Some things should just be left the way they are.

I cannot think of any reason why Counting Crows should do a cover version of Big Yellow Taxi. The main justification for doing a cover version I should think would be to change the original song or at least to try to better it. Now, why someone would try to better this song in the first place, is a mystery to me. And why anyone would record what is pretty much just a, well, recording, of the song is also beyond me. Counting Crows do nothing other than belt out the song and it's not good and it's not clever and it's not interesting. Just leave Joni Mitchell alone.
posted by charlotte at 18:06 - comment