It is amazing how well Maxwell covers This Woman's Work...so much so IMO better than Kate Bush.

4bjb said:

I think that his is a great cover. It has a different meaning thought, coming from a man. Kind of like Prince's, "If I was your girlfriend. When TLC covered it, it's meaning was different. Prince's was more psychological. Maxwell, was I think paying tribute to his woman.

4bjb said:

it's a fine cover, very faithful to the original. there's no way i can entertain the thought that it's better than kate's version. you can feel that he understands the words from his vocals; you can understand that she WROTE the words from her vocals.

It's sucks. It doesn't compare to the original, especially when watching the scenes from "She's Having A Baby"

4bjb said:

I have to go with Kate Bush. I am a Maxwell fan but if I had to make space on the I-Pod I'd keep Kate Bush's.

SUPRMAN said:

Maxwell is already on my Ipod for This Woman's Work and Kate Bush for Song of Solomon and Why should I Love You?

4bjb said:

hell no , there's no comparison


he makes it into some kinda R&B gospel song

blasphemy
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Having seen Maxwell sing the beautiful song, I have to say Maxwell wins by a very short margin. I have always been a Kate Bush fan but Maxwell gives more depth to the song. My opinion only..

he NEEDS to put out another album... the best thing i like by him is 'Sumthing Sumthing' ... yeah.. Woman's Work is nice, Maxwell has a great falsetto voice, natural..
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paisley1710 said:

I totally agree.

Excellent cover!

I had never heard Kate Bush's version before, but I checked her out after hearing Maxwell do it. I don't think I even made it to the end of hers She's an acquired taste or something

Why did he bother, he didn't add any of his influence, its just a basic imitation of the original.

He may go down an octave for like 10 seconds but other than that its nothing special.

^




there's NO comparison surely

Hahah! I've always thought the original as hardly interesting. I like Maxwell's fleshed out approach on Now (the pedal steel guitar flourishes, the refrain towards the end - I guess that's why somebody thought it was "gospelly" but that's incorrect) and his vocals are much more poignant.


I'm curious...are all the folks who prefer the Bush version doing so because they heard her version first?

chuckaducci said:

I heard Kate's first watching a tear-jerker scene in a movie, so that is why I prefer hers and it makes more sense for it to be sung by a woman

The Maxwell "Unplugged" version is CLOWNIN"!!! Much better than the album version!

chuckaducci said:

I suppose so. I still say Maxwell out did himself on Kate's original song.This just happens sometime and in this case he does the song quite well....again much better than Bush.

I'll choose Maxwell's version. It's just better in my opinion.

I just wanna clarify that his version on "Now" sucks monkey turds, but the live version on Unplugged is killer amazing!

CalhounSq said:

They're not that different... you know.

Any other version than Kate's sucks big monkey balls.

Hunny, puleaze.

Sorry Kate, but Maxwell turned your song out. You don't even need to sing it anymore.

^ bollocks

HamsterHuey said:

right on

Let's agree to disagree boy.

Nick715 said:

No, cuz all sane people in the world know we're right and you're wrong.

I mean, doh, obviously.

Hehehe. I am SO enjoying myself.

But awright. Agree 2 Disagree. Obviously. Taste is something you cannot touch, nor discuss.

And I heard Stevie Wonder covered Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise!

Wow! I love Stevie, but no one is touching Coolio's version! Amazing!






Ya know? That's how you sound in my ears. Heresy! Burn the witch!

kate's version is SO much more delicate and unaffected than maxwell's version, and like i said before, i get the idea that maxwell "gets it" when i hear his version...it's just that kate's version brings the lyrics home for me a lot more than maxwell's does. this is a very special song to me and it's even more special hearing it sung by kate bush. the true intent may be completely different than what i take away from it, but it seems like a song dedicated to the pain of being a mother, written by someone who has either gone through that pain or is dealing with the fear of having that pain in her life, and in writing "this woman's work" she's kinda trying to talk herself down from that fear, and in so doing, reassuring other women and paying tribute to women who have/haven't survived. i just have a hard time hearing a man trying to relate that, even though i think maxwell gives it a really good shot. i like both. nothing will ever top kate's version. sorry, maxwell-heads.