... Versus...

[Bigga]

Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA&feature=fvwrel[/youtube]

Aretha Franklin's "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8JC3Ey12xs&feature=related[/youtube]

Not sure why I've never heard Aretha's version before, but it BLEW ME AWAY!! I felt a bit embarrassed for S&G, for some reason!!

Anybody got any other examples of original songs having its back doors smashed in by someone else??

 

[jimharri]

Simon and Garfunkel; no contest.

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

Simon & Garfunkel definitely.

 

[Bigga]

What the fook??

Are you serious????

Nah, you're joshing me...

 

[jimharri]

What the fook??

Are you serious????

Nah, you're joshing me...

Er; no. Why would I? Franklin has a fantastic voice, but the song is synonymous with S&G and it just doesn't sound ''right'' hearing someone else singing it. Very, very few cover versions are as good as the original, especially when the original is a classic like ''Bridge Over Troubled Water''. It's like listening to anyone other than Franklin singing RESPECT. Or listening to the Will Young/Gareth Gates version of ''The Long and Winding Road''. Just wrong. Sorry, but it's what I believe.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Best voice ever, I wake up to Aretha every morning, puts me in a right good mood

 

[Bigga]

What the fook??

Are you serious????

Nah, you're joshing me...

Er; no. Why would I? Franklin has a fantastic voice, but the song is synonymous with S&G and it just doesn't sound ''right'' hearing someone else singing it. Very, very few cover versions are as good as the original, especially when the original is a classic like ''Bridge Over Troubled Water''. It's like listening to anyone other than Franklin singing RESPECT. Or listening to the Will Young/Gareth Gates version of ''The Long and Winding Road''. Just wrong. Sorry, but it's what I believe.

Mm, interesting.

I think AR takes it beyond S&G's original sight and makes it a spiritual journey with much more meaning to it.

But, fair enough...

 

[Carver]

Dreadful from Aretha. You can put your gospel twist on some good songs and give them a different dimension but this makes her sound like a pub singer!

Lost all her R.E.S.P.E.C.T. doing that one.

 

[Barcon]

Can't stand Urethra Franklin. S & G all the way.

 

[stony]

Quite possibly the worst version ever. Even Hearsay's was better than that.