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Cover to Cover - The Only Way Is Up

LargeAddick
LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
in Not Sports Related
listen to both and decide which you prefer -

Otis Clay - https://m.youtube.com/watch?index=1262&v=0zf0rMfTeaI&list=FLqvQOa9YNT4vpfp-08nWsLg

Yazz - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vjD3EVC1-zU

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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,370
    edited May 2020
    Yazz.

    Why? 1998 Playoff Final celebrations - that's why.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    By rights I should prefer the seventies soul/gospel sound of Otis Clay but I'm going with Yazz, horrible eighties drum machine and all, for the more upbeat tempo and uplifting chorus.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Yazz
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    Spooky.....a couple of days ago we heard the Otis Clay version on 6 Music. Neither myself or the missus even knew that the Yazz song was a cover. We had this exact debate about it.
    For the record......
    Otis Clay x 1 (Me)
    Yazz x 1 (The missus)
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    The Otis Clay version is awful, by the time this song was wheeled out in 1980 disco was *almost* dead. It's hard to believe that these releases are only eight years apart.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Otis Clay is a great soul singer and great song, in my humble opinion of course.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    2 very different versions of an uplifting song .. like choosing between an apple and an orange, both good
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    I never realised it was a cover version either. I think that's credit to Yazz who really made it her own. I like the Otis Clay version, especially the guitar which reminded me of Nils Rogers, overall though it just didn't have the energy. Yanks 0 Londoners 1.

    PS Just looked it up on wiki and was surprised that the Clay version wasn't released until 1980. I'd have put it 10 years earlier, perhaps a bit more.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    Stig said:
    I never realised it was a cover version either. I think that's credit to Yazz who really made it her own. I like the Otis Clay version, especially the guitar which reminded me of Nils Rogers, overall though it just didn't have the energy. Yanks 0 Londoners 1.

    PS Just looked it up on wiki and was surprised that the Clay version wasn't released until 1980. I'd have put it 10 years earlier, perhaps a bit more.

    Until I heard Trevor Nelson play the Otis Clay version the other night I never knew that Yazz was a cover version either. I went in to the missus and said 'Did you know Yazz The Only Way is Up was a cover of a 60's soul record?' so I too was amazed when I looked it up on Wiki and found it was released in 1980, only eight years previously, as it sounds a lot more dated.

    I prefer the Yazz version, a lot more uplifting and joyful.

  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Another vote for Yazz, the Clay version is a bit turgid
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  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,258
    edited May 2020
    Otis Clay was played in the last few months of Wigan Casino, quite a few late 70s early 80s tracks were being played there in the last couple of years before it closed & have to say some like this were a refreshing change others were fucking dreadful disco shit.
    Now a days it's a bit so so, if I pull out the box that it's in I might give it a spin but rarely to the end plus most copies like mine have a hiss which is annoying, probably reused vinyl I guess.

    Yazz sounds like euro disco shit to me so I'll stick with Otis :smiley:
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,258
    killerandflash said:
    Another vote for Yazz, the Clay version is a bit turgid
    Turgid ? Please explain 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Not that keen on either.
    Calling it a draw for me.

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