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started by aLii ( 2 October 2007)

aLii

2 October 2007

Newton Faulkner and José González have both recently released covers of Massive Attack’s Teardrop, but which is the least artistically void?

I’m gonna go with José.
Idiotchild

Admin

2 October 2007

Later when I’m not at work I’ll go and listen to them and then I can answer the question but I mean Jose (I don’t know where that button is on this thing) just simply has a better name, don’t you think? I mean unless he’s Spanish or something, in which case it’s cheating. But if he’s not then I would award him the “Least Artistically Void” prize for making more of an effort with the name.
Phil Cham...

Admin

2 October 2007

Well, I’m going with José González too since I saw Faulkner do his live at Cambridge Folk Festival and it was some awesome guitar handiwork…
aLii

2 October 2007

haha, well basically Newton has simply re-recorded the Massive Attack version, just using live instrumentation. José has at least done a little re-imagining, in my opinion.
elliott_c...

20 February 2008

i hung out with Newton when he was supporting JBT in london, hes a cool guy, and a solid roots musician, but what it really comes down to is picking between to average musicans…very rarely does a cover outstrip the org. jose hit heartbeats was a cover to. so im going to call it a tie on the grounds that neither of them will be on my mp3 player in 5 years time