I've (had) it fairly often that I was listening to a song, and out of the blue it turned out to be a cover instead of an original piece of music. To me there is nothing wrong with it. If the cover is, I can still immensly enjoy it even though it's not original from that artist. My dad makes fun of me now and then because of it, as I can't stand all music from what he liked back then, but whenever I listen to a cover of an older piece of music and I suddenly love it, he likes to mock me about it. Below three songs of which I like the cover better than its original.
Birdy - Skinny Love (Original by Bon Iver)
Lisa - Hallelujah (Original by Leonard Cohen)
Anberlin - Enjoy the Silence (Original by Depeche Mode)
I don't agree on all of these. I don't like Lisa's version of Hallelujah but LOVE Jeff Buckley's version, seriously it makes me cry all the time, it's so beautiful. Depeche Mode is hard.. As I love both versions. I do agree on the Birdy one tho.
ReplyDeleteI've heard better versions of Hallelujah. But these days so many songs are covers. I don't really care about it. I actually think it's interesting to see what different artists do with the same song.
ReplyDeleteI listen to everything covers or non covers. Whatever sounds nice to my ears :)
ReplyDeleteHa, I had no idea Birdy's song was a cover!
ReplyDeleteI'm relatively fine, my face looks horrible though and I can't eat. I'm glad when all this is over!!
-Kati