Fantasy Paul Covers Album
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We're all familiar with the albums of McCartney covers that have come out in recent years. The other day I started mentally imagining what my fantasy Paul tribute album would be and -- perhaps due to the fact that I'm not exactly young and my main musical frame of reference is roughly 1965-1990 -- I realized that in several cases I wanted to hear Paul songs covered by singers who are no longer with us. So here is my fantasy Paul covers album that will never, ever be recorded: Only Mama Knows -- Bruce Springsteen You Tell Me -- Roy Orbison Put It There -- Pete Seeger That Day is Done -- Janis Joplin Mamunia -- Crosby, Stills and Nash Wanderlust -- k d lang Arrow Through Me -- Stevie Wonder The Pound Is Sinking -- Elvis Costello Junk -- Linda Ronstadt House of Wax -- Jim Morrison Eat at Home -- Buddy Holly One of These Days -- James Taylor Souvenir -- Aretha Franklin
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Bruce M.:
Arrow Through Me -- Stevie Wonder
I want to hear this, especially if it's 1974 Stevie. I want to hear him funk it up.
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The Art Of McCartney was the final nail in the coffin as far as tribute albums go. I just don't think one will ever be done with any justice. I'd go for a tribute concert, though.
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I always thought Bowie could do JET..
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audi:
The Art Of McCartney was the final nail in the coffin as far as tribute albums go. I just don't think one will ever be done with any justice. I'd go for a tribute concert, though.
I quite liked The Art Of McCartney - Some highlights for me are Bob Dylan's Things We Said Today is surprisingly good , BB King's On The Way (must be one his last recordings) Def Leppard's Helen Wheels really rocks and also Roberts Smith's CMoon. Sure there are a few clangers like Chrissie Hynde's Let It Be is absolutely dreadful and Barry Gibb's When I'm Sixty Four not much better.
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75% of the album is basically karaoke.
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audi:
75% of the album is basically karaoke.
........and the remaining 25% is worse.
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Apollo C. Vermouth:
audi:
The Art Of McCartney was the final nail in the coffin as far as tribute albums go. I just don't think one will ever be done with any justice. I'd go for a tribute concert, though.
I quite liked The Art Of McCartney - Some highlights for me are Bob Dylan's Things We Said Today is surprisingly good , BB King's On The Way (must be one his last recordings) Def Leppard's Helen Wheels really rocks and also Roberts Smith's CMoon. Sure there are a few clangers like Chrissie Hynde's Let It Be is absolutely dreadful and Barry Gibb's When I'm Sixty Four not much better.
I had always wanted to hear Billy Joel do some Paul covers...but it was sort of a let down (I realize he did a few Beatles covers years ago, including Back in the USSR and A Hard Day's Night, that weren't half bad....but MIA and LALD were not inspiring)
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Been waiting years and years and years for Billy Joel to get back in the studio ... for ... that?
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Love Billy Joel. Just a memory now. People like him now consigned to legend status, no longer putting out new material.... but they'll sure as hell say how great he was when he is gone. Bono, even Mellencamp, etc. Cast aside. Just memories. No one saves up money to buy an album anymore..... that's the real key to loving an artist..... "getting on a bike to do a paper round, save money to buy a "record". No pain, no gain. All too easy these days to "buy" music. The thieving generation. Appreciate your album here, Bruce. Can hear Stevie Wonder doing Arrow Through Me. Elvis Costello doing The Pound is Sinking". But I never really liked "You Tell Me", but maybe with a gem of a voice like Roy behind it, well, that might be the difference. But I'm still out with the pigeons on that song. Also not a great fan of House of Wax.... not good enough for Jim Morrison to do. Still not sure of my feelings for that song. And not a big fan of KD Lang.... probably also cos I am bias on the brilliant version of Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.... and if anyone tells me Lang did a better version of that song... well.... But, Bruce, I like the majority of your choices of songs here.
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Really liked The Art of McCartney; a couple clunkers yes, but all in all pretty solid. Highlights were Cheap Tricks' Jet, Brian Wilson's Wanderlust, and Rockshow by Kiss. My additions to Bruce's dream album would be Girl's School by Metallica and Back Seat of My Car by Supertramp.
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Bruce M.:
We're all familiar with the albums of McCartney covers that have come out in recent years. The other day I started mentally imagining what my fantasy Paul tribute album would be and -- perhaps due to the fact that I'm not exactly young and my main musical frame of reference is roughly 1965-1990 -- I realized that in several cases I wanted to hear Paul songs covered by singers who are no longer with us. So here is my fantasy Paul covers album that will never, ever be recorded: Only Mama Knows -- Bruce Springsteen You Tell Me -- Roy Orbison Put It There -- Pete Seeger That Day is Done -- Janis Joplin Mamunia -- Crosby, Stills and Nash Wanderlust -- k d lang Arrow Through Me -- Stevie Wonder The Pound Is Sinking -- Elvis Costello Junk -- Linda Ronstadt House of Wax -- Jim Morrison Eat at Home -- Buddy Holly One of These Days -- James Taylor Souvenir -- Aretha Franklin
You are going to laugh your head off but I actually would like to hear Meatloaf do "House Of Wax".
