Who Sang it Better?

Joy
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or

  • Magnetic Fields
  • Peter Gabriel

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I have my own favourites here, but more than one is definitely possible…




  • Free
  • Wilson Pickett
  • Joe Lynn Turner
  • Ace Frehley

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  • Free
  • Gary Moore
  • Pearl Jam
  • Blackfoot

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  • Andy Prieboy
  • Johnette Napolitano

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85

Honestly, I like both versions.

  • Louis Armstrong
  • Nick Cave, the Bad Seeds and Shane MacGowan

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86

Time for another Bowie tune, I suppose. Fair warning - this one might be difficult. Look at who’s all in the list… (Probably just as well that I’m presenting it on a Sunday. :wink: )

  • David Bowie
  • King Crimson
  • Motörhead
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Oasis
  • Depeche Mode
  • Blondie
  • The Wallflowers
  • Coldplay
  • Postmodern Jukebox

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My favourite runner up:

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88

Missing my favorite cover by Apocalyptica:

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There’s another version of Wonderful World people might like:

(It may not be the superior version, but it’s Joey Ramone. So it deserves at least a mention. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: )

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Um… none of those? John Cale’s version is the correct version…

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I like it. :+1:
But not the video.:-1:

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Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny is a German satyrical opera written by Brecht and Weill in 1929 as a followup to Die Dreigroschenoper. The opera is set in Florida and is about humanity’s excesses.

In the midst of all the German songs is “Alabama Song,” it’s in English and it was probably not meant to be understood. It was merely to sound like a stereotypical popular song from the United States.

Now, is it good that the Doors knew about Brecht, Weill and Lotte Lenya, and appreciated this song? Yes.
Should they have made a recording of it? NO!

But, I will allow you to cast your vote anyway.

  • Lotte Lenya
  • The Doors

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93

TIL: I never knew the name of that song was “Alabama Song”!

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94

A for effort

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I hadn’t heard that one before… But now that I’ve heard it, I still disagree. Every verse sounds the same. He’s singing it well technically, but there’s no dynamics, no emotion to it, no meaning to the words.

“It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah” should break my heart. By contrast, I had to go back and listen to check if he’d even sung those verses.

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i have to agree. i love John Cale, but his “halleluja” just has never worked for me.

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I might have to listen again before I can vote. :thinking:

But I can say with confidence that the Cab Calloway version is the trippiest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Do you happen to know if that’s a contemporary animation, or a more modern video intended to mimic the style of the time?

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I’m not aware of a modern version of that animation.

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By coincidence, I was just thinking of this before you posted.

  • Lotte Lenya
  • Judy Collins
  • Nina Simone

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Yup, I was thinking that would be a good follow-up too.
You should let us pick more than one.

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101

I’ve resisted putting this one here as long as I could.

Who did it better?

  • Stevie Wonder
  • Coolio
  • Weird Al

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