Disclaimer: I know it's a cover, and I know who made the original, but I don't think I've ever heard the original, and I quite like the Scissor Sisters' version (not quite as much as 'It's great', but rather more than 'It's OK, I suppose').
But I'd've said it's more likely to be a 'Liz* actually knows very little about music apart from what she's osmosed** from living with smiorgan for so long' moment.
*Me this time **If this isn't a word, it should be.
Comfortably Numb has been a long time favourite, so I find it hard to comprehend the thought of anyone not knowing it. Having said that, it does tend to sit on my 'music to comit suicide to' compilations, along with much of the remaining Pink Floyd back catalogue.
That LP did spawn a Christmas number 1 single in 1979. For an albums band, I think that's not a bad effort on the part of a pig-ignorant general public, no?
Uhm, that was 25 years ago, when most people likely to be listening to the Top 40 nowadays were still in nappies or a glint in their parents' eyes.
The point I was making is that people today don't know about the original Comfortably Numb, when they're quite familiar with lesser songs of a similar vintage.
The problem I have in answering your poll is that I want to answer "It's a cover ?" but can't because I encountered the debate on how wrong this was before I heard the song for the first time !
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Date: 2004-07-02 07:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 07:27 am (UTC)I guess this is another "Liz in having no clue what's well known and what isn't" moment.
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Date: 2004-07-02 07:27 am (UTC)That's me, not you, by the way :)
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Date: 2004-07-02 07:30 am (UTC)I guessed ;-)
But I'd've said it's more likely to be a 'Liz* actually knows very little about music apart from what she's osmosed** from living with
*Me this time
**If this isn't a word, it should be.
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-03 03:37 am (UTC)The point I was making is that people today don't know about the original Comfortably Numb, when they're quite familiar with lesser songs of a similar vintage.
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-02 08:28 am (UTC)See more recent entry. It appears I am, again, Wrong.