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Songs That Shouldn't Be Covered
I was just listening to Bohemian Rhapsody, and remembered someone singing it on American Idol once and wishing he hadn't done that because it's IMPOSSIBLE to come close to how good the original is...some songs should be classified as untouchable, that no one should ever attempt to do a cover of, and Bohemian Rhapsody is one of them.
What are some others? I'm thinking a lot of Bob Dylan songs...Beatles too.
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no girl should ever cover a nirvana song.
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to DK: think about the fact that The Beatles didn't write Twist and Shout, but its one of their most famous, or at least well known songs. It was written by the Isley Brothers, but the Beatles covered it and it was so freakin' awesome that everyone forgets the Isley Brothers version....
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Here's a couple of "girls" doing a really nice Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin.
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Sometimes you hear a cover and you just sit back and say "yeah, that was good". Sometime someone or a band will have a new interpretation that makes the song interesting again. Sometimes someone will just do the song really well. That's all good. If there were no covers then we would never have Johnny Cash's version of Hurt (originally by Nine Inch Nails). I used to consider Pink Floyd songs off limits to covers. Then I heard the Australian Pink Floyd Show (and saw them live) and I changed my mind. They didn't reinterpret the songs or play them differently. They just played them very well. It was as if Pink Floyd was performing. It was good. When Queen did the reunion tour with Paul Rodgers doing the singing I didn't go. I didn't buy the album and not sure that I want to listen to it. I'm not saying that the tour should not have been done. The reviews said it was all done very well and Paul Rodgers did an excellent job. But I didn't want to see the tour. Plus the show was in Key Arena in Seattle and the thought of the acoustics in there makes me cringe.
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Here is a very nice album of covers of songs from the 60s called Bleecker Street.
There's even one by John Gorka which is good.
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I have heard (and collected) many covers of songs that are as good as if not better than the original. Raphael is right, all songs should be covered. You never know when an artist's interpretation will strike a note (bad pun intended) with you.
There is a thread whose topic is covers of songs. I found this thread with a little used trick known as the "SEARCH" function.
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