Song War 7: Hey Joe Vs Cocaine

Riddle101 · 04-05-2012 8:30pm #1

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

RayCon · 04-05-2012 8:57pm

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

lord lucan · 04-05-2012 9:03pm

Hendrix all day long.

Firegaurd · 04-05-2012 9:06pm

Hey Joe by a country mile

nyarlothothep · 04-05-2012 10:52pm

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.

Malice · 05-05-2012 7:50am

Hey Joe for me too.

Nailz · 05-05-2012 9:52am

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.

lord lucan · 05-05-2012 11:03am

This could be the most one sided poll yet!

xerces · 05-05-2012 11:26am

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

icarus86 · 05-05-2012 11:56am

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.