I see myself in there upon my lover

[venta]

It's Friday, and it's a bit after 3 o'clock[*]. It's time to go underneath the covers (with the lights out).

I always recommend listening to a cover version without knowing what or who it is, so click on the link before reading ahead...

Link to cover version expired

That was Newton Faulkner covering Teardrop, originally by Massive Attack.

I saw Newton Faulkner supporting... er... I have no idea, actually. It was at the lovely Luminaire in Kilburn. Supporting someone, anyway. He was chirpy and witty onstage, bantering away with the audience and chucking in unexpected oddities like the themetune from Spongebob Squarepants. When his album was released a few months later, I bought it.

And, to be honest, was a bit disappointed. It's nice enough, it's just a bit... wet. It's probably right up your alley if you like sensitive blokes doing nice acoustic, gentle, mellow songs. Just I largely don't.

I'm still unsure about this cover. I'll grant that it's an interesting attempt, but I was a very big fan of Mezzanine and just find this a bit lacking in menace, by comparison.

[*] Sorry I'm late. The last few days have been a bit tits-up, as I've been largely offline, and have only just been allowed to have my PC back once Sysadmin #1 finished scraping all the crap off it. It seems that even comparatively reputable sites can have disreputable Javascript in their adverts, which can do Bad Things. Yes, yes, adblock, I know. However, let's just say that I can haz not only cheezburger, but viruz. Still, I s'pose it was at least a lolviruz. I guess it was in my harddrivez, nommin' my filez.

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[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Yup. I can - er, what's the equivalent of visualise? auralise? songs sometimes. It comes from years of playing silly improv games and imitating people when singing karaoke, and the like.

(Kate Bush is a nice easy one to hear doing other people's songs, as is James Hetfield.)


Edited to make the -ises match, because that's dissonant in itself. Synaesthesia is usually cool, but sometimes it sucks. :D