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24duzitall
Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 1293 Location: Kentucky
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jammerbirdi
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 21046
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Posted: 12/19/08 1:34 am ::: |
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Anything touched by Gloria Estefan was a disgrace. You don't cover a Vickie Sue Robinson tune. You need to just stay off dat block, Mija. Seriously. She did another cover she should have never touched but I've forgotten it. Who let her escape the airport lounge circuit?
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 67121 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 12/27/12 3:16 pm ::: |
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Debbie Boone's soulless remake of "You Light Up My Life"
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Kasey Cisyk's original, more understated version is much superior
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cthskzfn
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 12851 Location: In a world where a PSYCHOpath like Trump isn't potus.
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Posted: 12/27/12 3:59 pm ::: |
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Aerosmith's Come Together
Elvis' Houndog
Stones' Time Is on My Side (Irma Thomas' cover was sort of the original)
ANY COVER BY BOLTON. He should be jailed and fined $2mill for that worthless, disgusting remake LP he did. What a farking disgrace.
Devo's Satisfaction
Kylie Minogue's "Loco-Motion".
There is a current TV ad which uses The Beatles' "In My Life". Puke.
Does the Bleach Boys' rip-off of Chuck Berry's Sweet Little Sixteen, renamed Surfin' USA, count?!
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StevenHW
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 10983 Location: Sacramento, California
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Posted: 12/27/12 4:10 pm ::: |
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Instead of aiming at a certain song, I'm going for an entire artist: Linda Ronstadt!
Her versions of classic rock songs by Buddy Holly, Motown, Roy Orbison, et al, are lame. There is no angst, just blandness!
But what takes the cake is her entire album of punk/new-wave songs: "Mad Love" (1980).
Linda is at her best singing mellow pop and country tunes, but as a rock singer...UGH!
Then in 1983, upon the release of her first 1940's-era "torch song" album, "What's New", she announced that she was not going to sing rock songs anymore. And I remember thinking, "Finally! Good Riddance! Rock and Roll will be fine without her!" And I still feel that way.
The so-called "First Lady Of Rock" should've gone to Janis Joplin, not Linda.
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 67121 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 12/27/12 4:39 pm ::: |
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StevenHW wrote: |
Instead of aiming at a certain song, I'm going for an entire artist: Linda Ronstadt!
Her versions of classic rock songs by Buddy Holly, Motown, Roy Orbison, et al, are lame. There is no angst, just blandness! |
I generally agree, but I do like her cover of When Will I Be Loved? better than than the Everly Brothers original.
_________________ I'm sick and tired of the stories that you always tell
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cthskzfn
Joined: 21 Nov 2004 Posts: 12851 Location: In a world where a PSYCHOpath like Trump isn't potus.
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Posted: 12/27/12 6:10 pm ::: |
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pilight wrote: |
StevenHW wrote: |
Instead of aiming at a certain song, I'm going for an entire artist: Linda Ronstadt!
Her versions of classic rock songs by Buddy Holly, Motown, Roy Orbison, et al, are lame. There is no angst, just blandness! |
I generally agree, but I do like her cover of When Will I Be Loved? better than than the Everly Brothers original. |
Me, too.
She was kinda hot back in the day when we saw her at Tanglewood...77? She had a decent brunette Elly May Clampett look back then- cutoffs and a shirt tied up at the midriff.
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dtsnms
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 18815
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Posted: 12/27/12 6:40 pm ::: |
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StevenHW wrote: |
Instead of aiming at a certain song, I'm going for an entire artist: Linda Ronstadt!
Her versions of classic rock songs by Buddy Holly, Motown, Roy Orbison, et al, are lame. There is no angst, just blandness!
But what takes the cake is her entire album of punk/new-wave songs: "Mad Love" (1980).
Linda is at her best singing mellow pop and country tunes, but as a rock singer...UGH!
Then in 1983, upon the release of her first 1940's-era "torch song" album, "What's New", she announced that she was not going to sing rock songs anymore. And I remember thinking, "Finally! Good Riddance! Rock and Roll will be fine without her!" And I still feel that way.
The so-called "First Lady Of Rock" should've gone to Janis Joplin, not Linda. |
I liked mad love. Especially the Cretones songs
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mb1
Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 4691 Location: Scottsdale,AZ,USA
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 67121 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 12/27/12 7:10 pm ::: |
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mb1 wrote: |
We should start a "Cover Songs We Like" thread... |
http://boards.rebkell.net/viewtopic.php?t=25854
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Shakespeare couldn't tell a story that well
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Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time
Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind
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Happycappie25
Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 4174 Location: QUEENS!!!!
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 67121 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 10/01/13 6:20 pm ::: |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uaPs8sxqB0
is an endlessly annoying cover of a Trinidadian soca classic:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27fagObxaM
_________________ I'm sick and tired of the stories that you always tell
Shakespeare couldn't tell a story that well
See, you're the largest liar that was ever created
You and Pinocchio are probably related
Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time
Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind
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pilight
Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 67121 Location: Where the action is
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Posted: 02/12/21 9:06 am ::: |
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Ten years ago we were blessed/cursed with this...
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To mark the anniversary, Rebecca Black has released a new version that sounds like a 100 gecs reject...
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_________________ I'm sick and tired of the stories that you always tell
Shakespeare couldn't tell a story that well
See, you're the largest liar that was ever created
You and Pinocchio are probably related
Full of criss-crossed fits, you lie all the time
Your tongue should be embarrassed, you're a threat to mankind
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calbearman76
Joined: 02 Nov 2009 Posts: 5167 Location: Carson City
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Posted: 02/13/21 2:37 am ::: |
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I don't know. There are good songs and there are bad songs. There are bad covers of good songs, good covers of bad songs. There are a few absolutely iconic songs (such as the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction) that artists should probably steer clear of, but even then there is an alternative recording by Otis Redding that I really like. There are artists like Michael Bolton that I don't like because no matter what they sing it sounds bland and uninteresting, but obviously some people like that. In the 70's we had Peter Lemongello who was even worse.
Linda Ronstadt did lots of covers and I almost always liked the results, even if they weren't necessarily as good as the original (When Will I Be Loved (Better than the Everly Bros, I Will Always Love You, Worse than Dolly Parton, as good as Whitney Houston).
Having said that, I always thought that Friday was an unobjectionable piece of drivel that just became so overplayed that it became annoying. So nice to know that it could be redone in a way that it is annoying right from the start.
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Hawkeye
Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 767 Location: Houston, TX
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Posted: 02/13/21 5:18 pm ::: |
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Tori Amos pathetic attempt at Smells Like Teen Spirit----and whoever took a hit to the head and decided it was a good idea to make it a dance song for cheerleaders.
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