modern day songs

Brian,
I agree with you that there many excellent writers and songs out there today.
The performance you provided us was an excellent rendition of the song " The Chain", however I believe the context in which songs are written  belong in that context. No one except the writer knows exactly how the song should sound or  how it should feel, albeit 100 people could hear a song and not one of them feel the same way.
In contrast to the jazzy rendition, FM put so much energy into that song, and when you watch the facial expressions of Lindsday Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, and the others you can feel the anguish and heartpain  of the song much better in my humble opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBYHwH1Vb-c

Thanks for sharing

Jim

P.S.  When I see and hear modern bands using so much pre-programmed mucic and synthetic music - it just loses me      

ah yeah Rolf the king of brilliant covers
does a great smoke on the water too.     

Yes Jim that is the same Rolf Harris.

To add to Jim's comment about different styles of the same song and Pete's and Brian's advocating of many styles make light listening, we always seem to prefer the first version we hear unless another version knocks us off our feet. As I mentioned in another post, I believe there are some composers as good as any that have gone before. The trouble is the producers take an original and possibly great song and destroy it by adding superfluous effects and needless vocal harmonies that are produced by studio chicanery.  As a for instance listen to singers on "talent show" performances then how their records have been murdered by the production process. I think I've preached enough. Amen