I quite like the Joni Mitchell original, but would second the inclusion of the Counting Crows version, just for their amending of the crucial line:
from “Late last night, I heard the screen door slam/ And a big yellow taxi took away my old man”
to “Late last night I heard the screen door slam/ And a big yellow taxi took my girl away”.
Awful.
If we’re talking about awful covers, how about Kurt Cobain frequently getting the words of “Man who sold the world” wrong? And indeed making no sense of the Leadbelly song “Where did you sleep last night?”
Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell, a song in which Joni complains they ‘Paved paradise to put up a parking lot’, a measure which actually would have alleviated traffic congestion on the outskirts of paradise, something which Joni singularly fails to point out, perhaps because it doesn’t quite fit in with her blinkered view of the world. Nevertheless, nice song
There is plenty of evidence to suggest construction of parking lots will actually increase traffic and therefore worsen traffic congestion. The construction of a parking lot outside paradise and the provision of “park and ride” facilities would probably lessen traffic congestion but a parking lot by itself will probably attract more cars to paradise and worsen traffic. Take off the blinkers.
Would you mind showing me examples of where I dismissed a song on that basis or are you unable to think for yourself and go along with the cliched view?
Meredith Brooks - I’m a bitch, no you’re a cunt
Eminem - anything; mainly about hating his mother & beating his wife - repressed queer.
that Proclaimers song 500 miles sucks too.
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Meredith Brooks - I’m a bitch, no you’re a cunt
Eminem - anything; mainly about hating his mother & beating his wife - repressed queer.
that Proclaimers song 500 miles sucks too.
[/quote]First one is alright,Eminem was good ten years ago but no longer.I don’t think i have to comment on the last one…
There was a song on 2FM earlier this morning that was so fucking awful I had to Shazam it. Turns out it was “Barking” by some cunt called “Ramz”. Music on the radio is mostly muck these days but this shit took the biscuit. What is it with these cunts that can’t record a song anymore without having a computer generated version of their own voice on it.
I thought that at the time too Flatty but I’m afraid it has now plummeted to even greater depths of shite. Of course the mainstream Radio stations are mainly to blame, churning out shite that’s foisted on them by the Record Companies. The diversity of music on Radio is almost non-existent these days, with almost every single one of the songs following the same format and sounding almost the same. It usually entails a lad with a computer generated voice, some bird with a sexy voice, a rap somewhere in the middle, repeat ad nauseam.
Also, it appears that singles and albums are no longer released, they are “dropped”. If I hear that cunt Eoghan McDermott say "And the big news this evening is that Stormzy’s new single will drop tomorrow morning " one more time I will make it my personal mission in life to batter the cunt.