Aibu regarding Fleetwood Mac

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This is terribly trivial, I am aware.
I was watching Peter Kay's Car Share and there was a part where Peter Kay's character said that the Fleetwood Mac version of Dreams was better than The Coors version. This is one of my all time favourite songs and personally think The Coors butchered it, however my sister said The Coors version is better.
AIBU to say Fleetwood Mac's original is far better than The Coors version.

I am loving this thread. Some great music is being mentioned.

I don't like Fleetwood mac and their whiny self indulgence. Oh look at us , we all shagged each other and now we have gond mad and we hate each other.

I don't like the Corrs and their skinny whiny faux Celtic thing. Look at me I'm shagging a violin.

Madness. FM version of Dreams & Songbird every time.

What are peoples opinions on Whitney's version of I Will Always Love You compared to DPs Original

breathes into paper bag
It is a song about love and loss and heartbreak and it is not to be belted out as a power ballad. (also not a fan of Whitney Huston's vocals at all, though) DP really put feeling into that, it always brings a little tear to my eye.

Some covers are better than the original. Thunder's Gimme Shelter is way better than the original. And Earth Wind and Fire's Got To Get You Into My Life is better than gasp The Beatles.

I even quite like U2's Helter Skelter. also agree with Gaspode there that Roxy Music really improved A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (but also Edie Brickell did a great version).

Also agree that there should be an international convention for covers.

@randomer 😂😂 not a fan of either then?

The story of how DP came to write “I will....” is really touching. She actually wrote it for her one time partner and mentor Porter Waggoner. They were on a show together (forget the name) and DP’s own career was taking off and she got her own show. She wrote the song for him as a ‘Goodbye song’ and there is footage of her singing it to him on the last show they did together - it’s really emotional.
So not actually writes for a lover as such, but for a man she highly regarded and loved like a father.

@Brefugee this perfectly sums up I Will Always Love You. There is definitely much more emotion in the original. Beautifully simple, compared to the Whitney Version.

No, Corrs, all eyeshadow and bones and sort of suggestive love making with muscial intruments. Leave me breathless...er Yuck

Fleetwood Mac, a scarybeardy man and a mad American. 2 wimmin who warble like demented shrews. A bit of folksy twanging in the background. Oh yeah, Rumours, I listened to that in my bedsit in Clapham the year I broke up with Tamith... vom

You just can’t beat Fleetwood Mac. Absolutely hate The Corrs and wouldn’t trust them to cover The Cha Cha Slide.

There are a couple of covers I like though. Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah is my version having heard it first.

Johnny Cash’s cover of NIN Hurt is utterly brilliant in my opinion.

@randomer riiiiight. 😐

Davis insipid gray destroying 'say hello wave goodbye' by soft cell. An absolute crime against music.

@NotExactlyHappyToHelp I love the Johnny Cash version of Hurt.

How about The Sound of Silence? I usually much prefer the original of most songs but I have to say, the Disturbed version blows it out of the water, gives me goosebumps every time

I despair at that cover of Higher Love. I actually cringe when I hear it.

No remake is ever better than the original artist's work.

This statement is demonstrably false.

Take Saint Etienne's version of Only Love Can Break Your Heart. Or Saint Etienne's version of Who Do You Think You Are.

Or this:

Or this:

@UnfinishedSymphon I am a huge Simon & Garfunkel fan, I would tend to disagree however I can see why some people would prefer The Disturbed. I think its possibly down to music taste on that one

Fleetwood Mac without question. I don't hate many things, but the muzak of The Cors has to be one of the worst things I've ever heard.

However, reworking of (Hollywood) Dreams is brilliant.

The Corrs version sounds like something that you hear when you're on hold trying to call your bank. Is your sister's taste in music always terrible?

A few weeks ago, I’d have been horrified by Jim Corr’s Twitter feed. Now he just looks like half the people on my “friends” list. The world has truly gone mad. 😞

@TheProdigalKittensReturn not usually but I'm starting to doubt everything.

The Corrs are bloody muzak. I like Fleetwood Mac a lot but I do prefer Judas Priest's version of Green Manalishi....

Fleetwood Mac!

There is no contest.

I'm sorry, but I have to ask this - is there a chance that your sister may have undiagnosed dementia?

(I ask because it comes up on almost every thread where someone is being ridiculously unreasonable in their behaviour)

Check out the performance stevie did on American horror story apocalypse. Also she's on the GTA 5 rock station.

Question to all the FM lovers here: has anyone seen them with Mike Campbell (late of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers) and Niel Finn (late of Split Enz/Crowded House)?

I'm fascinated by the evolution of Fleetwood Mac from a UK blues/prog rock band to a 70s Californian soft rock band (if those are the right labels - not sure the labels add a lot, tbh) once they lost Peter Green to schizophrenia and Jeremy Spencer to a religious cult, and gained Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.