Unchained Melody vs Everlasting Love

[gherman]

Melody. No contest for me. Bono is so strong on that track.

 

[doctorwho]

The R&H cover of "Unchained" is possibly the worst cover U2 has ever done. Here's this beautiful, melodic, uplifting, romantic song, sung beautifully with angelic falsettos and belted out notes. One would think a JT/R&H era Bono would have easily been able to duplicate the passion of this song. Instead, we hear this harsh, cold, guitar and screaming Bono. The melody and mood were ruined.

On ZOO TV, Bono did this song correctly. A soft strumming guitar, with him hitting some beautiful falsettos - that was brilliant. But on that cover, blech.

In direct contrast, I adore the cover of "Everlasting Love". It was so good that I can see why I still, from time to time, hear it on the radio or in a movie. U2's version is fast-paced, beautiful strumming guitars and wonderful harmonies and melodies. They all did a brilliant job with this cover and this is why it has survived.

So for me, "Everlasting Love" cover easily wins the battle.

However, if you are discussing the original songs, then I give my vote to "Unchained Melody".

 

[neutral]

Everlasting Love for me

 

[cobl04]

Well there's like 20 of those, but you may want to check your sources. I haven't seen anything on the web that shows they made a recording of that song. And I definately haven't heard one, and I have quite a bit of their recordings.

Not saying it hasn't been done, I would just like to find out where.

Take a look at this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everlasting_Love

Oh my God, you're right!!!

My bad!

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

unchained melody is fantastic live... studio recording is just so-so.

everlasting love studio is great

soooooo i guess everlasting love wins the studio battle, with unchained melody winning the overall battle

 

[Thora]

Unchained Melody

 

[mandy1973]

They even gave away a free one-track cassette of Everlasting Love when you bought the vinyl version of All I Want is You.

Gosh, i forgot all about that - I bought that, i still have the vinyl single, but haven't seen the cassette in many, many years...maybe i should have a search for it?

To answer the question, I love both, but probably think Everlasting Love is a slightly stronger cover version