Morjes!

Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

Discovering the song after the cover

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.

A review of movies I watched on the plane

Thoughts on the prospect of returning to America