The Tom Jones "Kiss" is still pretty atrocious.






His Purple Homage was not bad.
Further proof SKipper was one hell of a singer.
Pity Gilmour was way off his league that particular day.

bonatoc said:

The Tom Jones "Kiss" is still pretty atrocious.






His Purple Homage was not bad.
Further proof SKipper was one hell of a singer.
Pity Gilmour was way off his league that particular day.

I demand you be banned for noise pollution! j/k

You can't imagine the shock and disgust I felt when I heard Jones' version for the first time

and it peaked higher on the charts in the UK than the original?

Yeah, well. No One is a Prophet in their Own Land. Or?

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Not the candy.

There are days when, musically, Cyndi Lauper's "When U Were Mine" gets on my nerves.

But the lyrics are fantastic, they flawlessy still work sung by a woman.
That trio could be anything. I always thought the "sleep in between" was figurative,
as the rival figure standing in the way,
but I have no problem with more explicit interpretations.

Cyndi is cool and I appreciate the take

This though....NO THANK YOU

bonatoc said:

There are days when, musically, Cyndi Lauper's "When U Were Mine" gets on my nerves.

But the lyrics are fantastic, they flawlessy still work sung by a woman.
That trio could be anything. I always thought the "sleep in between" was figurative,
as the rival figure standing in the way,
but I have no problem with more explicit interpretations.

I love her cover. I first heard her version and didnt know it was Prince's song then. I think she really made it her own, I've always took the lyrics to be figurative as well.

pinkcashmere23 said:

bonatoc said:

There are days when, musically, Cyndi Lauper's "When U Were Mine" gets on my nerves.

But the lyrics are fantastic, they flawlessy still work sung by a woman.
That trio could be anything. I always thought the "sleep in between" was figurative,
as the rival figure standing in the way,
but I have no problem with more explicit interpretations.

I love her cover. I first heard her version and didnt know it was Prince's song then. I think she really made it her own, I've always took the lyrics to be figurative as well.

Cyndi's version is two-fold. One side says the new wave feel fit her style perfectly and her heavier use of synths on the song played into that genre. The other side says it feels thick and heavy, and just sorta lays there feeling uninspired like dead weight. I think the latter is a bit more prevalent than the former.

Exactly, Camemebert.

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pinkcashmere23 said:

bonatoc said:

There are days when, musically, Cyndi Lauper's "When U Were Mine" gets on my nerves.

But the lyrics are fantastic, they flawlessy still work sung by a woman.
That trio could be anything. I always thought the "sleep in between" was figurative,
as the rival figure standing in the way,
but I have no problem with more explicit interpretations.

I love her cover. I first heard her version and didnt know it was Prince's song then. I think she really made it her own, I've always took the lyrics to be figurative as well.

Me neither.

The only thing I truly miss is the unfolding.
The way we slowly learned, year after year,
who Prince really was and what he was really doing.
The myriad of connections and themes, a real-time sensual,
self-analytical puzzle of some kind.

Now that's entertainment.

Didn't Lauper do a live version on some awards show? I remember thinking that was pretty cool

bonatoc said:

pinkcashmere23 said:

I love her cover. I first heard her version and didnt know it was Prince's song then. I think she really made it her own, I've always took the lyrics to be figurative as well.

Me neither.

The only thing I truly miss is the unfolding.
The way we slowly learned, year after year,
who Prince really was and what he was really doing.
The myriad of connections and themes, a real-time sensual,
self-analytical puzzle of some kind.

Now that's entertainment.

Hmm. That's true.

TrivialPursuit said:

pinkcashmere23 said:

I love her cover. I first heard her version and didnt know it was Prince's song then. I think she really made it her own, I've always took the lyrics to be figurative as well.

Cyndi's version is two-fold. One side says the new wave feel fit her style perfectly and her heavier use of synths on the song played into that genre. The other side says it feels thick and heavy, and just sorta lays there feeling uninspired like dead weight. I think the latter is a bit more prevalent than the former.

it's been a while since I listened to it and now I want to revisit it. I was obsessed with the album 'She's So Unusual' when I was little so there is a certain amount of nostalgia tied to it for me that may be coloring my opinion a bit. I thought it was great back then though before hearing the original by Prince.

TheFman said:

stpaisios said:

TheFman said:

Simple Minds - SOTT

Uhm, hm, hm... are u sure? I think that is a great one. Bear in mind it was released in ‘89, and from that point sounds amazing. I would like to add obvious Tom Jones, and i never liked that Muse cover of SOTT.

Just heard them again, and i stand by my opinion. I love (the old) Simple Minds to death, still spinning them regularly. Their own work was much better than this cover. Besides, that cover didn't bring anything much new to it imo, and is a bit boring after the first minute.
Muse's, on the other hand, put it in the typical Muse-dress, and it's grabbing me much more, and besides, it's fun instead of boring.

The Tom Jones cover, i never understood the hate it gets. It's pure fun as well, never intended anything else than that.

TheFman said:

The Muse-version of SOTT however is great.

I could disagree more. Different strokes.

What do u think about Nina Simones version?

https://youtu.be/ILHRVgR8PoE

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Pellwormer said:

What do u think about Nina Simones version?

https://youtu.be/ILHRVgR8PoE

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I like it. I watched a video of Nina stop her show to make an audience member who was trying to leave sit back down. This fits her.

herb4 said:

Didn't Lauper do a live version on some awards show? I remember thinking that was pretty cool

https://youtu.be/x7fMLJegjqU

Pellwormer said:

herb4 said:

Didn't Lauper do a live version on some awards show? I remember thinking that was pretty cool

https://youtu.be/x7fMLJegjqU

bboy87 said:

bonatoc said:

bboy87 said:

That Jordan Knight cover....

Damn, that was trash

I had to turn it off at "Standing by the fire" as well.

I must confess that I often mishear the lyric as that on the original song! It doesn't really make any sense as "fire" and I think I have been made aware that it is actually "bar", but still my mind hears the former.

Prince fans can never agree. I personally love Tom Jones's version of Kiss. One of the few well done covers.

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Another one is The Square Egg - Joy In Repetition

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Of course, I am now commenting on cover versions I do like, instead of bad covers. It's just that there are many bad covers, and very few good ones.

paulludvig said:

All of them really.

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Agreed. They're all bad.

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But I did enjoy this:

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https://www.youtube.com/w...CZ1j304hak

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bonatoc said:

There are days when, musically, Cyndi Lauper's "When U Were Mine" gets on my nerves.

But the lyrics are fantastic, they flawlessy still work sung by a woman.
That trio could be anything. I always thought the "sleep in between" was figurative,
as the rival figure standing in the way,
but I have no problem with more explicit interpretations.

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Whut? I don't know that the lyrics don't work when sung by a woman.

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First of all, Cyndi changed the lyrics:

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Original lyric: "Oh girl, when you were mine..."

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Cyndi lyric: Oh-oh-oh, when you were mine..."

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That's the only liberty she took with the lyrics. However, it alters the story from a guy who has a girl that hooks up with another guy besides him to a girl that has a guy (presumably back in the 80's) who hooks up with some guy. And it only works if you don't think too much about it.

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Basically, she made sure that she didn't say that she was hooking up with a girl by changing that one lyric.

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Then if you look further, there's the lyric "I know that you're going with another guy"

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Well, in order for there to be "another" guy, there has to be an original guy (for lack of a better way to say it). In Prince's version, he's the original guy. Who's the original guy in Cyndi's version?

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I apologize for picking that gnat shit out of the pepper, but sometimes I get hung up on grammar related details like that.

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this has got to be among the worst ... on behalf of the country of Belgium, we're sorry!