Recent content by gandalfe

Honestly, that's one of my top Leonard Cohen albums, despite all the production problems.

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@Jason - Move to politics

George Michael's is technically perfect, but fairly bloodless. There's more emotion in one line of Bowie or Simone's version than in his whole recording. It's kind of surprising, actually.

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Apparently, rat****ing also refers to opening a case of MREs and taking just the good bits from each package (the cookies, for example) and leaving the rest in the rat**** box.

Also, pedantically, I have to mention that the assignment was 5 songs, not 5 specific versions of a song, so technically what I picked was Wild Is the Wind, not David Bowie doing Wild Is the Wind. I could listen to Johnny Mathis' version, or George Michael's, or Cat Powers', or or or...

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I couldn't NOT have Bowie. Interestingly, he based his version on hers after meeting her, and was the only cover he recorded during this period of his career. Apparently he met her and recorded this as a tribute to her. If I were going to pick a Nina Simone song (I adore Dr Simone and would...

OK, here's what I finally came to. This could alter at any moment, but probably 3 of these artists would be on any list like this I made: View: https://youtu.be/Tihj-HbRx-Y?si=JrUX71C4nvvyBW3C View: https://youtu.be/iLScicF9akI?si=JGx4LEuP5whq3AJG View...

I hadn't realized before how much PIL was influenced by Alan Vega and Martin Rev, AKA Suicide. I know the feeling. Well, not entirely, my second (and current) wife is still alive, and I wouldn't really care if my first wife died, but sometimes I listen to songs that remind me of my son's death...

Here you go... View: https://youtu.be/lLebHc7m_8A?si=eaUQ-h4sZGKO6rLr

This is tough, I'm going to have to really think about this. As someone above said, 5 albums would be easier.

This is the glam rock alter ego band of Saltatio Mortis. I have never seen so much spiked pink leather before. View: https://youtu.be/1n_xf0BcdJI?si=YOJDzf4psdmTvKEE

I haven't watched those, but I keep hearing about them as a series. I think it's a fascinating idea, using the same actors in 3 sequential films and aging them appropriately - the movies were filmed 9 years apart, so they aged the characters up 9 years in each of them. Linklatter planned it that...