> Cryptoengineer <
treif...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Don Bruder <
dak...@sonic.net> wrote in news:mopnke$pur$
4...@dont-email.me:
>
> >Generally agreed. However, there are some cases where covers improve
> >on the original.
>
> Whichever version is on the radio when you're thirteen is the best
> version.
I think you may have something there...
Fortunately, they've got shots that'll clear up most anything these
days... :)
But seriously, yes - There's a reason they're called "the formative
years".
(The depressing part is that I find myself saying *EXACTLY* the same
thing about today's so-called "music" that my mother used to say about
MY music!)
>
> Frigid Pink does a better cover of "House of the Rising Sun" than the
> Animals cover.
Gotta disagree. They're roughly equal in my book.
> "Grapevine" is a CCR classic, not that sixties guy.
That one's a tossup. Depends on my mood at the moment.
>
> And sometimes it's shocking to discover something is much older than
> people think. "Whisky in the jar-oh" was a favourite of the American
> Revolutionaries (because it involved robbing a British officer) long
> before Metallica. Though I expect that the Washington crew used a bit
> less electric guitar.
Since they hit the scene, I've absolutely detested almost everything
Metallica has ever done - The three exceptions I can name are "One"
(Love it as a perfect example of why assisted suicide should be legal,
really like the guitar work in the... what's the word I want? "quieter"
parts, absolutely hate the "chug-chug-chug-chug"(1) crap that they seem
to feel is vital to anything they record), "Enter Sandman" (I don't
really *LIKE* the tune, but unlike most of their stuff, I can at least
tolerate it - probably because there's not as much of their trademark
"chug-chug-chug-chug" garbage in it), and "Whisky in the Jar-oh"
(Instantly loved it - perhaps (at least partly) because besides being a
catchy little ditty, it has *NONE* of their usual "chug-chug-chug-chug"
garbage). Their version of "Whisky" was the first time I ever heard of,
never mind actually heard, the tune, and I loved it instantly. Then I
found out that that practically everybody and his dog has covered it
sometime in their career. Read somewhere that the Thin Lizzy version was
considered "definitive", so checked it out, but I can't agree -
Metallica's version is far superior, despite the fact that in general, I
plain can't stomach them.
(1) I can't think of any better way to describe it -
"chug-chug-chug-chug" - like a diesel train sitting on a siding idling -
a nasty, throbbing, monotonous noise that gives me the urge to strangle
something.