Who sings it better?

[thornaby]

Big fan of Simon and Garfunkel with their Sound of Silence being just one of their many greats. Have for a long time enjoyed Disturbed singing it and now just started to enjoy Puddles Pitty party singing it, for me all three are amazing, wife thinks Disturbed is the better my veiw they are all great. Has anyone else heard these other singers?

[EnjoyingTheSun]

Generally not a fan of cover versions.
Even Bob Dylan who has had many of his songs successfully covered/improved and is admittedly an awful singer, I prefer the originals. Dylan is the only man who's voice improved after having his larynx crushed in a motorcycle accident!

[teatime]

Love the Disturbed version, especially the live one from the talk show, available to watch on youtube.

[faro]

Blinded by the light. Bruce Springsteen Song. But a much better version is by. Manfred Manns Earth Band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI

[Hedge-fund]

Who sings it better?

Brian Delaney

[Groucho]

Who sings it better?

Brian Delaney

[judyvin]

Heard it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye's version much better than Creedence Clearwater Revival's

[Groucho]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiNNEHE ... adio=1&t=5

[BILLYBONDZ]

The new nhs record.....times like these.....original by the foo fighters.........have a listen to the glen campbell version.......it will blow yer socks off........
Also......give a listen to the ry cooder version.......of hell have to go....the Jim reeves number.......you willlove it......
ENJOY.......
BILLYBONDZ

[jofra]

The new nhs record.....times like these.....original by the foo fighters.........
Also......give a listen to the ry cooder version.......

Are you thinking of "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live" ? A totally different song (originally from 1929) - I have a lot of Ry Cooder stuff, and (afaik) there is no "Times Like These" track....
I've just googled "Times Like These Ry Cooder" and no match apart from " How Can..."
Apart from this; NHS version - congratulations, very good, hope it earns much for them!

[BILLYBONDZ]

Jofra........times like these by the foo fighters.....covered by glen campbell..........the ry cooder track is a cover of the Jim reeves number, he’ll have to go.........I think, it’s from ry cooder album, which I had on vinyl, was called chicken skin music..........also......apparently, the stones wanted ry in the band, after Brian Jones popped off......also, perhaps an urban myth.....ry wrote honky to keep woman....the stones classic.......think it was on the album sticky fingers........which I had on vinyl......complete with the metal zip on the cover..............sorry typo....honky tonk woman.........it’s late, and to many vodka tonics....
Stay safe jofra......love a drop of ry cooder...
Regards
BILLYBONDZ....

[jayceebee]

I really like Puddles Pity Party doing his versions of old hits etc. Post Modern Jukebox are really worth watching on YouTube.
This is one of my favourites

https://youtu.be/aVevvbFNKiY

[jofra]

These are the Ry Cooder albums I've got -

Bop Till You Drop
Chicken Skin Music
Into The Purple Valley
Paradise And Lunch
Paris, Texas
Borderline
Chavez Ravine
Ry Cooder
The Best Of Ry Cooder
Blue City
Get Rhythm
Mambo Sinuendo
My Name Is Buddy
The Prodigal Son
The Slide Area

Apparently Ry served (part of) his "apprenticeship" with Captain Beefheart - another notable force in the music world...

[BILLYBONDZ]

Jofra......wow, that’s impressive.........got rid of all my vinyl 14 years ago, when we moved here......wasn’t happy about that......but not a practical idea at the time........something about vinyl, and the album covers was always special........did you ever hear the stories about him joining the stones.......apparently he should have been in the line up, for the free concert at Hyde park......I was there........ it was an interesting day............good times........thanks for sharing.......enjoy your vinyl.....don’t ever get rid of them....
Regards
BILLYBONDZ

[jofra]

Three I missed off the list -
Talking Timbuktu (Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder)
and
A Meeting by the River (Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt) & Prodigal Son (both just downloaded today)
I also don't have many vinyl now (just a couple of Buddy Holly, Shadows, early Rolling Stones, Loving Spoonful, Steeleye Span, Joe Walsh) - 30 - 40 audio cassettes (ONE Ry Cooder) - now everything is on my hard drives, ranging across classical, folk, rock, blues (acoustic and electric) and a few big band...
Also, from Wiki - "Cooder was a session musician on various recording sessions with The Rolling Stones in 1968 and 1969, and his contributions appear on the albums Let It Bleed (Yank Rachell-style mandolin on "Love in Vain"), and Sticky Fingers, on which he contributed the slide guitar on "Sister Morphine". During this period, Cooder joined with Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, and longtime Rolling Stones sideman Nicky Hopkins to record Jamming with Edward!. Cooder also played slide guitar for the 1970 film soundtrack Performance, which contained Jagger's first solo single, "Memo from Turner". The 1975 compilation album Metamorphosis features an uncredited Cooder contribution on Bill Wyman's "Downtown Suzie".

[Groucho]

[faro]

After the Gold Rush Neil Young. I think Prelude did a better job though.

[Groucho]

Popular music is littered with great song writers with less than perfect vocals... I tend to side with the feeling imparted by the original, certainly remakes that add nothing to the mix don't cut it... Doctor and the Medics version of Spirit in the sky, prefer Norman Greenbaum's original.

Where a cover version brings new life to a song I probably like both - not always though, to me the quality of the writing is paramount. Some lyrics are so poetic, take Sting's 'Fields of Gold'...

[torontomapleleaf]

Honky tonk women wasn't taken off any Stones album.

[faro]

Buddy Holly. Not Fade Away. Covered by the Stones. Liked both versions, but remember when the Stones version came out Holly fans were not very pleased. mind you it was a long time ago though.

[jofra]

Another Buddy Holly song - Rave On as done by Steeleye Span...