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Sia is incredible. She wrote a lot of songs for other artists and did vocals for groups like Zero7 and Massive Attack before going mainstream with her solo career. She does have some sort of social anxiety which is why she covers her face (at the beginning of her rise) so people wouldn't recognize her in the street and swarm her. In some of her videos she's portrayed by Maddie Ziegler who was first made famous on some reality dancing show. Sia's music is quite deep and many of her popular hits have to do with issues she's dealt with in life such as mental illness of which she and her father struggled with and he never overcame. Elastic Heart is an incredible song and the music video is probably one of the best I've ever seen, especially when you read up on the symbolism.
I too came here to post this. I thought for sure NIN covered him but it was the other way around. | |||
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One day I had a drive from St. Peter, Minnesota to Denver. The song Black Betty came on the radio. Hadn't heard it in years, but it really got me going. Ram Jam covered Lead Belly, and then I found Larkin Poe's arrangement and like that one the best. _________________________ OH, Bonnie McMurray! | |||
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It's amazing how many people covered JJ Cale's songs.   | |||
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Come to think of it, in 1990 when it came out I didn't realize the Black Crowes version of Hard To Hande was an Otis Redding song. | |||
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not a huge fan of Sia's solo work, but will say she has some serious talent for a 'pop star' saying that because I am a big fan of Zero7, a band she performed with before she got big, look up Zero7 Destiny https://www.chesterfieldarmament.com/ | |||
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Found this out several years ago. The original from Ednaswap is far superior, in my opinion. I hate offended people. They come in two flavours - huffy and whiny - and it's hard to know which is worst. The huffy ones are self-important, narcissistic authoritarians in love with the sound of their own booming disapproval, while the whiny, sparrowlike ones are so annoying and sickly and ill-equipped for life on Earth you just want to smack them round the head until they stop crying and grow up. - Charlie Brooker | |||
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Tennesse whiskey done by Chris Stapleton. It wasn’t until I heard the original by David Allen Coe that I learned it was a cover. Chris’s is better. War Eagle! | |||
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I like both versions, but I'd give the edge to Coe's slightly more immediate vestion. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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... and Diamonds and Rust, was originally written and performed by Joan Baez. Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez: https://youtu.be/B6Uc2hPShh0 Diamonds and Rust - Judas Priest: https://youtu.be/-OHJP1BSVgM Loyalty Above All Else, Except Honor ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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I always thought this song belonged to the Righteous Brothers, who recorded it in 1965; the song was 11 years old then. It was actually written in 1955, music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. Here’s Gene Vincent from 1956. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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What about when it is not a cover. But the same song just sped up? Lady GaGa has a song called Bloody Mary: Then I started seeing a cover of the song on a bunch of tiktok videos. Naturally, I thought I was hearing a "cover" of the song but it turns out it is the same song but some DJ just sped it up: This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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Charley Pride singing "Kaw Liga" Written by Hank Williams | |||
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Most everything in country can be traced to Hank Williams.  Seriously, I thought Kaw-Liga was famously a Hank Williams song. I once heard Hank Jr. sing it, and it was the only song from his dad he sang at the show I saw. It was cool to hear Jr. do it. I'd like to hear Hank III do it, because Hank III can sound so much like his grandfather that it makes the hair on your neck stand up. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Same with the Allman Brothers. I eventually discovered that some of their greatest songs were covers of classic Blues numbers: Statesboro Blues, One Way Out, Trouble No More, Stormy Monday. _____________________________________________________________________ “Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." - Will Durant | |||
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Hey Joe was a cover. Which was a copy of of this because they were roommates. Yes, rap battles are nothing new. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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There’s a half dozen songs at least I can think of that have had writing credits changed in later album printings. Ritchie Valens’ mom and I assume now his siblings are still collecting a check from one of them Funny cause plant and page are quick to sue when their stuff gets lifted | |||
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I was interested to learn this years ago as well. I like the black crows since about 1990 when they made it big and then learned later that the Grateful dead had lifted hard to handle from Redding. Since then a lot a reggae artist have covered it | |||
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They covered a lot of tunes and I think better than original. Going down to Liverpool and hazy shade of winter are much better than the originals. | |||
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