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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- The song "Torn" by the band that wrote and recorded it before it was taken from them. Real musicians manually playing musical instruments on a song THEY ACTUALLY WROTE. From "Wacko Magneto" 1997
* Anne Preven - Vocals
* Rusty Anderson - Guitar
* Scott Cutler - Guitar
* Paul Bushnell - Bass
* Carla Azar - Drums
Ednaswap was a band from Los Angeles, United States. They existed between 1993 and 1998. Frontwoman Anne Preven came up with the band's name after she dreamed she was in a band of the same name that was so bad they were booed off-stage.
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I worked w/Anne's sister at the time & for her label & when asked how she felt about the Natalie cover she said something to the effect of "Its going to pay for everything I could ever want, who cares, I can write another song" & she has written many for Katy Perry, Madonna, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Jordin Sparks, Miranda Cosgrove & a bunch of others, so I think Natalie covering her song actually opened up an entire songwriting career for her that has been quite lucrative
TY!
True, but at the time when she was about to release her re-recorded version from Wacko Magneto, she was really upset about it. Her first album never got any promotion or distribution due to the record label being bought out, and her new label refused to promote new new album due to the unfortunate timing of the Natalie cover that she didn’t consent to coming out.
every "90s kid" comes of age 3 times:
• 18th birthday
• 21st birthday
• the day they find out natalie imbruglia's version of torn is a cover
Tonyo Escobar i came here after reading that meme
That day was today. 😱😱😱😱😱
Just seen that meme on Facebook. I'm 32 years old. Never knew this was a cover. Mind = Blown
I came here after seeing that meme on Imgur. Fascinating music trivia! And I like this edgier, darker version of the song.
true story, found out just now
As a writer, It's an HONOR for another artist to cover my song record their own interpretation of it!!! The more exposure the song has and the more it sells, the more money I can make as the writer (the WRITER & publisher benefit most financially). It also means people will more likely seek out the original writer (like what's happened on this page) and I may be appreciated for my work and some of my other songs might get heard that wouldn't have been heard before. Win/Win. If Natalie hadn't had a hit with this song, we may not be talking about it here. : )
+Kimber Cleveland That's a very good point. Whitney Houston made Dolly Parton richer than she had ever dreamed before. And Nothing Compares 2U may have been Prince's biggest song.
+Kimber Cleveland I would agree with that. I am not much of a writer but there's a band that does a song I wrote and I'm flattered. Nobody would have known the song otherwise. Still, the popular version of this song is OK but the original, which I didn't know till this year, gives me chills.
Houston may have made Dolly Parton rich but she still screwed the song. IMHO
HelenaVanCity Well. Increased her riches. Parton was already doing just fine. :)
exactly! and the cover version likely earned this band a TON of money to do other albums etc
the imbruglia version was fun but dam this original torn is so, so much more. so bitter. melancholy and aching at its best.
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It's not meant to be fun
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@@chrisluff8875 the “fun” no emotion paint by numbers version
The song was not taken from Ednaswap. The writers-Anne Preven, Scott Cutler, and Phil Thornally-were paid for the songs use and credited on subsequent recordings by other artists. Thornally, in fact, produced Natalie Imbruglia's version and was the very person who suggested the song for her. Songs are not "taken" because they are covered unless the writers are not paid and/or not credited, as happened to a number of women and, especially, bluesmen back in the day. This was no more "taken" from Ednaswap than "Hurt" was taken from Nine Inch Nails or "Mr. Tambourine Man" was taken from Bob Dylan.
Indeed. Well stated. Love the comparison with Hurt. I think Cash's version is brilliant, but it'll never be on my playlist. What it DOES do, is make the song....and the original artist....visible to a wider audience. My mom doesn't know who NiN is (and I'm not inclined to point her in that direction), but she knows Cash and that gives us a talking point. Similarly, only my fringe-cohorts knew Ednaswap, but pretty much everyone from within two decades of Imbruglia's version knows "Torn", thus it remains in the conversation. I don't know anything about the money that might have changed hands. I hope that the writers were well compensated. Nonetheless, the song is something worthy of being passed down and kept in conversation no matter the artists. If the song is worthy, interest will be generated and the timeline will be researched. And even if whatever current version isn't all that great, it remains in the public consciousness and hopefully another artist somewhere down the line will re-discover it and pay tribute in the form of another rendition. And thus is musical immortality attained.
