tuffghost said:

R u on drugs??

pepper7 said:

yeah dude, they spray them on us from helicopters above the city

Wall said:

Again you with this trolling. Can't you and japanrocks just leave these forums?
If you criticize can't you do it in a mature way that actually brings over a point without making you sound like an adolescent whining jerk off.
[Edited 3/31/09 12:11pm]

pepper7 said:

Why would I be on drugs for saying that?

stanleylieber said:

which prince song is that from?

stanleylieber said:

which prince song is that from?

Lovesymbol2 said:

way to notch up the positivity

stanleylieber said:

I love how people think they are going to chase us off!

Lovesymbol2 said:

Well I am able to criticize without the name calling. Maybe you should take your own advice for mature posting. Thanks.

Now let me simplify my point for you: Creep was written by a young Englishman with an inferiority complex. It's the prototypical song for a young band still finding their way as they come out of their adolescent years. To then suggest that a man in his 50's did a better job covering a song which deals with the specifics listed above is ridiculous. But obviously we're on a Prince board so a good many people here will simply think it was the greatest cover version since Prince thumped through Play That Funky Music or his Sly Stone medley for a billionth time.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

fuck all you negative creeps! i hope you die!

I would love to hear Prince cover this

http://www.youtube.com/wa...eQBRHyYy4w

that wasn't a cover, that was pure rape of a great song.

Prince's continual refusal to be true the original songwriter's lyrics prevent him from ever doing a cover justice.

Whitnail said:

or these, since we're requesting stuff



p would merc those high notes

and




cuz it's the jam
[Edited 3/31/09 16:11pm]

wonder505 said:

My point, which obviously I'm doing a poor job of getting across, is that the song is the prototypical angst-y concoction of a young man and his band just coming into their own. It's mopey stuff that one matures out of. It's angry and aggressive, all those things one associates with 'misunderstood' youth. Perhaps Prince plays a finer guitar over it than Radiohead but it's hard to separate the original intent of the song with its creators. When someone says Prince did a better job with a song that couldn't be more tailor made for a man and his band in their 20's, well, that to me smacks of fandom run amok. The Rolling Stones might have done a better job moving people with a blaring rendition of Uptown in 1980, but it would still just be a cover of a song that they'd be a little out of place treading through.

NDRU said:

Exactly and I would dare say that I don't think it was his intent to do a better job than Radiohead with their song. I just think it was cool that Prince was willing to play a song that no one in the world would have dare thought he'd do. I love it when Prince goes left field like that.

emesem said:

wouldn't it be boring (and pointless) to do a cover that is identical to the original?

alandail said:

Usually, anyway. Straight covers, no matter how lovingly done, are just boring. What's the point if the new version is going to be note-for-note identical? One that comes to mind is Sarah McLachlan's take on Joni's Blue. It's very pretty, but because it's almost a carbon copy it's also very dull.

On the other hand, a cover does need to be respectful to the original performer and the intent of the song IMO, even if the newer version does alter the meaning, a la Prince's version of Creep.

meow85 said:

Nobody does dull better than Sarah McLaughlan.

punkofthemonth said:

kool, you used have a different nickname before or not.

anyway, i have completely forgot how to embed youtube videos here.

the first song you picked was the first u2 song i ever liked, but i mean the b-side of some song off joshus tree, the song that finally got me into U2 is one I would give anythingto see prince cover

http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related

wonder505 said:

My point, which obviously I'm doing a poor job of getting across, is that the song is the prototypical angst-y concoction of a young man and his band just coming into their own. It's mopey stuff that one matures out of. It's angry and aggressive, all those things one associates with 'misunderstood' youth. Perhaps Prince plays a finer guitar over it than Radiohead but it's hard to separate the original intent of the song with its creators. When someone says Prince did a better job with a song that couldn't be more tailor made for a man and his band in their 20's, well, that to me smacks of fandom run amok. The Rolling Stones might have done a better job moving people with a blaring rendition of Uptown in 1980, but it would still just be a cover of a song that they'd be a little out of place treading through.

pepper7 said:

yeah dude, they spray them on us from helicopters above the city

It was a lazy cover that COMPLETELY missed the point both musically and lyrically. He turned a classic tune into nonsensical lifeless muzak.

FAIL.

TyphoonTip said:

I'll grant this: if he's singing it to Selma Hayek after she's heard Valentina, then it's 'his song.'