McDuffies wrote:But Bob Dylan was not a rapper!
McDuffies wrote:But Bob Dylan was not a rapper!
McDuffies wrote:But Bob Dylan was not a rapper!
McDuffies wrote:stuck!!!
Warren wrote:I just heard that song a little while ago... odd.
robotthepirate wrote: Its a song I've always wanted to cover though because it doesn't flow well at all and I want to make it better.
Phact0rri wrote:robotthepirate wrote: Its a song I've always wanted to cover though because it doesn't flow well at all and I want to make it better.
Covering a song to make it better? This won't end well.
McDuffies wrote:Who is he, Bono?
McDuffies wrote:I dunno, fifty years ago playing standards - ie covering songs - was a norm and writing your own was an exception.
McDuffies wrote:Well... to others, anything is improvement to his nasal singing.
I'm very much into my singer-songwriters. A singer who only does covers, well, may make great music, but I don't respect them as much as people who can write their own stuff (and do it well). Even a cover sung by a proper artist (singer-songwriter) scores higher with me than a cover sung by someone who only sings covers (or stuff written by others for them).
I don't liken Playing standards to covering a song. Plus aside from Jazz I haven't really looked into a lot of the standarding of the day.
McDuffies wrote:I dunno, for instance I respect Johnny Cash as much as any singer-songwriter, even though larger part of his oeuvre consists of covers. Just listening to any American recording makes it clear why: through his performance, he rewrites the subtext of the song. While I like good lyrics as much as the next guy, I do believe that music is more defining of the message of the song, and through covering, you have a chance to change the point, from tweaking it in tone to completely turning it upside-down, which is what Cash was doing.
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