Yeah. And to take it a step further, what about the Lady who wrote "Happy birthday to you"? Isn't she technically getting ripped off Everytime someone sings that God-damned song? Which is about 600 times a minute. Think about that.
So it was written by a few of the members of that band, it happens and if done legally it’s not a problem.
@@davidcoon3602 No because it was written a long ass time ago. I suppose I can't speak for every country universally but in both the EU and in America it is public domain. The EU ruled it was in public domain like 4 or 5 years ago and the US courts have denied copyright claims to the song. Additionally, the melody it is based off of was written in the late 1800. Anything published in the US prior to 1924 has been deemed public domain now.
Cash's version of Hurt is the definitive version. Eva Cassidy's version of "Fields of Gold" is also the definitive version even though it's a cover. This is the definitive version of this tune and original.
The song wasn't 'taken from them'. Compulsory license was obtained, royalties were paid. Get over it.
The singer is also an enormously successful songwriter and producer, I'm sure she's a-ok with how this went down. I still think this is the best version of the song by far but still.
James Bradford You're right, but I didn't see anyone complaining that the song was taken. Just maybe lamenting that the better version isn't the one that became popular.
Unless I missed something.
Matt Mitchell Nevermind, I see it now, in the description.
Sorry.
This song is better than the cover. Get over it.
That's not what she said when she was on the Howard Stern show late 90's. She said she never got a dime iirc
Calm down guys, Natalie Imbruglia has made these guys fucking loaded
It's a beautifully written song, and this version is good and has a good edge to it but Imbruglia's version was just one of the ultimate pop songs. As a songwriter surely the biggest compliment to your talent is that someone can take your words and portray them in so many ways that please so many different people
Wow, didn't know about this original. Love the guitar work; totally different feel to the song.
This version is incredible. Seriously.
I felt like this when I heard the guitar solo from Iggy Pop`s China Girl
this version is really... torn
...incredibly slow. Set playback speed to 1.25x for actual incredible.
I love how raw and fucking rock and roll this is.
Not the first time an original was improved upon by a cover. Bob Dylan is the king of having his music covered better than his originals. This band should be tickled to death that their song became popular. Without Natalie's hit version, no one would have ever heard this song.
I adore how this is slower than Imbruglia's more commercial version. I can really feel the emotional intensity in Anne Preven's heart wrenching voice. This version is far more cathartic. It's for people who know what it really feels like to be torn up inside. I've always liked Imbruglia's version for being cute and ironic. This version is the real thing.
The 90ies passed so fast as this magic and it hurts when you realize that it will never be like before but it has been worth it living in those days.
Props to the original makers of this song, but I think being covered by Natalie is the best thing that happened to it.
lol, get a grip.
Trine Rein was better than Imbruglia though
Jerald Dorado - Indeed, the royalties are fabulous, nom nom nom.
I remember when the band played this live in Howards Stern's studio 10 -12 years ago. I was blown away. So glad to have found it again. Thanks for uploading this.
I listened to that performance live too and still have an mp3 of it. Anne was set to release a new album shortly after that, but Sony shelved it and never put it out. I have the whole album on my UA-cam channel. It’s called Annetenna.
Wow I had never heard this version of this song. I love it.
I AM SHOOK. MY LIFE IS A LIE.
same
Breanna Allen 😂✌️👏
What's next? Right is left, and left is right?
buzzfeed brought me here. i did not this existed. i love it!
I heard this for the first time on the Howard Stern Show back in the 90's.
It blew me away then and it blows me away now. There's also a version of this song by Anne Previn just on acoustic whis is also amazing.
