Comments on: We Belong: Pat Benatar versus Tori Amos

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:11:08 +0000

“Because the Night does the same job better anyway”

Or, to put it in a slimmer fashion…

Q.: Pat Benatar, or Tori Amos?
A.: Patti Smith.

As to the issue of whether willowy acoustic covers are more “authentic,” I’d like to see somebody try that out on “New Day Rising” or “The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill”. Although the Ramones cover of “Needles and Pins” is successfully ‘authentic’ in the folkie manner.

I’ve had the odd pleasure of seeing not one, but two, smartypants bands doing stylish re-workings of the Theme from ‘The Munsters’ — one was a slow, sweetly syncopated country/bluegrass sort of thing (try it, it works!), the other was… klezmer. Both were bitchin’.

By: FDB

FDB — Thu, 13 May 2010 10:19:37 +0000

As far as I know, Tina Turner never released a version, nor Stevie Nicks. So I don’t care much at the moment.

But Pat’s is better, if only for the overblown production.

But #2, Because The Night does the same job better anyway.

By: Paul Norton

Paul Norton — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:49:52 +0000

Meanwhile, The Bangles join the fray. I have also commented on another thread that this impromptu version by Pat swings the argument decisively in her favour

By: Paul Norton

Paul Norton — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:34:51 +0000

A slight double-take on the opening post. The best song which Pat Benatar was ever involved in recording is this one.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:22:40 +0000

no mainstream funk.
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Duran Duran? Spandau Ballet? Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

By: Paul Norton

Paul Norton — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:31:40 +0000

Chookie #22, that was the Do They Know It's Christmas? summer. Also the We Are The World summer and the Vote 1 Peter Garrett and the Nuclear Disarmament Party summer. In the intervening quarter century some of the yoof hope has been, in Roger Waters' words, "lost in a daze of alcohol-soft middle age".

By: Chookie

Chookie — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:03:47 +0000

Adrien @ 23, no mainstream funk. Pointer Sisters bad, for example.

By: j_p_z

j_p_z — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:47:03 +0000

Apologies to critics, but I simply can’t hear a bad word said against Tori Amos. Hey, she made three great records in a row — Under the Pink, Boys for Pele, and From the Choirgirl Hotel. That’s enuf for any mortal. Especially when you consider that she seems like she was designed in a lab by a mad scientist for the express purpose of annoying me personally. Sorry, Doctor X, it didn’t work. Somehow I think “Bells for Her” and the end of “The Wrong Band” are among the best bits (and in the case of the latter, also the wittiest) of pop songwriting in our time. At least before that craft totally expired, as lately it seems to’ve. –Of. Have. I know the latter is correct, but this bit of grammar has always been a nuisance.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:20:34 +0000

o New Wave and New Romantic, mainly British. No funk thankyouverymuch.
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How do you get New Romantic without funk exactly?

By: Chookie

Chookie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:07:19 +0000

Shudders, Paul, not one of the highlights of that period for me, though I can remember the song well. That was the “Do They Know it’s Christmas Time?” summer, wasn’t it? There hadn’t been so much yoof hope around since the Summer of Love.

My friends and I were starting to move away from our five minutes of teeny-bopperdom to New Wave and New Romantic, mainly British. No funk thankyouverymuch. And we were all greasy-haired and covered in pimples and 14-year-old angst.