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Cover to Cover - The Fureys v Joss Stone (feat Jeff Beck)

AddicksAddict
AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
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What's your favourite?  This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDyip7SIJkQ

or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uoBDW-URvw

?

Comments

  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    I think the Joss Stone version is appalling so it has to be The Fureys for me.
  • CH4RLTON
    CH4RLTON Posts: 2,618
    I love this song, both versions are good, probably slightly favour the most recent
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    Of these two, The Fureys. Joss Stone one doesn't get the song IMO - it doesn't suit an overwrought "soul" production. 
    Can I be the first to suggest the Men They Couldn't Hang's version?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPrglfL-Ndk


  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited September 2022

    Of those two, the Fureys, but this, by the man that wrote it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1VD84SLW8I

    Eric Bogle, of course.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,211
    Didn't know the song.

    The Fureys was a dirge with O level English lyrics so I was hoping for better from Beck and Stone but that was worse. Soul less and over sung which is disappointing from Joss Stone.  The production is so so over the top.

    So the Fureys as the least bad.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,211
    rananegra said:
    Of these two, The Fureys. Joss Stone one doesn't get the song IMO - it doesn't suit an overwrought "soul" production. 
    Can I be the first to suggest the Men They Couldn't Hang's version?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPrglfL-Ndk


    Reminds of sitting in dodgy pubs in Kilburn in the 80s where they pass the collection box round for terrorists and some awful "folk" music is played about the "men behind the wire" (which is at least a decent tune but not something I supported then or now).

    Another dirge in both senses of the word.
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    It's a folk song, it's not meant to be happy 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    Prefer The Fureys' version to the original and The Men They Couldn't Hang's.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,042
    Prefer The Fureys version by a country mile over the others, but my cousin Angie sings it better than all of them 😂
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    The Fureys for me
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  • Tunwellsaddick
    Tunwellsaddick Posts: 2,452
    The Fureys version is outstanding.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,218
    That Joss Stone version is an abomination! I have listened to it all to give it the full benefit. No Joss! 

    I could listen to The Fureys and Davey Arthur until the cows come home unfortunately for my poor husband. Sweet sixteen one of my all time favourites. 

    Not everyone’s cup of tea obviously! 
  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 912
    Hadn't heard the song before, the Fureys is the best version.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    TelMc32 said:
    Prefer The Fureys version by a country mile over the others, but my cousin Angie sings it better than all of them 😂
    @TelMc32 well record her singing it and stick it up here so we can all hear it.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,592
    https://www.independent.ie/life/world-war-1/so-just-who-was-the-young-willie-mcbride-30249256.html
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    I love Joss Stone and one day she will realise this and run away with me. I feel some on here have not been very kind to her and should apologise for their behaviour. She is a Goddess (IMHO). 
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    Saga Lout said:
    I love Joss Stone and one day she will realise this and run away with me. I feel some on here have not been very kind to her and should apologise for their behaviour. She is a Goddess (IMHO). 
    She is undoubtedly talented and attractive (and blind for not seeing her future lies with you) but she murders that song.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,899
    The Joss Stone version because of Jeff Beck but tbh I don't particularly like the song 

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