A whole week without a post! It's criminal! Been working hard and had a long weekend away from computers, as you can read in my other blog.

Heard two originals on the radio this morning that had me thinking about covers done of them. First one was the Wings song Live and Let Die, which was later done by Guns N Roses. Must say that the Guns version sounded more natural to me, more fitting in their style. The transitions between the various (very) different parts of the song seem less smooth in the original.

Having been positive, I have to be negative about Guns as well. Their version of Sympathy for the Devil wasn't very good. In my humble opinion the version Tiamat did would have been much more suitable for the Interview with the Vampire soundtrack. It's darker and has the more goth feel that suits the film. Obviously with it being a big Hollywood production, a big name on the soundtrack is far more important and thus it became the band who's next release has been out soon for the past 10 years or so.

Why did that thought of the Chinese Democracy release put the song In the Year 2525 in my head? :) Speaking of dark covers, you might want to give Laibach's version of that song a try. Or anything they did really. These guys really know how to twist a song into their own sound.
Meanwhile I've completely forgotten what the second original was....