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Music Draft - Rolling Stone Greatest 500 Songs Garbage List - Now with unhealthy regional pork-stuffs! (1 Viewer)

I’m pretty sure this won’t cause any issues since those picking before my next pick have all drafted from this tier.

18.04 Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body (#335)

Awesome dance tune that I’m not sure I’ve ever heard before. Put it on this morning and it is doing a better job of getting me off my ### and in to the home office more than my coffee is.

 
the moops said:
Your Song - Elton John (203)
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Today I learned that this song is a cover though it was written by John and Taupin:

"Your Song" was first released by American rock band Three Dog Night in March 1970 on their third studio album, It Ain't Easy. John was an opening act for the band at the time and allowed them to record it. They did not release it as a single as they wanted to let John, then an upcoming artist, have a go with it.
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Haven't yet gone and listened to Three Dog Night's version. I am having a hard time imagining it in my head.

EDIT: Danny Hutton, going by song count, was third in line for lead vocal duties after Cory Wells and Chuck Negron. Hutton does an excellent job with "Your Song", pretty faithful. On Elton John's version the piano is at a much warmer and luxurious timbre ... Three Dog's instrumentation is a little "plinkety-plink" if that makes sense..

 
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Mrs. Rannous said:
I see he's picked from the group I want, so my 

Round 17 pick is

Landslide  (163)  -  Fleetwood Mac  (1975)

I guess it's on to songs I may or may not acknowledge from now on.
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I mostly despise Fleetwood Mac, but I LOVE this song.

ETA:  Just realized this had still been available to me.  Terrible pick.

 
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krista4 said:
I mostly despise Fleetwood Mac, but I LOVE this song.
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I'd never heard of it until Smashing Pumpkins covered it in 1994. It wasn't played on the radio stations I listened to growing up, and I didn't have any FMac albums. It didn't become a hit until the version from The Dance was released as a single in 1996. 

 
Pip's Invitation said:
Doug B said:
Today I learned that this song is a cover though it was written by John and Taupin:
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I'm not sure if "cover" is the right word to describe the author performing a song they wrote that was recorded by someone else first. 
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I'll solicit @Eephus input on this. My understanding of "cover version" is that, narrowly and technically, it's defined solely by the release date of recording, while writing credit has no bearing at all. Accordingly, when Bruce Springsteen released a live version of his composition "Fire", The Boss technically covered Robert Gordon (who the Pointer Sisters also covered with their hit version).

There are unusual cases where someone covers a song on which they originally played. Former Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch, very strictly, covered his own composition "Sentimental Lady" on his hit album French Kiss. Welch played guitar (ceding the vox to Danny Kirwan) on the original release of the song, on Fleetwood Mac's album Bare Trees.

 
So if fatguy and Dreaded Marco are the only two left in a tier I have targeted, I could  go ahead and pick, since they are after me?

 
130 - Dancing in the Street / Martha and the Vandellas 1964

 This is a fantastic song I fell in love with in 5th grade, even tho I was being indoctrinated by the Sounthern Baptists who forbade dancing. It might have been the first rift that led me to become an atheist. Had I been raised Methodist, I might be a reverend now.

Picking Martha Reeves and the Vandellas twice in the draft or back to back is not issue for me, when the alternatives are Arianna Grande/ and Madonna/Vogue (if she didn't shave her arm pits, this song would never even have charted). Sorry fatguy and Marco, ya'll get them.

enjoy

even after all these years it still gives me chills

 
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Something is wrong with Sheet 3 it says one of my remaining groups is 176-200 but I already picked from that group.  There must also be a group that I haven’t picked from that was mistakenly colored red.

 
fatguyinalittlecoat said:
Something is wrong with Sheet 3 it says one of my remaining groups is 176-200 but I already picked from that group.  There must also be a group that I haven’t picked from that was mistakenly colored red.
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wait a sec... SHEET THREE????!!! THAT"S A THING?!!!!

sunnava. I spent so much time scrolling up and down the song list looking at RED and trying to find my songs. 

 
Doug B said:
I'll solicit @Eephus input on this. My understanding of "cover version" is that, narrowly and technically, it's defined solely by the release date of recording, while writing credit has no bearing at all. Accordingly, when Bruce Springsteen released a live version of his composition "Fire", The Boss technically covered Robert Gordon (who the Pointer Sisters also covered with their hit version).

There are unusual cases where someone covers a song on which they originally played. Former Fleetwood Mac member Bob Welch, very strictly, covered his own composition "Sentimental Lady" on his hit album French Kiss. Welch played guitar (ceding the vox to Danny Kirwan) on the original release of the song, on Fleetwood Mac's album Bare Trees.
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Tim made the same point earlier in the thread about covers being defined solely based on release date. I think that's true in most cases but personally I'm willing to give some wiggle room to the songwriter. It's kind of silly to label a song performed by its original songwriter as a cover version.

 
Eephus said:
Tim made the same point earlier in the thread about covers being defined solely based on release date. I think that's true in most cases but personally I'm willing to give some wiggle room to the songwriter. It's kind of silly to label a song performed by its original songwriter as a cover version.
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I don''t care what the rules are, in my world, if anyone other than the singer/sonwriter performs it, its a cover.

 
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El Floppo said:
wait a sec... SHEET THREE????!!! THAT"S A THING?!!!!

sunnava. I spent so much time scrolling up and down the song list looking at RED and trying to find my songs. 
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Didnt know about sheet 3 either.

 
cosjobs said:
I don''t care what the rules are, in my world, if anyone other than the singer/sonwriter performs it, its a cover.
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This gets cloudy though when you talk about sampling, or versions that are slightly different.......ie Fugees killing me softly....hell Roberta flack wasn't even the original on this one.   Plus there tons of songs out there that are written by one person sang by others.....it's rampant in pop music where the goal is often times to write a catchy hit to make money.

And I maintain that Haggard/Nelson's Pancho and Lefty is better than Van Zandts.....obviously has been the more known version over the years as well.

So does a cover not deserve to be on lists like this?

 
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