When you're covering a song from Rumours, you're going to face at least - and possibly more than - one of four challenges: you're tackling one of the super-famous songs, you're doing a song that's super-great, you've got one that while maybe not super-famous has still attained a kind of minor iconic status over time (I'm thinking especially of "Gold Dust Woman" and maybe "The Chain" in that category), or else you're doing one of the other, less notable tracks from the record.In fact, though, it matters less which of those challenge(s) you've got than might at first seem the case, because every song on Rumours is very good and the whole album is so extremely part of the pop air that we all breathe, and so, in other words, it's really only a matter of degree any which way.
Anyhow, there are some bright moments here (a track by track set of covers) and actually they do tend to be the more particularly famous and recognisable songs, including Tonic's peppy "Second Hand News" and the Corrs' sweet version of "Dreams" (already well-known to me from radio play many years back) at the top and Jewel's simmering "You Make Loving Fun". Also, at once faithful to the original and decently in the voice of the coverers are both Elton John's "Don't Stop" and the Cranberries' "Go Your Own Way". Overall, this is a pleasant listen rather than particularly illuminating or exciting, but still, pleasant is not such a bad thing. Also, release date was 1998, which explains some of the artist picks, including several that I've already mentioned and also Matchbox Twenty.
(notes on a different Fleetwood Mac covers album here, including repentance for not initially understanding the greatness of the band and this album in particular)
Anyhow, there are some bright moments here (a track by track set of covers) and actually they do tend to be the more particularly famous and recognisable songs, including Tonic's peppy "Second Hand News" and the Corrs' sweet version of "Dreams" (already well-known to me from radio play many years back) at the top and Jewel's simmering "You Make Loving Fun". Also, at once faithful to the original and decently in the voice of the coverers are both Elton John's "Don't Stop" and the Cranberries' "Go Your Own Way". Overall, this is a pleasant listen rather than particularly illuminating or exciting, but still, pleasant is not such a bad thing. Also, release date was 1998, which explains some of the artist picks, including several that I've already mentioned and also Matchbox Twenty.
(notes on a different Fleetwood Mac covers album here, including repentance for not initially understanding the greatness of the band and this album in particular)
