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

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

The 1969 Key To Change Centrepoint charity album features Ian Brown doing a rather good mariachi-tinged cover of In The Year 2525 ... well, I like it, anyway.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Having had a chance to listen now, I can see people's point about the vocals. His 'style' is less noticeable in 2525, and he's done something different with the orchestration for that, too - for this, he seemed to be mostly singing along to the original backing track. Which is not to say that I don't like it ...