I do love The Beatles very much. But Siouxsie and the Banshees' shimmering psychedelic take on "Dear Prudence", featuring The Cure's Robert Smith on guitar, is absolutely in the canon of Covers That Are Better Than The Original™️. Despite being exposed to the original version much, much earlier, this is the version of the song in my mind and the one I always think of and listen to.
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aaah, I love this song, but I've never heard this version! It's really good, although I don't think anything can replace the original in my brain, I used to listen to Beatles albums on rotation. Lennon's vocals are firmly lodged in there.
Oooh I didn't know you liked The Beatles! I love them so much. For me they're indelibly associated with the early days of me and @milktea's relationship, when we got into The Beatles together and I was into them more than at any other point in my life. They're just part of the fabric of my musical taste at this point.
Saying that, I also love Siouxsie and the Banshees. They're one of my favorite bands and if they don't have the same level of cultural influence as The Beatles (because, really, who could) I do think they're on a similar level in terms of consistency, restless creativity and experimental/transformative tendencies.
Anyways the original song and Lennon's vocals are so iconic and lovely, and it's so hard to top a Beatles original. But this version just, the sound and the lush and shimmery guitars line up so well with the kinds of music I'm most into these days, and the two versions of this song feel so indicative of the way my musical tastes have shifted and changed over the last several years. And damn, Siouxsie Sioux is also just such a great singer, one of my favorites
For me they're indelibly associated with the early days of me and @milktea's relationship, when we got into The Beatles together
Yall are so adorable, for real. For me, it was my dad who got me into them. He used to play Beatles CDs in the car all the time, so I was hooked young. They were the first band a cared at all about, and it's one of my connections to his memory.
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