How were they recording anything if they were miming it on stage?
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Bad covers.
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**** me those are awful. I couldn't finish either of them (unlike the Tracy Chapman cover which gets a bit better towards the end. @Nitefly I reckon Michael Kiwanuka could do a good guitar-led cover of TC for that).
Dolores writes a song about sectarian murder and bomb attacks and they try and make it a dance/techno car wash? No. Just no. The video makes it even worse. It just shows they understand nothing about what they're singing. Much like people who request "Every breath you take" at a wedding.
Hello hello hello Hallo. German by any chance?
Quite a deep voice, moyet-esque. It's all just weird, and wtf is with the church bells at 1:45? That's very 90s (Steps Tragedy anyone?)
Mr Cobain has another reason to feel aggrieved.
The longer it goes on the worse it gets. No no no no.
Quite a deep voice, moyet-esque. It's all just weird, and wtf is with the church bells at 1:45? That's very 90s (Steps Tragedy anyone?)
Mr Cobain has another reason to feel aggrieved.
The longer it goes on the worse it gets. No no no no.
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That same mob producing the Lloyds adverts have now taken a slow song (We've Only Just Begun by the Carpenters) and done it even slower - ruining it in the process. FFS they could have just paid the royalties and used the original. It's an absolute classic and probably nearing the end of it's copyright period anyway (isn't it 50 years?) plus Karen Carpenter's vocals are so strong no soloist with no backing is ever going to sound any better, this one just sounds anaemic, such a shame.
I can't find it on youtube, but this site gives amazon links to Bats for Lashes on Amazon, so if you can get it free via Prime it might be possible to hear it that way. https://www.tvadvertmusic.com/lloyds-bank-forever-forwards-video-location-just-begun/
there's this but's it's a cropped version, gives the gist though:
It took me a google - it's originally OCS. Definitely not as good as the original, but so long as you ignore the intro and the cheesy vid it's just about passable, provided you're in the right mood. I guess I'm not against changing how a song works just so long as it fits and doesn't massacre the thing. I saw someone butcher JL's Imagine the other day on you tube - at a JL memorial concert no less. Just Don't!
Ps just found this version by the original writer from OCS and it's kind of how he does it. Wiki says CD2 of the single release also led with an official acoustic version so it's hard to criticise the JS cover if they are kind of just cribbing what the band did themselves to start with!!
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Fair.
wiki says Bonnie Tyler covered it, as did Rod Stewart. are you thinking of one of those?
The worst CCR cover I ever heard was in a bar in the Lake District where some 50 yr old guy was massacring Bad Moon Rising. Completely unable to syncopate and with ooh-ah backing from his besotted lady friend they rocked up in a pub and started playing, much to the chargrin of everyone else trying to have a nice meal/pint.