Gonna feel real good, gonna make a difference

[venta]

It's Friday, it's about 3 o'clock. It's time to go underneath the covers (with the lights out).

I always recommend listening to a cover version without knowing what or who it is, so click on the link before reading ahead...

Today's cover version [link to mp3 download expired]

That was Ian Brown covering Thriller, originally by Michael Jackson

Before there's a chorus of "nah, I prefer the original"... I'm not claiming this is better. I'm just claiming it's interesting.

I'm curious, actually, as to whether anyone knows any other covers of Thriller. The Covers Project lists a few, but not any I know. I think of Thriller - with its iconic video - as being a song so distinctively Michael Jackson's that I'm surprised anyone really made a serious attempt at covering it.

One of the other things I am claiming, though, is that Ian Brown can't sing for toffee. This wasn't so obvious on some of the Stone Roses recordings, but it really is true.

Despite that, I like Ian Brown. F.E.A.R is a song I'd highly recommend if you want to know what he sounds like when he's not singing (I use the term loosely) Stone Roses' songs.

I'm not sure where this cover comes from. This discography suggests it might have also included a recording of Billie Jean, which I'm very curious to hear if anyone has it!

Comments

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

Got it within a few beats. It is a very distinctive track and so stamped as MJ that it has a definitive identity. It is also very of its time and style. I'm kind of disapointed that he's gone funk with it as that is more or less where MJ pulled it out of. The Trippy vocal style doesn't work for me either, maybe it is to mask band singing. When you mentioned stone roses it clicked in.