Scots Taffer on 20/4/2009 at 23:27
I've just never witnessed it, as far as I can recall but then I don't pay much attention to outright stupidity and frankly am a little offended that people thought that's what was happening here.
I'm not throwing my toys out of the pram just yet, only because my choice has managed to scrap nearly a third of the votes. :D
Toxicfluff on 20/4/2009 at 23:28
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Why is this? (Stripping away the overt snobbery of your tone in the last line, why do you think it'll be more appreciated than the original?)
I dunno if you're being ingenuous here, but listen to most of
the most popular music at any given time. Yep. Swamp of pabulum.
But easy to get into at that. Whereas if you even get into it at all, the drunk dying in an alleyway will always take a bit of time, even if he is growlin' out the truth.
It always takes time to get into more inaccessible music, hence people who are more casual listeners (and although it understandably reeks of it, I mean NO condescension there whatsoever) are less likely to bother with it.
Scots Taffer on 20/4/2009 at 23:35
Quote Posted by Toxicfluff
listen to most of
the most popular music at any given time. Yep. Swamp of pabulum.
Right.
Toxicfluff on 20/4/2009 at 23:49
Well, from this track I wouldn't include Blind Boys in that group by any stretch.
Run On is indeed excellent. Is there a name for that kind of vocal delivery? I've got a few songs from a 30s gospel group called the Golden Gate Quartet that are in that deft, staccato style. I'd like to get more.
On a different point, how are you finding the second season?
Scots Taffer on 21/4/2009 at 00:00
Slow but interesting in spots. Not terribly surprised at Stringer hooking up with D's girl because he showed an interest in her in the first bloody episode. The struggles in the lowrises etc would be more pronounced with a distinct lack of product I would've thought. Liked the climax with the coke-splicing at the end of the latest episode (3, I think) and D heeding Avon's warning. Continuing to love every second that McNulty is his stubborn Irish self and the troubles he's inflicting upon Rawls. I'm a little disheartened at the current bloodletting and almost cliche nature of the Russian/Greek mob story that seems to be evolving at the heart of the docklands stuff. It feels more fiction like Sopranos than the gritty on the street first season. Also the dock characters of Sobodka and co are a bit bland.
Angel Dust on 21/4/2009 at 00:40
I'd never heard either of the songs or really anything by those artists bar one Waits song half heard at some party but I'm going to strongly go with the original. The cover was smooth but felt kind of artificial whereas the original had the feel and authenticity of an old blues song and was quite gripping.
I was actually quite impressed with Waits voice since I've heard so much about how it's awful etc. He really sounds like an old, slightly growlier granted, bluesman. Not that I'd claim to be an expert or anything but when I was studying music we did blues for a couple of weeks and that involved listening to a fair bit of real old stuff. Very little accompaniment, crackly recording and just some guy howling his heart out. Not stuff I would listen to on a regular basis but I certainly felt it and that Waits song elicited a similar response from me.
Starrfall on 21/4/2009 at 00:49
The problem I have with Tom Waits is that he always sounds like some drunk dude pretending to be Tom Waits.
Stitch on 21/4/2009 at 01:00
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I can't take Waits seriously there because as I said, he sounds like a drunk dying in an alley, if that's what makes the song for you? Great. I think it sounds like absolute crap whereas the cover is a toe-tapping bluesy awesome song.
The movie "Jaws" is garbage because they don't show the shark until the end. If spending two hours on little cocktease moments is what makes the film for you? Great. To me it's boring and absolute crap whereas "Deep Blue Sea" features stirring, graphic shark attacks throughout.
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Why is this? (Stripping away the overt snobbery of your tone in the last line, why do you think it'll be more appreciated than the original?)
No overt snobbery intended, the original happens to be less palatable to the average person. Christ, you've dedicated a thread to this.
june gloom on 21/4/2009 at 01:24
I actually discovered Tom Waits thanks to Homicide: Life on the Street using one of his songs.
Muzman on 21/4/2009 at 02:50
Ok, university was a while ago and I'm nowhere near a cafe right now or a seedy bong smoke filled flop house in the middle of the night, so arguing the relative merits of Tom Waits is completely gauche as far as I'm concerned.
I thought the Original/Cover game sounded amusing (what with Youtube being the world's on demand radio station these days.)
