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Cover to Cover: Whitney v Dolly
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Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩1 -
Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
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KBslittlesis said:Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩0 -
Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩
you brut!1 -
KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is a good example and a very good LP.
Maybe I'll do a cover to cover of To Love Somebody1 -
Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is a good example and a very good LP.
Maybe I'll do a cover to cover of To Love Somebody
Is this one of the nastier side effects of the pandemic?
Bad enough with the missus having Smooth Country set on the radio in her car.3 -
Not even a close call. Of course it's Dolly.
"Country" music covers such a wide area, most never go beyond hearing the kind of "Smooth country" Addickted mentions - that's all they will ever hear. In reality the genre is as diverse as rock music.
Some of it bores me - some of it is among the best music ever made.5 -
Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is a good example and a very good LP.
Maybe I'll do a cover to cover of To Love Somebody0 -
Addickted said:Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is a good example and a very good LP.
Maybe I'll do a cover to cover of To Love Somebody
Is this one of the nastier side effects of the pandemic?
Bad enough with the missus having Smooth Country set on the radio in her car.0 -
Henry Irving said:Addickted said:Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is a good example and a very good LP.
Maybe I'll do a cover to cover of To Love Somebody
Is this one of the nastier side effects of the pandemic?
Bad enough with the missus having Smooth Country set on the radio in her car.No problem with listening to and loving both!Oh Joni, my Joni.0 - Sponsored links:
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Algarveaddick said:Not even a close call. Of course it's Dolly.
"Country" music covers such a wide area, most never go beyond hearing the kind of "Smooth country" Addickted mentions - that's all they will ever hear. In reality the genre is as diverse as rock music.
Some of it bores me - some of it is among the best music ever made.Very true.Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson - up there with the greats in the Pantheon.0 -
bobmunro said:Henry Irving said:Addickted said:Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is a good example and a very good LP.
Maybe I'll do a cover to cover of To Love Somebody
Is this one of the nastier side effects of the pandemic?
Bad enough with the missus having Smooth Country set on the radio in her car.No problem with listening to and loving both!Oh Joni, my Joni.0 -
Interesting challenge. I was expecting to go with Dolly, as my memory of the Whitney version was that it was too overblown, overproduced and too much melismatic phrasing. And I like country*, have been in acts that covered Dolly songs.... but on an honest listen, Dolly's version is great, but I find the backing too schmaltzy. I'd love to hear her do it bluegrass style, there's a time and place for pedal steel and this isn't it. Whitney's phrasing, and above all, her voice, win out, once I'd listened again. The part where she goes up a gear about two thirds of the way in is spine tingling.
I think it is a great song and it's good to have two really good versions of it.
* obviously as an awkward English person when I say country, I mean Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Flatt and Scruggs, old timey stuff and certainly not Garth Brooks or that bland Nashville pop sound.0 -
Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
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Henry Irving said:bobmunro said:Henry Irving said:Addickted said:Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is a good example and a very good LP.
Maybe I'll do a cover to cover of To Love Somebody
Is this one of the nastier side effects of the pandemic?
Bad enough with the missus having Smooth Country set on the radio in her car.No problem with listening to and loving both!Oh Joni, my Joni.3 -
Has to be Dolly for me.
This is mainly because a number of years ago I was persuaded to go to a Karaoke afternoon (yeah, that's right, afternoon!) in some pub in Maidstone. Two girls were butchering the Whitney Houston version to such a degree the management actually pulled the plug as other customers were starting to leave.1 -
KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
There's no hope for you.1 -
rananegra said:Interesting challenge. I was expecting to go with Dolly, as my memory of the Whitney version was that it was too overblown, overproduced and too much melismatic phrasing. And I like country*, have been in acts that covered Dolly songs.... but on an honest listen, Dolly's version is great, but I find the backing too schmaltzy. I'd love to hear her do it bluegrass style, there's a time and place for pedal steel and this isn't it. Whitney's phrasing, and above all, her voice, win out, once I'd listened again. The part where she goes up a gear about two thirds of the way in is spine tingling.
I think it is a great song and it's good to have two really good versions of it.
* obviously as an awkward English person when I say country, I mean Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Flatt and Scruggs, old timey stuff and certainly not Garth Brooks or that bland Nashville pop sound.3 -
Whitney for me and the link below is worth a watch if you like the Whitney version, Candy Dulfer on the sax takes it to another level.
Glennis Grace feat. Candy Dulfer - I Will Always Love You - YouTube
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Wheresmeticket? said:Whitney's version is awful, just overblown. Dolly's is sublime.6
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KBslittlesis said:hoof_it_up_to_benty said:KBslittlesis said:killerandflash said:I'd never heard the Dolly original before. On balance I think I prefer it, ironically it sounds more "soulful"
But but but country 😩😩😩😩😩0 -
AddicksAddict said:KBslittlesis said:hoof_it_up_to_benty said:KBslittlesis said:killerandflash said:I'd never heard the Dolly original before. On balance I think I prefer it, ironically it sounds more "soulful"
But but but country 😩😩😩😩😩0 -
bobmunro said:Henry Irving said:bobmunro said:Henry Irving said:Addickted said:Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is a good example and a very good LP.
