Covers that are better than the original (IMHO)
Oeeeeee, a touchy subject entered my mind as I was listening to the Dutch radio today where currently one of the new hottest songs is a remake of an old Dutch classic( Frenna covered Abel ). People have an opinion about it, divided from the song is raped to finally somebody made a decent remake from this monstrosity
Covering a song is always a bit difficult for some reason, but we have to be honest to say that so many remakes of a song a actually better than the original, maybe because it was molded into a whole new jacket, and that was just what the song needed. My opinion? When taking care of all the music rights, it is fully allowed to to use something and shape it into something new.
After all, also a lot of food recipes get better when you experiment with them, so why not try this on music?
Back to the now! (oke also 20 years back)
In my playlist today the version of ‘Dont you forget about me’ of Life of Agony passed by. I really love this song in this version, the only thing what is not my favorite is that is starts really slow. You have to bite a bit through this first 2 minutes but after that but later into the end this song gets stronger and stronger.
Now to the Simple Minds version
It starts fresh from the beginning, diving right in there but then it keep steady while the Life of Agony version picks up and totally takes off! Both versions have their charms!
I am curious about your opinion about these songs guys, and your opinion about covers in general!
Goodmorning Karin ik weet niet hoe ik het zonder schaamte moet zeggen ( schrijven ) maar ik vind die frenna en lill kleine dus echt gaaf 😱😱😵😵
Die kinderen luisteren dat maar zelfs de clip is mooi
hahahahaha kijk een liefhebber!! maar daarom is het zo leuk om verschillen te hebben!
Ik ga die video nog eens kijken :)
Ja met jonge kids zijn deze nummers Shazam and spotify favorites ! En Anna nooshin zit in de Clip das ook een lieverd .
I honk the best covers sound absolutely nothing like the original. At least there is much of the artist who is covering inside of the song. I really hate seeing cover bands because they all try to play the songs perfectly.
I’m trying to think of some good cover songs but not too many coming to mind....
Back in the day I lived the Living End’s cover of “tainted love”.
Recently I heard a cover of “Love will tear us apart” by Yat Kha...interesting to say the least. And Feist’s cover of James Blake’s “Limit to your love” is cool, it’s so her but it still keeps the basic melody of the original song. One friend in Japan does a version of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t think Twice” in Japanese and a bit sweeter than the original, I’ll leave a link below. Oh yeah I heard another friend (female so really different vocals) do a crazy lo-fi acoustic reggae version of the Beatles “Tomorrow never knows”, it was sooooo sick, I’ll have to ask if she’s has a recording. Oh! Jose Gonzalez does a great cover of the Knife’s “Heartbeats”but I still like the original better.
Japanese friend playing bob Dylan:
I agreee with you! It is so cool when covers are fresh and hardly recognizable from the old versions!
Oe I know that tainted love version!!! the best!
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