"All Tomorrow's Parties" and "Sleeping Annaleah" are quite good.bambooneedle wrote:It's too bad they stuck Running Scared and Black Betty (horrible) on the cd version because they're probably my least favourite covers on that album. Most of the rest are pretty good. Which do you like best?
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I second that emotion and would add By The Time I Get To Phoenix, for when you don't have the time dig Isaac Hayes' 20 minute version! I prefer Nick's version of the former, in spite of it being my favourite Gene Pitney tune, even beating 24 Hours To Tulsa (because I prefer Dusty's version).bambooneedle wrote:Most of the rest are pretty good. Which do you like best? Not heard any other version of the song to compare it to but regardless I have a soft spot for Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart.
I would love to hear I'm Gonna Kill That Woman live too. Haven't heard John Lee's original.
And inspired by your post, I'm listening to this, which I heartily recommend:
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Watching (and listening to) the video for "Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken", the terrific single from Camera Obscura's new album...
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Thanks for the rec KH. Nick Cave's always had to struggle to convince me against earlier impressions of him when I thought he was way too pretentious and overrated (that version of Black Betty explains it all). Partly due to frequent exposure to some of his videos. I've got and enjoy some of his good later work -- Murder Ballads and The Boatman's Call -- but good as they are I've always hesitated to get any more.
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Anything that gives Lloyd greater prominence is fine by me. I checked this/them out when he mentioned it on his website but I didn't hear much that was new. Song was quite nice though.Who Shot Sam? wrote:Watching (and listening to) the video for "Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken", the terrific single from Camera Obscura's new album...
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That quote is from the Bible. Specifically, Acts 26:14Otis Westinghouse wrote:Referrence to Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks which was in turn a reference to, um, St Augustine, or someone of that ilk!
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
And a bit of context to make sense of it:
A large percentage of people in the first century were tillers of the soil. Oxen were used to work the soil. The prick or goad was a necessary devise. The prick was usually a wooden shaft with a pointed spike (prick) at one end. The man working the ox would position the goad in such a way as to exert influence and control over the ox. You see, if the ox refused the command indicated by the farmer, the goad would be used to jab or prick the ox. Sometimes the ox would refuse this incentive by kicking out at the prick. As result, the prick would be driven deeper into the flesh of the rebellious animal. The more the animal rebelled, the more the animal suffered. Hence, the statement to Saul: "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." (Saul was rebelling against God.)
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Nice one! I'm not sure I'd heard that full explanation before. It sounds so incongruous, such a modern expression. Obviously because of the modern meaning of 'prick', but in terms of the ring of the whole thing too.King Hoarse wrote:That quote is from the Bible. Specifically, Acts 26:14
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
And a bit of context to make sense of it:
A large percentage of people in the first century were tillers of the soil. Oxen were used to work the soil. The prick or goad was a necessary devise. The prick was usually a wooden shaft with a pointed spike (prick) at one end. The man working the ox would position the goad in such a way as to exert influence and control over the ox. You see, if the ox refused the command indicated by the farmer, the goad would be used to jab or prick the ox. Sometimes the ox would refuse this incentive by kicking out at the prick. As result, the prick would be driven deeper into the flesh of the rebellious animal. The more the animal rebelled, the more the animal suffered. Hence, the statement to Saul: "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." (Saul was rebelling against God.)
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Well that changes the way I hear Johnny Cash' "The Man Comes Around".King Hoarse wrote:That quote is from the Bible. Specifically, Acts 26:14Otis Westinghouse wrote:Referrence to Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks which was in turn a reference to, um, St Augustine, or someone of that ilk!
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
And it fits much better within the lyrical context. Thanks for the clarification. It enriches an already great song
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That's the song that finally made me look for it. Johnny really outdid himself with the biblical juxtapositions in that (his last original) song, like the prick-kicking following the whirlwind in the thorn tree.Mr. Average wrote:Well that changes the way I hear Johnny Cash' "The Man Comes Around".King Hoarse wrote:That quote is from the Bible. Specifically, Acts 26:14Otis Westinghouse wrote:Referrence to Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks which was in turn a reference to, um, St Augustine, or someone of that ilk!
And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
And it fits much better within the lyrical context. Thanks for the clarification. It enriches an already great song
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