What are you listening to?

[Sarah G]

Smash Mouth - All Star - YouTube

Great old Smash Mouth song.

 

[Connery]

Bill Withers - Lovely Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYi7uEvEEmk

Here's my favorite by Bill Withers.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ROGOHNSEBs]Use Me - Bill Withers (1972) - YouTube[/ame]

I have always liked this version as well...

Mick Jagger - Use Me (ft. Lenny Kravitz)

 

[Mojo2]

Bill Withers - Lovely Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYi7uEvEEmk

Here's my favorite by Bill Withers.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ROGOHNSEBs]Use Me - Bill Withers (1972) - YouTube[/ame]

I have always liked this version as well...

Mick Jagger - Use Me (ft. Lenny Kravitz)

Song covers have an almost impossible road to hoe in their existence.

Justify their reason for being.

It's certainly okay if an artist or group wants to pay homage to the song writer or the first artist who did the song. But that is like a tip of the cap and no reason to fall in love with the cover version. Or, it mightbe to generate more sales for the struggling song writer's royalties account. A worthwhile effort. But the cover song exists in a very tough world. It's a big boy's world, of pleasing the sound buds of the listener and the more of them the better the cover artists is said to do and the more pleasure everyone will have derived froim the cover effort.

So, what is the difference between the cover and the origibal?

If the cover s exactly the same or even close to the same sound as the original it is like someone going to the exact spot where a famous photograph was taken and emulating that same shot.

It's nice that the photog can reproduce that same look and feel and angle and lighting and composition, but the heavy lifting had already been done by the original.

So the question then becomes, "what is the cover version's reason for being?"

If it doesn't break new ground and simultaneously make you recall the original and also make you forget it, the effort is no more than an indulgent session of aural masturbation.

We love Jagger.

We love Lenny Kravitz.

But we don't need to hear them jerk off to Bill Wither's classic.

Bottom line...when the original is there to enjoy why would anyone bother with the copy?

Mrs. Jagger and Kravitz have given us no response worth listening to.

Thanks but meh.

 

[namvet]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8zTefUMhbI]Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster - YouTube[/ame]

 

[namvet]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjKft91jZ38]38 Special - Chain Lightning - YouTube[/ame]

 

[namvet]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_i73qjN8AI]Eddie Money. Shakin' - YouTube[/ame]

 

[namvet]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFBqyAN8Bw]It's A Beautiful Day - White Bird (1969) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Coyote]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQpW9XRiyM]Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days - YouTube[/ame]

 

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[BlackSand]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vu_nmZ1pXc]Beautiful - Bethany Dillon - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Ropey]

Coldplay - Midnight

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQeMxWjpr-Y&feature=share]Coldplay - Midnight - YouTube[/ame]

 

[HUGGY]

One of my favorite genius music writers of my generation.. Many singers and bands owe their success to Jackson Browne..

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwngpzlN2_s]Jackson Browne Fountain of sorrow Live - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

One of the best female rockers of all time

 

[Ropey]

ZZ Top - La Grange

[ame=http://youtu.be/Vppbdf-qtGU]ZZ Top - La Grange - YouTube[/ame]

Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker

[ame=http://youtu.be/uDBz4ASw6uU]John lee Hooker Boogie Chillen - YouTube[/ame]

 

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