O/T Cover versions

[CTMilller]

Well, Fountain of Sorrow is on your mum's album. I like it but will give "Before the Deluge" a play. I'm a bit biased about Baez (!); I think she's a pain in the rrse; Social Justice Warriro, Peacenick etc, etc. I do like her composition Diamonds and Rust though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8

I'm a massive Jackson Browne fan and have been ever since I saw his set on the Old Grey Whistle Test in, I think, 1972 when his first album had just come out in the UK. (It's called simply 'Jackson Browne' but tends to be called "Saturate Before Using" because of the front cover graphics.) "Late For The Sky" was his third album released in 1974 after "Everyman".

(Sugar Tiler of these boards briefly met Browne at the time of the OGWT performance and has told me a little of those times. Sugar was a minion in Browne's record company's London office and was responsible for shepherding him between appointments.)

There are many covers of many of his songs. The one I would mention is Nico's version of "These Days". (Nico of Velvet Underground fame.) I personally think very little of it but it is often quoted as one of those tracks that is better than the original. To me it just represents a different style and the best I can say is that it's typical of that different style...

Browne and Nico had a brief fling when he was still in his *****. She was attracted to his pretty-boy looks but soon spat him out rather publicly - not very nice. In fact there isn't much that is very nice about Nico in my book - apart from her looks...

[BigLadonOS]

I'm a massive Jackson Browne fan and have been ever since I saw his set on the Old Grey Whistle Test in, I think, 1972 when his first album had just come out in the UK. (It's called simply 'Jackson Browne' but tends to be called "Saturate Before Using" because of the front cover graphics.) "Late For The Sky" was his third album released in 1974 after "Everyman".

(Sugar Tiler of these boards briefly met Browne at the time of the OGWT performance and has told me a little of those times. Sugar was a minion in Browne's record company's London office and was responsible for shepherding him between appointments.)

There are many covers of many of his songs. The one I would mention is Nico's version of "These Days". (Nico of Velvet Underground fame.) I personally think very little of it but it is often quoted as one of those tracks that is better than the original. To me it just represents a different style and the best I can say is that it's typical of that different style...

Browne and Nico had a brief fling when he was still in his *****. She was attracted to his pretty-boy looks but soon spat him out rather publicly - not very nice. In fact there isn't much that is very nice about Nico in my book - apart from her looks...

Nico's voice is terrible, I have always wondered how people could listen to her and not want to bang their heads against a brick wall.

[BigLadonOS]

Björk brought new life to Betty Hutton's version (that was also a cover of Harry (Horst) Winter's original German version) of "It's Oh So Quiet" I thought it was so funny when the music industry went nuts over this song and lauded Björk as such a great song writer lol.