Welcome to yet another installment of "The Cover Is Better Than The Original".
There has never been a Beatles cover that was better than the original, and that's a fact. A fact. The Beatles' solo-work however need a little improving sometimes - more proof of this will be posting on Tuesday.
Paul McCartney's Maybe I'm Amazed, from his 1970 self-titled debut album, is a great song, but it needed a bunch of jolly red-nosed booze hounds with Rod Stewart behind the mic to perfect it.
The Faces version was released a year later on their second album Long Player. It's tits.
(mp3) Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm amazed (1970)
(mp3) The Faces - Maybe I'm amazed (1971)
2 comments:
McCartney did the songsmithery, Stewart gave an inspired rendition. "Perfect it"? Nah. Brendel didn't perfect Beethoven, the perfection was already there. Pretty good find, though.
Looking forward to more solo-Beatle covers. Always liked this one.
However, I can think of two Beatles covers I think may be better than the original: "Norwegian Wood" by PM Dawn and "Baby's In Black" by The Applejacks.
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