Typical BS list consisting only of covers everybody's heard. Muse better than Nina Simone? *choke*

This is my current contender. This is like Jesus preaching on the mount:

I LOVE Jack White's cover of Jolene. I'm pretty sure my total number of listens is in the triple digits already.

Particularly this one

singemonkey wrote: Typical BS list consisting only of covers everybody's heard.

Exactly. It's the problem with all of these polls - they don't instruct or present new paths to explore, they just reinforce what we already "knew".

Marvellous but less well known covers are going to get overlooked. Sandy Denny's heartbreaking cover of one of Buddy Holly's less well known songs, "Learning The Game", isn't going to get a look in here. The world's a slightly poorer place for it.

I've been listening to Neil Young's After The Gold Rush recently and that album includes a great cover of Hank William's "Oh Lonesome Me".

you see, thats what i like about you guys, ill come with an innocent little list, and you guys will teach me that my little list is misinformed and truly sucky, so now i have to go and do some research to find the "actual" good stuff...thank you :-[

While local is lekker, look at this:

mity88 wrote: you see, thats what i like about you guys, ill come with an innocent little list, and you guys will teach me that my little list is misinformed and truly sucky, so now i have to go and do some research to find the "actual" good stuff...thank you :-[

And we didn't even send you an invoice ?

My own take on these polls, and especially the Rolling Stone polls, is that theyr'e nothing to do with excellence and all to do with popularity and fame. The two can overlap, of course, and I think there's some good choices in that top 10 (especially "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"). But it's a certain kind of boat that's being floated here, the sort of "classic rock" boat. That's not my boat so I have a different take on things. I just think, nay, I KNOW that there's a wider musical world than these polls suggest.

We also do ourselves no favours by just accepting what whoever bothered to vote on Rolling Stone's Facebook page think is great.

There are some good songs on that list. I also love Jack White's Jolene. But given 100+ years of recorded music, these choices seem to have been drawn from a very small, very biased sample.

@Wizard...hmmm, interesting lady that..."nuff said...

X-rated Bob wrote: I KNOW that there's a wider musical world than these polls suggest.

and

singemonkey wrote: But given 100+ years of recorded music, these choices seem to have been drawn from a very small, very biased sample.

i have now come to realise that

The RS polls are actually getting even more annoying because they only give you the top 10. If they give you the top 100 then firstly you have more to rail against, and secondly the interesting stuff, or the stuff you don't know about and can now explore, is further down the table.

By far one of the best covers of this over covered song 8)

How about "You Raise Me Up"? Surely, with the plenitude of covers that's been made of this song (which in itself is a cover of "Danny Boy"), statistically one of them must have made the top 10. ?

deefstes wrote: How about "You Raise Me Up"? Surely, with the plenitude of covers that's been made of this song (which in itself is a cover of "Danny Boy"), statistically one of them must have made the top 10. ?

Let's give thanks for small mercies.

Smoke on the water has been hammered to death by almost everyone who ever picked up a guitar but I heard Sepultura do a cover that breathed new life into it.

We've been through this before ....... I fully agree with Jimi Hendrix, (but then why would'nt I? ?) and off course, Joe Cocker, but I think they got the Beatles' best/greatest cover ever wrong, it has to be .......... Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music" (just my opinion....)

Aubs1 wrote: but I think they got the Beatles' best/greatest cover ever wrong, it has to be .......... Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music" (just my opinion....)

Not "Besame Mucho"?

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X-rated Bob wrote:

Aubs1 wrote: but I think they got the Beatles' best/greatest cover ever wrong, it has to be .......... Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music" (just my opinion....)

Not "Besame Mucho"?

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:roflmao:

uhm... Where's the amps and cables???

I hereby present the greatest cover of all time ?

Watch the masters and learn