@FaeGrl  @purofilion @ScaryB

I’m pretty sure there are at least a thousand Hallelujah’s, as a couple of years ago they must have played them all on the CBC. I actually got fairly tired of the song after about a week of it. But like @ScaryB, my favourite version is kd lang’s, and my favourite version of her version is the one she did at the…[Read more]

Wow!

This thread’s fairly buzzing! Been a brilliant couple of hours catching up. So wide and varied. Thanks @everyone for populating it with such diversity 🙂

@Craig – hard to argue with Stevie Wonder (tho I may, with a bit more time!!). Lovin the Amber Grooves thang as well – best of luck with it.

@FaeGrl @Whisht “there are as many covers o…[Read more]

@FaeGrl – Cash’s Hurt and Buckley’s Halleluah – well, that’s two of the best “interpretations that were better than the originals” from the last few years!

@TheKrynoidMan – absolutely brilliant film music!

Lalo Schirin – Hadn’t heard this (outside watching the film) before – the other-worldly singing and eerie screeching emoting the madness of…[Read more]

wow – loads to get through since the First Wonder of the Thread, but just wanted to say a massive thanks to @FaeGrl for the tip on AdBlocker!

Downloaded it for Chrome and it seems I don’t even need to close Chrome down or reboot – already the ads seem to be gone!
In the past I’ve needed to see ads (I work in ‘digital’ which kinda includes…[Read more]

@FaeGrl   Yes, I think we overloaded its circuits! Not the volume but the sheer variety probably did it!  🙂

I should say regarding “I Just Called…” that I have nothing against the song, more its overuse in the years following, on sentimental TV ads.

@FaeGrl   That is certainly a transformed “Dust in the Wind”. That song takes me right back to high school. I like the cover version, it’s another great example of the way people can make a song their own, as opposed to the band in @purofilion’s example, who clearly want to be a Kansas tribute band! It can take some imagination to do this, as…[Read more]

@FaeGrl   I had heard that Johnny Cash cover, but I had never seen the video. What an amazing piece of film-making! I was in tears by the end of it. Johnny Cash was a rare example of someone who really transcended his genre and generation. In his later years, he was fully engaged with the younger generation of musicians, and they in turn really a…[Read more]

btw just checking with any/everyone here – are you getting a LOT of Muppet ads on YT?

I know its Easter but this is getting ridiculous! Although the Spanish one that I got with Senor Coconut* was kinda fun…

* link for anyone who like @FaeGrl likes a bit of the “La Puertas”

Actually FaeGrl – I know neither the original nor cover artists of…[Read more]

@Phaseshift – nice Pixies cover version!

Oh, and while I can’t remember suggesting the “music that made you think of Dr Who while you were listening”, its such a good idea that I’ll happily take credit until @angryandpeeved says “oi – that was mine!”

@FaeGrl – Cash’s ‘Hurt’ is fantastic – truly where an interpretation is better than the original…[Read more]

@Debs

Have fun, and keep asking questions.

Just on the subject of those cover versions that vie for your affections, and the originators giving them wholesale support (like Hurt from @FaeGrl), I can’t help remembering a band that gets mentioned often (looks at @craig) Jesus and Mary Chain.

Their song “Head On” (and I’ll post a link to the ori…[Read more]

@FaeGrl

Congratulations on your book, and great choice with Mr. Cash and “Hurt”. I don’t know whether you saw the use of it in DW Confidential (who had some great choices in music BTW) but it was in the episode for “The Almost People” in Series 6.

So much great music on here right now, thanks everyone! Just a few quick cheers as I work my way through it all:

@FatManInABox, I really liked the Suede track, and @Craig, the Frank Turner song is wonderful, and the video even more so. It pushes all my buttons: roots music fan, former music teacher, zero interest in acting my (relatively…[Read more]

@FaeGrl   Welcome back and congratulations! As a writer with a variety of unfinished writings to my credit (including one novel that has been unfinished for 20 years!) I honour you.  🙂  I look forward to hearing how the publishing goes.

Hey @FaeGrl – great to see you again and well done on finishing the novel!

I’ve no idea if you’ve written one or twenty before now, but from everything I’ve read about novelists, each one seems to be a huge effort (unless you’re Barbara Cartland I s’pose…).

Hope you don’t fade away for too long!

“My apologies if you guys have seen this one already”

@FaeGrl – thanks for the thoughtfulness, but if I asked “hands up anyone who’d seen that already” my guess is fewer than that track deserves!

Thanks for sharing, that was fun!

And if one style is good, then 20 styles are 20xgood – right?

😉

Really enjoy your posts, so hope you don’t…[Read more]

@Debs – you and me both!

and I hope you’re not expecting this old fogey to have any new indie music do you?????

🙂

Actually, knowing that I should get newer music and having asked for it myself here before, I tried looking at my Last.fm recommendadtions. Unfortunately nothing too new, but while listening to not-very-good-stuff I came across…[Read more]

@FaeGrl – Ah well, I’m sure you’ll get to watch some more episodes soon. I’ve been rewatching some Seventh Doctor serials myself recently, including ‘Greatest Show’… seriously, its a very good serial. And some epicness from the Doctor in that story.

Anyhow, I’m a bit behind on the discussions here. But I’m going to hopefully post in the current…[Read more]

@JanetteB: One sufferer seemingly on the mend here! @FaeGrl, glad you’re on the up as well!

I’m sure you’re right re: Capaldi: it seems to me the perfect example of an actor taking on the role to escape typecasting rather than taking it in fear of it.  He’s also too clued-up on the show and its fans to have gone into it as a one-year thing,…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave: What with Ian’s name appearing on the Coal Hill sign and William Russell having a cameo in An Adventure In Space And Time I’ve almost talked myself around to a point where I’ll be disappointed if he doesn’t pop up in Series 8!  I really shouldn’t do these things, but Moffat’s such a fan himself (as he proved with all those…[Read more]

Such nice music for @purofilion‘s brave leap! @FatManInABox, thanks for that Sean Lennon, great song and what a cool video!

@ScaryB, I love Free Fallin’, and k.d. lang, but although I was aware of John Mayer, I don’t know if I’d ever heard him. What a voice, and absolutely soul-piercing guitar playing. I may have to go looking for some more.…[Read more]