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Cover to cover. 'I saw her standing there'. The Beatles or The Pink Fairies.

seth plum
seth plum Posts: 53,448
in Not Sports Related
Two versions of the same song. Listen to both without prejudice and say which you prefer and why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xbig-xfCIQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqDSWL6mR-8

Comments

  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,238
    edited May 2017
    Always enjoyed the Pink Fairies but definitely prefer the original Beatles version.

    Fits their sound much better.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,954
    stonemuse said:

    Always enjoyed the Pink Fairies but definitely prefer the original Beatles version.

    Fits their sound much better.

    Ditto.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,484
    edited May 2017
    Fairies trying too hard to make a pop/soul song sound like a blues song.

    Beatles sounds both rawer and sharper although the link seems to be to Macca solo version

    The Beatles take it.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,092
    Tiffany.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    I prefer my own band's version... but then I would, wouldn't I?
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,575
    The Fab Four win it hands down.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,463
    The Beatles' version of this song is the best. The Pink Fairies' version doesn't add anything or explore any contemporaneous issues. A full decade after The Beatles recorded I Saw Her Standing There, the cover version hasn't interpreted the song in any intersting or important new way.

    I am really intrigued by @Henry Irving 's comment about version one on the original post not being The Beatles. It doesnt't seem to be take one from the 11 February 1963 Please Please Me; it's certainly not take two (which was an outtake); and it's also not take nine, from which the "One, Two, Three, FOUR..." introduction is taken.

    But it also sounds like The Beatles! I am absoutely sure it's Ringo playing drums.

    McCartney recorded it "solo" in 1987, so it could be that version. Although, why would he bother to record an almost-identical version? Maybe it's Macca singing it on top of an original recording from the '63 session..?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I tend to agree with everybody here, although I prefer the Fairies guitar break.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,189
    edited May 2017
    Has to be the Beatles for me. My favourite song by them. And as far as I can tell that version sounds near identical to the one on the album.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    No real competition....The Beatles

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  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,903
    The Tubes version knocks spots off any others!
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 990
    The Beatles all day long.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,174
    Saga Lout said:

    I prefer my own band's version... but then I would, wouldn't I?

    so do I.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Greenie said:

    Saga Lout said:

    I prefer my own band's version... but then I would, wouldn't I?

    so do I.
    Thank you for your support.

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