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').
That was interesting. I haven't heard anything by them before.
In general I liked it. I found what sounded like 'stop/start' misplicing rather disorientating, I don't know if this was intentional (i.e. part of their style) or an mp3 artefact. Still, its brightened up Friday afternoon
[note: is it valid to refer to comfortably numb 'brightening up anything? What does this say about the nature of my new job?]
I think any cover version that tries to be different from the original is worthy. Otherwise, what's the point? The Scissor Sisters album it's on is a fantastic album; I'm really not sure if I like that one track or not, but I applaud them for doing it!
To offer some additional info:
. I have seen the Scissor Sisters version listed as a single somewhere, though I'm suitably distant from the charts these days to be unable to say whether it made any impact all. But fear not, Liz - it's not just an album track.
. The entire album is full of very different, all retro-sounding, tracks. No one track is representative, but that's probably the least representative of all! Laura and Take Your Mama are getting the most radio airplay as far as I can tell; they are both excellent, and I also recommend you listen to Return To Oz.
In addition to 'I hate it', 'It should never have been allowed' and 'My ears, they're bleeding', I would just like to note that IT IS AN ABOMINATION IN THE EYES OF GOD!!
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Date: 2004-07-02 07:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:26 am (UTC)In general I liked it. I found what sounded like 'stop/start' misplicing rather disorientating, I don't know if this was intentional (i.e. part of their style) or an mp3 artefact. Still, its brightened up Friday afternoon
[note: is it valid to refer to comfortably numb 'brightening up anything? What does this say about the nature of my new job?]
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:38 am (UTC)To offer some additional info:
. I have seen the Scissor Sisters version listed as a single somewhere, though I'm suitably distant from the charts these days to be unable to say whether it made any impact all. But fear not, Liz - it's not just an album track.
. The entire album is full of very different, all retro-sounding, tracks. No one track is representative, but that's probably the least representative of all! Laura and Take Your Mama are getting the most radio airplay as far as I can tell; they are both excellent, and I also recommend you listen to Return To Oz.
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-07-02 11:11 am (UTC)Oh no it won't ;-)
(or were you deliberately catering for lazy sods like me who didn't get around to downloading it before the deadline?)
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Date: 2004-07-02 12:48 pm (UTC)Thankyou.