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Song War 7: Hey Joe Vs Cocaine

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  • 04-05-2012 9:30pm
    #1
    Riddle101
    Registered Users Posts: 8,397 ✭✭✭


    Ok since the song war 6 thread seems to be done. I thought i'd come back with another one. The two songs I picked for this one, are not really songs that can be credited to any one artist as they are performed by various artists and are very popular songs. However from reading up songs I can say proberly the most famous version of Cocaine is by Eric Clapton which was on the album Slowhand. While Hey Joe's most famous version of that is by Jimi Hendrix, released in their debut single.

    Anyway I went for Hey Joe. I find it very relaxing and something I can have playing in the backround while I work. Although I reckon I could do the same with Cocaine but I prefer Hey Joe.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsR0_0jFV7E

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3L4spg8vyo

    Which song do you prefer? 30 votes

    Hey Joe
    0% 0 votes
    Cocaine
    100% 30 votes


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    #2
    RayCon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭RayCon


    I voted Jimi .... never trust a guy in Armani suits singing the blues.


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    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Hendrix all day long.


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    #4
    Firegaurd
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭Firegaurd


    Hey Joe by a country mile


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    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Hey Joe by a wide margin. It's the first song I ever learned to play on guitar way back in the summer of 1999. Well it was September I think by the time I learned it but whatever, I started playing guitar and at the same time my interest and love of rock music really ignited in the summer of that year. It was also the time at which I purchased Jimi Hendrix's greatest hits, he was a god to me, I was in humble awe of the guitar histrionics of Voodoo child. So purely for fundamental reasons pertaining to the genesis of my love of music and guitar playing in addition to nostalgia and also the fact that it's a pretty damn good song that's also very haunting, I will pick Hey Joe.


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    Malice
    Registered Users Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    Hey Joe for me too.


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    Nailz
    Registered Users Posts: 7,688 ✭✭✭Nailz


    Hey Joe for me too. Like the majority of Eric Clapton's popular solo stuff, it's great stuff, but then it gets a bit crap a few minutes in.


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    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    This could be the most one sided poll yet!


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    xerces
    Registered Users Posts: 805 ✭✭✭xerces


    They've both got a smooth laid back groove about them, but I think Hey Joe sounds warmer so I'll vote for that.


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    icarus86
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭icarus86


    Voted for Hey Joe, but i actually love both tunes so it was a slightly closer decision for me than it seemed to be for others going by the posts on here.


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    MetalDog
    Registered Users Posts: 904 ✭✭✭MetalDog


    I remember reading that Clapton saw Hendrix play and he was just blow away by him.


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    TheStickyBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 389 ✭✭TheStickyBandit


    MetalDog wrote: »
    I remember reading that Clapton saw Hendrix play and he was just blow away by him.

    Anyone that saw him were probably blown away by him!

    Jimi for me too!


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