Finally. Something from my homeland. He sure was the most international act my country has produced so far.
You must be well pleased, he had the finest voice I have ever heard, both range and technique. Sweet Pain is a breathtaking demonstration of this, from heartache to ecstasy. He was a shining soul from the land of the pure and an example to the world of sincere devotional art.
Whoa, first thought for SURE it was Camel...and I was thinking cool, Bill playing Camel. Never actually heard this song or band before, which is weird since that is my era...hmmm. Its all good.
This track does sound like Camel to me too, I saw them both live back in the day. Check out Focus's back catalogue, they were a great Dutch band.
I'll take yer man Shatner's version over Blur's any day of the week, if only so's I don't have to hear Damon Albarn's irritating Sahf Lahndan accent, plus I can actually hear (and agree with) the lyrics. This is so tongue in cheek. It brings 'serious' songs down to ground getting the Shatner treatment. Phasers to stun, cap'n! 8 from the Nottingham jury.
Lol, It was a Pulp hit, Jarvis Cocker is from Sheffield and sounds like a real Yorkshireman. You're just down the road and must live in a rough part of Nottingham if you think he sounded like a southerner.
You know, I knew the 70's when they were unspeakably lame as opposed to funny and campy. The cover art is a dead giveaway of what the band was thinking. Look, if creativity is knowing what to steal these guys made off the with a McDonalds Cherry pie, a Shamrock Shake and a McRib and then mashed them together in the backseat of a 74 Chrysler.
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Are you thinking of Super-tramp? This is Super-grass! They're both Brit bands, but about 25 years apart. So maybe it would be a Bakewell tart, a cuppa tea and a bacon sarnie mashed up in the back seat of a 70's Cortina (or Noughties Cosworth)?
From Wiki: Git is a mild pejorative with origins in British English for a silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. It is usually an insult, more severe than twit or idiot but less severe than wanker, arsehole or twat.The word git first appeared in print in 1946, but is undoubtedly older. It is originally an alteration of the word get, dating back to the 14th century. A shortening of beget, get insinuates that the recipient is someone's misbegotten offspring and therefore a bastard. In parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotlandget is still used in preference to git; the get form is used in the Beatles song "I'm So Tired".
D'oh! Hey, Steely_D, I was just testing you to see if you were paying attention! Hope you didn't break your mic.
Yeah, right,"Get" is from The North and you can't be more Northern than the Scouse Beatles, Northern English (capitalised) is a recognised dialect too. It's cultural hegemony to print the lyrics as "git", bloody r.p. fascist "tw*ts" (not RP fascists). ;-)
"There are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect."
They are the right notes, you're just in the wrong place.
(Brit joke, paraphrasing the late, great, Eric Morecambe. One of the funniest Northern comedians of the 20th century.)
thewiseking wrote:
rubbish, worse than Blue Oyster Cult even
ShaunJ replied:
Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one ...
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Well said Shaun, and many of them stink too!
You must be well pleased, he had the finest voice I have ever heard, both range and technique. Sweet Pain is a breathtaking demonstration of this, from heartache to ecstasy. He was a shining soul from the land of the pure and an example to the world of sincere devotional art.
Hear, hear. What a shock, he was only 64.
Bobert_ParkCity wrote:
anybody else hear some early Genesis in this?
xtalman wrote:
NO!
I do, in the sotto arpeggio guitar picks and chord progressions, like on Foxtrot or Selling England by the Pound. Whaddayathink?
hempmandan wrote:
Peter Gabrieleque
nutrod42 wrote:
Yep, I hear that too.
G.G. has said many times that Genesis with P.G. were a big influence on the band from their early days.
More please.
Bill said it may resonate with some of us at this time, a masterful understatement. The lyrics say it all, Lennon was a genius.
This track does sound like Camel to me too, I saw them both live back in the day. Check out Focus's back catalogue, they were a great Dutch band.
Lol, It was a Pulp hit, Jarvis Cocker is from Sheffield and sounds like a real Yorkshireman. You're just down the road and must live in a rough part of Nottingham if you think he sounded like a southerner.
Just when I think I have the English language figured out, along comes an Englishman...
Just wait for the Vogon poetry!
Or she will die!
There's a good segue there Bill.
Because it works?
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Are you thinking of Super-tramp?
This is Super-grass!
They're both Brit bands, but about 25 years apart.
So maybe it would be a Bakewell tart, a cuppa tea and a bacon sarnie mashed up in the back seat of a 70's Cortina (or Noughties Cosworth)?
But Annie Lennox as a singer in another class altogether. She flatters the song.
If I was Young, I would be hugely flattered by the cover.
What he said ^^^
It is a great cover, and I can say this even though I had my ears burned with too much Eurythmics by my ex.
It's a great tune but that's what I thought when I read the lyrics. His mother's insecurity seems to have rubbed off onto Wally.
To quote Philip Larkin, the great English poet of the mid-20th century :-
They f*ck you up your Mum and Dad
They may not mean to but they do
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some more, just for you
Genius! - Wally too.
It looks like a "Banksy", a Brit graffiti artist of some note. I'm surprised nobody replied for 10 years, he's world famous now and worth millions.
*drops mic*
Git is a mild pejorative with origins in British English for a silly, incompetent, stupid, annoying, senile, elderly or childish person. It is usually an insult, more severe than twit or idiot but less severe than wanker, arsehole or twat.The word git first appeared in print in 1946, but is undoubtedly older. It is originally an alteration of the word get, dating back to the 14th century. A shortening of beget, get insinuates that the recipient is someone's misbegotten offspring and therefore a bastard. In parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland get is still used in preference to git; the get form is used in the Beatles song "I'm So Tired".
D'oh!
Hey, Steely_D, I was just testing you to see if you were paying attention!
Hope you didn't break your mic.
Yeah, right,"Get" is from The North and you can't be more Northern than the Scouse Beatles, Northern English (capitalised) is a recognised dialect too. It's cultural hegemony to print the lyrics as "git", bloody r.p. fascist "tw*ts" (not RP fascists). ;-)