meltwithu said:

damn true ...of course!

but I must admit even though I adore Marvin Gaye I still prefer the version of Roger Troutman over Marvin's I know this will be considered blasphemy...

Dancelot said:

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BLASPHEMER!!!!!
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meltwithu said:

I knew this was coming!!

Nah the MJ version of "Come Together" absolutely DESTROYS the Beatles original! The original sounds very plain when compared and whoever said MJ's vocal performance lacks soul.....what the hell u smokin??!! Let me put it another way: stick on the OG and it's cool, it'll get my head noddin a little but put on the MJ one and I can't help but move my feet and dance!

Stevie Wonder - "We can work it out" is mos def funky as fu*k in the same way as above


PEACE!

tritoncin said:

That's real blasphemy there.

Or maybe it's just because I hate Whitney. It will be a cold day in hell before I ever admit anything she has done is good!

nd33 said:

I liked Aerosmith's version more than Michael's.

sextonseven said:

i hated Whitney's version of "I'm Every Woman".And apparently Chaka wasn't that impressed either (despite making a cameo appearance in the video).When asked her opinion of it,she said "Why can't other artists find their OWN material? I did".

sounds like another arrogant artist we know

DavidEye said:

however..the remixes of Whitney were off the motherfuggin chain. you can still bump those at at party

D'Angelo's version of "Cruisin'" wiped the floor with Smokey's. Although I love his songwriting skills, I can't stomach his annoying voice.

okaypimpn said:

SACRILEGE!!!!!

meltwithu said:

No, just a matter of opinion.

okaypimpn said:

you have to be under 30 years old!!

I liked Aerosmith's version more than Michael's.[/quote]


Co-sign on that

meltwithu said:

You're so right! "Wiped the floor"??? "His annoying voice"????? Smokey's is a masterpiece!

Sigh. To each his own.

Yea, the D'Angelo version is a bit more soulful.

Zeppelin's Dazed And Confused.

Aretha's Respect

Prince doing One Of Us

Donny Hathaway doing You Got A Friend

Elvis's Hound Dog beats the Big Mama Thornton version

The Jackson Five ace Who's Lovin You...TTD does a great version as well.

Guns And Roses did a great version of a Charlie Manson song.

Really like the Ray Charles version of Song For You and of course, Georgia On My Mind.

meltwithu said:

And you've got to be over 30. What's your point?

sextonseven said:

Okay, I'll partially retract my statement. He may not have "wiped the floor" with it, but I just personally have never liked Smokey's voice.

When D'Angelo re-did it, it sounded a lot better to me (vocally).
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okaypimpn said:

point is that only somebody under 30 would say that. That's honestly like saying that TLC did a better version of If I was Your Girlfriend than Prince, or Ginuwine did a better version or When Doves Cry.

2freaky4church1 said:

Yeah, the lyrics were altered to the point of cartoonishness, singing "you ain't never caught a rabbit, and you ain't no friend of mine" over the sanitized music for middle America.

While Thornton's original version by Leiber & Stoller was about a freeloading gigolo, "you ain't nothin but a hound dog snoopin 'round my door" sung over the music of a gritty, gutbucket juke joint swing.



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okaypimpn said:

co-sign on both points. Smokey was the shit, but he did suffer from that "cornbread stuck in the throat" syndrome a la Alexander O' Neal when he sang. It was really exposed whenever Smokey sang ballads. And YUP D'Angelo's version of Cruisin' smokes Mr. Robinson's.

psykosoul said:

A Oneal cornbread voice???
One of the best male vocalist frm mlps!

nd33 said:

Like I said before y'all are on some serious hard ass CRACK. MJs version of Come Together is so plastic and programmed sounding...it has absolutely no life to it at all.

prodigalfan said:

Alex is still the shit don't get me wrong. But that tremelo, vibrato thingy in his voice that he couldn't get rid of with a couple of *ahem's*: sounds like Jiffy to me

Walk This Way by Run DMC feat. Aerosmith

funkadelic11 said:

verdammt richtig!

Dancelot said:

jöö, no a landsmann

funkadelic11 said:

psykosoul said:

Supernova said:

Elvis' vocal stylings and technique on the song are far superiour. The sound is more explosive. It loses all meaning coming from a man, but it ROCKS

meltwithu said:

Um, no it's not.

D'Angelo's not even in the same league as TLC or Ginuwine. Like Smokey, he's a songwriter and musician. I've never seen T-Boz, Chilli, Left Eye or Ginuwine play an instrument, so the comparision is really not that serious.