DO NOT make the mistake of mistaking my vote for Sigrid as one for the misbegotten Montreal-born repertoire of one Leonard Cohen...!
No... No... NO!
(NON... si vous préférez!)
I have this playlist on my YouTube channel where I collect all the cover versions of known and not-so-known songs that manage to SURPASS THE ORIGINAL...
This... is a prime example of that, right here!
Sigrid's interpretation of that old tune makes it -finally- worth the listen... even more so than Concrete Blonde's attempt, in the early nineties, managed to achieve... And infinitely more so than the original recording, with Cohen's own raucous, monotonous Montrealer voice, EVER could do!
Basically... SIGRID made a miracle: she turned a dud into a GREAT LISTEN!
That's what a COVER should always aim to do - salvage something, not merely redo, lazily, and hope to build an audience off of it...!
There are plenty of covers like that...
Sigrid made something LUMINOUS - which is why she's got my vote and wound up on my playlist for just such cover versions...!
Born in the Age of Aquarius, destined to seek out truths in many an art form, trained as a historian and a journalist but truly a prose-lover... Luciano is out to dispel any clichés and reinvent them all both to the tune of a little something called the truth as also to his own image - and being old-fashioned, he does not mind that distinction one infinitesimal tiny bit at all...! "There are two ways to spread the light; be the candle... or the mirror that reflects It." I have chosen to be the latter... okay? ~*~
"To be not only a seeker of light... but a dream weaver of light" ~*~ For as surely as the moon reflects the light from the sun, you and I can reflect the Light from Above - and be, indeed, the light of this world! ~*~*~*~ NOTE: THERE ARE COOKIES ~ from at least three parties~ ON ALL OF MY BLOGS! ~*~ accept it!
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DO NOT make the mistake of mistaking my vote for Sigrid as one for the misbegotten Montreal-born repertoire of one Leonard Cohen...!
No... No... NO!
(NON... si vous préférez!)
I have this playlist on my YouTube channel where I collect all the cover versions of known and not-so-known songs that manage to SURPASS THE ORIGINAL...
This... is a prime example of that, right here!
Sigrid's interpretation of that old tune makes it -finally- worth the listen... even more so than Concrete Blonde's attempt, in the early nineties, managed to achieve... And infinitely more so than the original recording, with Cohen's own raucous, monotonous Montrealer voice, EVER could do!
Basically... SIGRID made a miracle: she turned a dud into a GREAT LISTEN!
That's what a COVER should always aim to do - salvage something, not merely redo, lazily, and hope to build an audience off of it...!
There are plenty of covers like that...
Sigrid made something LUMINOUS -
which is why she's got my vote
and wound up on my playlist for just such cover versions...!
And that playlist for luminous cover versions is indeed called...
LUMINOUS COVERS
Copy and paste NOW -
you lazy bums:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL248A77F3C60FA2C3
;-)
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