Oh man, I always like Natalie Imbruglia's version since it first came out, but I love the original better. This is amazing!
A good example of how the production choices made, in the recording of a great song, is key to its success.
For sure there is a reason the producers usually pull in more cash than the artist off the record. Most recording artists actually make the most from appearances and promotional deals.
Yeah, I'm sure Edna Swap is hating all that money they were sent went Natalie Imbruglia's version charted.
If money was the only reason anyone ever did anything, sure.
But people like Anne Preven spent time writing songs, practicing them, and performing them in front of people because they liked doing it. They would've liked to keep doing it, and no amount of money from Torn helped their band stay alive.
darkphoenix2 You mean Anne Preven, the now famous songwriter who's making tons of money off of songs like Torn, as well as countless others performed by artists like Katy Perry, Madonna, Beyonce, and Demi Lovato? The same Anne Preven who founded Pulse Recordings, a music publishing company who specifically thrives off of writing songs for other artists to perform? She may have publicly said she wasn't the biggest fan of Natalie Umbriglia's version of Torn, but I doubt she has any problem with other people taking songs she's spent time writing, considering she's based her entire(extremely successful) career off doing it. I miss Ednaswap too, but the effect that she's had on popular music apart from them is still enormous.
I don't think you can call her famous. People don't know the songwriters, they know the person who sings it.
She now has the resources to become famous, if that's what she wants. I'll take that deal. I've got some songs right here. They're rubbish, but you can license them :-D
Liam Jeremy Bontadelli Ooooof! Owned! What a great comment!
Ednaswap was a rock band from Los Angeles, United States, that existed between 1993 and 1998. Over a span of five years, the band released four major label records on East West, Elektra Records and Island Records. However there was an older line up of the Ednaswap band back in 1980's.This is when the song Torn was written.
"As I remember it the lead singer with Ednaswap, had a job at a local American hospice as a nurse, before she started to sing with the other members of the band.....
My first wife Tina Braybrook (Aka Tina Kerti) was receiving treatment at the same hospital in between acting parts in London and American film sets. She got to chatting to my first wife and in some way this inspired her to start to sing.
The Already Torn song revolves around a conversation , about life, that the Ednaswap lead singer had with Tina when Tina was under going mental health therapy at the hospice that she was working in.. It is good that the inspiration for the song came!
However , as with many people suffering mental health issues, my first wife wasn't making complete sense and wasn't telling the whole truth in her conversation all of those years back at the hospice..
The nurse who was the first singer in Ednaswap in the 1980's did not carry on with the band and was later replaced. The band stopped when the nurse left; then reformed later with a new lead singer ready for the 1990's.
So the original writer of "Torn" disappeared back into working life in Los Angeles whereas the Ednaswap band went on to later produce albums with the song on. Great song though!...
who cares what inspired Ednaswap to write it when they did so at the end of the day... (" Illusion never changed into something real" should give you an indication of the kind of chat that my wife Tina had with her at the hospital before the song was put to music all of those many many years ago.....time flies and Tina has a different first name and doesn't do acting much anymore...all in
the past).
The band Ednaswap had already existed , with a different lead singer, before the new line up that started to release albums in 1993.
A number of people have assumed, over the years, that Anne Preven was something to do with
the writing of this song as second lead singer of Ednaswap. In fact she played on this fact at a music industry interview in London. She didn't write it.
I was there when the first lead singer of the band wrote it because I visited my wife in Los Angeles and met the nurse who wrote it at the hospice.
The problem was that the nurse who wrote "Torn", "which is just the things that my wife said set to music all those years back in Los Angeles Hospice in the1980's", was an employee of the hospice company that Anne Preven's father controlled. Accordingly Anne wanted her to stop writing music and wanted her to disappear back in to the working masses! End of!
I never especially liked Anne and I never will all that much. If ever I have to sit in a restaurant, or bar, with Anne Preven and collegaues, she always does the same thing! She calls me by her nickname for me which was always Andy Pandy back then when we were sitting around in Los Angeles. "Andy Pandy" is a British children's television series that premiered on BBC TV in summer 1950...;)
What we can say is that the song "Torn" is an Ednaswap song but that is was written in the 1980's before Anne Preven was anything to do with the song.
