Original Covers
I can’t imagine what came over the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, who recently said he had a problem with the so-called “compulsory license” law that allows any musician to cover any other musician’s song. Did he forget singing Radiohead’s “Creep” in front of hordes of concertgoers at the 2008 Coachella Festival? Or recording “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James and the Shondells?
Well, while Prince recovers from his rush of blood to the head, let’s consider some great covers that probably never would have happened if His Purple Majesty had his way.
Cream covering Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads,” for example, was hugely influential in the resurgence of interest in a formerly obscure, long-dead bluesman. (Bad example, I guess – Johnson wasn’t around to deny permission. Still, great cover.)
I was too young to have known Pink Floyd in the original Syd Barrett years, but David Bowie’s cover of “See Emily Play” introduced me to the sounds of English psychedelia in its formative phase.
Manfred Mann made a career out of his cover of the Bruce Springsteen song “Blinded By The Light,” a tune that was considered a “deep track” for Springsteen fans.
This list could go on forever – and you can feel free to add to it. But for any Prince followers who are not yet convinced, consider the following:
“Hallelujah,” recorded by Jeff Buckley. Cover of a Leonard Cohen song that inspired the even more famous Rufus Wainwright version that appears in the film Shrek . (And inspired in its turn not by the Cohen original, but by a similarly obscure John Cale remake.) Until Buckley’s recording, only Cohen’s circle of fans knew the song. Now it is one of the most covered songs of recent years.
“All Along The Watchtower,” recorded by Jimi Hendrix. Even Dylan conceded that Hendrix all but owned this song. How big a feat is that, when you consign Bob Dylan to the sidelines? Perhaps the greatest cover in rock history.
What cover song introduced you to a song or songwriter you wouldn’t have otherwise known? Leave a comment.
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Though he may not have the thematic focus of past records, like Springsteen's “Blinded by the Light”, Sheff hones in on the word-to-word sounds in his lines in a way that recalls hip-hop lyricists as much as other indie rockers.
Manfred Mann made a career out of his cover of the Bruce Springsteen song “Blinded By The Light,” a tune that was considered a “deep track” for Springsteen fans. This list could go on forever – and you can feel free to add to it.
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Manfred Mann's version replaces the line "Cut loose like a deuce" with "Revved up like a deuce." In their version, "Deuce" was commonly misheard as "Douche." Springsteen's original line makes a lot more sense - a deuce is a 1932 Ford hotrod. On his Storytellers special, Springsteen said (in a jesting manner) that the only reason Manfred Mann's version went #1 was because they said "Douche" instead of "Deuce." (thanks, Anthony - New York, NY) After 8 years playing in bars where audiences usually didn't listen to or couldn't hear the words, Springsteen used his first album to unload a ton of lyrics. All these lyrics helped earn Springsteen the tag "The New Dylan." Singer-songwriters like James Taylor and Kris Kristofferson also shared the comparison, and Bruce went out of his way to shed the tag by making his next album a true rock record. I apologize if someone has already answered the question about "Rorschach", but in any case, here is the answer. If you don't believe it, google it. ;) The Rorschach Test consists of a series of cards on which inkblots are depicted. The subject is asked to tell what the inkblots make him think of. Since the inkblots are not designed and are rather ambiguous, the subject's (or patient's, if you prefer) responses are believed to provide information about his unconscious mind. It once was quite popular with psychologists and psychotherapists, but not as much these days. Not sure what Bruce was referring to when he said "cut loose like a deuce." Could be a reference to a car as Bruce said on VH1, could be a 2 card, often called a deuce which one might want to discard or "cut loose" in a card game, could be nonsense or something personal only known to Bruce. I have been in the radio business for 38 years and had dinner with Manfred Mann about a year after he released Blinded by The Light. When I asked him about the strange lyrical change in his version he said that because of the language barrier between English people and Americans, he didn't know what it said or what it meant so he faked it and substituted words that sounded similar, fit, and didn't really mean anything. He wasn't talking about feminine products and was embarrassed that people interpreted it that way. It never crossed his mind. When the controversy over his lyrics got back to him he became curious and the best explanation he heard was that Bruce's lyric referred to a card game.
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