Talk:One of Us (song)

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[edit] A version by Alanis?

After doing some extensive research, i've found no reputable site listing a cover of this song by Alanis Morissette. Examples of places i searched include Amazon.com track listings for Alanis' CDs. I further checked out several songs off of Limewire, both claiming to be Alanis Morissette and Joan Osborne. There was absolutely no difference between the two songs. Although there are two seperate versions of the song, one with the "heavenly airplane" intro and one without, the song itself is exactly the same. I'd guess that one was a single version, wheras the other was the album version. I've concluded that Alanis has been misatributed as having done a cover of this song (and occasionally as the original author). Probably this is due to the huge success of Jagged Little Pill, and the fact that One of Us came out the same year, not to mention the fact that the song sounds like one that Alanis might have sung. I've changed the article to reflect this. Of course, if someone does have conclusive proof that Alanis has covered this song, change it back. Ignus 00:59, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

if it is misattributed, then that should get a mention just because of the sheer number of GHITS that do attribute the song to her. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.101.29 (talk) 13:14, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

This helpful piece of info used to be mentioned in the article, actually. But then someone vandalised it back in December 2006, and another person removed the modified paragraph rather than revert the change. I put it back. 89.78.116.22 (talk) 11:09, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Heavenly Airplane

Lomax recorded Nell Hampton singing that song sometime between the 1950s to 1970s. It is much older, however, and originally credited to J. S. McConnell. See http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=25735.

one of us was used in an episode of tv-show Cold Case

[edit] Genre

This is country rock? I would just call it rock. I don't hear any country at all. Jablomih (talk) 21:49, 24 February 2008 (UTC)