chiark

Now, I like Amy Studt's other songs, but WTF is going on with her cover of Sheryl Crow's "All I want to do"?

It could just be Sheryl Crow singing it. I thought the idea of a cover was to put your own take on a classic song.

Yes she's got a voice, yes it's a classic song, yes it's well done, but why release something with exactly the same intonation/singing style as the original?

Pointless IMHO.

(Spleen vented, I feel better now)

BOB.T

I've been listening for ages thinking it was Sheryl Crow I can'r see the point either

Andy Mid.

God - is that what was playing on radio 1 this morning ?

I thought it WAS Sheryl Crow (although I had just woken up - lol)

ozzy

Her song has as much point as this thread

chiark

Andy, that's just what I thought... I had to go onto the Radio one playlist (it's on the B list) to find out who the singer was as it was doing my nut in!

The only thing that gave it away was that she doesn't have the ***** to sing "I like a good beer buzz early in the morning" and replaced it with "I like a Caffeine buzz...". Oh, and the backing track isn't quite the same - slightly more electronic, but not by a lot

Terribly sad.

chiark

Ozzy,

It makes me feel better. I can now be classed as a Grumpy Old Man.



Nick.

Gidney&Knowlesy

I too thought it was Ms Crow; I even got out her greatest hits & played that..... I couldn't believe it was someone else in the charts.

I would have never known......

chiark

The prosecution rests milud.

I will write to Ms Studt forthwith.

ozzy

Yep, you're now officially a grumpy old man and can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with PSLewis

Don't know how you can stand listening to that fat tw@t Moyles 1st thing in the morning. God I'd love to smack him one for being so feckin annoying.

Stefan (grumpy barsteward in the mornings)

chiark

Here's the radio 1 playlist, if anyone cares

www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/playlist/blist.shtml

ProperCharlie

chiark - i noticed that aletration of the beer buzz line, too! I thought WTF? so her mate is sitting there with his bottles of Bud and she's drinking coffee?

yeah right.

It's a blatant money making scam. what's the point of covering a song that was only released a few years ago in any case? just to get loads of gullible fools to buy it cos it's a catchy tune. I suppose Shezza is happy enough as she will be getting royalties and Ms Studt well knows she can't write a song that memorable.

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STi wanna Subaru

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£££

ozzy

ahem, that song was originally released by Ms Crow in 1993. Not wanting to make you feel old m8, but it's hardly a few years

My little sister (Amy Studt fan) was just born when it came out.

Stefan

chiark

A few, ten, what the heck.

The original's still better

McMiata Man

Oh, and those good folks are washing their Lexus and Buick's now, not Datsuns ;-)

blair

1993 ! **** !

Has anyone seen 10 years lying around anywhere? I seem to have lost them

Ali Scott

both versions are turd..

STi wanna Subaru

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You may find them where I left mine.... at the bottom of a bottle of Stella!

fatherpierre

I thought it was 1995? Or was it re-released then? That's when I remember it being a hit.

fatherpierre

And yes, I agree. A **** song

MarkCSC

Having been subjected to her album in the gilfriend's car (much better than the Enreeky In-glassy-**** she normally has) I couldn't believe she released this song. There are some really good original songs on the album that would have done her more favours.

ProperCharlie

there were better songs on Shezza's first album. that was the *feel good, sell records* number.

and can i have my money back please? i don't remember receiving those 10 years.

MarkCSC

From www.amystudt.com

Amy told us that the project began when Sheryl Crow herself (who originally released the track in 1994) asked if she would like to record a version of it. Amy told us: ‘It was very flattering, and Sheryl was kind enough to put her backing vocals on the track for me to use, and said that I could try out my own version of it. It’s a great song, so I thought “Why not? Have fun!”’

Amy added that the style of the song is, ‘A lot more up-tempo that I’m used to, and I love the fact that the song is just that moment of “This is all going on around me, and I’m feeling good and I just wanna have some fun.” It’s great.’


Amy Studt version lyrics

‘All I Wanna Do’

Amy: Hit it!
Sheryl: This ain't no disco
Amy: It ain't no country club either
Amy: I’m in LA!

All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It's apropos
Of nothing
He says his name's William but I'm sure,
He's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy
And he's plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole
Life
He’s drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts in suits

They drive their shiny Lexus and Buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store too
Well, they're nothing like Bill and me, cause

All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

I like my caffeine buzz early in the morning
And Bill likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of Bud
He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
Before blowing and cursing them out
And he's watching the bottles of Bud as they spin on
The floor

And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads

Chorus

Otherwise the bar is ours,
The day and the night and the car wash too
The matches and the Buds and the clean and dirty
Cars
The sun and the moon but…

Chorus

ozzy

Yeah it was that long ago, doesn't seem like 10 yrs. I was still a teenager back then

It was on her album Tuesday Night Music Club, released way back in 1993.

http://www.gracenote.com/xm/pcd/genr...e1db0891e.html

Stefan

Ratman

Presumably Amy Studt can't sing about a beer buzz 'cos she's not 21 yet?

Ratman

P.S. Sherly Raven's always been a bit too countryish for me.

ozzy

oh dear; that jokes at least a decade old too

ALi-B

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And what's with the Lexus's and Buicks line?

anyone and everyone knows its Lexi !

Pointless cover...original was better, you can't have a country music song sung by an english bint can you?

hades

I read somewhere that Amy is from Bournemouth which - much as many people would want to deny it - is part of the UK. She's certainly not American. Mind you, is she even 18 yet?

The grumpy old men might not remember back to starting drinking in their teenage years. Nick?

I also read that Sheryl had suggested the cover to Amy as they are both on the same label, and sings backing vocals on it. I'm sure the word "royalty" never even crossed her mind.

Anyway, IMHO it's a harmless cover in the spirit of the original. Not great, but a lot less bad than many other covers around e.g. anything by Westlife, let alone that utter t*sh about the rains with the Toto sample (And no, I don't remember Toto first time round). If you don't like it, don't listen or change the channel.

P1Fanatic

How on earth can you think it sounds like Crows version? First time I heard the new cover I thought it was one of the programs where you phone in and sing on the radio. Utter crap.

Simon.

midget1500

10 WHAT???? years. nooooo. **** me. when i was 13?? no, surely you mean 4/5 years ago?