PSB vs PSB

[The Red Telephone]

6 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

 

Did the band and audience all done their clan gear after the gig had finished? 

[CaledonianGonzo]

8 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

 

Cheers for posting.  Didn't realise that the original sounded like that.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Cheers for posting.  Didn't realise that the original sounded like that.

Though I'm hell bent down that road to Pedant City - Elvis is the original version of it. Though the first single version to chart was Brenda Lee. Willies version (gawd bless 'im) didn't come out until some years later.

[Gnomicide]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Cheers for posting.  Didn't realise that the original sounded like that.

I only found out a couple of years back that tha wasn't the original. According to  Wikipedia at least. This is...

 

[Gnomicide]

2 minutes ago, Ted Dansons Wig said:

Though I'm hell bent down that road to Pedant City - Elvis is the original version of it. Though the first single version to chart was Brenda Lee. Willies version (gawd bless 'im) didn't come out until some years later.

Which was kind of what I was trying to get at (in a half arsed way) by implying Willie's was a better cover of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_on_My_Mind

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Not even sure what Willie Nelson is doing covering it given that Elvis wrote it.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

1 minute ago, Gnomicide said:

Which was kind of what I was trying to get at (in a half arsed way) by implying Willie's was a better cover of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_on_My_Mind

 

Damn right. Thanks for the Gwen McCrae though - hadn't heard that before.

[Ted Dansons Wig]

And just to confuse things.  Had it on a Sam Cooke compilation for ages before realising its a different song

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

The reason that the Shoppies' cover is an all timer is that it manages to simultaneously rebuild the song from the ground up while still maintaining the air of regretful longing of all the best previous versions.  They scrape off the schmaltz, up the tempo to dancefloor speed and add in *that* synth fanfare , but it still remains introspective (arf) and regretful.

It's unbearably sad and joyous all at once.  Heartfelt grandiosity - which isn't easy to pull off.

[Spindles]

3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

The reason that the Shoppies' cover is an all timer is that it manages to simultaneously rebuild the song from the ground up while still maintaining the air of regretful longing of all the best previous versions.  They scrape off the schmaltz, up the tempo to dancefloor speed and add in *that* synth fanfare , but it still remains introspective (arf) and regretful.

It's unbearably sad and joyous all at once.  Heartfelt grandiosity - which isn't easy to pull off.

I seem to recall it was recorded for a TV special where lots of artists covered Elvis songs (I forget who did the version of In the ghetto that was also superb) and it stood out for being so dramatically set aside from the original whilst becoming something new and unmistakable in the hands of the artists in question.

As for the Willie Nelson clansman thing, couldn't be farther from the truth and gives me a chance to shoehorn in one of my favourite covers:

 

[Ted Dansons Wig]

15 minutes ago, Spindles said:

I seem to recall it was recorded for a TV special where lots of artists covered Elvis songs (I forget who did the version of In the ghetto that was also superb) and it stood out for being so dramatically set aside from the original whilst becoming something new and unmistakable in the hands of the artists in question.

As for the Willie Nelson clansman thing, couldn't be farther from the truth and gives me a chance to shoehorn in one of my favourite covers:

 

Nice. Will be 7 years next June. Time to get Willie back. Lets face it - he's in his 80's so clock is ticking

[man next door]

I want a dog....

 

Possibly the shittest tune of all time??

[eastynh]

3 minutes ago, man next door said:

I want a dog....

 

Possibly the shittest tune of all time??

Better than the holding hands and building walls tune that came out last year.

[rubenz]

Psb concert on sky arts now for anyonexample interested in how they sounded in 2009!

[Chazwozza]

What about the PSB (Po'okela Street Band) http://pookelastreetband.yolasite.com/about-us.php

[stuartbert two hats]

14 hours ago, rubenz said:

Psb concert on sky arts now for anyonexample interested in how they sounded in 2009!

I bet they sounded different, since that was the year they started.

 

17 minutes ago, Chazwozza said:

What about the PSB (Po'okela Street Band) http://pookelastreetband.yolasite.com/about-us.php

Fair enough, added.

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, Scruffylovemonster said:

See that's not fair. Votes cast before they (and Pete Seeger) are now counted unfairly so the only fair thing to do would  be scrap this and re-start a vote. 

You can change your vote (or multi vote), so no

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

When I voted in the poll last week, I did not simply vote to favour the Pet Shop Boys; I voted to change the way our country works – and the people for whom it works – forever.

[rubenz]

1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I bet they sounded different, since that was the year they started.

 

Fair enough, added.

Was going well until they did some weird Coldplay mash up. Didn't expect that from psb 

[kingbadger]

I so hope the lineup poster drops and tucked away in the corner it just says PSB.

[Chazwozza]

5 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

 

 

Fair enough, added.

Thank you sir.  Now all I need to be able to do is to vote for the crazy Micronesians...

[eastynh]

Have always loved this cover

 

[Nobody Interesting]

If you like PSB then try Analog 80, new album out called Gymnophoria.

[stuartbert two hats]

Just now, Nobody Interesting said:

If you like PSB then try Analog 80, new album out called Gymnophoria.

Which PSB?

[russycarps]

Hang on, what about Peter Schilling Band??

I'd vote for that all day long. Major Tom is the greatest song of the 80s.