Another great cover - “Wonderwall” (Ryan Adams)

October 13th, 2007

No, not Bryan Adams, this is Ryan Adams, and a cover version so good that even Noel Gallagher, who wrote it, seems to prefer it to the Oasis version. These days he tends to play and sings the song this way in concerts. Though the music you will hear is his Ryan Adams, the video is actually just the work of a high school film project. Ironically, it seems they planned to base their film around the Oasis original but substituted in Adams version for the final edit. If you’ve the original a zillion times, then it can take a couple of listens to really ‘get’ this version - the first time round it sounds a little like Adams hasn’t quite learned the tune properly.