With the Beatles / Side B / Round 2

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With the Beatles - Side B - Round 2

Poll ended at 19 Oct 2020, 1:43pm

"Roll Over Beethoven"
5
38%
"Hold Me Tight"
2
15%
"You Really Got a Hold on Me"
1
8%
"I Wanna Be Your Man"
1
8%
"Not a Second Time"
4
31%
"Money (That's What I Want)"
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 13

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With the Beatles / Side B / Round 2

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"Devil in Her Heart" voted off in the 1st round.
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ROB, a poor cover of a song I'm not that fond of anyway.

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BitterTom wrote:
18 Oct 2020, 2:53pm
ROB, a poor cover of a song I'm not that fond of anyway.
I think it was Lester Bangs who said RoB was a punk song, telling all the classical composers to get fucked. I prefer the Chuck Berry version, but the Beatles' is pretty decent shakes.
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At the risk of bringing in outside info I shouldn't be using to judge the song, whenever I want to listen to RoB I never, ever go for the Beatles version. Great song, okay-ish version, seems the weakest at this point to me.
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Silent Majority wrote:
18 Oct 2020, 3:13pm
BitterTom wrote:
18 Oct 2020, 2:53pm
ROB, a poor cover of a song I'm not that fond of anyway.
I think it was Lester Bangs who said RoB was a punk song, telling all the classical composers to get fucked. I prefer the Chuck Berry version, but the Beatles' is pretty decent shakes.
As with T&S, it's Lennon's superior vocal to Chuck's that sells it for me.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Oct 2020, 3:21pm
Silent Majority wrote:
18 Oct 2020, 3:13pm
BitterTom wrote:
18 Oct 2020, 2:53pm
ROB, a poor cover of a song I'm not that fond of anyway.
I think it was Lester Bangs who said RoB was a punk song, telling all the classical composers to get fucked. I prefer the Chuck Berry version, but the Beatles' is pretty decent shakes.
As with T&S, it's Lennon's superior vocal to Chuck's that sells it for me.
I love the way Chuck utilises the smooth Nat King Cole influence into his own passionate, aggressive vocals.
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Okay, so I'm probably the biggest proponent of clap tracks out there, but the RoB cover has to be the WORST clap track I've ever heard.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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Flex wrote:
18 Oct 2020, 3:15pm
At the risk of bringing in outside info I shouldn't be using to judge the song, whenever I want to listen to RoB I never, ever go for the Beatles version. Great song, okay-ish version, seems the weakest at this point to me.
I absolutely do not understand preferring Lennon’s voice on an R&B number to Chuck Berry, personally. Or really any actual R&B artist. But de gustibus etc. etc.
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