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Which version of Layla is better?

joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class TraitorSmoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
edited January 2017 in Social Entropy++
There's no joke option Larlar because it's old hat now and I am all about keeping up with the cool kids, which is why I made a thread about a 47-year-old song!

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Which version of Layla is better? 86 votes

The Original Version
67%
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The Unplugged Version
32%
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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2017
    No larlar option?

    Also I have no idea which unplugged version you mean

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    The Original Version
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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Laylar

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    easy poll

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  • NaphtaliNaphtali Hazy + Flow SeaRegistered User regular
    I can still register my complaints about valid joke options being eschewed

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    The Unplugged Version
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZV7akaSo0s

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    The Original Version
    The original version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WUdlaLWSVM

    The unplugged version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZV7akaSo0s

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    The Original Version
    Xaquin wrote: »
    easy poll

    You would think so but I've met a lot of people who think the unplugged one is clearly better and I don't get it, and I am hoping someone can explain it to me

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The Original Version
    This is clearly a trap.

    Anyone who votes for the unplugged version is young to be banished to Bad Music Opinions Island

  • AngrySquirrelAngrySquirrel Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    I'm with most of you (up to this point). Unplugged is good, but doesn't come close to the original.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The Original Version
    The original.

    By far.

    That sick riff.

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  • GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    The Unplugged Version
    The original version played, no joke, at least two or three times a day at the grocery store where I worked five days a week. Therefore, I have nothing to associate with it but misery and stress.

    I'd rather not listen to the unplugged version if I had a choice, though. I just don't like the song at all.

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    The Original Version
    Yeah as far as I'm concerned the decision comes down to "which version has a brain-melting guitar riff"

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    joshofalltrades wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    easy poll

    You would think so but I've met a lot of people who think the unplugged one is clearly better and I don't get it, and I am hoping someone can explain it to me

    people have different taste in music

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The Original Version
    joshofalltrades wrote: »
    Yeah as far as I'm concerned the decision comes down to "which version has a brain-melting guitar riff"

    The original has the sick riff.

    The unplugged has much, much better singing.

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    The Unplugged Version
    The original has some cool guitars

    But honestly, if I want to listen to some sweet guitar riffs, I'm probably going to listen to someone other than Eric Clapton

    Ain't my style

    And the unplugged version is a much more pleasant song in every other respect

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The Original Version
    Look, if I am listening to Layla it's because of the guitar riff. It's so memorable, so awesome, and it gets repeated in the song a lot.

    But you take out that riff, and the unplugged version is about a hundred times better.

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  • ThetherooThetheroo Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    Shit

    This is a tough question, but I got to go with the original.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    This is like "what dessert do you want, pie or cake?" Like, they're both great, but 80% of the time I'm gonna pick pie. Still, there's those times when I want something different and I'm glad I have cake too.

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    CAKE

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    CAKE

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    OmnipotentBagel wrote: »
    This is like "what dessert do you want, pie or cake?" Like, they're both great, but 80% of the time I'm gonna pick pie. Still, there's those times when I want something different and I'm glad I have cake too.

    there is a Cream joke here I can't quite find

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    I like Lenny better.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5sqJNFFwqc

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    Actual best version of Layla:

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I fundamentally don't think the chorus works unplugged. It's a decent arrangement, but if you didn't know it was a cover of a famous song it's just a song that doesn't really work

  • PerrsunPerrsun Registered User regular
    They're almost 2 completely distinct songs. Like... they don't even feel like the same stuff, done in a different way. It's practically a cover... just covered by the same guy.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    Tube wrote: »
    I fundamentally don't think the chorus works unplugged. It's a decent arrangement, but if you didn't know it was a cover of a famous song it's just a song that doesn't really work

    Yeah, that's a good point. I like it as an acoustic take on Layla but it doesn't really feel definitive. It's very much tied to the original.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    I've got to give credit that Clapton (a notoriously lazy guitar player) took an acoustic cover (a notoriously lazy form of arrangement) and spent a lot of time trying to make it work. Typically an acoustic cover is literally the exact same thing played on a different type of guitar, leaving aside the fact that a lot of great electric stuff sounds fucking horrible on acoustic.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The Original Version
    OmnipotentBagel wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    I fundamentally don't think the chorus works unplugged. It's a decent arrangement, but if you didn't know it was a cover of a famous song it's just a song that doesn't really work

    Yeah, that's a good point. I like it as an acoustic take on Layla but it doesn't really feel definitive. It's very much tied to the original.

    It doesn't feel definitive because it doesn't have that sick riff.

    But the singing is so much cleaner.

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited January 2017
    The Unplugged Version
    I'm pretty sure I heard the acoustic one way more as a kid

    Like I guess my dad really likes it probably

    So if you asked me to think of the song Layla, that's the one I'd come up with in my brain

    It honestly took me listening to them both for this poll to realize that they were the same song

    Edit: Which is to say, as the thought kind of got away from me, I consider the acoustic one the definitive version

    Clearly that's not the case for a lot of you, but I think there might be some bias of having heard one first to make it the definitive one

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    Munkus Beaver wrote: »
    OmnipotentBagel wrote: »
    Tube wrote: »
    I fundamentally don't think the chorus works unplugged. It's a decent arrangement, but if you didn't know it was a cover of a famous song it's just a song that doesn't really work

    Yeah, that's a good point. I like it as an acoustic take on Layla but it doesn't really feel definitive. It's very much tied to the original.

    It doesn't feel definitive because it doesn't have that sick riff.

    But the singing is so much cleaner.

    I think that's pretty reductive. The riff is good, but there's so much more to the song than one riff and while the acoustic version does a good job translating all of it, it definitely feels like a lesser version that is more interesting for the novelty of it than for the sum of its parts.

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  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    The Original Version
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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    I like the version where nobody wanks off for fifteen minutes after the song is over

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    Jesus I do hate that back half of the original

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  • NytewarriorNytewarrior Registered User regular
    The Unplugged Version
    While I like both versions, it was the unplugged version that made me want to pick up the guitar.

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    The Oasis version is clearly the best version

  • KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator Mod Emeritus
    the original would probably be one of my top 10 guitar songs of all time if it wasn't for the completely unnecessary and 30 hour long outro

  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    The Original Version
    the back half is lovely

  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    Hot take time: everything about Freebird is awful

  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    Tube wrote: »
    Hot take time: everything about Freebird is awful

    what, you think chipotle is better? they don't even have barbecue sauce!

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