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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:36 am

philipchevron wrote:"Thousands Are Sailing" - Patrick Clifford (album American Wake, 2010)


Is it finally a worthy cover of the song?
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Mon Oct 18, 2010 5:18 am

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philipchevron wrote:"Thousands Are Sailing" - Patrick Clifford (album American Wake, 2010)

Is it finally a worthy cover of the song?

Probably not. The title wrong. Surely it's MEANT to be Thousands of Sailors. If that detail got messed up how good can the rest be?
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:28 am

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Sportin' Life wrote:
philipchevron wrote:"Thousands Are Sailing" - Patrick Clifford (album American Wake, 2010)

Is it finally a worthy cover of the song?

Probably not. The title wrong. Surely it's MEANT to be Thousands of Sailors. If that detail got messed up how good can the rest be?


Actually, I quite like it.
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:04 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBAYr73mlTk

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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:28 am

In My Life, a brilliant late 60's album by Judy Collins,i have this on cassette and it still sounds fab!
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:31 am

philipchevron wrote:
DzM wrote:
Sportin' Life wrote:
philipchevron wrote:"Thousands Are Sailing" - Patrick Clifford (album American Wake, 2010)

Is it finally a worthy cover of the song?

Probably not. The title wrong. Surely it's MEANT to be Thousands of Sailors. If that detail got messed up how good can the rest be?

Actually, I quite like it.

Things that totally seem funny sometimes aren't in hindsight.

I've no idea if it's any good or not. Given how many terrible covers of Pogues songs there are I'm delighted that you've stumbled across a cover (and of one of your songs) that evidently doesn't blow with a great wind.
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:39 am

DzM wrote:...Surely it's MEANT to be Thousands of Sailors....


i love that song! 8)
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:12 pm

The Slits: I Heard It Through The Grapevine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCr8V5wAroA
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:57 pm

firehazard wrote:The Slits: I Heard It Through The Grapevine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCr8V5wAroA


I have to say I have heard some better versions. :shock:

I Heard it Through the Grapevine (Acapella) - Marvin Gaye. 8)
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Fri Oct 22, 2010 12:01 am

soulfinger wrote:
firehazard wrote:The Slits: I Heard It Through The Grapevine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCr8V5wAroA


I have to say I have heard some better versions. :shock:

I Heard it Through the Grapevine (Acapella) - Marvin Gaye. 8)


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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:06 am

soulfinger wrote:I have to say I have heard some better versions. :shock:

I Heard it Through the Grapevine (Acapella) - Marvin Gaye. 8)


Agreed. Smokey and the Miracles did the first version, didn't they? Though I do love The Slits' take on it too.

Actually I was really listening to some of The Slits' John Peel session. Which I remember listening to in my teens in my bedroom, as one did. Thought it was astonishing then, and still do now. Then I got distracted on to their cover of I Heard It... As you do.

Anyway, here's The Slits: Love & Romance from the Peel sessions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnwyULT3Uks
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:25 am

firehazard wrote:
Agreed. Smokey and the Miracles did the first version, didn't they? Though I do love The Slits' take on it too.


It may have been but I thought it was Gladys Knight & the Pips. I'll now have to go and check. :roll:

The Slits pretty much passed me by. I am not really sure why, because in retrospect, they are just the kind of thing I would usually have liked.

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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:27 am

soulfinger wrote:
firehazard wrote:
Agreed. Smokey and the Miracles did the first version, didn't they? Though I do love The Slits' take on it too.


It may have been but I thought it was Gladys Knight & the Pips. I'll now have to go and check. :roll:


The Miracles recorded it first, Gladys released it as a single first. That's 10p I owe you.

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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:48 pm

philipchevron wrote:
DzM wrote:
Sportin' Life wrote:
philipchevron wrote:"Thousands Are Sailing" - Patrick Clifford (album American Wake, 2010)

Is it finally a worthy cover of the song?

Probably not. The title wrong. Surely it's MEANT to be Thousands of Sailors. If that detail got messed up how good can the rest be?


Actually, I quite like it.


You can listen to it on his myspace page

http://www.myspace.com/patrickcliffordmusic/

and yes, it´s a very good version
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Re: What Song are you listening to?

Post Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:28 am

soulfinger wrote:The Miracles recorded it first, Gladys released it as a single first. That's 10p I owe you.


I accept payment in beer. So that's probably about a teaspoonful of beer you owe me.

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