More of the same...

Is it just me?

This morning I stumbled - by accident - on yet another cover of Gotye's hit. I don't know how many I've heard (so far). Between the moment the song hit the charts and the moment when everyone started putting out cover versions, there must have been a down time of maybe, say, 37 seconds...

Then I remembered when people started saturating the market w/ covers of Cohen's Hallelujah - seems every one and their brother did a cover of that song for a while. Or the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army. Was there ever a period where that song was allowed to rest and to age a bit?

I recently heard of someone doing a cover "The Tea Party's song, Messenger" - which, of course was originally a Daniel Lanois song.

Don't get me wrong I absolutely love doing covers - I particularly like taking more obscure pieces of an artist catalogue and breathe a new life into them, twist them around and make them mine. If it's something that has already been covered by someone else before (as is often the case, anyway), I need to have some pretty serious reasons to do it - I have to believe that what I'm doing is bringing something new. 

But something that's just been released last year or the year before? No way. And something that's already saturated the market? No way. Who wants to hear another cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart, seriously?

It's almost like people's musical culture is now limited to the last 18 months. 

A friend of mine who plays in bars recently remarked - if I play a classic song, my best bet to get a reaction from the crowd when I introduce the song is not to introduce it w/ the name of the artist, but instead, tell them in which recent movie it was... 

Like, here's a song from Shreck 2 - and then proceed to play Bowie's Changes... 

Overall - A splendid time is guaranteed for all. ;)

I've heard all the original songs a hundred billion times and I had heard the remixes before. I've listened to them on everything from crappy desktop speakers to studio monitors. , But I had never quite heard The Beatles as I did last night at The Mirage... (Oh yeah, and the visuals weren't too shabby either.) 

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I do not listen to Ga Ga..  or Goaty a

Quoting Christopher Titus:

"Music is dead because Lady Gaga lives"

"Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett"

Well, I don't know how this thread degraded to a point where it was neccessary to insult several artists. Cover tunes are just affirmations of the original work. In an artistic way it says, " this is how that work made me feel, this is how I see it." For someone to take the time to cover a tune is an act of honoring that tune. A way of promoting that idea.

More of the same...

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Well, I don't know how this thread degraded to a point where it was neccessary to insult several artists. Cover tunes are just affirmations of the original work. In an artistic way it says, " this is how that work made me feel, this is how I see it." For someone to take the time to cover a tune is an act of honoring that tune. A way of promoting that idea.

Besides the reference to Titus quotes regarding Lady Gaga, I fail to see who would have been insulted. Incidentally, personally I can appreciate some of her work. Anyway, anyone who has anything in common w/ Bowie couldn't be that bad. :)

Cover songs done by good artists are great. For example, I could listen to Tori Amos play almost anything and I'm pretty sure it'd be great. 

But I think that honoring the tune isn't necessarily the primary purpose in every case. 

bapu

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But I think that honoring the tune isn't necessarily the primary purpose in every case. 

See post #11.

That was... arse-tounding! :)