Music Thread- Song Covers that are better than the original version

[EC]

I can never decide which is better of those two. They are equally good, just different.

[jmyrlefuller]

Phil Collins - Can't Hurry Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upnrXooMh4s

Ugh.

No offense to you, but I have had to hear that song every day at work for the past God knows how many years.

Basically I'm getting drilled with this message that there's nothing I can do about my loneliness (and I've been lonely for many years—but that's grist for another thread) when what I need is a reason for hope.

And then this blasted song comes on again and I want to bash my head into the counter!

[Wingnut]

Link to PArt II of this topic.  http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,207597.0.html

[Wingnut]

Link to PArt II of this topic.
 http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,207597.0.html
and Link to Part III
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=209924.new#new

[musiclady]

I like listening to foreign songs where I don't know the words sometimes.

It's funnier if I do know the words, though. This was the song "I will Survive" for the Russian version of the "Rio 2" movie. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar8IAC7hoj0

I just sent that to my Russian speaking son.  That is HILARIOUS.

(Though the only word I can understand is the Thank you at the end!  ^-^)

[musiclady]

I know I probably have different musical tastes from everyone here, but I absolutely love this cover of "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Walk Off the Earth......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

[Luis Gonzalez]

Percy Grainger's adaptation of six British folk songs into his Lincolnshire Posy is to me, greater than the original stand-alone tunes

 

[musiclady]

Percy Grainger's adaptation of six British folk songs into his Lincolnshire Posy is to me, greater than the original stand-alone tunes

 

 

But how do you feel about Stokowski's Bach??

[Luis Gonzalez]

But how do you feel about Stokowski's Bach??

Bach achieved his sounds naturally, not through sonic manipulation which Stokowski was very fond of.

[musiclady]

Bach achieved his sounds naturally, not through sonic manipulation which Stokowski was very fond of.

So you're not a fan of Switched On Bach either?  How about the Swingle Singers?   ^-^