Also that Ednaswap have never had copyright rights to the song because the original nurse/band member who penned the words left and ceased to be in the music industry.
Natalie Imbruglia, from Australia, later did a cover version of this song but the original was written in a hospice, in Los Angeles, where my first wife was receiving mental health therapy.
It was the nurse who treated my wife who went on to
write and sing "Torn" as the band Ednaswap. It is just my wife's words during a conversation at the hospice set to music.
"I was there in Los Angeles, USA, visiting my wife when the song was written!"
While in America I also went to see their stage performances so I saw them all both on stage and off stage as well. No big deal!
Back in the 1980's/1990's ANne Preven used to call me Andy Pandy and I used to reply , when in the mood, by calling her Looby Loo in return.
The song Torn was written by a nurse employed by the hospice under the control of Anne's Father in Los Angeles. I believe the nurse may still live in Los Angeles but does not work at the same place. Unfortunately the song "Torn" used the words of my wife who was a patient there at Los Angeles Hospice in between film contracts.
Anne's father stopped the using of the words of a patient in a song by demanding that the nurse stop all involvement in the music industry. She gave up being a singer and just carried on with her job as a Hospice nurse. A fewYears later Anne Preven picked the song up again and it was used in a new version of Torn with a new band line up and recording contract in 1993. At no stage did my wife object to the use of her words as the lyrics to the song.
"So; the person who wrote Torn was Edna, a mental health hospice nurse and it was written at Los Angeles Hospice around about the mid 1980's. Anne Preven's father was in charge of professional ethics for the hospice and demanded that Edna either give up singing on stage or lose her job with the hospice. That is who wrote the song and I was there when she wrote it"
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This screams 90's to me more than Natalie's version :)
Remeber me Kurt..... i dont no why..... amazing
Both versions are great. They each took this song & turned it into different tastes of interpretation (from angsty rock to a more poppy alternative). That's what music is all about. That's what makes music awesome.
Preferring one version to another does not diminish the power of either. Especially in this case, where the styles are so different. Personally, if I had to choose, I'd take the Imbruglia version: I feel it's resignation and sadness better expresses the lyrics than this angrier, darker version. Happily, I don't have to choose. I love this version. I also love Ednaswap's original version. This is a great song and the sadness vs. anger takes reveals the many emotional layers inherent in it.
I like the raw-ness of this cut. After blowing up, and loving, Nat's version for ages, this highly metallic original sounds so new and so much more broken than its quasi-folksy (dare I say jolly?) pop sister.
It sounds much better at 1.5x speed
Agreed it’s too slow normally
Patience
Sounds like the version of Natalie Imbruglia 😂
@@danny__dimes6606that's what I thought when my brother showed me this, but now I think that's exactly how it has to be
It is indeed... good hard rock vibe
Wow. The original is really something. It's amazing how the same song can sound so different with interpretation and deeper emotions. Crazy.
When you’re the person who wrote a song you have a different emotional attachment to it.
The original is from Lis Sorensen's. She recorded the song "Braendt" (which was retitled into Torn) in 1992. Ednaswap released their version 1995.
The original title was Torn, it was redone for Lis who used a Danish lyricist.
I first heard this song played acoustic and sung by Anne Preven almost ten years ago and am still haunted by the raw emotion it conveyed. The Phil Thornalley took something fantastic and gave it to Natalie to make something plastic. God Bless what you gave us Anne.
Anne practically wrote the song herself. The other two members were given songwriting credits because that’s how the band rolled before Phil left and screwed them over giving the song away without permission from the rest of the band.
"Stolen"? How is making a cover version stealing?
