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The Worst Cover Version That's Ever Been Sold http://youtu.be/w_IXDSdoCpQ This. Everybody involved should be taken into a field and shot in their chins. don't play me...i'm over 30 and i DO smoke weed.... | |
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AAhh don't shoot Ali Campbell - UB40 were great. U know there ain't no other | |
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My ears are vomiting. | |
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Wow, they covered the whole album too. Can't wait! [Edited 10/28/14 4:30am] | |
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At first I was tempted to agree - awful, awful, awful BUT then I thought if I heard this live and I were somewhere hot & sunny with a cocktail in hand and the sea lapping at my feet then I think I'd find it pretty cool | |
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I actually usually like covers better when they totally reinvent a song that when they try to emulate the original. I'm not a reggae specialist but this makes a fine reggae tune with a life of its own as far as I'm concerned, I like it A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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I actually usually like covers better when they totally reinvent a song that when they try to emulate the original. I'm not a reggae specialist but this makes a fine reggae tune with a life of its own as far as I'm concerned, I like it A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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So....after listening to the snippets of the album on itunes I actually think its pretty cool! | |
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She's got some nerve singing in a tribute album after all the shit she's spread on A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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Sorry, Leann Rimes still hold the title of worst cover of this song. The Hollies version is a close second. Making love and music are the only things worth fighting for. | |
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To my ears this award should rather go to - and I am really sorry to say that, because I'm a big fan of her - Aretha Franklin's godawful Nothing Compares 2 U: https://www.youtube.com/w...ufH-jEh8r.
What a wasted opportunity! Remember what Jimmy Scott did to this song? --> https://www.youtube.com/w...EBwmQoduE.
Jimmy Scott made a great song even greater, and Aretha could have topped that. But along came Andre 3000.
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Ouch, just checked on YT, that one hurts indeed A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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databank said: I actually usually like covers better when they totally reinvent a song that when they try to emulate the original. I'm not a reggae specialist but this makes a fine reggae tune with a life of its own as far as I'm concerned, I like it I thought you would have better taste Mr Bank. If somebody like The Mad Professor or Lee Scratch Perry covered it they might have still captured the mood. But Purple Rain (The Drinking Lilt On The Beach Version)?? Eughhh!! ![]() don't play me...i'm over 30 and i DO smoke weed.... | |
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iwannacu said: AAhh don't shoot Ali Campbell - UB40 were great. Were being the operative word. I used to like skanking to their early stuff. One In Ten is a classic. don't play me...i'm over 30 and i DO smoke weed.... | |
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I got two sides... and they're both friends. | |
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The Beautiful Ones is actually quite enjoyable (apart from the spoken part) IMO, especially the last 90 seconds. I could listen to this. Thanks for posting
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It's a silly cover sure but I don't have a feeling it's taking itself too seriously so it's OK in my book, a bit like Age Of Chance's punk cover of Kiss, it totally betrayed the spirit of the original but it was just fun, nothing ethereal, so it's OK A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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The funny thing is that really there are so FEW covers of A COMPREHENSIVE PRINCE DISCOGRAPHY (work in progress ^^): https://sites.google.com/...scography/ | |
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It has some appeal...it isn't THAT bad. Actually it is quite funny. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan | |
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For what it is, that's actually well done... it's better than this:
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ufoclub said: Fpr what it is, that's actually well done... it's better than this:
It's what it is that bothers me. Plastic, soulless, an excuse for reggae. don't play me...i'm over 30 and i DO smoke weed.... | |
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I could listen to this, if I were high... Change it one more time.. | |
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Haha not sure if I love or hate that. If you took the tumpet alone... it sounds like it could have come off a 70s TV show.
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On a side note, I think this is a cracking cover of Gett Off: | |
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Ironically, it seems like Purple Rain's the best of the bunch here (as well as that trombone solo in Computer Blue, which I rather liked). Something about this material just doesn't work well in a reggae context for me. Might've been better not to focus solely on PR and judiciously select songs from his whole catalogue. I could imagine an interesting version of, say, Thieves in the Temple (though I confess I'm struggling after that). "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin | |
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deebee said: Ironically, it seems like Purple Rain's the best of the bunch here (as well as that trombone solo in Computer Blue, which I rather liked). Something about this material just doesn't work well in a reggae context for me. Might've been better not to focus solely on PR and judiciously select songs from his whole catalogue. I could imagine an interesting version of, say, Thieves in the Temple (though I confess I'm struggling after that). A real reggae artist would have done PR justice. Real reggae artists are big on Judgement Day etc. This is not fit to describe as reggae. It is polished reggae-lite pop music. PR is not fun, it's deeper than that. don't play me...i'm over 30 and i DO smoke weed.... | |
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Yes, I suspect it's true that another artist could've done a better job. I just mean it's the best of a bad bunch, for me, as it's the only song in the set that remotely sounds like it has any business being turned into a reggae tune. "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin | |
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Are these guys on Warner Brothers? I just love their RR logo. This whole thing has a great "fuck you, we're gonna do it anyway" vibe about it. I used to LURVE Fun Lovin' Criminals. | |
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