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- #21
- Posted: 01/09/2021 02:39
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| Skinny wrote: | We don't even acknowledge The Carpenters' version round these parts.
I just think there are some songs that shouldn't be fucking touched unless you're sure you're gonna take it to someplace new. (The Slits with 'Grapevine' springs immediately to mind.) Like, why would you even bother taking on The Marvelettes if all you're gonna do is remain relatively faithful but without any of the passionate, pained, desperate longing that Horton brings to the vocal take? By the end of the song she sounds ready to die unless she receives that letter, whereas Lennon - for all his attempts to conjure some of the same rasp - sounds like he's ready for a soapy bath and a nice cuppa. I'm glad they liked the song, but just leave it a-fucking-lone. |
There's also more than one generation of white kids who would never have been introduced to the song, or would have no idea that The Marvelettes even existed without this version. I don't think ANY song should be left a-fucking-lone just because you don't like what they put into it compared to the original. Cover any song you want to. They didn't do it just because it was there. They had reasons for covering the songs they did. We ALL do.
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- #22
- Posted: 01/09/2021 02:47
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| Romanelli wrote: | | Skinny wrote: | We don't even acknowledge The Carpenters' version round these parts.
I just think there are some songs that shouldn't be fucking touched unless you're sure you're gonna take it to someplace new. (The Slits with 'Grapevine' springs immediately to mind.) Like, why would you even bother taking on The Marvelettes if all you're gonna do is remain relatively faithful but without any of the passionate, pained, desperate longing that Horton brings to the vocal take? By the end of the song she sounds ready to die unless she receives that letter, whereas Lennon - for all his attempts to conjure some of the same rasp - sounds like he's ready for a soapy bath and a nice cuppa. I'm glad they liked the song, but just leave it a-fucking-lone. |
There's also more than one generation of white kids who would never have been introduced to the song, or would have no idea that The Marvelettes even existed without this version. I don't think ANY song should be left a-fucking-lone just because you don't like what they put into it compared to the original. Cover any song you want to. They didn't do it just because it was there. They had reasons for covering the songs they did. We ALL do. |
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