@@jeffguitarnelson1644 That seems highly unlikely, unless for some odd reason they were not affiliated with ASCAP, BMI, or SESAC
They made a fortune and it changed their lives
@@jeffguitarnelson1644 I doubt that's true since one of the original writers also produced the Imbruglia version
I thought I saw a man brought to life
He was warm - he came around like
He was dignified
He showed me what it was to cry
Well you couldn't be that man I adored
You don't seem to know - don't seem to care
What your heart is for
No I don't know him anymore
There's nothin' where we used to lie
Conversation has run dry
That's what's going on
Nothing's fine
I'm torn
I'm all out of faith
This is how I feel
I'm cold and I am chained
Lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed
Into something real
I'm cold and I am shamed and bound
And broken on the floor
And I can see the perfect sky is torn
You're a little late
I'm already torn
So I guess the fortune teller's right
I should have seen just what was there
And not some holy light
But you crawled beneath my veins
And now I don't care
I have no luck
I don't miss it all that much
There's just so many things
That I can't touch
There's nothing where he used to lie
My conversation has run dry
That's what is goin' on
Nothin's right
I'm torn
I'm all out of faith
This is how I feel
I'm cold and I am shamed
Lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed
Into something real
I'm wide awake
And I can see the perfect sky is torn
You're a little late
I'm already torn
Damn I got a bit emotional with this version, you can really feel the song. Natalie's version was good too since it was a pop ver, but this one takes the cake.
I posted the Natalie version on my Facebook because I love to sing it...and one of my friends told me about this...and I’m absolutely in love with this version and can’t wait to learn how to play it
This song was actually another cover of the original, which was Brændt by Danish singer Lis Sørensen in 1993.
no Brandt bought it from Edna swap, after hearing Brandt's version they realized how good this song was and decided to record it as well
Brandt's version is the first, but this is not a cover since they are the original authors of this song. A unique situation.
Ednaswap wrote that version too!
Yerzhan Kurmanbay . So Ednaswap wrote it . Brandt released it as their song and then Ednaswap covered it ?
@@Matthew9818 Yes, but can we call it "cover" when they are the original writers of the song?
Go to settings and change the speed to 1.5 to hear this version played at the speed of the version we all know. All the lovely chord changes of ednaswap, but with the jumpy catchiness of Imbrugliugliugliuglia's version. Best of both worlds.
I love this version so much. Sad to think so many artists have great theme tracks to our lives and don't get exposed. Well until someone has the money to buy someone to produce it themselves.
perfect comment 25% of Elvis - covers
Wow...what's better than hearing a great song done in different, powerful and complementary styles? I really enjoyed both interpretations...now I need to search out the Trine Rein version.
This version I actually prefer over the original recording and Imbruglia's cover. It's very.. raw. Emotional. You can tell she put her heart into it. It is a little on the slow, but it does the job.
I just found this tonight and love it. For real, love it. I like the other version and always have. But this. This is IT.
One of the guys who wrote the song - Phil Thornalley - also produced the Imbruglia version so let's stop with the nonsense theft allegations.
The first time I ever heard this version, was on The History Of New Music on Edge 102.1 radio station in Toronto. I loved it instantly! Geez do I miss that radio show!! :)
It's still going :) you can listen to the podcast edition
This is the finest rendition of Torn. It has far more emotion and depth and maintains its relevance and power. Love it!
A beautiful song that millions of people would of never heard if not for natalie imbruglia and yes there is a reason for that.
I like this one way better. She doesn't gasp after every line she sings.
I'm glad I heard the cover first and didn't discover this until recently. Makes it that much better.
This is actually quite amazing, but I can't help loving Natalie's version more, if only for nostalgia's sake. But man, do I love the guitar in this!
I have way more nostalgia for this version, but I was a huge Ednaswap fan then and didn’t listen to pop music much.
Thanks! My fav version... long time fan...
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too bad Bush didnt cover the song. tell me the lyrics and sound of this original werent meant for Bush to play
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Same chord structure as the song "Glycerine" and a very similar guitar sound. Probably why it sounds like a Bush song....
Bush are absolute garbage that cant make any original material, covering this song would make them shittier
but this song is also pretty shitty and 0 original. any other post-grunge poppish commercial band looking for airplay could record a song like this - including bush.
