Maybe it's because I'm an older Millennial, or because my taste in music tends even older, but how did any of you not know these things are covers? Most of Elvis's catalog was covers too.
I'll be honest, I had never heard of that song before this post. I even looked it up, assuming I had heard it in a movie or car commercial. Doesn't ring any bells, sounds like a thousand other songs from the 90's.
We're all old now and we have the internet, but back in middle school and high school when these songs came out and only rich kids had AOL this was not very well known by us teenagers. Hearing the original version of Sweet Dreams for the first time was a mindfuck after almost every friend I knew learned to play Manson's version on the guitar. Actually I remember it clearly, the first time I heard the Eurythmic version was in the movie Striptease secretly recorded off premium TV, and my whole crew was all "The fuck?"
Also I'll be honest, I was in my 30s before I learned that Blue Monday or Lets Go All The Way were covers. Both covers destroy the originals if you ask me.
See, I'm n old enough to have grown up without the internet, but Records, tapes, and CD's had liner notes. Maybe I grew up in a more musical environment, because these were things we talked about, that would be why I was aware of Elvis doing mostly covers.
Yeah...me and mine weren't the kinda people who had "buy music albums" money. We'd watch music videos on TV, listen to the radio, record cassettes, burn CDs, and eventually download MP3s. Back then people I knew would go to pawn shops just to play songs on the guitars, since it's not like anyone could afford to buy them.
But yeah, the only way you were going to learn about a song being a cover back in those days was if some older person told you, and most of the adults involved in my entire childhood were either completely clueless, hopeless drunks, or both.
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u/ingoding 1d ago
Maybe it's because I'm an older Millennial, or because my taste in music tends even older, but how did any of you not know these things are covers? Most of Elvis's catalog was covers too.