What would you say is

[james_davis_nicoll]

The most gloriously overproduced version of House of the Rising Sun?

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[jesuswasbatman]

The Muse version, but that's probably true of everything Muse have ever done.

[kaffy_r]

Haven't heard the Muse version, since I steer clear of them. I'd say either Frijid Pink's or the ham-fistedly earnest BTO version. (I loved the Frijid Pink version when I was teen, and I'll admit to a faint echoing affection for it now.)

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure this is overproduced, but it's beautiful - Kormoran and a right wing Hungarian politician with a good voice sing the Hungarian translation:

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Note: clip is NSFW. (Not that it's an issue for me, but may be for somebody.)

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

It isn't overproduced exactly, but Tracy Chapman's full-band arrangement is suspiciously bouncy for its subject matter.

http://youtu.be/W0M-Ck5USQc

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

I don't do these modern Media, partly because I favor under-produced versions of almost everything. And yes, my favorite version of House of the Rising Sun is Carl Sandberg's (a Folkways, or possibly Library of Congress, recording, I think) -- the one than which you can't hardly get less under-produced.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I nominate the Muse version.

Somewhere near the other end of the spectrum, I've always considered Tom Waits' 'Lucinda' to be the bastard child of HotRS (with a sliver of Alfred Noyes somewhere in there).

[mcbadger.livejournal.com]

Wow. That Muse version is as overproduced as it gets (I mean, I like Muse, but they never met a top they didn't want to go over). But is it *gloriously* overproduced?

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

The Johnny Hallyday one, hands down.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Wow. (http://youtu.be/jVvgkxwlEtU)

His pants are overproduced all by themselves.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

Yet another "not overproduced, but damned good" version; The Be Good Tanyas:

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Well, add another group to the list of musicians I listen to.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

They also do an absolutely spectacular version of Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting around to die":



As well as assorted other trad classics:



And their original stuff is damnfine as well:

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

"Waiting around to die" seems less than completely optimistic.

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

Townes wrote that one just a few weeks after he got married.

His new wife was not impressed.

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

Has TSO done a cover of it yet, to set a reasonable benchmark?

[dexitroboper (from livejournal.com)]

The one with the most cowbell.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Frigid Pink.

[aboutlikepleats.livejournal.com]

I've always been partial to Deacon Andy Griffiths' version. So wrong, but so right.

[voidampersand.livejournal.com]

I can tell you it's not the Dick Dale version.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!!! for that link.

[krfsm.livejournal.com]

Toto's, maybe?