The Danger In Your Eyes
(The original by Don Evans and the Paragons.)
The Danger In Your Eyes
(The Mighty Diamonds)
The Danger In Your Eyes
(Judah Eskender Tafari)
The Danger In Your Eyes
(Your Sound is Going Down)
The Danger In Your Eyes
(Linval Thompson)
The Danger In Your Eyes
(Giuliano Palma & The Bluebeaters)
The Danger In Your Eyes
(Empire All Stars)
The Danger In Your Eyes
(Gregory Issacs)
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Versions.
Some songs hold up well to versions. Some songs (and musicians, and non-musician "music industry professionals") don't hold up well to versions--versions are like holy water, or wreathes of garlic to your typical, run-of-the-mill blood drinkers.
So is there "variation music" and "non variation" music?
Living music, and ossified music? (Let's not say dead.)
Would we be the richer or the poorer if every version sounded exactly like the Paragons?
What if someone told us (because I don't know either) that in every version, the artists were trying to duplicate exactly the original version by The Paragons?
Can any two pieces of (the same piece of) music sound exactly alike? Even if they are played by the same person? Sure, once you start heaping on the digital what not, things get pretty symmetrical, but really, just how exactly can any piece of music be duplicated?
Musical biodiversity? or stream-lined musical (re)production?
Musical reproduction?
copyright © 2009 Stanley J. Zappa
