Take It Personal (Covers)

EXHIBIT C:


Now 'Good Vibrations' was already an overplayed song, but let's not forget that at the time of it's release it was the most expensive single ever produced... and literally blew people's minds.

AS RUINED BY:
The Good Guys.

NO LOVE to the advertising executives who thought it would be a top idea to add a choroegraphed dance routine and change the lyrics to help sell cheap fridges.

Take It Personal (Covers) 2

EXHIBIT B:


A 1988 UK indie anthem by likely Liverpool band The LA's. Future Dad-rock royalty and experts of the dead-pan Northern English interview.

AS RUINED BY:
Sixpence None The Richer.

A match made in heaven, just as long as your idea of heaven is a 90's romantic comedy crossed with a sanitary pad advert. Thanks very much SNTR. No wonder people say romance is dead...

Take It Personal (Covers)

Cover versions make the world go round. They're familiar, sometimes they're tongue-in-cheek - hey, you can't keep a good song down. Now, I'm as ever-loving and open minded as the next person, but sometimes... sometimes you have to take some cover versions PERSONALLY. Not because the original song is sacred or precious, but because the cover version messes with the original in such a way that it rips apart your musical memory and forever haunts you. Like fingernails down the musical blackboard of your mind.

EXHIBIT A:


A later period Smokey Robinson solo song (lifted off his 1979 LP 'Where There's Smoke...'), but hey it's not like Smokey ever really lost his voice.

AS RUINED BY:
Gwyneth Paltrow AND Huey Lewis.

There's not much more to say. Except that their version was a massive hit and has now moved into the elevator/supermarket music hall-of-fame, just like Smokey's cover of Norah Jones' 'Don't Know Why'.

Why Smokey, why? Boo hoo.