The Everly Brothers

Although I can’t tell if these are great covers or just okay covers of songs I love.

Quoted by Tyler on Twitter
Cale: "When we formed Thc Dream Syndicate l needed to
have a strong sound. I decided to try using guitar strings on
my viola, and l got a drone that sounded like a jet-engine!
PlyinS the viola in lhe just intonation system was so
exciting. The thing that relly amazed me about it was that
we played similarly to the way The Everly Brothers used to
sing. There was this one song which they sang, in which they
started with two voices holding one chord. They sang it so
perfectly in tune that you could actually hear each voice.
They probably didn't know they were singing just intonation,
but they sang the right intervals. And when those intervals
where in tune, as they were in The Everly Brothers and our
group, it is extremely forceful.
Cool, but whether or not the Bros had the term "just intonation," in some sense they knew what to do, or they couldn't have been as consistent in their EB Sound as they were.

(Sorry about the typos; I tried to catch all the glitches in the paste of the paste [of the--?], which weren't in Tyler's post.)

Nevertheless, a striking connection!

Come to think of it, I wonder if Cale also considered the aforementioned Diddly tendencies of the Everlys, shared w VU o course.

The Everly Brothers :: Songs Of Innocence And Experience (BBC Documentary) https://t.co/3PykGVS99I

Incredible 1984 hour and 44 minute BBC documentary chronicling the path of The Everly Brothers, from their Kentucky roots onward. pic.twitter.com/rKFzKh4Cot

— aquarium drunkard (@aquadrunkard) May 22, 2022

I’m so excited to celebrate music of The Everly Brothers on the Hey Doll Baby Virtual Festival today, June 19th. Streaming at 4pm ET on https://t.co/a4cIvNfRjR, the official Everly Brothers’ Youtube, Facebook, & on @SiriusXM’s Tom Petty Radio. #everlybrothers #gibson #tompetty pic.twitter.com/iTTvrNvuUd

— Susanna Hoffs (@SusannaHoffs) June 19, 2022

This was pretty cool, fun to watch.

Can I still watch it?

Yep, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug9YCCsJV-U

Thanks. I kind of skim watched it but my head still exploded. So good for so many reasons.

lol watching this now and the chat was overrun by Brazilian Evanescence fans

hahahaha the explosion of black heart emojis in the chat when Amy Lee finally showed up to do a horrible duet with Dave Stewart

My takeaway is that the songs are so strong that I can usually at least tolerate and ofter enjoy most covers even if or especially if they are basically just trying to replicate the original versions. For me the canonical cover version I heard first and though nothing of the song until I finally heard the original was the Nazareth version of "Love Hurts."

I love "Love Hurts" so much that I even like the Nazareth cover, though the Joan Jett cover of the Nazareth cover is better.

That Dave Stewart/Amy Lee one isn't that hot tho.

Can’t say I expected this. Nor did I expect it to be good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4rEapho03g

Interesting

A very sweet 1984 production. Like a cushion of synth clouds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dg0vgbFY60

Written by Jeff Lynne to no one's surprise