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Elite 8!

#13: tothebeach08's "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston


Originally performed by Dolly Parton:


#60: BW23's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by Tom Petty/Prince


Originally performed by The Beatles:

I think this is where push comes to shove, and GRB's demographic of mostly 30+ year old white dudes ends Whitney's run.

heyzeus wrote:I think this is where push comes to shove, and GRB's demographic of mostly 30+ year old white dudes ends Whitney's run.

Boo hiss. I'm not a big fan of her but to me the cover of this blows the original away. Plus there is no denying her voice is incredible.

Oh and I've been voting for guitar .... And I'm not in the aforementioned demographic. Maybe I can get some sympathy votes.

Unfortunately, the original Beatles version isn't available on youtube. Prince's solo is fantastic, but otherwise, all they did was do a very good recreation of the original, with the caveat that they needed twice as many people on guitar/bass to make it sound as good as the original.

I love Dolly, but Whitney took that song and improved it several-fold. It will be a rare singer than can perform that song as well as Whitney did.

All in all, I like Guitar better, but I think Whitney was the better cover.

Though call. Whitney's high notes vs. Prince's guitar solo.

34 year old white guy
I have voted Whitney the entire way through and it is ridiculous that she is not a clear runaway winner.

Still pissed the grunge run ends...

Gashouse wrote:Unfortunately, the original Beatles version isn't available on youtube. Prince's solo is fantastic, but otherwise, all they did was do a very good recreation of the original, with the caveat that they needed twice as many people on guitar/bass to make it sound as good as the original.

I love Dolly, but Whitney took that song and improved it several-fold. It will be a rare singer than can perform that song as well as Whitney did.

All in all, I like Guitar better, but I think Whitney was the better cover.

This is basically how I feel. The performance of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a nice, faithful rendition, but doesn't really try to do anything more than that until Prince comes in for the outro, and the all-star cast (minus Prince) adds essentially nothing to to song other than just seeing them on stage together honoring George. It's certainly well-executed, but it ends up just feeling like a pretty tame cover of a great song with a great solo added on at the end, which of course makes sense since the whole point was they were playing George's song at his induction. But I think all in all it is more impactful as a moment in time than as a standalone cover, and when I listen to it, I'm tempted to just skip the cover part of the song and go right to Prince's outro even though it's one of my favorite Beatles songs.

There's no Prince solo here, but this is actually my favorite cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

Whitney with the win!

I can't deny her talent, but I am not a fan. This result makes me sad.

I just blame this on tothebeach08 being more likable than me!

Seriously, Whitney's version created the longest run at #1 on Billboard at the time, even though it was quickly overtaken in that department. And while the charts certainly don't mean much in terms of this, it is a testament to just how good that was. I'd say this song was also when we probably last saw her on top of her game.