EDITOR'S NOTE: In the summer of 2017, I answered the 30-Day Music Challenge on this blog. I'll be reupping the best of those posts from time to time.
15. A song that is a cover by another artist.
I had this single -- that's how much I loved this version.
Isn't it funny, though, how an original and a cover can both be brilliant in entirely different ways?
Where Smokey Robinson's original is silky and snake-hipped, the Stones' take on it is muscular, tribal. Robinson croons to us from the luxurious, low-lit confines of an exclusive club packed with Motown's cool kids, but somehow, open to everyone. The Stones come at us just as we crest the hill of a desert music festival, raising heat and dust with that awesome, orchestral thump.
Well-oiled machines both. Here, however, are The Rolling Stones with "Going To A Go-Go".
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