A better version in your opinion?

Might as well get it out of the way!... Michael's. I just love the production and the vocal performance. I've no idea why that short version turned up years later on HIStory though. That was just odd. Like the continuity in that video. Its always bugged me. Shirt buttoned/unbuttoned. I've never noticed MJ's guitarist getting so close to his crotch before either. See 1:45ish.

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Can i give a big shout out to Prince's version from Coachella too?. Thank goodness i have the soundboard of that, that's pretty damn killer too.

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The Beatles' all the way.

Aerosmith's is pretty good.

MJ's is awful imo.

controversy99 said:

BobGeorge909 said:

Marrk said:

Might as well get it out of the way!... Michael's. I just love the production and the vocal performance. I've no idea why that short version turned up years later on HIStory though. That was just odd. Like the continuity in that video. Its always bugged me. Shirt buttoned/unbuttoned. I've never noticed MJ's guitarist getting so close to his crotch before either. See 1:45ish.

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Can i give a big shout out to Prince's version from Coachella too?. Thank goodness i have the soundboard of that, that's pretty damn killer too.

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Michael's. It's dark, heavy and slick. Brilliantly put together, and vocally his performance craps all over everyone else.

The Beatles.

It's interesting though how MJ managed to transform the song into a BAD-era sounding thing. I think it was a great choice to cover that song from the catalog he purchased.

Shame on everyone in this freaking thread for sleeping AND sheeping on The Brother Johnson's version:



Just saying.

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NaughtyKitty said:

Marrk said:

Might as well get it out of the way!... Michael's. I just love the production and the vocal performance. I've no idea why that short version turned up years later on HIStory though. That was just odd. Like the continuity in that video. Its always bugged me. Shirt buttoned/unbuttoned. I've never noticed MJ's guitarist getting so close to his crotch before either. See 1:45ish.

TonyVanDam said:

Shame on everyone in this freaking thread for sheeping on The Brother Johnson's version:



Just saying.

'Sheeping'?

Marrk said:

TonyVanDam said:

Shame on everyone in this freaking thread for sheeping on The Brother Johnson's version:



Just saying.

'Sheeping'?

I meant "sleeping". But f*** it, "sleeping AND sheeping" it is.

TonyVanDam said:

Marrk said:

'Sheeping'?

I meant "sleeping". But f*** it, "sleeping AND sheeping" it is.

I've just been waiting for the day when i could post and 12,000+ posts later, it's finally arrived!

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That version was pretty boss! I only have a Brothers Johnson greatest hits though. So thanks for that. I didn't know they recorded it.

Let's see--adding in the Brothers Johnson, Eurythmics, and Prince versions to the ones in the original thread title...

still gotta go with the Beatles. I liked that Brothers Johnson, though. I'm not up to tracking down all the versions listed in the Wikipedia entry right now--but if anyone else knows of any worth listening to, point 'em out.

I did look at a video of Umphrey's McGee performing Come Together in a version combining it with Nine Inch Nail's Closer. It was every bit as misguided as you might suspect.

Oh, I went back and played the video above of the Beatles version. What a horrid mess that video is--I have no idea why they decided to "create" a performance video for a song they never performed. It looks ridiculous.

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TonyVanDam said:

Shame on everyone in this freaking thread for sleeping AND sheeping on The Brother Johnson's version:



Just saying.

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This trumps them all.

EddieC said:

I have no idea why they decided to "create" a performance video for a song they never performed.

There's no video for Come Together, that's fan created. John performed it in concert, though, and there's a video for that. That footage of Paul is from Rockshow by Wings, which is around 1976. Youtube is full of homemade videos for many acts. Some have other videos or footage from movies, others have a slide show. There's the "Brown Prider" style videos, which are generally old soul & doo wop songs with pictures of lowriders or Latino art. Some videos have things that has nothing to do with the song or act.

