Marvin'd

[andy-hughes]

This is a new adjective I've invented.

It describes what happens when a wonderful vibrant exciting and memorable song or piece of music has all that emotion sucked out of it, and replaced by an anodine pedestrian plodding samey drudge that has all the evocation of a set of pan pipes.

If you want a demo - listen to Hank Marvin's version of Waterloo Sunset off his new album - the beauty and fragility of Ray Davies's hymn to his city have been replaced by the sledgehammer crud of a housebrick being dropped from a first floor window.

How can one of the most original, innovative, exciting hugely influential and truly groundbreaking musicians of the last sixty years come out with stuff like this?

It's a mystery to me.

[Sipowicz]

I think kd lang's Hallelujah is "the version-to-beat".

[SeaJayPea]

Oh Douglas, no. I'll see your Stairway to Heaven and raise you Bridge Over Troubled Water by Linda Clifford.

[mushroom25]

I'll see your "Bridge Over Troubled Water", and raise you "Jolene" by the White Stripes.

[andy-hughes]

Sipowicz - may i direct your attention to the jeff Buckley version, after which all notion of Ms Lang will vanish from your mind, even as the tears roll down your manly face.

[andy-hughes]

douglas9401 - hold hard there!

Rolf's version does have a background, so it is not a matter of him taking the proverbial -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Money_or_the_Gun

please check out the background.

[WELSHYORKIE]

'scuse me, I think I can trump the lot of you with Richard Harris' version of McArthur Park

[andy-hughes]

A late entry there, and a seriously creditable one!

We will have to work hard to beat that ladies and gents!

[ludwig]

Madonna's American Pie.

Beat that.

[mushroom25]

we're in danger of crossing into "so bad it's good" territory here -

like, for instance, this



:-)

[carrust]

Didn't the actor who played captain Kirk do an album of absolute tosh. Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds springs to mind......I think i have a running flush with that one :-)

[andy-hughes]

ludwig - "Madonna's American Pie.

Beat that."

May I direct your attention to my post of 10:41 a.m.?

People are haing a good go!

[WELSHYORKIE]

Carrust - OMFG - I had forgotten about that pile of sheeite

[Sipowicz]

Andy, I love Jeff Buckley's version......but I think kd tops it, all personal taste.

[naomi24]

I offer Sid Vicious doing 'My Way' - his way.

[ludwig]

// May I direct your attention to my post of 10:41 a.m.? //

Oh yes I missed it. Must admit I was surprised it hadn't been mentioned.

[jno]

Welshyorkie, er, whose version of Macarthur Park do you like then?

[WELSHYORKIE]

jno - did I suggest I liked it at all?

[jno]

oi, this thread is about "a wonderful vibrant exciting and memorable song or piece of music has all that emotion sucked out of it"

Songs you never liked in the first place don't count!

[WELSHYORKIE]

OK - I have to admit it - I was a disco kid and therefore I liked Donna Summer's version - I also happen to think Rolf Harris should be strung up - not for what he is currently accused of but the wanton murder of Stairway to Heaven with a sodding piece of hardboard

[jno]

Donna Summer.

Right.

You do realise your credibility is destroyed forever, don't you.