Whatzit?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Oh, we´re so pretty
Oh, so pretty
We´re vacant

[chuck]

Sex Pistols, 1977. "Pretty Vacant"

Most recent cover by Lady Sovereign, 2006

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Vacant

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Don't you know the clown has feelings
He's talking revolution, secret meetings
Who's free?

[chuck]

Golden Earring, The Big Tree Blue Sea

Morning sunshine, praise the earth
Fill your glass with wine and dirt
I don't mind - I'm the big tree
I don't mind - I'm the blue sea
Paper castle filled with words
Limbo policeman leads the hord
I don't mind - I'm the big tree
I don't mind - I'm the blue sea
I'm sun, I'm warm, I'm child of the moon
Ever when it's dark, I'll send the dune
Can't you hear there's fishermen laughing
The whale dips down, I hear him crying for me
I'm shade, I'm good, I'm beams in june
Ever when it's dark, I'll light your room
Don't you know the clown has feelings
He's talking revolution, secret meetings
Who's free?
Morning sunshine, praise the earth
Fill your glass with wine and dirt
I don't mind - I'm the big tree
I don't mind - I'm the blue sea

BTW, Penny Hoffstader:

"That's right. My phone is just as smart as you guys."

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"You don't really care for music, do you."

[Rufus T. Firefly]

"You don't really care for music, do you."

On a limb but extrapolating from your tastes - Leonard Cohen? No idea what song......

[chuck]

Hallelujah

I think they used the KD Lang cover for the closing scenes of an episode in Season 3 of Numb3rs called Provenance (about returning stolen art). Very touching and effective.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"You don't really care for music, do you."

On a limb but extrapolating from your tastes - Leonard Cohen? No idea what song......

Absolutely correct!
You're a good man, Rufus.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Hallelujah

I think they used the KD Lang cover for the closing scenes of an episode in Season 3 of Numb3rs called Provenance (about returning stolen art). Very touching and effective.

You are, also, absolutely correct, Chuck !
I heard her performance of it at a celebration of Mr. Cohen's life and music @ the Juno Awards, performed in Winnipeg, in 2005, accompanied by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Cohen was in the audience when she sang it, and it became his favorite.

That made me, then, listen to his presentation of it, later, and I immediately loved them both.

It is amazing, to me, how the same song can be performed (interpreted?) so differently and unique to the singer. Somehow, KD Lang seems - feels - to sing from her own personal story and suffering, as well as call out from a core understanding of Humanity's suffering(s) . IMHO.
Wonderful.
It is totally cool you both got that so quickly.

daMurph

[chuck]

I think one of the more astounding differences in cover music is the Kris Kristofferson song Me and Bobby McGee as performed by Gordon Lightfoot as a straight ballad and the Janis Joplin more bluesy/rock version. Liked em both but it took me a while to realize they were singing the same song!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I think one of the more astounding differences in cover music is the Kris Kristofferson song Me and Bobby McGee as performed by Gordon Lightfoot as a straight ballad and the Janis Joplin more bluesy/rock version. Liked em both but it took me a while to realize they were singing the same song!

Perhaps, the difference in the gender of the singer/interpreter made the difference, one coming from the core of a male, and the other coming from the core values of a female ? I remember hearing and enjoying both of them, back-in-their-days, but I'll give them both a re-listen presently. Thanks !

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I think one of the more astounding differences in cover music is the Kris Kristofferson song Me and Bobby McGee as performed by Gordon Lightfoot as a straight ballad and the Janis Joplin more bluesy/rock version. Liked em both but it took me a while to realize they were singing the same song!

Saw The Highwaymen do their version, Jennings, Cash, Nelson, and Kristofferson just a few nights ago.....also different!

[chuck]

More likely that Lightfoot's delivery/enunciation was clear and steady while Janis was wailing away and slurring words like crazy.

I have at least five covers of the City of New Orleans, two feature Arlo Guthrie. All different yet really great recordings. One is Steve Goodman's original version.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

More likely that Lightfoot's delivery/enunciation was clear and steady while Janis was wailing away and slurring words like crazy.

Think that Janis' version though reached a lot more people and gave the song a lot of exposure & crossover.

[chuck]

It did, she got to number 1, posthumously. Lightfoot only got it number 17. Both are great renditions and I can't say I have a favorite. For a while I thought they were different songs.