Bob Marley Cover Songs

[DonBanyan]

I really love Winston Jarrett's cover of "Pyaka" because he changed it up. The first time I heard it, I was about one minute into the song before I realized it was the same.

DB

[ACEtone]

I probably like a lot of Bob Marley covers but I deliberately keep myself ignorant of the authorship so as not to spoil my enjoyment of the music

I can't deny that he and the Wailers wrote some great songs...just don't like their versions.

I'll go away now...

[jahlionyouth]

ites..thats a matter of taste.... most of the time i love their versions..except a few...the I Shot The Sheriff Version could be a bit more relaxed. I think that the Backing Vocals are too shrill.And No Woman No Cry (the studio version) needs getting used to. It sounds to me more like a demo version. But it is good to have that contrast between the live versions later recorded (and released).

But Songs like Rastaman Chant, Soul Rebel and Burnin' & Lootin' are very good. And to me they couldn't be covered better than the original..but like we all know, it is a matter of taste..And I remember i heard awful versions of Marley like

Boney M - No Woman, No Cry
The Fugees - No Woman, No Cry
Joe Cocker - Could You Be Loved
Barrington Levy - Get Up, Stand Up

[Inyaki]

Familyman, Carlie, Wailers, etc... genius.

I'm the opposite...can't stand Marley songs perform by other people (specially live onstage).
Even supposedly "better" singers cannot do his songs like him.

( Actually I found one I rate...Wailing Soul / Winston Mathew's Sun Is Shining)

[slengteng]

Junior Delgado - Caution

The Gladiators - Soul Rebel

BIM !!!

[selecta bing]

There is a Japanese artist,Kurukaya Makoto, who has done some BMW covers.
Some good, some not so good.

[ACEtone]

for me it is like what for now I will call the Bob Dylan syndrome. I have come across many people sharing my opinion that they cannot stand to listen to Bob Dylan but really enjoy many other artists cover versions of his songs.

I am better off not knowing it is a Dylan cover if i am to even listen to it!

I am convinced that in addition to the personal taste element at work in preference for one sound or another there is the factor of people hearing sound differently. I have no explanation for this phenomenon but offer the illustration of my youthful abhorrence of the Hammond organ sound. I used to really cringe when I heard a Hammond on a record - not that I even knew what the instrument was called.
Love it now of course in thanks particularly to the works of J. Mittoo...

Just thought I would throw this in to the mix on the taste issue.

[gunosantos]

There's also "Midnight Ravers" by Delroy Washington in the album I-Sus I think, a great version imo.

Blessings,

[julian]

how do you like bunny wailers get up stand up version on protest

[Red Eyes]

Two more mentions: "So Much Trouble" by Sugar Minott for Wackies (breaking up riddim) and Sizzla's take on the One Drop riddim "True God"