[Vote] Originals vs. Covers - which do you prefer? (Current Vote: Songs 191 and 192)

[Krakalakachkn]

Aw man.  Here comes the bad music.

[Corki]

Just to confirm that Led Zeppelin won tie 40 by 5 votes to 0.

 

Now we hand the reins over the Maj!

[Majsju]

 

Song 41: Diamonds & Rust

 

Starting off with something fairly mainstream :)

 

ORIGINAL: Joan Baez

Released in 1975 on the album with the same title. The US folksinger is mostly famous for her interpretations of other peoples songs, but she was an accomplished songwriter herself, and this is perhaps the best example of that. The song is loosely based on her relationship with Bob Dylan. 

 

vs.

 

 

COVER: Judas Priest

The British metal pioneers covered this song on their 1977 album Sin After Sin, and has since been a live favourite.

While the album version is more traditional metal, I picked a live version from their 2004 reunion tour. A more acoustic setting, and a Rob Halford who sings it more emotionally than ever.

 

 

 

Voting ends Monday 26th November 2009 at 23.00 (GMT)

 

[el Nynaeve]

Judas Priest

[Seryanne]

Joan Baez

[Corki]

This is quite a tough decision, as I did like both version...but Judas Priest just edges it.

[Samuraiflip05]

Hmmm, that is a surprisingly tough one, given the vast difference in genres. 

 

 

Hmmmm, I'll go with JP.

[Krakalakachkn]

Echoing everyone else, I agree that this was a stupidly hard choice, but I'm going to have to go with Joan Baez

[Farcrie]

Judas Priest

[mmeeshal]

This was indeed a really tough choice.

 

I'm gonna go with Joan Baez.

[Majsju]

A tough choice indeed, but the metal soul in me compels me to vote for Judas Priest.

[Majsju]

Alright, a 5-3 victory for Judas Priest. Next song will be up in a jiffy.

[Majsju]

 

 

Song 42: (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

 

ORIGINAL: Bryan Adams

 

The Canadian rockers most famous song after Summer Of 69, specifically written

to promote the -91 movie Robin Hood - Prince Of Thieves. The song did better than the movie, and spent amazingly 16 consecutive weeks as #1 on the UK charts, a record it still holds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoWtY_h4xo

 

vs.

 

 

COVER: The Fatima Mansions

The british art/indie groups version was recorded for the NME charity album Ruby Trax in -92. A quite radical change from the original, there is no trace of a power ballad here, but instead a dance influenced groove that echoes of Massive Attacks hit Karmacoma (though since that song was not released until -94, perhaps it is the other way around].

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

 

 

 

Voting ends Monday 30th November 2009 at 23.00 (GMT)

 

 

[Krakalakachkn]

Bryan Adams

[Arrandion]

Bryan Adams all the way!  :)

[Guest Cairos]

Bryan Adams of course.

[mmeeshal]

Bryan Adams for sure.  The other one was...weird.

[Seryanne]

If you'd asked me when I was 11.... Bryan Adams, no question... but now that I'm older, and wiser and like weird music

 

Fatima Mansions!

 

Also, maj, they were an Irish group, not british! :)

[Majsju]

Oops :-[

Sorry lass.

[el Nynaeve]

Bryan Adams

[Corki]

Right...I have always liked the Bryan Adams version, but there was just something so different and exciting about The Fatima Mansions that I am voting for that.

 

Also, if you are interested in hosting "Originals vs. Covers" this week, or next week (starting 7th December), or the week after (starting 15th December), i.e. the 3 weeks when I am busy studying for my exams, please drop me a PM. It will count as an activity towards December's roll call.

[Majsju]

My love for the Bryan Adams version comes more from nostalgia than the music itself. Fatima Mansions version on the other hand, simply brilliant.

[Corki]

I can confirm that Seryanne will be our host this week once Maj has wrapped up song 42.

[Majsju]

Oh right, forgot to look at the time.

 

A 5-3 win for the original.

[Corki]

And we now pass into the capable hands of Seryanne!

 

 

EDIT: ORG points for November for this thread done up to here. Corki