Now that you say it, yeah, I can see Bush doing a cover of it
this song is so much more "dreamy" than the cover. I love them both, this one is raw and touching to the marrow.
"Real musicians manually playing musical instruments on a song THEY ACTUALLY WROTE."
Except for all bands and musicians in existence before Bob Dylan and the Beatles changed the industry in the early 60s.
Nothing wrong with modern actors performing the plays of Shakespeare; nothing wrong with artists covering other people's songs.
omg, this is brilliant. i don't even want to hear the cover now......love this too much
I gotta say that this original version really brings out the pain and anguish in the lyrics. Imbruglia made the song cute and perky (or I should say her producers did) removing all real emotion from the song. This is 100% better!
this isn't even the original version. Ednaswap has 2 versions. this is their 2nd recording
Yeah, the first Ednaswap version is musically a lot like Imbruglia's. This version is way more emotional. Her voice with the extra chord change on "this is how I feel" DESTROYS ME every time.
I agree. However, I recently read an interview with Phil Thornally (one of the writers of this song) and he said he was the one who suggested Natalie to cover his song and even wrote the arrangement as if it were an acoustic version of that song. The bassist even plays in the Natalie's version.
Natalie's is a direct rip of the version by Lis Sørensen more so than even the Original Ednaswap version.
It's so crazy... I've always known all the lyrics but I've jus sang along in the past just because I know it. After hearing this version I can actually feel the lyrics, I'm no lo get jus singing along. This is so much better.
saw them in concert in the 90s love them so much! i wish we could see more!
love this song - i knew it was a cover from Natalie Imbruglia - BUT to me she and her production team made it their own. Sounds nothing like this. Both are fantastic ;-)
To be fair, it is the same producer..
I always loved the original,but holy shit! I'm sitting here with goosebumps hearing this for the first time.What a completely different take! Totally superior!
Which one do you call original? I hope it is the version from the "Ednaswap" album, 1995.
what original?
i like both Versions
I love this version! And look, wow, it's Carla Azar on drums, she's absolutely awesome
oh wow. i feel guilty now that I still like Natalie's version...
This is by far the best version without any doubt.The cover is only a studio take.
Man, the original is pretty sick. Love the gritty guitar riffs. And the vocals definitely grip at the soul way harder than the cover. Although I still like Imbruglia's cover slightly better.
Its not really fair to compare the two though. Both completely different versions of the song and it all depends on what you want out of such music.
this isn't the original track. Ednaswap has 2 versions. this is their 2nd version
maybe the best song ever, so raw, so authentic, so not mainstream pop-rock, so not hollywood, so sincere, so not pretentious, so easy for a foreigners to understand
Natalie's version is for radio. This version is for a sold out stadium
(I think you were referring to my comment right?) Yep. I was quite surprised myself. :) I loved that song (I Found Love) when I was a preteen, who knew just a few years later Preven would record what would become one of my favorite songs ever, "Torn." A woman of many talents to be sure!
This original is great, but I prefer the Natalie Umbruglia version. Catchier.
Agree and I think Natalie's great video added to it's popularity.
rivenrock
Me too
I like Trine Rein version But to be honest back in 1997 I was listening to better music.
krow000666 and
That’s because you have no taste in music.
Well, shucks, there's just so much more feeling here. ..I never knew Torn 'as we knew it' was a cover! Very, very cool. Glad to have finally heard the original.
most of the money from a song is made from royalties from the people who WROTE/COMPOSED a song, not who sang or performed it. every time a song is played on the radio or on stage or used in TV/ads, the writer/composer gets royalties. therefore, i'm sure Ednaswap made out with a nice chunk of change from the popularity of the cover song, unless their manager or label screwed them over (which is common in the industry...) in any case, i also knew of the original when i heard the cover on the radio, and i had blogged about it. i still prefer the original because that's what i heard first and it was a rock song to me and it was a good tune. others who heard the pop cover of it might prefer that because they heard that first.
