When You Were Mine
Cyndi Lauper
covers
When You Were Mine
Prince
First of all, I adore Cyndi Lauper. She has a rare vocal talent that's never been matched in recent decades. Second of all, I adore Prince as you've probably guessed from previous posts. Thirdly, possibly my all time favourite song by Prince apart from Uptown is "When You Were Mine".
So obviously, combining these elements usually means something is going to go wrong somewhere down the line? Well in this case, no.
Cyndi manages to take away the cheese-ball element of the original (which I love btw) and transform it into a darker, brooding synth-heavy version. The original, a simple guitar pop tune, now a showcase for Ms. Lauper's superior oral skills. It's chilling, quite frankly and brilliant, which leaves me at an awkward crossroad in my mind as to which one I prefer.
Not that it's a bad place to be...
BAD COVER
Burn Burn
Lostprophets
steals riffs from
Mother Mary
Far
and vocal interpretations from
Killer
Adamski (Feat. Seal)
Love them or hate them, these Pontypridd valley boys know how to write a great pop tune. What's the secret? By making an amplified mish-mash of other songs obviously. I do like this song, I really do but there's just too much theft involved to allow this to step into Good Cover territory.
When not stealing Brandon Boyd/Mike Patton's vocal stylings, Lostprophets can be found plagiarizing riffs from Far, in particular "Mother Mary" for their 2003 hit "Burn Burn". Don't believe me? Then listen to it.
"What's the next step to ripping off another song to make a hit?" I hear you ask. Well they've only gone and stolen Seal's verse melody from Adamski's "Killer". Don't believe me? Then listen to the lines "do you think, we're that blind?" (Burn Burn) and compare it to "will you give, if we cry?" (Killer).
Boom!
In your face.
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