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song: Age of Consent
artist: Grant-Lee Phillips
album: nineteeneighties
released: 2006-06-27length: 3:29
6.3
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Won't you please let me go?
These words lie inside they hurt me so
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
I'm not the kind that needs to tell you
Just what you want me to

I saw you this morning
I thought that you might like to know
I received your message in full a few days ago
I understood every word that it said
And now that I've actually heard it
You're going to regret

And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what you want me to
You're not the kind that needs to tell me
About the birds and the bees

Do you find this happens all the time?
Crucial point one day becomes a crime
And I'm not the kind that likes to tell you
Just what I want to do
And I'm not the kind that needs to tell you

I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
I've lost you
Grant-Lee Phillips

Grant-Lee Phillips (born Bryan G. Phillips; September 1, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He led the group Grant Lee Buffalo in the 1990s, afterwards launching a solo career. He features as the town troubadour in Gilmore Girls.

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Comments ( 75 )
Posted 14 years ago by vandal:
nelsonha wrote:
This is not a very good remake of a New Order classic.
 
au contraire mon frere. . . this is an awesome remake of a much beloved New Order classic. . . IMHO, of course 
 
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Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2:
Super
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Posted 11 years ago by juanos:
hard-earned 7... likely to go up...
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Posted 14 years ago by newwavegurly:
newwavegurly (back in 2006) wrote:
I didn't really like this when it first started, but I was won over by it as it progressed. Not a bad cover of a New Order tune.
 
I'm actually really enjoying this cover today, I don't know if it's my mood or if I've just come to enjoy covers that are different from the originals more, but I'm diggin' it.

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Posted 14 years ago by SmackDaddy:
There is only air where life once was.
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Posted 14 years ago by nelsonha:
This is not a very good remake of a New Order classic.
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Posted 14 years ago by crockydile:
This sounds like a bad version of Can't always get want you want at the beginning and then goes down hill from there. What a waste of bandwidth...can I get those electrons back? {#Crashcomp}
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Posted 15 years ago by shawshank:
good job!!! {#Clap}
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Posted 15 years ago by Glencoe_JC:
kcar wrote:


Well said. I prefer the New Order version, but this is a welcome change from the frenetic teen angst of the original. If Phillips borrowed some chords from "You Can't Always Get What You Want"...big deal. I don't think he's trying to ride the Stones' coattails. Had no idea he had an album of 80s covers...I'll have to see what he did to "The Killing Moon." I really like his song "Mockingbird."
 
Big New Order fan....this is gggreat {#Meditate}
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Posted 15 years ago by dogpound:
alux wrote:
What a cover should sound like.  I love how this improves on the original.
 
still waiting for that to happen.....nope, still not as good. 
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Posted 15 years ago by lily34:
alux wrote:
What a cover should sound like.  I love how this improves on the original.

 

yeah, i like it!
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Posted 15 years ago by crockydile:
alux wrote:
What a cover should sound like.  I love how this improves on the original.

  {#Think}


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Posted 15 years ago by On_The_Beach:
bokey wrote:
"I saw her today at the reception"
 
I don't think it's a blatant or even an intentional rip-off, but I do hear the resemblance.

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Posted 15 years ago by kcar:
esotericderek wrote:
I agree that the New Order original is better, but give Grant Lee a break. At least it's a variation and not outright mimicry. I can't abide mimicry. And for what this is, it's not as bad as most of you are making it. It's at least a 6. Maybe a 7 for people who like Grant Lee's style (which I'm not partial to).
 

Well said. I prefer the New Order version, but this is a welcome change from the frenetic teen angst of the original. If Phillips borrowed some chords from "You Can't Always Get What You Want"...big deal. I don't think he's trying to ride the Stones' coattails. Had no idea he had an album of 80s covers...I'll have to see what he did to "The Killing Moon." I really like his song "Mockingbird."
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Posted 15 years ago by le_colonel:
alux wrote:
I love how this improves on the original.

 
Sacrilegious!


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Posted 15 years ago by alux:
What a cover should sound like.  I love how this improves on the original.

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Posted 16 years ago by brians201:
Gawd ,,,  >>>  Does he know he sounds like James Blunt .....   terrible ...
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Posted 16 years ago by Tim_in_N_FL:
jagdriver wrote:

But if you try sometimes, you get what you NEED!
 
I heard it too...rip-off or homage? {#Curtain}
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Posted 16 years ago by Rafter101:
I've always heard Talking Heads influence in this song.
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Posted 16 years ago by jagdriver:
kindermanltd wrote:
Ya can't always get what you want... anyone else hear it?
 
But if you try sometimes, you get what you NEED!
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