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04-03-2017, 08:01 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIhg0Au14lU
I am not sure if anyone else created a thread like this.
But I found a YouTube video about the "worst" cover songs ever made, meaning songs that were originally done ( or at least originally made famous) by certain music artists but then other well-known artists made a version of that song.
(It actually took me a while to learn what "cover song" meant).
I can agree with essentially all the cover songs pointed out in the video, but also, since the video presents a lot of cover songs who's original version I never heard, (and by artists I may not have heard about) I would probably dislike both versions.
I really stopped paying strict attention to the music scene back in the mid 80s or so when I started going to college.
Anyway, to comment on a few of the songs on the video, Madonna's "American Pie" (originally by Don McClean) sounds like just a parody, not serious. I don't know when she made that cover version but it must have been approximately in the 80s, maybe to introduce a then, newer generation to what Don McLean's music of the 70s, or at least a very iconic "anthem" of that decade ( and the song is reported to have a lot of hidden meaning that Don McLean himself has never really made clear, but he has indicated it is partially about the death of Buddy Holly).
I have heard of Aaron Carter but, of course, I have not heard his cover version of a song that I never originally heard of and I think it is dumb to consider a child's record as a serious contender for worst cover song. Of course ironically, it means that Aaron Carter's song is considered serious enough to judge along with those of adult recording artists, but it is like judging Ricky Seagall's record back in the early 70s ( remember him from the Partridge Family?) along with that of The Allman Brother's band, or at least the Bee Gees. Aaron Carter was a boy singer several years back but now he is somewhere in his 20s I think and there is little or no news of his singing career that I know of.
There are other groups in the YouTube video who I never heard of covering songs I never heard before.
Anyway in the video it is said that any band or singer who made a cover song of any of the Beatle's songs is just not going to do themselves justice, or the music of the Beatles. It is said, "Rule Number ! or covering The Beatles, don't cover The Beatles."
I have heard that Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" is the main song that was ever sung by other singing artists from Frank Sinatra to , whomever else,
in the history of music.
Interesting since you have to wonder what song was covered by other singers before "Yesterday" was written and made famous by Paul McCartney.
It may be a topic for a completely different thread, but there are songs that cannot just be done by just any singer than the original person who made the song famous, not with good results.
Of course in general The Beatles material should not be covered by any other group or singer, but I have mixed feelings about Elton John's "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." He does make it sound like a completely different song that is his own, but when I heard Elton's version , I myself was at an age in which I did have a basic recollection of the original Beatles of the 60s but had not heard all their songs, and I was in my mid teens when "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" became a hit by Elton and it was played more often than the original one by The Beatles.
It sort-of made the Beatles version seem to be the cover version.
Thoughts?
I am not sure if anyone else created a thread like this.
But I found a YouTube video about the "worst" cover songs ever made, meaning songs that were originally done ( or at least originally made famous) by certain music artists but then other well-known artists made a version of that song.
(It actually took me a while to learn what "cover song" meant).
I can agree with essentially all the cover songs pointed out in the video, but also, since the video presents a lot of cover songs who's original version I never heard, (and by artists I may not have heard about) I would probably dislike both versions.
I really stopped paying strict attention to the music scene back in the mid 80s or so when I started going to college.
Anyway, to comment on a few of the songs on the video, Madonna's "American Pie" (originally by Don McClean) sounds like just a parody, not serious. I don't know when she made that cover version but it must have been approximately in the 80s, maybe to introduce a then, newer generation to what Don McLean's music of the 70s, or at least a very iconic "anthem" of that decade ( and the song is reported to have a lot of hidden meaning that Don McLean himself has never really made clear, but he has indicated it is partially about the death of Buddy Holly).
I have heard of Aaron Carter but, of course, I have not heard his cover version of a song that I never originally heard of and I think it is dumb to consider a child's record as a serious contender for worst cover song. Of course ironically, it means that Aaron Carter's song is considered serious enough to judge along with those of adult recording artists, but it is like judging Ricky Seagall's record back in the early 70s ( remember him from the Partridge Family?) along with that of The Allman Brother's band, or at least the Bee Gees. Aaron Carter was a boy singer several years back but now he is somewhere in his 20s I think and there is little or no news of his singing career that I know of.
There are other groups in the YouTube video who I never heard of covering songs I never heard before.
Anyway in the video it is said that any band or singer who made a cover song of any of the Beatle's songs is just not going to do themselves justice, or the music of the Beatles. It is said, "Rule Number ! or covering The Beatles, don't cover The Beatles."
I have heard that Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" is the main song that was ever sung by other singing artists from Frank Sinatra to , whomever else,
in the history of music.
Interesting since you have to wonder what song was covered by other singers before "Yesterday" was written and made famous by Paul McCartney.
It may be a topic for a completely different thread, but there are songs that cannot just be done by just any singer than the original person who made the song famous, not with good results.
Of course in general The Beatles material should not be covered by any other group or singer, but I have mixed feelings about Elton John's "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." He does make it sound like a completely different song that is his own, but when I heard Elton's version , I myself was at an age in which I did have a basic recollection of the original Beatles of the 60s but had not heard all their songs, and I was in my mid teens when "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" became a hit by Elton and it was played more often than the original one by The Beatles.
It sort-of made the Beatles version seem to be the cover version.
Thoughts?