The Pet Shop Boys get the credit they deserve for their Elvis cover. I've never been a big fan of Hendrix, so I don't like the choice of Number 1, but I guess most people wouldn't argue, more's the pity. In any case, I've had enough arguments with my friends over this song, so I have some vestige of an argument now! And the choice of key moment is spot-on...
Interesting list. They got the wrong Johnny Cash song, though. His version of One was good - his cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails was jawdropping. "What have I become / My sweetest friend? / Everyone I know / Goes away in the end" is the sort of lyric that's infinitely more cutting coming from a man in his sixties with all the troubles of the world in his voice than it was from a pale pretty-boy with bad hair who's annoyed with his girlfriend.
ReplyDeleteAnd while I'm on the subject, I'd probably have found a place for NiN's version of Dead Souls. Sinuous? Is that the word I'm looking for? It's as good as any. Oooh, oooh, one more, one more? Smells Like Teen Spirit as interpreted by Tori Amos should've cracked the top ten in any sane world, sounding as it does exactly as you'd expect a Tori Amos cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit to sound.
The Pet Shop Boys do rock, though. That can't be denied.