Funny. I watched "The Buddy Holly Story" on the box last night. The part I liked was when "The Crickets" walked on stage before an unknowing black audience (the audience and performers thought "The Crickets" were a black group!) The place went quiet as a cemetery....until they started to play.....and they brought the house down with the audience dancing in the aisles!!!!! My step dad took my sister to see "Rock around the Clock" when it first came out. He got totally ticked. He said he almost went deaf and they were "dancing in the aisles!"
All 3 have their merits - I am not a massive Dylan fan, but this is one my favourites of his, it's his song and his performance of it stands alone, for want of a better term he owns it. Hendrix is Hendrix and I only discovered him quite late in life but Electric Ladyland is immense album that captures his amazing talent in 1 showcase. As for the Weller version i was pleasantly surprised when I first heard it and he does a decent job, but on this occasion the competition is too hot and he comes home 3rd.
With Weller covers, my favourite is this... Side two of Setting Sons is dealing with some heavy stuff and its place as the final track sounds like a release of some of that tension. Peaks and troughs are needed in any great work and this album is certainly that.
Really,I'm a bit old for it,but I have liked Capt Jack Sparrow's antics in "Pirate's........",but not the silly sword fencing skeletons. The music is brilliant by the way!
Santana verses the real Fleetwood Mac , another one that depends on what mood you're in or what you've been drinking. Peter Greens makes it feel like a voodoo spell
Nina verses Felix da housecat ms Simone at her finest , how often do you get a clapping solo in a piece of music ?
Unsurprisingly, I'm going to put up a couple of covers involving punk bands. There are some great punk covers (often by The Dickies) but a number of bands took the tradition of reggae acts turning American hits into Jamaican hits and reversed it. In both of these cases you can hear the original...but it's become something else completely. Done well, it's a wonderful thing. I'm not sure which is 'better' but it shows that you can radically reinterpret something to great success... The original punk reinterpretation from The Clash that caught the ear of Lee Perry and then Marley ("I like how him feel it") ... ...and SLF really getting stuck into a Marley song, to great effect...
To very different Jazz singers given their individual take on this one I can't pick one love them both
You are right to close to call, Rod in my opinion is hugely under rated as a performer as the frontman of The Faces he was simply brilliant -
Who was that chap who wrote :- "Everyones Gone To The Moon"? His only hit.But he may have written for others.
And now I think we all know the original is best, but anyone gonna suggest that McFlys cover is better than Amys?