SEXIST friend.

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  • ladymiseryali
    ladymiseryali Posts: 2,555 Member
    Jack-Off-Jill did a cover of The Cure's Love Song. They did it well.

    You really should drop this douche-canoe friend of yours. There is no rule in life saying the ONLY guys can sing certain songs.
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
    http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=436932
  • cm1458
    cm1458 Posts: 742 Member
    [img]http://i1053.photobucket.com/albums/s465/ravenblackout/animations/GIF/STEPHEN KING GIF/download-1.gif[/img]

    This just made my whole day. thanks for this. lol
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    Me & Bobby McGee

    Janis Joplin's cover got that song to top the US singles charts . . . yes her COVER of that song.

    here's a list of songs she covered: http://www.coversproject.com/artist/janis joplin/
  • Lifting_Knitter
    Lifting_Knitter Posts: 1,025
    Sweet dreams was originally written for a man and was rocked by annie lennox.
  • LonLB
    LonLB Posts: 1,126 Member
    Sweet dreams was originally written for a man and was rocked by annie lennox.


    But rocked harder by Marilyn Manson


    Ya never mind that doesn't count.:happy:
  • Sachan7
    Sachan7 Posts: 2
    Lulu, 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' - by David Bowie
  • wild_wild_life
    wild_wild_life Posts: 1,334 Member
    The basic premise of that comment is just ridiculous and doesn't even deserve disproving. But Me and Bobby McGee is what first came to mind. Chromosomes have nothing to do with it.
  • logicman69
    logicman69 Posts: 1,034 Member
    "I Want You To Want Me" Originally done by Cheap Trick, covered by Letters to Cleo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EywyJj_uHpw
    (I cant get no) Satisfaction and My Prerogative were both redone by Britney Spears

    I think the idea was a song done BETTER by a female artist... not butchered. :noway:
  • bellatrixed
    bellatrixed Posts: 19 Member
    Der Erlkonig was written for a man (Look for Dietrich Fischer Diskau) but Jesse Norman is fantastic at it.
  • JenAndSome
    JenAndSome Posts: 1,893 Member
    Not famously, but the best karaoke rendition of House of the Rising Sun I have ever heard was done by a woman. It gave me goosebumps it was so good.
  • ghhosstt
    ghhosstt Posts: 112
    Marie Laforet, a french singer, covered "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones, It's in french though, so if you know french it's a really good cover.

    I love this. Thanks for posting it. :)
  • singitella
    singitella Posts: 40
    Respect was originally done by a man, Otis Redding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGJXmpKGXY
    Seems perfect.
  • expoduck
    expoduck Posts: 59
    Speaking as a fellow female musician - sing whatever the hell you like and get a new friend. :)
  • Buddhasmiracle
    Buddhasmiracle Posts: 925 Member
    "I Walk the Line" Marshall Chapman
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    My mom is a singer in a classic rock cover band. She sings all kind of songs done by males singers:

    Never been any reason- Head East
    Babe I'm gonna leave you- Zeppelin (plus others)
    Gimme Shelter- Rollings Stones ( or any Stones song)
    Bennie and the Jets- Elton john
    It's a long way to the top- AC/DC

    Many more. They do some Motown/funk/ country.. etc.
  • yksdoris
    yksdoris Posts: 327 Member
    it's a band example; but the vocalists are male and then female respectively. "We're going to Barbados" which was covered by Vengaboys as "We're going to Ibiza" While immeasurably better than the original, it still remains atrocious.

    While it's a folk song so nobody really knows who sang it first; the first recording of "Where have all the flowers gone" is by the Kingston Trio. Yet, the best ever rendition of it is by Marlene Dietrich.

    any song sung by Ella Fitzgerald. For instance "Let's call the whole thing off" was first recorded by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers but the Ella solo version is just brilliant.
  • themelmac
    themelmac Posts: 59 Member
    "Across the Universe" by Fiona Apple - originally done by The Beatles (I know, a bit blasphemous, but it's a beautiful song.)
  • livingfortheone
    livingfortheone Posts: 273 Member
    Many female/male duets work because of the two sexes singing.
    Case in point, "You're The One That I Want" from Grease (Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta)
    "Suddenly" from Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard)

    Under The Gun was sung on separate occasions by Sheila Walsh and Cliff Richard
    Hold Me Tight was sung by the Beatles and then later by Evan Rachel Wood
    Even the title song Xanadu was sung by Olivia Newton-John and later by Jeff Lynne
    there are literally hundreds more examples, but these are the first handful that came to mind.
  • emergencytennis
    emergencytennis Posts: 864 Member
    Anyone remember K.D. Lang performing "Hallelujah" at the Winter Olympics ceremony? Spine-tingling.
  • lwright0001
    lwright0001 Posts: 16
    Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Pardon, & Emmy Lou Harris do a beautiful version of Neil Young's After The Gold Rush.
    Belly, with lead singer Tanya Donelly, do a really cool version of the Jimi Hendrix song, Are You Experienced.
    The Cowboy Junkies covered the Velvet Underground's Sweet Jane. Lou Reed said it is "the best and most authentic version I have ever heard".
    Patti Smith doing Bruce Springsteen's Because The Night, although, they may have co wrote that...?
    Anyway, the point is, your "friend" is an idiot.
  • teamike
    teamike Posts: 83 Member
    Keith Whitley "When You Say Nothing At All"
    Lorrie Morgan redid the song after Keith died and did it well.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    Run by Snow Patrol, covered by Leona Lewis.

    ETA: I covered "If You Remember Me" originally done by Chris Thompson on my album, and it was pretty good. I sing "guy songs" all the time...Jason Mraz, Michael Buble, The Killers, Jet, The Beatles, etc.

    Also, your "friend" sounds like a douche.

    This is hard for me to believe, this is one of my favorite songs....but I will check it out because you suggested it.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    I wouldn't put so much effort into this.


    Just tell him to go **** himself and/or eat a bag of ****s.

    Exactly this.

    You don't need to prove yourself. The fact that you are trying so hard to do so gives him the upper hand.

    Also, the original should never be compared to a cover. The original always wins, no matter who its by (imo).

    i wouldn't say the original always wins, but it certainly takes a lot to overcome the original. imo
  • harvo
    harvo Posts: 4,676 Member
    I honestly cant think of a single one.
    I hate being put on the spot like that.

    I love to be put on the spot....sometimes it is hard to find.....
  • shayemimi
    shayemimi Posts: 203 Member
    Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters" by Bif Naked.

    Keith Whitley's ""When You Say Nothing at All" by Allison Krause

    Any song at all, that you want to sing...
  • Emmiejayne90
    Emmiejayne90 Posts: 40
    Adele - Make you feel my love!
    Originally Bob Dylan!! The Dylan cover is amazing but the Adele cover is equally good!
  • Miss_dannii
    Miss_dannii Posts: 1,351 Member
    Ellie Goulding's cover of Elton John's 'Your Song'

    Listen to it and see if you can bring yourself to disagree!
  • oh2bhealthier
    oh2bhealthier Posts: 1
    Not only would I not waste my time trying to prove something to a sexist (he's likely never to agree anyway) I certainly would waste any further time with that "friend." Pick people for your life that support you no matter what (even when they disagree with you). Avoid folks who seem to have no greater joy than telling you what you CAN'T do.

    Best of luck with the performance
  • iLoveMyPitbull1225
    iLoveMyPitbull1225 Posts: 1,690 Member
    Carrie Underwood did I told you so by Randy Travis. He came out and said that she did it better himself. Now I love Randy Travis and I am usually one to prefer the original versions better, but I can't decide who did it better.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbycvUQzVD8

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