Songs you haven't heard in years (Part 1)

[chewy_boy]

The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing - 1979 (Better Graphics & Audio)

[wimmera1]

@swoodley

@wimmera1

And I agree covers can be lazy.
I’ve seen several examples of that tonight.

You’ve posted a few is what you mean to say

Dude.
I’ve posted nothing but covers that transform the originals.

I forgive you for Disturbed, but you can’t press that point after that paint by numbers rubbish.

[swoodley]

Transform does not automatically equate to improve (just so you know)

[wimmera1]

A little generic but still the first genuine response.

[wimmera1]

Neither here nor there.
You mentioned lazy.
FNM, Disturbed, even the Pretenders…better, sure…but on a grade of lazy that you introduced?

Seriously, you haven’t come within a bull’s roar of the Bangles even by your own standards.

[swoodley]

@wimmera1

I forgive you for Disturbed, but you can’t press that point after that paint by numbers rubbish.

Again, just your opinion…Disturbed’s version of Sounds of Silence won acclaim across the globe so maybe your opinion isn’t correct…but I respect your right to have that opinion.

[swoodley]

@wimmera1

Seriously, you haven’t come within a bull’s roar of the Bangles even by your own standards

What standard is that?

[wimmera1]

My opinion is they took the words of a great songwriter and growled them.

[wimmera1]

That covers are lazy.

[chewy_boy]

- YouTube

[wimmera1]

Thank you.

[swoodley]

@swoodley

@wimmera1

Seriously, you haven’t come within a bull’s roar of the Bangles even by your own standards

What standard is that?

@wimmera1

That covers are lazy.

That doesn’t make any sense to me.

Let’s just leave it like this:

You like cover versions, particularly if they (in your opinion) enhance the original version.

I don’t particularly like cover versions (except for the ones I do like)

[wimmera1]

Yes, my opinion of a great cover version is one that transcends the original and takes it somewhere else.
Musically and thematically.

And you might think Kim Wilde is pants, and compared to Faith No More I absolutely agree with you.
But she did a better cover than them.
Better as they may be in every other respect.

[swoodley]

I really don’t care Wim…we each like what we like…I’m not trying to convert you to my way of thinking and there’s no need for you to try and convert me.

We disagree here…and that’s ok.

[wimmera1]

I do quite fancy their Midnight Cowboy, though.
To say nothing of Easy.

[wimmera1]

You know what?
Easy is very good.
It gives the song a sense of resignedness that the original hints at in the lyrics but doesn’t deliver musically.

[chewy_boy]

Last Kiss

xx

[swooper]

Hazy Shade of Winter

Or are you saying it was more a cover of the Bangles rather than S&G?

I like both the covers, the Bangles version is my favourite song of theirs.

[No31]

Love the Bangles and Bodyjar’s version of Hazy Shade of Winter. They follow each other on my main playlist. Less Than Zero was a great movie.

[No31]

I love Fidlar, they write great songs for men who never grow up.

FIDLAR - Cheap Beer