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OT: Turn The Page - which version is better?

Which is the better version of this song?

  • Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band (1972, 1976)

    Votes: 38 65.5%

  • Metallica (1998)

    Votes: 20 34.5%
  • Total voters
    58
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Bob Seger wrote this song in 1972 and included it on his solo album Back In '72. However, the live version of the song is the most well known, which was included on Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band's album Live Bullet in 1976.

Metallica released a cover of this song as their first single from the 1998 Garage Inc. album. The song hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts in 1999.

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band's version:



Metallica's version:

 
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The original by a mile. The vocals aren’t close and the original has so much more soul in it. Seger is just a far superior singer than anyone Metallica can muster. The musical arrangement in the original just fits the mood better. I’m actually surprised Metallica decided to cover this.
 
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The Official Metallica video is better, but I agree with @RUGuitarMan on the song. And I'm a huge Metallica fan. The guitar work is actually better on Seger's version. I'm a big Seger fan too though.

Same vote on their cover of Queen's Stone Cold Crazy-- great cover, but Queen wins on that one. They do win on Am I Evil though over Diamond Head.

 
Seger was very soulful
Metallica has good musicians but they are a racket band for head-bangers imo
 
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The Howard Stern show performance of this song by Metallica is very good.
 
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RUGuitarMan said:
The original by a mile. The vocals aren’t close and the original has so much more soul in it. Seger is just a far superior singer than anyone Metallica can muster. The musical arrangement in the original just fits the mood better. I’m actually surprised Metallica decided to cover this.
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So true.
I'm not a Metallica fan...why would they even bother ?
Seger's version is great.
 
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Kbee3 said:
So true.
I'm not a Metallica fan...why would they even bother ?
Seger's version is great.
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"Why bother?" Heheh. If you're going to ask that, ask why Seger bothered with the original.

The entire Garage Inc. album was a collection of covers Metallica recorded as a tribute to the artists that influenced Metallica's members. As one of the great musical (not just metal) acts of recent history it is a big hat tip.
 
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rurichdog said:
"Why bother?" Heheh. If you're going to ask that, ask why Seger bothered with the original.

The entire Garage Inc. album was a collection of covers Metallica recorded as a tribute to the artists that influenced Metallica's members. As one of the great musical (not just metal) acts of recent history it is a big hat tip.
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And Lars says why they did the remake in the Howard Stern interview.
 
Kbee3 said:
I'm not a Metallica fan...why would they even bother ?
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I'm not a Metallica fan either, but bands and artists do remakes all the time. Smoking in the Boys Room, the Locomotion, I'll Always Love You, Pretty Woman, etc.
 
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DJ Spanky said:
I'm not a Metallica fan either, but bands and artists do remakes all the time. Smoking in the Boys Room, the Locomotion, I'll Always Love You, Pretty Woman, etc.
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Good points. Pretty Woman-- Roy Orbison's version was perfect, but Van Halen took that song to a completely different place, and it was awesome, especially the video.

BTW, Turn the Page has also been covered by:

Waylon Jennings:



Golden Earring:

 
rurichdog said:
What? Did you stop listening in 1988?
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See avatar lol.

Truth is I never liked hard rock or metal
I just dont run dark and angsty
In HS the repressed honor society kids would drink a case of beer on weekends at the river.
Some would end-up banging their head on their cars hoods.
I was chillin to R&B wonderin why the rock kids were so effed-up lol
A mass rock musician cemetery would be pretty full - junkies and tragedy all over (Hetfield a rehabber)
I can handle November Rain and Stairway but then there's a steep drop-off
Metalica, AC/DC, Rammstein, Slipknot etc pretty much invisible to me but I can see their talents.
 
rurichdog said:
"Why bother?" Heheh. If you're going to ask that, ask why Seger bothered with the original.

The entire Garage Inc. album was a collection of covers Metallica recorded as a tribute to the artists that influenced Metallica's members. As one of the great musical (not just metal) acts of recent history it is a big hat tip.
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All you have to do is listen to Seger do the song and you'll know why he "bothered".
I said "why bother" about covers of that tune because one listening will tell you that nobody is gonna come close to what he did on that song and that any cover would pale in comparison.
There are plenty of cases where covers of a tune were actually better than the original..Sinead O'Conner's version of Nothing Compares To You is probably the best example. Metallica's version of the Seger tune isn't one of them.
 
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DJ Spanky said:
I'm not a Metallica fan either, but bands and artists do remakes all the time. Smoking in the Boys Room, the Loco-motion, I'll Always Love You, Pretty Woman, etc.
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One of a single-digit list of songs that hit number one on Billboard chart for two different artists...
 
DJ Spanky said:
I'm not a Metallica fan either, but bands and artists do remakes all the time. Smoking in the Boys Room, the Locomotion, I'll Always Love You, Pretty Woman, etc.
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i don't care much for any of those four covers you mentioned.
Four I would have mentioned instead are All Along The Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix (one of my favorite all-time tunes), Ball And Chain by Janis Joplin (also one of my favorites), The Man Who Sold The World by Nirvana, and With A Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker.
BTW, I'm not...nor have I ever...considered how high they made it up the Billboard charts.
 
mikebal9 said:
I came here to say exactly this. I'm usually a fan of the original, but not this one. For me, it's not even close. Metallica is the far superior version for me.
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Many of my friends enjoy Metallica. Mty wife even likes a couple of their tunes.
Not me. I've heard most of their stuff over the years, but absolutely none of them did I ever wanna hear again. I don't hate them. I just don't enjoy listening to their music.
Cada loco con su tema.
 
"There's no accounting for taste" is an expression that never goes out of style, because it will always be needed...
 
Great question

I am a huge Seger fan and only a very casual Metallica fan. Its a toss up now. But I am going to listen to both.

...Definitely Seger
 
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There are covers of songs that are better than the original. However most of the time I find the original tune to be the best version. I always liked Steve Miller’s tune “Jet Airliner”. It wasn’t until many years later that I heard the original song by Paul Peña which I now like better. Some outstanding rock guitar in the original:
 
Knight Shift said:
The Official Metallica video is better, but I agree with @RUGuitarMan on the song. And I'm a huge Metallica fan. The guitar work is actually better on Seger's version. I'm a big Seger fan too though.

Same vote on their cover of Queen's Stone Cold Crazy-- great cover, but Queen wins on that one. They do win on Am I Evil though over Diamond Head.

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Ginger Lynn!
 
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Ginger Lynn!
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Look at your, Eagle Eyes. I either forgot that, or never knew. From her Wiki page in 2014-I'm very happily married--you go ahead!

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While I fully respect Segar and the delivery of his silky smooth voice, I go Metallica for the rawness of delivery and the power of the band. Edge Metallica.
 
Knight Shift said:
Look at your, Eagle Eyes. I either forgot that, or never knew. From her Wiki page in 2014-I'm very happily married--you go ahead!

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What is the Ginger Lynn link here? As an aside, I'm thinking 95%ish would be very happy with that Ginger Lynn version. Just saying.
 
LETSGORU91 said:
What is the Ginger Lynn link here? As an aside, I'm thinking 95%ish would be very happy with that Ginger Lynn version. Just saying.
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Ginger Lynn is in the Metallica video for Turn the Page. Ginger Lynn in 2014 is of course not the Ginger Lynn of her porn star days. Opinions vary on these types of things, but as I said, I'm happily married. If I was not married, a porn star is not my cup of tea.
 
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