But my favorite cover is by Sonic Youth, who turn the song into the creepy tale of a stalker.Įmbedded above. It’s been covered many times since then (I personally own five versions), most famously by The Carpenters. It’s an emotional telling of a women in love with a man who’s seemingly forgotten her on his climb to rock stardom. Probably the most famous example is Jimi Hendrix’s version of “All Along the Watchtower,” which so improved on Bob Dylan’s original that even he does it “Jimi’s way” now.īut my favorite example of a song being reinterpreted is “Superstar.” The song was written by Bonnie Bramlett (of Delaney & Bonnie fame) and Leon Russel and was initially done by Rita Coolidge way back in 1970. But my favorite type of cover is when something completely new is done with the song.
There’s the “what the heck?” cover-e.g., who would have guessed that U2 are huge ABBA fans? There are all those millions of tribute albums (a particularly good one is “ I’m Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen”). It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.I love all kinds of music, but I particularly love covers. It faced-or seemed to face-the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. This could relate to what Nick commented about Gatsby's smile: "He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. I see this relating to (because of the repetition) how Gatsby was set on the fact that Daisy was his means to an end for acheiving the "American Dream" (common theme in the book) and how he so badly wanted to feel the way he once did with her when he was young "Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!" -Gatsby It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself." I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything." You see, I think everything's terrible anyhow.
Gatsby would stare at the green light on the end of Daisy's dock (her home) and one day Nick (the narrator) saw him doing this and reaching out his hand at the same time as if trying to reach for Daisy who was all the way across the lake.ĭaisy was very aware of her trophy wife position in life and once said (about having a baby girl) "I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. "and then i kiss her stomach and it's then i realize And then JT Eckleburge's eyes on the bill board represented God (or something ubiquitous) that watched over the Valley of Ashes and the moral decay of society due to the "American dream." In the book the green light represented Gatsby's view of Daisy and how she was the gateway to all of his dreams about the happiness he had once felt with her. "I kneel before the green light of her singing crayon eyes" If you've read The Great Gatsby then you see all of the connections and ties to it in this song: "a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock."
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