Revolting youth / Comedy post-punk trouser scramble

[hirez]

It looks like it's the day for people having objects shied at their heads.

As I was coming back from a two-wheeled potter I was accosted by a mob of feral children. "Punk rocker! Punk rocker!" they shouted, which was most gratifying. Then one of them lobbed something at me, which was less so. The wee shite missed, mind.

Otherwise I have been downloading (and watching other people take the piss - where I come from it's considered polite to bag the odd track and buy the album if you like it. These sods just bag the entire CD.) several versions of Love will tear us apart.

With the exception (thus far) of the New Order version (which I'm not sure counts as a cover anyway) and the previously mentioned Bis item, they're all dreadful to a greater or lesser extent. Though some are far funnier than others.

The one thing that stands out is that no bugger can get the phrasing right. Mind you, neither could Ian Curtis to begin with. Folklore has it that either Martin Hannett or Rob Gretton sent him off with a Sinatra record to listen to, which seemed to do the trick.

There also appears to be a 'Trouser enthusiasts' mix, which I need to own on general principles.

Comments

[dcarson.livejournal.com]

Have you got the Simple Minds version? Dreadful, just dreadful. And I like Simple Minds.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I fear not - I only find what's thrown up on the shores of Soulseek.

(In the past, I've made a point of avoiding JD covers)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I have now.

Oh dear...

[sarcaustik.livejournal.com]

childeric also reports a run in with some horrid little oiks and a projectile attack this evening. Bring back conscription, I say!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. Given the age of the Bristol oiks, they'd be far more use being sent up chimneys by evil-visaged types in battered top hats.

[sarcaustik.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I am sure that must be a metaphor for something.

[diffrentcolours]

I quite like the Swans version, it's one of the few that doesn't make me want to kill people.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Female or male vocals version? I love the female vocals version (I think it is called "Red version").

[diffrentcolours]

Male lead vocals, female backing vocals. I didn't know that there was any other version.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Accoustic guitar version -- I know it.

There's another version by the swans (actually black version -- I was wrong earlier) with female lead vox (jarboe) which I prefer, no idea whether you would or not. It's very different indeed.

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I quite like that version too. I absolutely hated it when I first heard it, but it grew on me.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'm saving my long-form estimations for later, when I've got time to listen properly and form more entertaining opinions, but I fear I remain as unconvinced as ever. More unconvinced, in fact, since I've listened to more terrible music in the intervening twenty years and have a far wider set of friends-list-reducing comparisons to make.

[sheepthief.livejournal.com]

The only one I can think of right now is... is.... wossisname from Q-Tips. Which would be okay, I guess, were it not for the original. Have any boy or girl bands covered JD?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Paul Young.

I'm not sure. There's one I've got most of by someone named 'Kellee', which sounds young-person's-band-like, in that it's rubbish biscuit-tin D&B.

There's also a 'Huurgh!-MeTaL' version. I laughed a lot.

[reddragdiva]

The 1995 Arthur Baker remix of the original was truly ... amazing.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That's on CD somewhere. I'll dig it out.

The NO live version sounds like bits of 'Brotherhood', which I think was the last good New Order album.

[reddragdiva]

I hope you mean "disinter it for similar treatment as Oliver Cromwell."

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Possibly. I don't remember.

You know, this is the sort of job best done with the aid of a mob of angry drunk people.

[reddragdiva]

You get the pitchforks, I'll get the torches.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I was rather thinking of beer, CDs and a notebook to record the ribaldry, but your version has a little more dynamism to it.

[reddragdiva]

I see no reason not to combine all aforementioned elements.

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

The Squarepusher cover is kinda cute...