Ok this time I have a close one Iggy Pop’s “China Girl” vs. David Bowie’s version.
First Iggy Pop
Next David Bowie
Usually I am the first one to talk about David Bowie’s musical superiority over anyone, and this is no exception. Iggy’s version was raw and powerful and so was Bowie’s but he still made it his song.
Back with another song and this time I am going to put the Rolling Stones up to task against Otis Redding and Cat Power using their classic “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
First up: The Rolling Stones
Next up: Otis Redding
Lastly: Cat Power
I am sticking with the Stones hands down on this one, I dig Ottis and Cat Power but when they were in their prime, in my view The Rolling Stones was the greatest rock band of all time.
Back with another song, this time I got about as polar opposites as you can get Bob Dylan and Rage Against the Machine doing Dylan’s classic “Maggie’s Farm”
First up, Bob Dylan
Next up, Rage Against the Machine
Although I appreciate Rage Against the Machine version, I am sticking with the original, this is the first song I would say the artist took a little too much creative liberties.
Well, hello there. I hope all of you are having an amazing Christmas! So, let’s dig into today’s segment of Who Did It Better, shall we? There are so many different versions of this Christmas classic, but here are some notable ones.
Old Blue Eyes sings his heart out.
I really dig the backing vocals.
And here Conor tops Sinatra with this Bright Eyes version.
This song exemplfiies what is great about BE: extremely passionate, somber vocals, practically whispering the words.
And here’s the grandaddy of them all:
Judy Garland- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
This is my favorite Christmas song; it is not a jingle nor a carol and has more emotion than just about any other holiday song one cares to name. Specifically, I adore this version because of Judy Garland’s exceptional vocals, it just makes the music feel all the more sentimental, in a very good way.
But, what do you guys think?
Back with another edition of who did it better? and this time we are taking on th classic song “Proud Mary”
A unknown musical fact I came across today (uknown to me anyway), The Clash’s classic song “I Fought The Law” was not a orginal song from the band, it actually was an old song from a band called The Crickets from 1961, who at one time played with Buddy Holly. So for this edition, we are going to look at the original song, The Clash’s cover, and just for the sake of argument, a couple of other covers.
First up, The Crickets:
Next The Clash
Here is A Green Day cover:
Lastly a Dead Kennedy’s cover:
Just going by what was on Youtube this is probably this most covered song KLYAM ever did, so there was actually some selective editing on my part. I went with a punk heavy rotation though because at its heart I think it is a punk song, and I think the Clash do it best. Although the original has some charm to it and I like the edge of the Dead Kennedy’s version (I wasn’t feeling Green Day, I haven’t been feeling them since American Idiot to be honest with you).
This time I got an interesting mix up, Nine Inch Nails ‘Hurt’ as covered by Johnny Cash.
Both are pretty haunting to me, but I have always been a NIN fan so I am going with that, but it was a very close choice.
Two choices. Pick one. There are dozens, definitely hundreds, and for God’s sake (literally) maybe even a few thousand published cover versions of this song. I narrowed it down, though. You can mention another version you like, but these are the only two you are going to get from me. I just heard the Andrew W.K. version a few minutes ago. I thought it be a worthy challenger to Bright Eyes.
Bright Eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejn9eA2RTfM
Andrew WK: http://www.avclub.com/video_embed/?id=48698
I have been really been feeling the Motown lately so I have another song from the Supremes, plus an Afghan Whigs cover.
First up the original.
Here are the Afghan Whigs
Although they added a little bit of the Supremes “I Hear a Symphony”, I am going with the Whigs, for me they just know how to do a good cover.
For this edition I decided to cover the The Ronettes “Baby, I Love You” which I believe is one of the greatest love songs ever written (disagree take it to the comments). This time I am only including one cover song from another Phil Spector band The Ramones.
First up the orginial
Next up the Ramones
Hard to beat a classic, and I don’t think The Ramones do it, still a nice cover none the less.
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