Longpig wrote:
Extreme Rice wrote:
Longpig wrote:
cuz I didn't think they were needed, cuz how can the beatles and the stones not be inventive?!?!?!?! They pretty much started it all!
Which reminds me: is Dave Bowie's version of 'Let's Spend the Night Together' as bad as his toe-curling 'Across the Universe'?
Is either of them as bad as G'n'R's 'Live and Let Die'?
At least G'n'R didn't do the worst-ever version of that song.
Grrrrrrr wanker grrrrrrrrrrr! *!
Bowie's version of LSTNT is much better than the stones lame, plodding version, but I guess it's all down to taste... Oh and his all across the
That part at least was an honest question!
I'm sure I must have heard Bowie's version at some point, because Aladdin Sane is one of my dad's favourite albums. I just couldn't call it to mind.
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universe (which Lennon played on) was regarded the best version ever recorded by John, his opinion must be worth something.
Unless he just said that because Paul wasn't on it.
I don't think the Beatles ever made a satisfactory recording of the song either. In fact i'm not really sure if anyone has. I'm not even sure it's as good a song as it's cracked up to be.
But as I think I've said before, I don't like many of Bowie's cover versions at all, because they always seem to come across (pun not intended) as very actorly. This works well with a certain type of material , such as 'Wild Is The Wind' or 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' but completely fails with other songs, and I'd count 'Across the Universe' among the latter.
I like him much better when he's doing his own songs really.
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Again if you don't like lively music then you're not gonna like GnR either,
I don't like them actually, but not for that reason.
In fact G'n'R never struck me as especially lively anyway - they were loud sure, but they were always too heavy to be sprightly, if you see what I mean. Mainly, though, I just don't like Axl's voice.
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so whatever song you pick you're gonna hate it, but I'll pick most peoples version of Paul's/wings song over the original. GnR's versions of Knockin' on heaven's door and live and let die were raved about when they were released, and I think they're still great.
I've actually thought a bit harder about their 'Live and Let Die'. On reflection, I don't think it was actually that bad a version: but whenever I think of it, I'm always reminded of Axl Rose bounding about the stage on a kilt. I was made to watch that at school, which was even worse.
In any case, there is an infinitely worse version of that song, which is why I brought it up in the first place. It is of course the version by James Last and his orchestra, which I forced my dad to listen to a couple of weeks back. It's almost as bad as the version of 'Theme from Shaft' on the same album.