rubber soul

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Lisnaholic

I thought I'd bump this thread to remind us all that we have a place to talk about the values and virtues of cover versions.
Here's one that has sparked some chat in another thread:-



...and the original:-



My vote goes to YES as the better version; they make an interesting song out of the original. Not altogether surprising that it's a song that's rather overlooked in the Beatles discography: it's sweet enough, but is just cut so short by today's standards.

I haven't seen music_collector around for ages. If you're out there, please be aware that thanks to your comment, I'm not just logging out now - I'm stomping off the forum in disgust and slamming the door loudly !!

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rubber soul

Yeah, I have to admit this isn't one of the Beatles' better songs. Yes does a good version of it though.

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Chula Vista

And in that spirit,





and of course....

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Lisnaholic

^ I'm confused: isn't that the original?
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Despite The Drifters cover version being the best known, this was the originalest recording I could find of On Broadway:



This treatment from Psychedelic Guitar Circus sounds so different that it's difficult to call one "better" than the other, but the PGC version is the one I keep going back to, so by that measure it wins over The Cookies:

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Chula Vista

I'd posted the covers of that and Babe somewhere else.

https://www.musicbanter.com/2223863-post25.html

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Queen Boo

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Chula Vista

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

jadis

This certainly is, to me at least


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmhl45B4WP8