The Beatles, then Areosmith, MJ, and then Prince. I'm not a huge fan of Prince's cover of this song, it seems karoke to me and doesn't make me want to come together. I also don't like his cover of Rollercoaster, which oddly thought would be a great song for him to cover. Again it suffers from that karaoke feel (Seems to lack passion in his appropach.).

1) Beatles - nothing can beat their vibe on this tune. Such a moody production.

2) MJ - this was the first version I became familiar with, since I owned the VHS of Moonwalker when I was an 80's child. Loved it since first hearing it on that. Total Bad vibe, should have been on the extended version of that album rather than History. Killer vocals.

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Brothers Johnson is pretty cool.

Eurythmics sounds like them. Too happy sounding for me on this tune. Anyone noticed the bassline in the verses is really close to Billie Jean?

Don't care for the Aerosmith version, adds nothing over the OG.

Beat this version:

MickyDolenz said:

EddieC said:

I have no idea why they decided to "create" a performance video for a song they never performed.

There's no video for Come Together, that's fan created. John performed it in concert, though, and there's a video for that. That footage of Paul is from Rockshow by Wings, which is around 1976. Youtube is full of homemade videos for many acts. Some have other videos or footage from movies, others have a slide show. There's the "Brown Prider" style videos, which are generally old soul & doo wop songs with pictures of lowriders or Latino art. Some videos have things that has nothing to do with the song or act.

I know it's fan-created; I guess I shouldn't have used "they" for both the fan and the band. I'm fine with fan-created videos--this one just seemed like a mess. I would have preferred some other sort of approach. Heck, even a stupid animation of stick figure Beatles playing, if they had to imagine a performance. Or the old standby of a series of still images, either of the band or random nouns from the lyrics. And what if some poor soul thinks they're actually seeing a Beatles performance? There's a lot of people out there who might not know, and might not realize how chronologically chaotic this thing is.

I mean, on a cosmic level, yeah, this doesn't matter. But I still didn't like it.

EddieC said:

I know it's fan-created; I guess I shouldn't have used "they" for both the fan and the band. I'm fine with fan-created videos--this one just seemed like a mess. I would have preferred some other sort of approach. Heck, even a stupid animation of stick figure Beatles playing, if they had to imagine a performance. Or the old standby of a series of still images, either of the band or random nouns from the lyrics. And what if some poor soul thinks they're actually seeing a Beatles performance? There's a lot of people out there who might not know, and might not realize how chronologically chaotic this thing is.

I mean, on a cosmic level, yeah, this doesn't matter. But I still didn't like it.

I've seen fan made videos for Jackson 5/Jacksons songs that has 1990's Michael footage & pictures and none of the other brothers at all. The people who upload these often title them as Michael Jackson only or maybe Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5. It's the same with songs Mike sang on (Kenny Loggins, Rockwell, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Joe King Carrasco, etc.), they credit him only and put his pictures/videos on them, no matter how insignificant his contribution is. There's one guy who has entire Jackson 5 albums posted, but leave off the songs that don't have a Michael lead. Here's a couple that are for a Donna Summer song, but her name is nowhere on the title.

Marrk said:

Might as well get it out of the way!... Michael's. I just love the production and the vocal performance. I've no idea why that short version turned up years later on HIStory though. That was just odd. Like the continuity in that video. Its always bugged me. Shirt buttoned/unbuttoned. I've never noticed MJ's guitarist getting so close to his crotch before either. See 1:45ish.

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Can i give a big shout out to Prince's version from Coachella too?. Thank goodness i have the soundboard of that, that's pretty damn killer too.

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^ The first time I watched it, I never noticed that Michael's shirt goes from being normal, to ripped just a little, to ripped all the way down to his stomach and then back again in the shots. I was way too distracted by...other things. I only noticed it when another fan commented on it and I get a laugh everytime I watch the video.

Michael's version was the first version I heard. His vocals are brilliant on it, the energy of his performance in the video is amazing. I love it. Michael's version makes it hard to sit still, you want to get up and move. Out of respect I'm gonna say The Beatles first, then Michael. I've never heard Aerosmith's version though.