Country Covers

[Ladeeda]

You know how various pop songs are covered by Country artists? Bugs the SHIST out of me! I'm not a huge fan of country music to begin with (some exceptions), but songs just don't work in difference genres most of the time.

Except Polkas, and in the hands of Weird Al. Those are fine.

[BlaqueKatt]

You know how various pop songs are covered by Country artists? Bugs the SHIST out of me! I'm not a huge fan of country music to begin with (some exceptions), but songs just don't work in difference genres most of the time.

it goes both ways my dear

I swear-John Michael Montgomery-released 1993 hit #1 on country charts, and hit #42 on the pop charts

I swear-All 4 one
Released a full year later-can't find charting info-but All 4 one's version was a cover-I prefer JMM's version.

[XCashier]

You know how various pop songs are covered by Country artists? Bugs the SHIST out of me! I'm not a huge fan of country music to begin with (some exceptions), but songs just don't work in difference genres most of the time.

Agreed. Sometimes the results are pretty horrible. Examples:

Alan Jackson covering the Steve Miller Band's "Mercury Blues"
Neil Diamond and Dolly Parton covering the Righteous Brothers' "You Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (ooh, that one is horrible! Overacting at its worst!)
Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton covering Bob Seger's "We Got Tonite"

[Greenday]

Country covers suck because it's country.

I know some people love it, but honestly it makes me want to kill myself to listen to it.

[HYHYBT]

I've found the opposite to be true: I love a well-done rendition of a familiar song in a new style.

Even when the style itself otherwise annoys me.

One store I was working in about ten years ago, there was a radio in the back, usually tuned to a Spanish-language music station, otherwise playing Spanish-language CD's. One song I heard maybe once a week or so was unmistakably a Spanish rendition of "Love Will Keep Us Together" with accordion accompaniment. OK, so I mostly thought it was *funny*, but then, I like "Baby Got Back" for much the same reason. Wish I had a copy, but I don't know anything searchable about it. I also have, from iTunes, an album containing bagpipe renditions of "Swingin' Safari" (the 60's Match Game theme) and the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da."

[telecom_goddess]

Country covers suck because it's country.

I know some people love it, but honestly it makes me want to kill myself to listen to it.

Ok on this point I gotta agree with you completely ...the only exceptions being country rock (the Eagles/Poco) ...I don't mind a slight flavor of it once in a while.

Agreed. Sometimes the results are pretty horrible. Examples:

Alan Jackson covering the Steve Miller Band's "Mercury Blues"
Neil Diamond and Dolly Parton covering the Righteous Brothers' "You Lost That Lovin' Feeling" (ooh, that one is horrible! Overacting at its worst!)
Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton covering Bob Seger's "We Got Tonite"

This just hurts me to read

[blas87]

Lips of an Angel by Hinder was enough to send me into a screaming rage.

Then some bumpkin made a country version and then it made me want to scream even more.

[muses_nightmare]

I was raised on country, so the thing I hate is pop covers of country songs, or when they make a country song pop, as in by the same artist, but less of the country sound.

Also, after looking up the Steve Miller Band version of Mercury Blues, original or not, I prefer the Alan Jackson. I wasn't aware that it was a cover actually. But then I'm a fan of country music. *shrugs*