You would be wrong, as the song was literally stolen. Record Label didn't give them shit at the time the song came out.
I think you mean ROYALTIES
silverbishounen Sounds like she's doin alright according to this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Preven as is this guy who co-wrote en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Thornalley aaaaaaannnnd this guy who also co-wrote en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Cutler. Sometimes people do better not being the actual band.
Haha, is your screen name and your talk of "loyalties" some kind of Asian joke?
The first recording of the song was in 1993 by the Danish singer Lis Sørensen as "Brændt" (Burned) after it was translated by Elisabeth Gjerluff Nielsen.
wow how the heck did Natallie mange to turn it all pink and fluffy? This is original and brilliant version.
MSK Chess Actually, her version is basically a straight up cover (same arrangement, same guitar licks) of a pop version originally recorded by Trine Rein.
Sure thing, the original is more raw, you can feel the pain. Amazing song irrespective. the version above is in a much more ballad style, here is the version i am familiar with. soundcloud.com/cstt/ednaswap-torn-1995
MSK Chess That's the Ednaswap version I'm familiar with as well, I hadn't heard the version above before. Both are darker than the Rein/Imbruglia renditions, but I actually like them all.
MSK Chess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
+MSK Chess This actually isn't even the original version by Ednaswap... As someone else said Natalie's version is pretty much a straight up cover... This version was a second attempt by the band to release this song... The original version Ednaswap released isn't as dark or grungy with more of an acoustic tone...
Actually, Anne Preven and Scott Cutler wrote it with outside songwriter Phil Thornalley. Needless to say he was very happy to see it have success when he re-recorded it with Natalie Imbruglia several years. It was a great version so I'm not surprised.
"The song "Torn" by the band that wrote and recorded it before it was taken from them. Real musicians manually playing musical instruments on a song THEY ACTUALLY WROTE."
What are you a crusty soul-less troll? Lmao! Natalie did an amazing job at covering this song and gave it so much incredible nostalgia with a modern feel.
Also, this song never became successful of its own accord. Chances are far less people would know about this version if Imbruglia didn't popularize it. I do like this version very much but yeah, the uploader needs to chill :P
Pretty sure Anne Preven was well compensated by Imbruglia. And I hate to say it but this singer isn't as traditionally "cute/sexy" as soap star Natalie and thus less marketable :(
And yet, this is a rewritten lyric of a danish song called "Brændt" by Lis Sørensen. Melody is just about the same. So no, EDNASWAP just gave the melody a english text and called it their own.
And Respect is Otis Rettings song not Aretha Franklin's who cares it's not like 311covering The Cure's love song changing 1percent of the song.
Drakan Wolf Wrong, the song was written by Preven, the Danish singer was the one who covered it.
Love the roughness, and all the feeling in her voice. Love it
Agree with fandog, what is the point of getting so arsey about the cover version doing better? What's more Natalie Imbruglia did not cover this, she covered Lis Sørensen's "Brandt" version, which is a good cover version, and does all of the leg work of retooling the song towards the pop market. Lets be honest, all that is left of the original is the lyrics, and it did take someone with talent to come up with the musical arrangement to make it into a pop song. Nothing beats the original artist for emotion, but no need to slag off people who cover songs, as many a cover version has merit.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this version!!!
I prefer the Imruglia version, but I study Music at PhD level, so it's OK, right? :-P
even if you didnt have a phd level your opinion is ok lol and i agree :)
Michela Isabella Phew! I was worried :-P
I prefer the Imbruglia version myself and I don't have a PHd of anything.
Pauline MacLeod I was joking, by the way. Agreed, Imbruglia is much better
Tom Kilworth I was kind of joking myself :) yes Imbruglia much much better
All the interpretations of this song are good (Ednaswap and Lis Sørensen, "Brændt, Natalie Imbrugila) for what they are
I played in a band in the 80's and we would still love one of our songs to get picked up and really produced so I am certain Ednaswap has no issues with the other versions and is happy that it got to a wider appeal.
