tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post3770080416048050433..comments2024-03-28T10:18:05.213+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: Sweetest Of The JanesBhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-40675355444117172392021-07-12T20:53:44.259+01:002021-07-12T20:53:44.259+01:00Like I said, I almost always enjoy your music sele...Like I said, I almost always enjoy your music selections. No worries there.<br /><br />To be honest, I am uncharitable enough to have suspected Miley's People of 'turfing in those comments. I need to check with some of my Floyd fan friends and see if their feelings match mine — maybe it's just me. Idk. Music is hard, and this song is pretty special to me.<br />Bart Masseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10490373418825679148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-89283214020783595202021-07-09T18:00:20.376+01:002021-07-09T18:00:20.376+01:00It's a long time since I last heard the Floyd ...It's a long time since I last heard the Floyd original. I saw them do it on the tour before the album came out, when I was still at school, and I bought the album after that, as soon as it was released, but I don't think I've listened to it since the 1980s. I did wonder what the Na Na bit was. It sounded odd. <br /><br />I listened to it again in view of your "lack of affect" comment because lack of affect is something I generally enjoy in a performance (I wanted to call a band I was in Lack of Affect once...) but I can't really hear it. She sounds a bit disengaged, tired maybe, but then you could interpret that as an intentonal weariness, given the lyric.<br /><br />It's interesting though, how middle-aged and older Floyd fans react to the cover in the comments. The thread is chock-full of people presenting their age and length of service in Pink Floyd fandom before saying very positive things about the performance. That is not how YT comment threads that follow younger pop singers doing numbers from the classic rock canon usually go. Personally, I felt it was just about the weakest of her covers I listened to. I put it in the link mainly because of the comment thread.<br /><br />Hope some of the other selections went down better with you!<br /><br />Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-77887414740995633862021-07-09T17:30:36.898+01:002021-07-09T17:30:36.898+01:00Wow. That Miley Cyrus cover of Wish You Were Here ...Wow. That Miley Cyrus cover of <i>Wish You Were Here</i> was… <em>awful</em>. I'm sorry — I don't normally criticize music — but as a Pink Floyd fan I wish I could unhear it. The twangy guitar (sounds more like a dobro than what's shown in the video) played directly to grid, the lack of the solo part in the intro, the horrible NA NA imitation of the solo part in the bridge that lacks all the subtlety and range of the original, Miley's flat, flat affect that takes all the life out of the song…<br /><br />I love the music segments here, and have found some great things in them, but I'm afraid that one struck a nerve.Bart Masseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10490373418825679148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-91738440008748242352021-07-09T15:09:32.785+01:002021-07-09T15:09:32.785+01:00I noticed that Motley Crue version in the YouTube ...I noticed that Motley Crue version in the YouTube suggestions as I was doing the post. 80s hair metal is a pretty long way out of my range, though, so I didn't pursue it. I only remember the Brownsville Station original because it got an extraordinary amount of radio play over here even though I don't believe it was ever a hit in the UK.<br /><br />I do think Kate Nash is undervalued, not least by me even though I really like her stuff. I never seem to get around to listening to much of it, though. <br /><br />Lou had an interesting second act. He'd always been way more serious in intent than some of his wackier, drug-induced persona changes seemed to suggest but from New York onwards he seemed to assign himself this grizzled cultural commentator role and everyone was happy to take him at his own assessment. New York was probably the first of his albums I didn't buy on release since Transformer. I heard it and thought the music was plodding and the tone didactic so I reluctantly passed. Other than the Songs for Drella collab with John Cale I don't believe I ever bought another of his records on release, though I picked a few up later (Magic and Loss is pretty good).Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-23037816665227649412021-07-09T14:42:53.040+01:002021-07-09T14:42:53.040+01:00And for the record, Smokin' in the Boys Room w...And for the record, Smokin' in the Boys Room was much better as a cover done by Motley Crue, of all people, than the original by Brownsville Station. <br /><br />Man, that Kate Nash version. I totally wasn't expecting that. It has the feel of a bunch of friends sitting around a campfire at night, saying "Hey, remember that Velvet Underground song?" and taking the music in their collective heads and allowing it to mingle around the entire group.<br /><br />And just a last note, that had to have been one of the last episodes of Late Night before David Letterman left for CBS. It was what, about four years after New York came out and got Lou Reed back on heavy airplay on radio. Kind of nice to see Lou get reintroduced to a new generation after hearing him as the "Walk on the Wild Side" guy for so long. Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-29755718297968965882021-07-09T14:30:20.171+01:002021-07-09T14:30:20.171+01:00Holy cow. I never realized there were that many co...Holy cow. I never realized there were that many covers of Sweet Jane.Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.com