Day: August 7, 2006

QotD: Better than the original?

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BBC Sessions
BBC Sessions
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

What is your favorite cover song?
Question submitted by Ray.

First, a disclaimer: I really don't know enough about the songs I hear to know they are covers.

I really like a cover of Daytripper by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the BBC Radio One back before they were American legends. While the Beatles did a good job, I like Jimi's better.

I had heard Jimi was better live than the studio cuts. While these technically in a studio, they were fairly impromptu and not a result of them playing hours upon hours. I think this CD set convinced me. 🙂

A couple of other items to add to this post. I realized these are songs I loop over and over without remorse….

Nina Simone's Sinner Man is fantastic in the chase scene of the Thomas Crown Affair. I am a little peeved that the only version I can find of this on iTunes is the Felix the Housecat remix unless I buy an entire album. Paying $10 for a song I want seems like going backwards. So I do play the remix until I finally find the one I want.

Also, Silence, the Delerium remix of the DJ Tiesto remix of the Sarah McLachlan original Silence was once the most used track on Club compilations. So there are eight of versions of this in my CD collection. Yeah!

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Dinosaurs vs. Fraggles

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Amazon.com: Dinosaurs – The Complete First and Second Seasons

Created before the days of computer animation, Dinosaurs is an early 1990s television comedy series featuring impressive anthropomorphic, animatronic creatures created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The story lines challenge some of society’s most basic assumptions and explore some of the most universally troublesome aspects of “civilized” life. Set in six million three BC, the Sinclairs are your “typical” blue-collar dinosaur family attempting to adjust to the relatively new concept of communal living. The adjustments of moving from a nomadic lifestyle to one of domestication and social interaction are many, and challenging issues like the concepts of right and wrong, faith, and the intricacies of family relationships are forever besieging this every-man’s family. Naturally, the Sinclair family approach is to address each obstacle with an abundance of slapstick comedy. The Dinosaurs episodes regularly function on dual levels: the puppetry and silly antics like Baby Sinclair’s penchant for hitting her father over the head with a pan while hollering “Not the Mama” appeal to even the youngest children, but the often pointed social commentary and sometimes mature themes are squarely aimed at an adult audience. As a result, parental discretion and guidance are key in determining whether this series is appropriate for children under 9 or 10 years old. –Tami Horiuchi

Bold added by me. LOL This was one of my brother’s favorite shows when he was 6! I do recall not finding this show nearly as fascinating as Fraggle Rock. However, I was 7 at the time it came out on HBO (thanks, Grandma, for recording them all to VHS)!

TV is how I was babysat. Its how I babysat my little bro. Some would likely say its why I watch entirely too much TV. Perhaps…. I don’t watch all junk. At least a quarter are science or history shows. So I just repeat the misinformed soundbites. 🙂