Match BC: Sonic Reducer vs. Sleeping By Myself

Post by **stip** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:27 am

Match BC

CopperTom · Post by **CopperTom** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:30 am

2 cover songs as far as I'm concerned.

Post by **stip** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:39 am

I adore sleeping by myself. Sonic Reducer's studio version is okay, but nothing great

chewm · Post by **chewm** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:41 am

Sleeping By Myself, love it.
But Sonic Reducer is still one of my favorite covers.

hlniv · Post by **hlniv** » Mon March 10, 2014 3:35 am

CopperTom wrote:2 cover songs as far as I'm concerned.

And Sonic Reducer is the better of these two cover songs

BurtReynolds · Post by **BurtReynolds** » Mon March 10, 2014 3:42 am

How is this tied? The answer is Sonic Reducer.

Birds in Hell · Post by **Birds in Hell** » Mon March 10, 2014 3:43 am

BurtReynolds wrote:The answer is Sonic Reducer.

LetMeSleep · Post by **LetMeSleep** » Mon March 10, 2014 3:44 am

Birds in Hell wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:The answer is Sonic Reducer.

I concur

William Bloke · Post by **William Bloke** » Mon March 10, 2014 5:56 am

What a strange match-up. Sonic Reducer for me, easily.

brisjam · Post by **brisjam** » Mon March 10, 2014 11:09 am

Sleeping by Myself is a shocker. Put it on a solo album fine, but piss off from a proper album.

Thejambi · Post by **Thejambi** » Mon March 10, 2014 12:51 pm

Sleeping By Myself.

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:18 pm

Is Sleeping By Myself accompanied by the Leonardo DiCaprio photo? Is Sonic Reducer live, and also pre-2003? Is there another singer involved? Does Stone fuck up the bridge? Because these things might be a make-or-break for me.

I like SBM. Might be the only moment besides Manners on the new record that I have any response to at all. But I don't have the uke album, and have only listened to it maybe twice ever, so I didn't remember it near enough to have an opinion on it, prior to this release. If I had spent the last few years listening to it on a solo record, that might have fucked it up for me.

Anyway, I'm not voting in this one. One song is a cover that the band has offered as both a transcendental eruption of bile and as a public restroom poop smear. The other is a previously released (4 years is just not enough time to get an album's worth of good ideas together, I guess) whistle-along that is mostly fun for how it blends lyrical honesty about betrayal and the aftermath of infidelity with the following emotional core:

Mine · Post by **Mine** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:26 pm

McParadigm wrote:Is Sleeping By Myself accompanied by the Leonardo DiCaprio photo? Is Sonic Reducer live, and also pre-2003? Is there another singer involved? Does Stone fuck up the bridge? Because these things might be a make-or-break for me.

I like SBM. Might be the only moment besides Manners on the new record that I have any response to at all. But I don't have the uke album, and have only listened to it maybe twice ever, so I didn't remember it near enough to have an opinion on it, prior to this release. If I had spent the last few years listening to it on a solo record, that might have fucked it up for me.

Anyway, I'm not voting in this one. One song is a cover that the band has offered as both a transcendental eruption of bile and as a public restroom poop smear. The other is a previously released (4 years is just not enough time to get an album's worth of good ideas together, I guess) whistle-along that is mostly fun for how it blends lyrical honesty about betrayal and the aftermath of infidelity with the following emotional core:

tell me what do you feel about the 60's where you had people like Nina Simone, Janis Joplin and The Bee Gees covering the same song within a couple of years, or Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Ike&Tina doing the same with a different one, Or for instance Aretha and Otis covering Same Cooke, or Aretha covering Nina, or Sam Cooke and The Doors recording the same song? Are all of those to be dismissed on principle? I'm confused because i think there's some good stuff in there.

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:37 pm

Mine wrote:
tell me what do you feel about the 60's where you had people like Nina Simone, Janis Joplin and The Bee Gees covering the same song within a couple of years, or Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Ike&Tina doing the same with a different one, Or for instance Aretha and Otis covering Same Cooke, or Aretha covering Nina, or Sam Cooke and The Doors recording the same song? Are all of those to be dismissed on principle? I'm confused because i think there's some good stuff in there.

I'm confused by the implications here that you are...

1. Equating modern day Pearl Jam with Nina Simone or Sam Cooke (actual middle names of both mentioned artists: Fucking).
2. Equating multiple artists interpreting a benchmark song with Ed just calling a do-over on a tune he's already recorded.
3. Missing the part where I said I'm not voting because, where one is a terribly inconsistent cover, the other is "mostly fun for how it blends lyrical honesty about betrayal and the aftermath of infidelity with the following emotional core (insert picture)." Perhaps you misread that sentence as meaning "I would never vote for a song that has already been done before," rather than exactly not that implication at all.

bada · Post by **bada** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:41 pm

McP Sonic Reducer is the Rotterdam 93 version.

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:47 pm

votes

Post by **stip** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:52 pm

if this makes you feel any better, according to L-bolt lore BoB insisted that pearl jam record this one as a full band, rather than anyone in the group feeling a pressing need.

Post by **stip** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:52 pm

Sometimes BoB does something right.

McParadigm · Post by **McParadigm** » Mon March 10, 2014 1:57 pm

Like I said, I like the song. It's just that I'm not "oh shit yeah" invested in it....and Sonic Reducer has been both infinitely better and infinitely worse.

Norah · Post by **Norah** » Mon March 10, 2014 2:03 pm

McParadigm wrote:and Sonic Reducer has been both infinitely better and infinitely worse.

true that

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