Xmas No 1.....How boring

[Speed of Light]

Typical rubbish Christmas no:1.....yet another rip-off from someone elses song. Cant people write there own songs anymore.

NO MORE COVER SONGS PLEASE

Manufactured Rubbish.

These people have NO talent.

Enough said.

Even Cliff Richards song Mistle toe and wine was Ok

 

[tomorton]

I grew up in the 60's-70's when we understood that so many performers who didn't write their own material didn't do so because they had nothing to say - Tom Jones, Des O'Connor, The Bachelors, Val Doonican, Lulu.......

Before them came Elvis, Cliff Richard etc., and after them trailed The Monkees, Boney M and countless others.

I have nothing against covers*, and only respect for a certain few record producers**. But let us spend nothing this Christmas on machine-produced Saturday-night TV Seaside Special Euro pop pap.

* Covers - I just can't whittle it down to less than 5 simply amazing examples - Sinéad O'Connor: 'Nothing Compares 2 U'; Jeff Buckley: 'Hallelujah'; Bryan Ferry: "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall; Michael Andrews Featuring Gary Jules: 'Mad World'; Jimi Hendrix: 'All Along the Watchtower'.

** Sir George Martin: The inventor of record producing? Merits the title, even if he isn't really.

 

[sinimini]

eugh

 

[shadowninja]

What is interesting is that people always slate artists who cover other peoples' songs yet in the classical world, there are so many covers. When an opera singer makes it big, they release an album full of covers yet nobody complains. Strange, eh.

 

[rathcoole_exile]

sorry, for those of without access to radio 1, what is the xmas no 1, which song has been covered and by whom ?

cheers

 

[Masquerade]

"Hallelujah" butchered by Alexandra Bint (the latest x factor winner surprise surprise)

 

[rathcoole_exile]

oh, ferfuxake !!

 

[tomorton]

At the risk of nitpicking (or even just plain being wrong) is this technically a cover? I know Price wrote it, but did he ever actually perform it / stick it on an album? I always thought he wrote it for her.

Like I said - I could be wrong. I just never think of this as a cover.

We're both right -I thought it was originally a Prince recording, actually it was recorded by his band The Family

 

[dilesh23]

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