Tower of Power.
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To me it is easily the best produced song in the history of music. It's the type of thing that could only happen in the 70s.
I'm sure you could emulate those sounds on a computer, but piecing it together today is just so incredibly impractical, unlikely someone would come up with a similar sounding song.
It's like trying to build a water slide out of match sticks, I'm sure you could do it, but there was only the 1 time in history where you had no other choice. .
Midnight Special - CCR.
If Not For You - George Harrison
Four Strong Winds - Neil Young
Bye Bye Blackbird - Joe Cocker
Born Under A Bad Sign - Cream (Albert King's version is great, but I LOVE Cream's version.)
If Not For You - George Harrison
Four Strong Winds - Neil Young
Bye Bye Blackbird - Joe Cocker
Born Under A Bad Sign - Cream (Albert King's version is great, but I LOVE Cream's version.)
Is Cake doing "I will survive" too obvious?
- Cats In The Cradle - Ugly Kid Joe
- Don't Be Cruel - Cheap Trick
- Funky Town - Pseudo Echo
- I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Oz Noy & Ozone Squeeze
- Mary Had A Little Lamb - Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Need You Tonight - Bonnie Raitt
- The Sound Of Silence - Disturbed
- You Really Got Me - Van Halen
Nazareth’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s “This Flight Tonight”. For a long time I never twigged it was the same song.
The covers Lacuna Coil and Failure did of Enjoy the Silence.
Foo Fighter's cover of Baker Street.
Foo Fighter's cover of Baker Street.
I'm A man from Chicago Transit Authority
Alice doing Talk Talk was great. And while I hung out with Dave Edmunds and Billy Bremner in Stuttgart for a couple days years ago (very cool guys who don’t mind hanging as long as you aren’t a reporter), Smiley Lewis was the winner. But Dave gets the nod for Sabre Dance.
Metallica's Turn the page comes to mind. Not because it's literally better than the original
In fact it's the opposite.
The original sounds too classy, it sounds like a university professor writing a song about the socially disadvantaged.
The Metallica version sounds like it was made by the same trashy folk as the people who actually lived the lifestyle.
The song for me is always gonna be an anthem for strippers/truckers on speed/etc.
When I hear the Seger version, it sounds like the entire point of the song is that people around you including yourself stereotype you into being this kind of thing, that isn't the real you, turn the page because the real you will be found in the next chapter.
When I hear the Metallica version all I hear is "This is the real me like it or leave it", turn the page, it doesn't matter as the next page will be the same as the one before it.
In fact it's the opposite.
The original sounds too classy, it sounds like a university professor writing a song about the socially disadvantaged.
The Metallica version sounds like it was made by the same trashy folk as the people who actually lived the lifestyle.
The song for me is always gonna be an anthem for strippers/truckers on speed/etc.
When I hear the Seger version, it sounds like the entire point of the song is that people around you including yourself stereotype you into being this kind of thing, that isn't the real you, turn the page because the real you will be found in the next chapter.
When I hear the Metallica version all I hear is "This is the real me like it or leave it", turn the page, it doesn't matter as the next page will be the same as the one before it.
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Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time is among my favorite songs. Her version is wonderful and so are versions by Miles Davis and Willie Nelson. Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower is better by Ritchen Havens and everybody else.
Robyn Hitchcock has done some transcendent ones...
(with special bonus John Paul Jones)
(with special bonus John Paul Jones)
devnulljp
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Nah, still prefer Diamond Head. Saw them a bunch of times in the 80s, they were a great band for their time.
Just about every Bob Dylan cover is better than the original
