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[venta]

And an auxiliary poll:

[Poll #315664]

I originally refused to believe it wasn't really well known, but now it's looking like I'm wrong :(

Comments

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

What do you mean by "the original version"? The one they demo'd in '67 with Barrett making duck noises in the background?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Nothing so complex, no. Just the original, as distinct from a cover. So, since I'd mentioned Pink Floyd already, the word original was superfluous.

I bow to your extremely superior Floyd knowledge :)

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I have definitely heard it, I even own it, but I can't say it's ever stuck in my head particularly.

I prefer the Scissor Sisters' version unequivocally. This century: better than the last century.

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

I prefer the Scissor Sisters' version unequivocally.

And that is why you fail.

[diffrentcolours]

So if I were to cover something from the last century by farting into a microphone, it'd be unequivocally better because it was released this century?

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

The Pink Floyd version is a masterpiece.

The cover is like taking the Mona Lisa and giving it to Tracy Emin to put used condoms over it or something. (IMHO)

:-)

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Tsk, you'll be saying that All Saints didn't improve on that horrible RHCP song next...

[venta.livejournal.com]

<hides under desk>

... because sooner or later onebyone is going to read that comment, and it's not going to be pretty :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Heard it before - not much I can do about it if verlaine insists on holding a ridicuous position in the hope of provoking controversy.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Was 'Under the Bridge' from Rocky Horror, then? Does Brad sing it?

[lambertbehnke.livejournal.com]

I hope this is a joke.

RHCP => Red Hot Chili Peppers
RHPS => Rocky Horror

[lambertbehnke.livejournal.com]

Next you are going to point out that it was Rolf Harris that made Stairway into a classic. I see where you are coming from.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

Sufficiently different, I would have thought, to be considered entirely separately. The original is a classic. The Far Corporation's version added nothing - they just made a packet shifting a bunch of singles on the back of Led Zep's brilliance. Rolf's version is just mad. It was on the wireless the other day and it was the first time I had heard it in ages; it was hilarious. I like both.

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

Mmm, "lots of words have two meanings".

[dmh.livejournal.com]

Rolf is God.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

When I was doing my computing MSC exams and dissertation, I had The Wall on loop* as I was working as my main** inspiration music. This probably says a lot, although exactly what I'm not sure...

*Although I had to change the CDs manually...
**War of the Worlds (music version) was listened to a fair bit as well.

Hurrah for MSc thesis music!

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Brave, Chrome and The Violet Burning will probably never leave me.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

I answered "yes", as it was the closest to "I know _a_ Pink Floyd version". The one I am familiar with is on the live Knebworth album.

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

Heretic!

[diffrentcolours]

I think the version off the live Wall album "Wish You Were Here" is better than the studio version, personally.

[dmh.livejournal.com]

I still recall, with much horror, seeing the Scissor Sisters version of it on Top of the Pops. Truly awful, I thought.

[condign.livejournal.com]

Erm... OK, let's be clear here.

Are you implying that there are two Pink Floyd versions of the song, or that someone has...shudder...done a remake?

Look, I've been in Japan for a month listening to tinny J-Pop bands. I'm out of the loop. But if such a horror doesn't exist, don't scare me like this...

[venta.livejournal.com]

There are probably many Pink Floyd versions of the song. However, a band called the Scissor Sisters have covered Comfortably Numb, see earlier Friday post.

The cover isn't J-Pop, but it's far closer to it than it is to prog-rock :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

And closer to "the Chipmunks" than either.

If I thought the Scissor Sisters were making a serious effort to improve on the original, then their cover would be a bit annoying. Since they're just being daft and messing around, hating it would be like hating Mike Flowers Pops.

[diffrentcolours]

Nah, Mike Flowers is definitely in the "silly cover version" category but at least has some vestige of musical talent, rather than sounding like some stoned students trying to do the Bee Gees.

(that being said, I quite like the Scissor Sisters track I've heard that isn't Comfortably Numb, it's not like the band are lacking in musical talent. Which implies that this travesty of theirs is deliberate, which is far more worrying)