Saturday, March 8, 2025
Time: 10:45 AM
Song: Both Sides Now
Artist: Judy Collins
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Judy’s Collins vinyl record “So Early in the Spring.”
Link to song:
Over the last decade, I’ve taken to the hobby of making collages. It started as a way to have another entry for the yearly Carroll County Fair, but I’ve started selling a few of them here and there.
The deal with a collage is to take source material, rearrange it, and thus, see it differently. This morning I was cutting into an old Transformers comic book. It will be a collage for those hungry with nostalgia, or perhaps are just big Transformers’ fans.
This is sort of the same music covers, or changes in arrangement. Judy Collins’ covered this Joni Mitchell song. Her voice isn’t much different than Joni’s, but I think she’s added a bit more background music to her version, giving it a slightly different lift than the original.
At lunch time, we put on Cheap Trick’s album “In Color.” It had the studio version of “I Want You to Want Me.”
“You know, I don’t know if I’ve ever heard this version,” I told Jodi.
“Yeah, me, too.”
The reason being is that Cheap Trick recorded a live version on their album “At Budokan,” and that’s the version that is always played on radio stations. It’s played a beat faster and the crowd provides an energy missing in the studio version. Everything else is the same, yet it feels completely different.
This afternoon I continued to work on the collage, and put Chet Atikins’ “Solid Gold ‘68” vinyl on. Atkins was a world-class guitarist, and he closes the first set with ripping version of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.”
While there is a foreboding sadness to the original, Atikins’ guitar is like a sharp knife, tearing into the fiber of our hearts. It’s also different than the building rage of Disturbed’s cover from a few years back.
I guess, you could say, that I’ve been piecing together a collage of less known versions of popular songs today.
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