Maybe I'll do a cover to cover of To Love Somebody
Is this one of the nastier side effects of the pandemic?
Bad enough with the missus having Smooth Country set on the radio in her car.No problem with listening to and loving both!Oh Joni, my Joni.
Just prefer Janis to Joni.1 -
Addickted said:bobmunro said:Henry Irving said:bobmunro said:Henry Irving said:Addickted said:Henry Irving said:KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is a good example and a very good LP.
Maybe I'll do a cover to cover of To Love Somebody
Is this one of the nastier side effects of the pandemic?
Bad enough with the missus having Smooth Country set on the radio in her car.No problem with listening to and loving both!Oh Joni, my Joni.
Just prefer Janis to Joni.
I never liked him.1 -
Algarveaddick said:rananegra said:Interesting challenge. I was expecting to go with Dolly, as my memory of the Whitney version was that it was too overblown, overproduced and too much melismatic phrasing. And I like country*, have been in acts that covered Dolly songs.... but on an honest listen, Dolly's version is great, but I find the backing too schmaltzy. I'd love to hear her do it bluegrass style, there's a time and place for pedal steel and this isn't it. Whitney's phrasing, and above all, her voice, win out, once I'd listened again. The part where she goes up a gear about two thirds of the way in is spine tingling.
I think it is a great song and it's good to have two really good versions of it.
* obviously as an awkward English person when I say country, I mean Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Flatt and Scruggs, old timey stuff and certainly not Garth Brooks or that bland Nashville pop sound.
Reminded me of that line in The Dambusters when the bloke asks Barnes Wallis why on earth he thinks the RAF would lend him a Wellington bomber for his tests;
"Would it help if you told them I designed it?"2 -
Led Zeppelin are what musical genre anyway?
I would be surprised if Deep Purple or Motörhead came up with stuff like the Battle of Evermore or the folksy Gallows Pole.
In my view Led Zeppelin stand to the side of pigeon holing and they were their own drivers in their own musical creative journey.
I wouldn’t suggest they were to everybody’s musical taste, but as individuals and as a collective they were something very special indeed in my view.Incidentally only musical snobs would roundly dismiss a whole category of music as rubbish, like classical or jazz or country or pop. Doesn’t music need to be judged on it’s own merits piece by piece?0 -
seth plum said:Led Zeppelin are what musical genre anyway?
I would be surprised if Deep Purple or Motörhead came up with stuff like the Battle of Evermore or the folksy Gallows Pole.
In my view Led Zeppelin stand to the side of pigeon holing and they were their own drivers in their own musical creative journey.
I wouldn’t suggest they were to everybody’s musical taste, but as individuals and as a collective they were something very special indeed in my view.Incidentally only musical snobs would roundly dismiss a whole category of music as rubbish, like classical or jazz or country or pop. Doesn’t music need to be judged on it’s own merits piece by piece?
But the reality is that they varied their style - heavy rock one track, followed by country/folk - and then followed by pure delta blues. All three and more genres could appear in a single track.
Page described it as wanting to produce 'light and shade'.
They were very special in my opinion also - as special as it is possible to be.
Jazz, by the way, can be roundly dismissed as rubbish - unless produced in a home studio.1 -
I agree that what initially united Zeppelin as a band was the common (to them at the time) musical currency of the blues. They soon realised that as a creative foursome they could extend and explore in other musical directions. If Zep have a weakness it would be in terms of 'statements' in lyrics compared to others, mainly the stuff would be about love and loss and bonking, they were even described as 'cock rock' for a while, and in terms of feel, the passion in a lot of their music was intense and sexual. Or it was storytelling in the folk/blues tradition.
I am not saying they're lyrically weak, but in terms of cultural commentary they were a long way from a masterpiece such as 'Won't Get Fooled Again'. However if you don't want to be lectured to, but enjoy an aesthetic musical experience then few are better than Led Zep.
I have discovered that Jazz is also great, as is country.
'This is the way to make a broken heart' by Johnny Cash's daughter Roseanne, is as beautifully crafted a song as anybody could find.0 -
Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:Wheresmeticket? said:KBslittlesis said:captainbob said:KBslittlesis said:Witney all day long.
I love Dolly as a person but country music can get in the bin, it makes my ears bleed 😩
They're obsessed with it.
And Irish country is the very worst 😩😩😩😩https://youtu.be/98Ow_Jav_eo
There's no hope for you.1 -
seth plum said:Led Zeppelin are what musical genre anyway?
I would be surprised if Deep Purple or Motörhead came up with stuff like the Battle of Evermore or the folksy Gallows Pole.
In my view Led Zeppelin stand to the side of pigeon holing and they were their own drivers in their own musical creative journey.
I wouldn’t suggest they were to everybody’s musical taste, but as individuals and as a collective they were something very special indeed in my view.Incidentally only musical snobs would roundly dismiss a whole category of music as rubbish, like classical or jazz or country or pop. Doesn’t music need to be judged on it’s own merits piece by piece?1