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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Replying to @arthur_affect
If Aretha Franklin covered your song, it was Aretha Franklin's song from that point forward. To wit, when you do a search for a song by Otis Redding:pic.twitter.com/OT1M0gO85r
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I wouldn't call myself a "maximalist" when it comes to music generally but I usually respect covers that add more stuff onto the original much more than covers that "strip away", which includes Franklin's famous cover of Redding If only because it requires more work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SowaTheArrogant
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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Replying to @ShrimpMeatMom @SowaTheArrogant
No this is the kind of "stripping down" I dislike the most Everyone raved over it the first time in recent memory it went viral -- Gary Jules' piano cover of "Mad World" from Donnie Darko, which in that context was pretty good In my opinion it long since jumped the shark
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One million derivative movie trailers ruined this sort of thing for the foreseeable future.
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I love seeing the trends movie trailers go through We went from "In a world..." to "BWOOOOMP" to *menacing goth cover of a Britney Spears song*
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I know people all make fun of "In a world..." now but the idea that trailer narrators are cheesy and you have to make the narration entirely out of dialogue from the movie is now encouraging screenwriters to start adding more and more "trailer lines" to the actual movie
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And that's terrible
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