good wrong and bad wrong

[forgotten_aria]

Why is the Rebuilding the wall (the blue grass version of the wall) the good kind of wrong, but this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONr5fl-0liQ

is the bad kind of wrong.

For comparison here's the blue grass version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPJFpjoERY

Comments

[visage.livejournal.com]

Well, quite independent of the fact they're both covering Comfortably Numb, there's a huge difference in quality between the two songs, at least according to my tastes.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much.

The SS version seems to bear almost no musical relation to the original - just the lyrics, and the falsetto thing's just annoying.

[mathhobbit.livejournal.com]

If the bluegrass version is the thing crs has on his iPod, it's also wrong in my book.

The Wall holds sufficient emotional content for me and my contemporaries that off-genre covers of it can come across as very, very wrong. Think of a valley girl covering Tracy Chapman.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

I thought they were both wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

If you ignore the lyric of Scissor Sisters you hear B-side BeeGees and it isn't wrong anymore.