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Bruce M.:
We're all familiar with the albums of McCartney covers that have come out in recent years. The other day I started mentally imagining what my fantasy Paul tribute album would be and -- perhaps due to the fact that I'm not exactly young and my main musical frame of reference is roughly 1965-1990 -- I realized that in several cases I wanted to hear Paul songs covered by singers who are no longer with us. So here is my fantasy Paul covers album that will never, ever be recorded: Only Mama Knows -- Bruce Springsteen You Tell Me -- Roy Orbison Put It There -- Pete Seeger That Day is Done -- Janis Joplin Mamunia -- Crosby, Stills and Nash Wanderlust -- k d lang Arrow Through Me -- Stevie Wonder The Pound Is Sinking -- Elvis Costello Junk -- Linda Ronstadt House of Wax -- Jim Morrison Eat at Home -- Buddy Holly One of These Days -- James Taylor Souvenir -- Aretha Franklin
Lonely Road - Lindsey Buckingham Rough Ride - Dave Matthews Band
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toris:
And not a big fan of KD Lang.... probably also cos I am bias on the brilliant version of Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.... and if anyone tells me Lang did a better version of that song... well....
Funny you mention Jeff Buckley. His father, Tim, was one of Linda's "boyfriends."
(that's how I heard of Jeff originally, although I had heard his fantastic version of Hallelujah) -
Nancy R:
toris:
And not a big fan of KD Lang.... probably also cos I am bias on the brilliant version of Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.... and if anyone tells me Lang did a better version of that song... well....
Funny you mention Jeff Buckley. His father, Tim, was one of Linda's "boyfriends."
(that's how I heard of Jeff originally, although I had heard his fantastic version of Hallelujah)Nance, nothing beats that version from Jeff of Hallelujah. Goose-bump Central. The Jeff-Tim Buckley story is very sad. But one of those rare ones where the son was greater than the father... the musicians amongst us will appreciate how Jeff tuned all sorts of strings to get HIS sound... what a unique voice. Makes me very sad...doesn't happen often with father-son combos... where the son ascends the triumphs of the father ..... (maybe Luke and Darth).... On to Bruce's list, I'd have loved to hear Queen do Back Seat of My Car. Freddie, with those wonderful boys in harmony, would've nailed that.
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toris:
Nancy R:
toris:
And not a big fan of KD Lang.... probably also cos I am bias on the brilliant version of Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley.... and if anyone tells me Lang did a better version of that song... well....
Funny you mention Jeff Buckley. His father, Tim, was one of Linda's "boyfriends."
(that's how I heard of Jeff originally, although I had heard his fantastic version of Hallelujah)Nance, nothing beats that version from Jeff of Hallelujah. Goose-bump Central. The Jeff-Tim Buckley story is very sad. But one of those rare ones where the son was greater than the father... the musicians amongst us will appreciate how Jeff tuned all sorts of strings to get HIS sound... what a unique voice. Makes me very sad...doesn't happen often with father-son combos... where the son ascends the triumphs of the father ..... (maybe Luke and Darth).... On to Bruce's list, I'd have loved to hear Queen do Back Seat of My Car. Freddie, with those wonderful boys in harmony, would've nailed that.
"On to Bruce's list, I'd have loved to hear Queen do Back Seat of My Car. Freddie, with those wonderful boys in harmony, would've nailed that." I agree, they would have done great job with that song. Also think the Beach Boys with Brian Wilson would have done the song well also.
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I've never understood why Billy Joel stopped making new music so abruptly. It's not like he retired. He's been touring ever since.
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yankeefan7:
Lonely Road - Lindsey Buckingham
That would be awesome.
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HaileyMcComet:
I've never understood why Billy Joel stopped making new music so abruptly. It's not like he retired. He's been touring ever since.
See below from interview in 2014. In a new interview with The New Yorker, Joel, who last released an album in 1993, said that's not likely to happen. ?Some people think it?s because I?m lazy or I?m just being contrary," he said. "But, no, I think it?s just -- I?ve had my say. If I put out an album now, it would probably sell pretty well, because of who I am, but that?s no reason to do it. I?d want it to be good." "I?ve seen artists on that treadmill, putting out albums year after year, and the albums get worse and worse, less and less interesting, and it?s, like, 'Maybe you should stop,'" he continued. In addition, Joel added that actually recording a new album would just be too much of a hassle. "I?m not crazy about going into a recording studio and doing that kind of life again, or taking on another project where there?s other people involved -- arrangers and orchestrators and conductors and producers. I don?t want to deal with it. ... You have to have a certain amount of ambition to want to do all that," he said. "And I look back at the guy who was the recording artist, this Billy Joel guy, and I think, Who the f*** was that guy? He was very ambitious, very driven, and I don?t feel like that anymore.? And then there's the personal aspect of it. Joel said he doesn't want to write songs, only to have people pick them apart for clues to his personal life. ?I had gone through this celebrity craziness with Christie [Brinkley], and the divorce," he said, talking about the time of his album, River of Dreams, and its aftermath. "I felt like there was a proctoscope up my butt. Everybody interrogating, analyzing -- everything I wrote was fraught with meanings -- and I said, 'Wait a minute, I don?t want to rip myself open and let everyone see everything.' It was no longer comfortable. 'Enough! I gave you enough!'?
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Thanks for answering. I just developed more respect for Billy Joel.
