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Love Hurts on Old School Friday, Hallelujah

cooper — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:26:03 +0000

The theme this week is original versus covers. Hours could be spent looking through cover songs. I usually prefer originals, but there are the obvious cover winners, like Whitney Houston’s cover of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You”, where Dolly has the heart, but Whitney has the pipes, and Jimi Hendrix’s cover of Dylans’ “All Along the Watchtower”, for starters. There are unbeatable originals, like “I Shot the Sheriff”. Some songs will forever belong to their original performer. The sheer number of covers songs makes it difficult to choose, and because of that I decided to go with a couple of songs I either didn’t know were cover songs or didn’t know had been covered.

Love Hurts, absolutely, but did you know it was was originally an Everly Brothers song? I didn’t.

This clip is a compilation of the songs covers – the first part is the Everly Brothers version. It’s the only one I could find with an Everly Brothers rendition.

Nazereth’s version has become the standard bearer.

Did you know Paul Anka covered Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”? Nor did I, thank goodness. I still don’t know whether to applaud, laugh, cry or vomit.

The original video/recording is here.

This is Paul Anka’s version, and frankly it kind of creeps me out, but I wanted to share it. What the hell is Paul Anka doing smelling teen spirit anyway?

This is to make up for the nightmare swing version of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

In conclusion, and after much concentrated listening I’ve also come to agree with those who designate Buckley’s version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah the best version.

Quite HOT, enjoy.

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Revolution, and Hallelujah

cooper — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:31:07 +0000

Those two days fit for hiking were an illusion, though meteorologically spring the onset of the real season is elusive, playing hide and seek, a temptress of sorts, allowing me to hike one morning and causing me to look for my gloves the next.
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I’m merely going to say the Democrats are in trouble, at this point in time it’s hardly worth it to fret about as I have absolutely no control over it. I don’t know if I could vote for Clinton. I can definitely not vote for McCain under any circumstance.

“Democracy is usually the result of revolution against plutocracy” and though Aristotle, the original conservative, believed it to be inferior to an aristocracy – because it lead people to believe they were actually equal, he was right about Democracy, and I think we should take ours back. Since last night I can’t get that damn Beatles Song from floating through my head.

“You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know”

The surest path to wisdom is to read, assimilate and apply things learned from those who are wise – paraphrased from John Caruso – “The Power of Losing Control”. I’ll read and listen, over the next few weeks, or at least as long as I can possibly hold my tongue.

In the meantime I admit to learning something from American idol last night. I learned that I need to listen to the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah”, a song I hadn’t listened to in years, ( No I never watched the OC though I was made aware last night that it was used for that nighttime soap opera) more often. So see, it was worth it.

I, along with at least a million others, was on line last night, thanks to the guy who sang it on Idol, looking for every version of that song we could find. The Buckley version is better than the Rufus Wainwright version, but I am fond of the A cappella Imogen Heap cover. And who knew I actually would see Leonard Cohen himself doing that song, thanks to you tube – actually it is pretty awesome, If not for Idol it never would have happened.

I stand corrected once again.

The only problem is she doesn’t do many verses.

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