The best version https://m.youtube.com/shorts/VKma0zlB5fw
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i lol'd
You owe me the time it took to watch that.
I remember seeing this music video on MTV . At 11 years old I bought their CD from the local record shop
No. Nothing tops Michael (yeah, yeah, except a kid, I get it...).
look, Michael Jackson was a talented songwriter. I just don't like his voice.
They are each great in their own way, and in their own context. I can't love one more than the other, but I love them differently.
Thanks mom
You're welcome. And by the way, your sister is my favorite
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I had no idea what you were talking about. Might have saved a click if you mentioned what they were covering and who MJ was.
Heard there version before. Had it on a compilation in 2003. It's catchy at first and then tiring, and unlike a lot of great covers I got bored with it fast.
If you'd had an opinion that was relevant to the question, you would have understood the question. This thread was not for you, and I see no advantage to make it more accessible to someone with nothing to contribute. It's fun to "get it" and if you don't get it, dumbing down the reference isn't going to make it fun for you, it's just going to make it less fun for others.
Weird take on a low user public forum where usually this sort of thing is encouraged, but whatever. That isn't dumbing down anything.
And I do have an opinion, I know both songs. I don't think being explicit about what you are asking is going to make anything less fun, lol.
Man, try using the Internet after 40. EVERYTHING is a stupid in-joke with no explanation. It would be a full time job if I started complaining about it.
I always wondered, is it an ant farm for alien ants, or is it an ant farm owned by aliens?
What mean? Is just thing alien ant do. Alien Ant wake up. Alien ant eat breakfast. Alien ant farm. Alien ant go bed.
Ant farm owned by aliens where the ants are humans and the farm is Earth.
See also, Boys of Summer by the Ataris, and that one's a lot closer as Don Henley's original is nearly as good. Some might argue better, and I wouldn't disagree with them directly, but I prefer the cover.
Most cover songs, you don't know they're covers, they're that much better.
Despite being an 80s kid, my introduction to KISS was Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, with God Gave Rock n' Roll To Ya. Later found out it was a cover. In fact, Christian group Petra, which probably rivals Fleetwood Mac for number of past members (albeit for different reasons — Petra styles itself a missionary, not a band in the traditional sense, so their revolving door of members is to be expected), covered the song before KISS did. I don't even recall who did it first.
Of course, a lot of popular songs aren't even written by the performer. The Bangles' Manic Monday was written by Prince, but there wasn't a Prince version until later. Prince never released it in his lifetime, it was released after he passed. So that wasn't a cover. Prince literally wrote the song for them and they recorded it. He recorded it too, but didn't release it. Maybe they got to hear it, but it was not made public. Still not thought of as a cover.
Prince did a lot of "ghost writing" for other artists back in the day, like way more than most people realize.
Fo shizzle.