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All these very nice covers in that stick to the original style have made me appreciate just how good a singer Dolly Parton is: the singers have beautiful voices used musically, but they're not matching the inflections of their voice to the words as quite closely as she does. Without that, the careful balance between the cheerful music and the sad words goes.

Does that mean you can live without a link of a five year girl singing it on Ellen?

Beatles cover, though? (not that this was the first recording of it either)

While this thread has a clear winner, this Candi Staton version is an ever more clear second place. Please do listen, if you aren't heartily sick of the song by now.

I loved that song so much I bought the album. BIG mistake. Edit: so now, thanks to this thread, I'm imagining The Sisters of Mercy's cover of Sly Fox's "Let's Go All The Way". It's sounding great.

I'm so happy with the sound of my BB424 that I'm forgiving if unable to forget how much heavier it is than my TRBX 😊 I bought it to play one specific genre, but find myself wanting to play as much as possible on it. (My fingers, used to a much less substantial neck, are moderating that desire)

I used to be on a forum for something completely different, nothing to do with music. There was an admirable convention that you should sell on the forum for no more than what you paid. Policing it though caused an enormous amount of bad blood. The net benefit to the happiness of the forum was negative.

What a shame that Duran Duran's Instant Karma and Megadeth's My Sweet Lord are outside the boundaries of this thread

Considering the kind words he had for your version, that's very ungracious of you. Meanwhile, Dolly's opinion:

Live in Blackpool

The two versions of the Dolly song that I'm especially fond of are sung by men, with no changing the words

So here's the original.... I can think of two covers I would want to post, but I don't want to steal other people's fun 😁

The Dolly Parton cover of Help! sounds exactly as you would expect it to. Ditto The Damned cover of Help! Ditto the Oasis cover of I Am The Walrus. Ditto the Cilla Black cover of Norwegian Wood. None of them are the equal of the Sisters Of Mercy cover of Dolly Parton's Jolene, so I've spared clogging up the thread with unnecessary links

Blimey that's good! 😲

Anyone else keep misreading the title to this thread "Why are bassists impotent"? Just me? Righty-o. *slips out the door*

The highly competent yet restrained drumming seemed a bit unrealistic 😬

"In Utero heartbeats - Jonas Loveder" Awwwww..... 🥰

Recently, curiosity led me to dig up The Mission's cover of Tomorrow Never Knows. Do not do this.

If it's a PJ, shouldn't it be PH and JH? Interested that PP is bracketed with P rather than PJ. And no differentiation between -H and H- ? [/tediousnitpicking] 😈 I gave PJ a sympathy vote, and then saw it didn't need it.

You know how three of the strings on your guitar play the same thing but up an octave and it's nice? It works the same in the opposite direction too.

Listening to ...And Justice For All useful to demonstrating this truth

Japanese 80s metal group Vow Wow doing Helter Skelter. The high notes are 0 problem for this guy. The bassist might seem familiar.

The band has a name that the forum software changes to "Craddock", which took me a while to get my head round, and the cover gives the song yet more of what it already had Hey Bulldog is weirdly obscure for a solidly second tier Beatles song, and, as David Bowie pointed out, F-A-N-N-Y were a much underrated group. This was recorded in 1972. (I once read that this song was the final true Lennon-McCartney collaboration, but I don't know how accurate that claim is)

And my call is to listen to all of this more experienced advice. Plan: do nothing, keep a watchful eye, apply nail varnish if things get worse. Thank you everyone 😊