Yeah, sorry, I should have said "is being sold"...
Wesley: Feng Shui. Gunn: Right. What's that mean again? Wesley: That people will believe anything. Actually, in this place, Feng Shui will probably have enormous significance. I'll align my furniture the wrong way and suddenly catch fire or turn into a pudding.
'Conviction (1)'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Jon B. - Dec 01, 2006 6:29:09 am PST #4503 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
askye - Dec 01, 2006 8:22:53 am PST #4504 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
Connie - Jeff Buckley changed some of the lyrics in his version of the song, I can't remember what changes were made off the top of my head but it does alter the feel of the song some.
Of the versions I've heard --Cale, Wainwright, Buckley, the original, and Bob Dylan-- I like Buckley's the best.
Connie Neil - Dec 01, 2006 10:02:16 am PST #4505 of 10003
brillig
I like Buckley's the best.
IF that's the one with the additional lyrics I found, with Love is not a victory march or something, then, boy howdie does it change the feel.
askye - Dec 01, 2006 11:58:07 am PST #4506 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
From a quick Google I've found that changing the lyrics to the song is something various artists have done. I couldn't find a side by side comparison (and I'm not checking lyrics sites at work) but one source said these were changes Buckley made:
Well, maybe there's a god above
but all i've ever learned from love
was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
When I get home I'll listen to the versions I have and compare them lyrically.
tommyrot - Dec 01, 2006 12:03:19 pm PST #4507 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Cale's version has those lyrics too.
askye - Dec 01, 2006 4:04:28 pm PST #4508 of 10003
Thrive to spite them
I found what I think is the definitive post about this song it's on a blog [link] and it has links to many many versions of the song (there's even a link some where to a version by Anthony Michael Hall and a version --lots more links in the comments, I have not checked them to see if they are working. Also in the comments are the lyrics.
Cohen wrote two versions of the lyrics in 1984 [link] and 1988 [link]
Nicklas - Dec 02, 2006 4:10:28 am PST #4509 of 10003
"Either it's murder, or this library has a very strict overdue policy."
The track I cannot get enough of is the last one - the William Elliott Whitmore one. I love it and will probably steal it for my own year-end mix.
WEW does that. He squeezes your heart just enough.
Oh, and if your depressed, don't listen to his first record Hymns for the Hopeless. It opens with a vocal only (almost) hymn about his dead parents. Breaks the heart into tiny tiny fragments and makes things worse. (The record is damn good though.)
esse - Dec 02, 2006 4:11:53 am PST #4510 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
It was used on House. Last season, I think. Irritated me, because, yeah, living the cliche.
I was going to say, I'm certain House had a version of Hallelujah.
DavidS - Dec 02, 2006 9:19:41 am PST #4511 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I wanted to remind everybody that I have two complete xmas sets up at BR: Power Pop Christmas (self explanatory) and Wintergrace (acoustic folk and traditional. Very pretty but on the melancholy staring at the fire while drinking Scotch side).
So I think I need to put up one of my uptempo boppy xmas mixes. And I think some variation of Wassail Up (aka, Merry Fucking Christmas). After that...I take requests. I could do a set of standards, or 40s swing, or Beatnik Exploitation Xmas or Cartoon songs, or Country Christmas or post the mix I did for Jilli, Snowfall:
Christmas In Space Tori Amos
December Will Be Magic Again Kate Bush
Winter Wonderland Cocteau Twins
Ice Shelleyan Orphan
Snow Loreena McKennitt
Mary Had a Baby Bruce Cockburn
Christmastime Aimee Mann with Michael Penn
Christmastime Is Here Combustible Edison
Light Of The Stable Tara MacLean
Little Drummer Boy Tori Amos (1992)
Song For A Winter's Night Sarah McLachlan
Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy Bing Crosby & David Bowie
The Cat Carol Meryn Cadell
Skating On The River Lily Frost
Christ Child Lullaby Kathy Mattea
The Coventry Carol Mediaeval Baebes
O Magnum Mysterium Kelly Hogan and Bill Taft
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Loreena McKennitt
Bethlehem, Bethlehem Márta Sebestyén
Or, uh "A Family Guy Christmas" or something from the "Christmas In..." family:
Christmas In Jail - The Youngsters
Christmas In July - Brave Combo
Christmas In L.A. - Bobs
Christmas In Manhattan - 5 Chinese Brothers
Christmas In New Orleans - Louis Armstrong
Christmas In New Zealand -The Long Ryders
Christmas In Prison - John Prine
Christmas In Space - Tori Amos
Christmas In The LBC - Snoop And Friends
Christmas In The Summertime - The Incredible Moses Leroy
Christmas In The Trenches -John McCutcheon
Christmas In Tunisia - R.E.M.
Opinions? Requests?
DavidS - Dec 02, 2006 6:38:52 pm PST #4512 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh.
The dwarf on the cover of Swordfishtrombones is Angelo Rossitto. That's the Master of Master Blaster in Thunderdome. He was also in Freaks. And The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The big guy isn't Tor Johnson, though. It's somebody named Lee Kolima.