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some serious sideburns there :lol:
i had to edit this post coz………….i loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D/
I love this one, by far the best version
i will agree that *first time* is my favourite song but how about this
As regards *the first time* i prefer this version…Roberta Flack takes it to a new level in my eyes
Brilliant thread!!!!!!!
I love the Johnny Cash version of first time. Like Nina Simone he was a great interpreter of songs and usually transformed them into something other. (For evidence, check out his version of Nine Inch Nail’s version of Hate).
I’m a great fan of Bjork and Ane Brun’s version of Joga is so heartfelt it gives you goosebumps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC4RTMsb8bA
If anyone saw the brilliant On Top of the Lake on the Beeb recently, they would have noticed another haunting version of this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnEGSr5hRk4
And here’s another Ane Brun offering from a rather decent album of Scandinavian people having the gall to take on Leonard Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StB7G6zFG1k
and finally, hopefully this is a treat for Nick Drake fans, great songs deserve great voices:
this song reminds me of when I was 20, and I thought an attractive woman was no more than a pretty face. The song has a haunting tune, great lyrics (not the usual ‘I love you I miss you wo-oh-oh- where’s my mum? lyrics). The singer is Nico, who ended up living with John Cooper Clark, the punk poet, and dying from a fall off a bicycle in Manchester. A lesson there somewhere.
i know clarkie quite well
ive worked with him.Although I’m not the biggest velvet underground fan, or of Warhol for that matter, I’ve always been intrigued by Nico’s story since a watched a film about her life a good few years ago. I didn’t know that she lived with the Bard of Salford though, that fact seemed to have eluded me, so thanks for that.
On the very rare occasion when I plucked up the necessary wherewithal to introduce a coy and impressionable damsel to my music collection, I’d probably play These Days by Nico.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_z_UEuEMAo
Other songs that I would play might include the following:
Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCnf46boC3I
Shirley Horn – You Won’t Forget Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1HYbSFBYak
Gil Scott Heron – I’ll Take Care of You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADoCh8HfdKM
If she’s still around and I’m sufficiently confident that she has been lulled into a false sense of security, I’d probably play some Fela Kuti, Gogol Bordello and New Order. And if she’s still around, I should be looking for a wedding ring…
… As you can obviously tell, I’m not particularly skilled in the art of sonic seduction.
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