I've noticed that song covers are much better than the original songs these days. This is a subjective issue, so I might be alone on this one. How do you like the song covers that amateur singers do?
TheWanderer Messages: 58 Registered: December 2018
Baron
There are plenty of covers I like better than the originals, but I'm not sure that's limited to recent days. I can recall many instances of cover songs I enjoyed more than their original counterparts from long ago.
A few cover songs are OK, but in my opinion, good ones are few and far between. Everyone with a piano/guitar and a webcam thinks they can perform a song well and broadcasts it to YouTube. Some people are into that, which is fine, just not for me.
Not all song covers sound better but there are few that stand out. There are a few people that can really get creative with working on other people's songs. Which song cover could we easily regard as the best of all time?
There are plenty of covers I like better than the originals, but I'm not sure that's limited to recent days. I can recall many instances of cover songs I enjoyed more than their original counterparts from long ago.
I agree that there were many cover songs in the past, and they were even done by famous musicians. It is so much easier these days to make a cover song because we don't need a studio to create a song.
It depends. I have heard some song covers that literally gave me goosebumps because they were that good, and much better than the original songs. Other times, however, they were not very impressive.
johnnycamp5 Messages: 354 Registered: June 2015 Location: NJ
Grand Master
Does any one here like Elvis?
Every song he performed was a cover, or was written for him.
Some of the artists felt they would make more money in royalties that way, and the passage of time has proven them right.
There's certainly some bad covers though.
Ive never heard a Led Zeppelin cover song I liked. There are some bands that are more like "mimic" bands, meaning you can hear they are just trying to duplicate exactly the original song, which I never understood the point.
It's like an Elvis impersonator...
The closer they get, the creepier it seems lol.
Rusty Messages: 1205 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
Illuminati (3rd Degree)
Yeah, I like some good old Elvi. He had a soulful voice, and any song he covered became his own. I've got two of his old albums, Pot O Gold and Fun In Acapulco.
For the ultimate in bad taste, here's a band that plagiarizes both Elvis and Led Zeppelin. But they're so campy it's kinda fun. Throw in a reggae beat to make it completely over the top. Dread Zeppelin, doing Black Dog. Ay Chihuahua!
I think cover songs work exceptionally well when it's done by a live band that isn't well-known. A lot of people want to sing along with the music and playing a popular song gets the crowd pumped up.
@johnnycamp5, maybe they're paying homage to the band they admire or are trying to prove they're just as good by mimicking them? That's all I can come up with on that front. I never understood it either.
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