I mentioned last week that I've been listening to a lot of music lately. Some of that music has been songs that I knew previously only in their covered versions. I took the opportunity to get to know the original songs a little better.
For example: Dust in the Wind. I heard the Sarah Brightman version first:
and now I enjoy the original Kansas, too.
Go Your Own Way I heard first from The Cranberries:
but it's even more awesome from Fleetwood Mac themselves. SUCH A GOOD SONG. Turn it up loud.
It was a long time before I figured out that Landslide was not a Smashing Pumpkins original,
but another Fleetwood Mac gem.
Then there's Someone Like You, which I heard first from Kyle Landry:
and then on another cover:
and finally in the original. But actually, I prefer the covers.
What is it about a good cover? I think it's like getting to read your favorite book again, for the first time. A cover is everything you love, but different somehow. So you can handle a few more additional listens...or a LOT more additional listens, as the case may be.
For example: Dust in the Wind. I heard the Sarah Brightman version first:
and now I enjoy the original Kansas, too.
Go Your Own Way I heard first from The Cranberries:
but it's even more awesome from Fleetwood Mac themselves. SUCH A GOOD SONG. Turn it up loud.
It was a long time before I figured out that Landslide was not a Smashing Pumpkins original,
but another Fleetwood Mac gem.
Then there's Someone Like You, which I heard first from Kyle Landry:
and then on another cover:
and finally in the original. But actually, I prefer the covers.
What is it about a good cover? I think it's like getting to read your favorite book again, for the first time. A cover is everything you love, but different somehow. So you can handle a few more additional listens...or a LOT more additional listens, as the case may be.