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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Justin Tonation on May 13, 2019, 03:01:25 pm

Title: Best [artist] song they never wrote
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 13, 2019, 03:01:25 pm
Best Eagles stnw: Scud Mountain Boys - Penthouse In The Woods
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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 13, 2019, 03:40:11 pm
Best Clash song they never wrote:

Afroman - Because I Got High
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Post by: hutch on May 13, 2019, 04:09:44 pm
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses (Gram Parsons)
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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 13, 2019, 04:15:35 pm
so this is not a cover per-se, but a song written by someone else for them?
or are we just talking covers, like All Along the Watchtower where the cover is better than the original?

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Post by: Space Freely on May 13, 2019, 04:20:28 pm
so this is not a cover per-se, but a song written by someone else for them?
or are we just talking covers, like All Along the Watchtower where the cover is better than the original?

I think (s)he means a song written and done by another artist that could have been a song by the more popular group. I'm not sure I agree with the choice of that (great) Scud Mountain Boys song, but it seems like that would fit the subject line.
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Post by: hutch on May 13, 2019, 04:20:59 pm
Well the Stones took credit
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Post by: hutch on May 13, 2019, 04:21:54 pm
Rolling Stones- It’s Only Rock and Roll (Ron Wood)
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Post by: vansmack on May 13, 2019, 04:36:41 pm
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
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Post by: vansmack on May 13, 2019, 04:37:23 pm
Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show
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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 13, 2019, 04:42:08 pm
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton - Hallelujah
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Post by: vansmack on May 13, 2019, 05:28:25 pm
Tiffany - I think we're alone now
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Post by: Justin Tonation on May 13, 2019, 10:23:03 pm
so this is not a cover per-se, but a song written by someone else for them?
or are we just talking covers, like All Along the Watchtower where the cover is better than the original?

I think (s)he means a song written and done by another artist that could have been a song by the more popular group. I'm not sure I agree with the choice of that (great) Scud Mountain Boys song, but it seems like that would fit the subject line.

This. Not covers. Originals that, if you didn't know better, sound like a better known artist.
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Post by: Justin Tonation on May 13, 2019, 10:28:18 pm
Best Hall & Oates stnw: Prefab Sprout - Enchanted
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Post by: Space Freely on May 14, 2019, 08:53:47 am
so this is not a cover per-se, but a song written by someone else for them?
or are we just talking covers, like All Along the Watchtower where the cover is better than the original?

I think (s)he means a song written and done by another artist that could have been a song by the more popular group. I'm not sure I agree with the choice of that (great) Scud Mountain Boys song, but it seems like that would fit the subject line.

This. Not covers. Originals that, if you didn't know better, sound like a better known artist.

I'm not saying I'm a walking music library by any stretch of the imagination, but this kind of thing often happens when you have a partner who is less of a library than yourself. Not that there's anything wrong with that. You'll be playing Sturgill Simpson and she'll be like "Oh is that George Jones?"

*Note: I actually don't really like Sturgill Simpson and personally think he sounds more like Waylon Jennings (who my partner wouldn't recognize) than George Jones (who she would use as a common catch-all for classic male country artist voices) but that's the best example I could come up with early on a Tuesday.
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Post by: sweetcell on May 14, 2019, 12:36:18 pm
Led Zeppelin: anything by Greta Van Fleet

is that how this thread works?
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Post by: Space Freely on May 14, 2019, 01:09:46 pm
Led Zeppelin: anything by Greta Van Fleet

is that how this thread works?

It's not my thread, but I don't think so.

I honestly have only read about GFF, but from what I understand they are more of a copycat band that falls short of who they are copycatting. If they did a song that Plant/Page *wish* they had written, then it would be worthy of inclusion. Better yet if the band itself stands on it's own merits and isn't thought of as merely a copycat band.

I think there's a bunch of songs that Mike Cooley has written for Drive By Truckers that sound like second rate Stones songs.