Overall "Who Did It Best" Threads

I know I'm the Phish guy so it's easy to brush aside me yet again rambling on about Phish, but this Stevie Wonder song is one of my all time favorite songs Phish plays. And it's best when Mike really lets himself go with his bass. It's so freaking, awesomely funky. Give this one a chance guys. Their jam in this 6.7.12 version is one for the ages.

 
Okay so I'm new to country. I've been a fan of various country music for I don't know 6-8 months now. Besides like Willie and Hank and Johnny and Dolly and Merle. I basically didn't know any country whatsoever.

But when I got into it I saw Luke Combs covered fast car and I totally understand how that was like a controversy because I didn't like it. He sings a beautiful version of it but that song is about a woman in the fucking ghetto trying to get out and then just fucking finding herself stuck back in the goddamn ghetto. It's like really emotional. It makes you want a goddamn cry.

If Luke wasn't going to drastically change it the way Tori Amos did with Nevermind then he shouldn't have messed with it. The same way I don't like race swaps in movies for that sole purpose of race swaps. Like if you can make Spider-Man into Miles Morales then it's super cool that Spider-Man's black but if you just fucking tell the same Peter Parker Spider-Man story but make him black, that's fucking stupid.

So I just found out like 20 minutes ago that I wasn't the only one who felt this way and it was a bit of a controversy and then Tracy and Luke performed it as a duet at the 2024 Grammys where it was basically Tracy saying I'm totally cool with Luke's version. So that's kind of awesome even though I still don't like his version.

 
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Look this is from October 3rd of 25 so apparently that's when I first started getting into county.

I told Pam this exact same thing when I first heard Luke Combs sing it......I didn't like it. Dude that ain't your song bro that ain't about country poor. That's about fucking City poor.

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I like Paul Whiteman's Whispering, which was number one for 11 weeks in 1920, because it sounds similar to the background music of Laurel & Hardy comedies of the 1930s. I also like the vocal version by brother and sister Nino Tempo & April Stevens (real names: Antonino and Carol Lo Tempio), which peaked at #11 on the January 18 1964 Hot 100. Gentlemen, pick your favorite!



 
This is a song that Dylan started writing and the Old Crow guy finished and their version is by far the best:



Hootie covered it as well and I kinda like Rucker but his version doesn't come close:



What do you all think?
 
The Dregs, a comedy folk band from Minnesota, included Wagon Wheel on their 2007 live album Uncorked. Here is a live version from 2022. They must spend all their money on their instruments. They certainly don't spend it on their clothes.

 
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