The list of songs where the original recording was so good that you just shouldn't cover it, at all, is pretty short in my view "September" by Earth, Wind and Fire is a slam-dunk entry though
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It may be unfair but I do see "stripping away" as a cheap trick Anyone who's mildly musically competent knows how to do it and it seems to be so easy for a famous person to get critical praise Ryan Adams' stunt with Taylor Swift made me an enemy of this kind of cover for life
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I think this is a fair position, with a slight exception for big, grand pop songs that are actually very sad, where the stripped down version reveals some of the melancholy that’s buried in big pop production. That said I love big, grand pop songs that are actually very sad.
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The problem is it’s hard to do well. So much about “tears of a clown” or “tracks of my tears” comes from Smokey Robinson’s ideosyncratic vocal. Whereas stripping down a Smiths song reveals the trite insufferability of Morrissey’s lyrics.
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I think it's really interesting how Franklin tweaks Redding's lyrics though. Redding loves this woman so much that he's willing to let her cheat on him as long as she respects him to his face. Franklin is sick of this mooch who takes her cash and acts like a dick.
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Have you heard this one? It's my favorite.https://youtu.be/ZK6VILyHVDE
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What about covers that sound like a different genre altogether?
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I’m not sure how Tricky’s cover of When Doves Cry fits into this rubric. It feels like stretching it to six minutes and refusing to involve any sort of dynamics is...not stripping down so much as worrying over. It’s more fixation than refinement.
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