Boo hoo. Somebody covered a song! Oh the tragedy! Oh the horror! Oh the pain! HOW DARE SOMEBODY COVER A SONG!
The very beginning sounds like the beginning of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
Actually, I gotta say that Ms. Imbruglia does it better in my opinion. The melody is a little more refined and more obviously the track is a little more polished due to it being a bigger label. Still good though, I can't imagine a way to do this song injustice without making it dubstep.
Have you heard the other version Ednaswap did on their second album 'Whacko Magneto'? You might like that version better.
I'll have to go check that out then, thank you.
thanks- ive been looking a log time for this- awesome songwriting indeed
Buzzfeed brought me here
And willfully gave the song to other artists... Lis Sørensen's was the first to actually release the song in 1993... The writers did not release their version until three years later... Members of the band have been involved in all of the three covers that have been released...
Soo much better than the cover, i feel sorry for Ednaswap for getting no credit for their own song
+Bob Hatchfeild Pretty sure they're all set for life as a result of the cover, they're probably fine with it.
+David Bliss Not sure about that.. for some legal stuff they didn't get anything I I remember well .. and the lady is aldo died .. :(
MeMeSoloMe The singer, Anne Preven, tweeted less than a week ago, so she's definitely not dead...
Oh Cool.. I'm happy about that :) .. can you ask her 'bout the credit?
MeMeSoloMe I don't know her or anything, I've just read things. She's Harvard-educated and has been really successful as a songwriter for other artists, her Wikipedia entry has a lot of info.
The song was willfully given to all the artists that have covered it... In fact the first official recording of the song was by a Danish artist in 1993... Three years before Ednaswap attempted to release any of the three versions they recorded... That being said members of this band were involved with each of the three artists that have released versions of it...
It wasn’t willfully given to Natalie by Anne. Natalie used a compulsory license without Anne’s blessing when Anne was about to release her newly recorded version as a single.
"taken from them" lol.
WHY U MAD THO?
Cover versions happen all the time. Nothing wrong with that. Natalie's got more attention, rightfully, cause it's a better version.
I don't think there's a "better" version, they are both good.
That's great. I'm glad to see she still is being successful in the music business.
This version is a turgid dirge. Imbruglia brought it to life.
And you don't know shit about music.
I used to absolutely adore natalies cover until I finally heard the original, and it just makes her sound like a kids bop version of this girl. I love this song to death.
So f*cking funny, to see a guy whine about a "stolen song. Defending this artist. The song origin from a danish singer, Lis Sørense - Brændt. Later it got translated to english, by this band!...
Wtop whining about stolen songs. Somtetimes covers are better.
This is not the original.....
If you read the history of this song, this was the first song Natalie ever sang. She performed it before the record label because this guy wrote the song with Ednaswap (or "produced" their writing session) and had three European chicks before Natalie perform it. She would never have gotten a record deal without this song, which is weird since she isn't a bad singer or lyricist. But that IS the case... And yes she did hear of Ednaswap since the guy showed her their version to see if she liked it.
Way better than Natalie Imbruglia. That goes without saying.
My left ear really liked the distortions. My right meanwhile loved her voice.
not a bad cover, original still the best
Are you drunk?
1UTUBEUSERNAME yes?
it's the original one
This is the original the other is a cover
1UTUBEUSERNAME you cracked me up
Agreed. See The Tide is High for another example. It is actually by The Paragons in 1967, but was popularized by Blondie in 1980.
some times the remakes are better... true in this case. boy this is garbage XP
***** you're right, I much prefer the 2nd half. Natalie's upbeat version is peppy, and may just be 'pop rock', but it's very good, and why most of us know the song. but, yeah, maybe Melissa turned it off too soon, as most people do with new songs.
Anne is a criminally under appreciated artist. Really great singer and lyricist. Real gravitas. One thing contemporary music could use is more Anne Previns and fewer Carrie Underwoods.
Agreed. That’s why I have her albums that aren’t on streaming services on my UA-cam channel.
Both versions are great!! I like them both!
Fantastic!